Act No. 356. Amending judicature act; parties to actions in chancery suits. 357. 358. 359. Appropriation for site of state tuberculosis sanatorium. Providing for protection of certain residential areas within certain cities. 360. Amending act providing for recording of town plats. 361. Amending insurance code; investment of capital, etc., of companies. 362. Amending act providing for uniform system of probation; number of pro- 363. Amending corporation act; renewal of corporate existence of stock cor- 364. Amending act creating department of labor; factory inspectors. 365. Amending general drain law. 366. 367. Providing for protection of game and birds. Appropriations for state normal schools and Michigan college of mines. 368. Prohibiting obstructions, etc., on public highways, etc. 369. Regulating funding of floating indebtedness of counties. 370. Abolishing fraternities, sororities, etc. 371. Amending housing code. 372. Amending insurance code; group life insurance. 373. Relieving gifts, etc., for public welfare purposes, from operation of certain 374. Determining claims of persons injured on trunk line highways. 375. Appropriations for state department of agriculture. 376. Appropriations for department of public safety. 377. Amending act creating department of labor and industry; additional 378. Appropriations for various state institutions (state prisons.) 379. Appropriations for various state institutions (state hospitals, etc.) 380. Amending act for taxation of inheritances. 381. Permitting counties to establish super-highways, etc. 382. Amending act prohibiting manufacture, etc., of intoxicating, etc., liquor. 383. Providing for service of process in actions foreclosing mortgage, etc. 384. Amending act for payment of subcontractors, etc. 385. Amending corporation fee act; privilege fees. 386. Amending judicature act; designating fourteenth and twenty-seventh cir- 387. Determining ownership in real estate held by joint tenants, etc., where 388. 389. Amending general corporation act; filing reports. Defining certain nuisances, etc. 390. Giving banks, etc., option to refuse payment of check, etc., after one year. 392. Authorizing preparation of contour topographical survey map. 393. Amending general banking law; powers delegated to banks. Certificate of adjournment. State treasurer's report. PUBLIC ACTS [No. 1.] AN ACT to amend sections two, four, six, seven, eight, and thirty-four of act number three hundred two of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for the registration, identification and regulation of motor vehicles and trailers attached thereto operated upon the public highways of this state, and of the operators of such vehicles, and to provide for levying specific taxes upon such vehicles so operated, and to provide for the disposition of such funds, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith or contrary hereto," and to add a new section thereto to stand as section thirty-nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections two, four, six, seven, eight, and thirty- Sections four of act number three hundred two of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for the registration, identification and regulation of motor vehicles and trailers attached thereto operated upon the public highways of this state, and of the operators of such vehicles, and to provide for levying specific taxes upon such vehicles so operated, and to provide for the disposition of such funds, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith or contrary hereto," as amended, are hereby amended Section and a new section is hereby added to stand as section thirty- added. nine, such amended and added sections to read as follows: contain. SEC. 2. Every owner desiring to operate a motor vehicle Application, upon the public highways of this state, except as otherwise what to provided, shall file an application with the secretary of state stating the owner's name, residence, address, the name of the motor vehicle, its weight fully equipped, style, factory and motor number, and such other information as the secretary of state shall require. Each application for a commercial vehicle shall also have attached thereto scale weight receipt of said motor vehicle fully equipped as of the time the application is made. Every application for registration shall be accompanied by the certificate of title pertaining thereto, showing ownership in the person applying for registration at the time of the application, as provided in act number forty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one. The term "commercial vehicle" as used in this act shall mean Commercial and include all motor vehicles used for the transportation vehicle deof passengers for hire and those constructed or used for transportation of goods, wares or merchandise. fined. Number plates. Property of state. Registration annually. Tax schedule. SEC. 4. Upon receipt of the license fee and satisfactory proof of title registration, the secretary of state shall assign a number to each motor vehicle so registered and deliver to the applicant two license plates containing the abbreviation "Mich.", the number and the year assigned. A duplicate of a lost, mutilated or destroyed number plate may be secured upon filing an affidavit with the secretary of state showing the facts and the payment of one dollar, or upon the payment of two dollars and fifty cents for duplicate of a manufacturer's or dealer's lost, mutilated or destroyed license plate. All such plates shall remain the property of the state of Michigan. Any person willfully destroying, mutilating or counterfeiting any such plate or chauffeur's badge, or using any forged or counterfeited plate or plates, or excepting as herein otherwise provided using a plate issued for any other than the year for which issued, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the state prison for not more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 6. All registrations under this act shall expire on the last day of December of each year, and shall be renewed annually between the first day of December and the first day of January in each year, in the same manner and upon payment of the same tax as provided in section seven for original registration. SEC. 7. The secretary of state shall collect the following specific taxes at the time of registering a motor vehicle, which shall exempt it from all other taxation, either state or local, except the fees and taxes provided by law to be paid by certain carriers operating motor vehicles and trailers under act number two hundred nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three. (a) For each motor vehicle, except motorcycles and commercial vehicles, fifty-five cents per hundred pounds of the weight thereof; (b) For each commercial vehicle according to the following schedule of weights: Computation. Above 1,000 pounds.. (d) For each motorcycle.. For each motor bicycle. 2.50 The secretary of state shall compute the tax on the basis of one hundred pounds or major fraction thereof and may accept the manufacturer's weight thereof fully equipped or |