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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 600.5301

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
     Any person employed by any person, firm, corporation, a local government or agency, or the state, or an agency thereof, who is or may be working for wages or for a salary for others, including those paid on a commission basis or who are paid through any combination thereof, who has debts which he is unable to pay, may file a full and complete list of his creditors with the clerk of the district or municipal court where he lives or where he is employed. Upon making an assignment of all his future wages to the clerk of the court to continue during the pendency of the proceedings as hereinafter set forth, he may have a notice served upon each creditor. The notice shall set forth the fact that the proceedings are pending and contain a full list of his creditors and the amount alleged to be due to each creditor and shall prescribe a time within which the creditor shall file a sworn proof of claim with the clerk of the court, which time shall not be less than 10 days nor more than 20 days from the date of service of the notice upon the creditor and shall be signed by the clerk of the court. The notice shall act as an immediate stay of proceedings by every creditor so served as against the wages, salary, or commission so assigned. The clerk of the court shall thereupon also notify the employer of the pendency of the court proceedings in suitable form as prescribed by the court. The notice shall constitute a notification to the employer to pay any and all moneys due or to become due to the employee from thenceforth, to the clerk of the court, unless and until served with a notice to the contrary. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any city having a common pleas court.