Michigan Compiled Laws
Act 273 of 1917 - Pawnbrokers (446.201 - 446.219)
Section 446.203 - Definitions.

Sec. 3.
As used in this act:
(a) "Chief executive officer" means any of the following:
(i) For a city, the mayor.
(ii) For a village, the village president.
(iii) For a township or charter township, the township supervisor.
(iv) For a county, the county executive or, if there is no county executive, the person designated by a resolution of the county board of commissioners.
(b) "Governmental unit" means a city, township, charter township, county, or incorporated village.
(c) "Internet drop-off store" means a person, corporation, or firm that contracts with other persons, corporations, or firms to offer its personal property or other valuable thing for sale, purchase, consignment, or trade through means of an internet website and meets the conditions described in section 1(3).
(d) "Local police agency" means the police agency of the city, village, or township, or if none, the county sheriff of the county in which the internet drop-off store conducts business.
(e) "Pawnbroker" means a person, corporation, or member, or members of a copartnership or firm, who loans money on deposit, or pledge of personal property, or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidence of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable thing on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price.
History: 1917, Act 273, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917 ;-- CL 1929, 9686 ;-- CL 1948, 446.203 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 469, Imd. Eff. June 21, 2002 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 292, Imd. Eff. July 20, 2006

Structure Michigan Compiled Laws

Michigan Compiled Laws

Chapter 446 - Business Regulation

Act 273 of 1917 - Pawnbrokers (446.201 - 446.219)

Section 446.201 - Pawnbrokers; License Required; Exception; Internet Drop-Off Store Exempt From Licensure.

Section 446.202 - Licenses; Issuance; Contents; Term; Transferability; Fee; Bond; Limitations.

Section 446.203 - Definitions.

Section 446.204 - Licensed Pawnbroker; Action Upon Bond.

Section 446.205 - Record of Property Received; Contents; Inspection; Form of Permanent Record.

Section 446.206 - Statement to Police of Articles Received; Contents.

Section 446.207 - Repealed. 1980, Act 199, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1980.

Section 446.208 - Purchaser's Memorandum of Pawn; Contents.

Section 446.209 - Interest on Loans; Rate; Storage Charge; Time of Payment; Computation; Fee or Excess Charge Prohibited.

Section 446.210 - Title to Item; Sale of Pledged or Pawned Item; Time of Possession.

Section 446.211 - Payment or Tender of Debt Before Sale; Effect as to Title and Right to Property; Agreement to Permit Pawner to Maintain Possession.

Section 446.212 - Misappropriated Property; Effect of Written Hold Order; Delivery of Property to Person Claiming Ownership; Return of Property to Pawnbroker; Liability; "Appropriate Law Enforcement Official" Defined.

Section 446.213 - Pawned Property; Destruction or Defacing Unlawful; Visibility of Serial Number or Insignia.

Section 446.214 - Pawned Property; Acceptance From Certain Persons Prohibited.

Section 446.216 - Bond of Complainant; Amount, Surety.

Section 446.217 - Transaction of Business on Sunday Unlawful.

Section 446.218 - Violation of Act; Penalty.

Section 446.219 - Violation of Act; Revocation of License; Duration.