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Library of Michigan; Mackinac State Historic Parks; Michigan Film Office; Michigan Historical Museum; State Historic Preservation Office; Veterans Affairs Agency; State Officers Compensation Commission, responsible for setting salaries for Governor, Lieutenant governor, Supreme court justices, and Legislators with the seven Commissioners ...
The lieutenant governor is the president of the Michigan Senate [1] and acts as the governor when the governor is unable to execute the office, including whenever the governor leaves the state. The governor is the principal executive officer with the power of veto, appointment, reorganize executive government, budget proposal and other powers.
The department, as the Department of Commerce, was formed in 1965 by Section 225 of the Executive Organization Act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16.325.The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation was abolished with most responsibilities transferred to the newly formed Department. [1]
The present structure, at the intersection of Capitol and Michigan Avenues, is a National Historic Landmark that houses the chambers and offices of the Michigan Legislature as well as the ceremonial offices of the Governor of Michigan and Lieutenant Governor. Historically, this is the third building to house the Michigan government.
Retailers: open. Banks and government offices: closed. George Washington led the American Revolution to victory, laid the groundwork for the presidency and helped to create the U.S. Constitution.
For reckoning periods of time during which the Legislature operates, each two-year period coinciding with the election of new members of the House of Representatives is numbered consecutively as a legislature, dating to the first legislature following adoption of Michigan's first constitution. The current two-year term of the legislature ...
In Michigan, townships are a statutory unit of local government, meaning that they have only those powers expressly granted by state law, any power fairly implied by state law, and those powers essential to the township's existence. They are the most basic form of local government in Michigan, and should be distinguished from survey townships ...
The Department of Community Health was created in 1996 through an executive order merging Department of Public Health (as Community Public Health Agency), Department of Mental Health, Medical Services Administration from the Department of Social Services, responsibility for Liquor Control Commission, Licensing, Monitoring and Accreditation and Division of Occupational Health from Department of ...