Michigan

• Administrative Code and Statutes
• Other State Legal Resources

Administrative Code and Statutes

• Michigan Compiled Laws - State Laws
  • Highways (Chapter 247)
    • Noxious Weeds - Act 359 of 1941 (247.61 et seq.)
  • Agricultural Industry (Chapter 286)
    • White Pine Blister Rust - Act 313 of 1929 (286.101 et seq.)
    • Insect Pest and Plant Disease Act - Act 189 of 1931 (286.201 et seq.)
    • Insect Pests and Plant Diseases - Act 72 of 1945 (286.251 et seq.)
  • Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (Chapter 324)
    • Transgenic and Nonnative Organisms - Act 451 of 1994 (324.41301 et seq.)
  
  
• Michigan Administrative Code - State Regulations
  • Agriculture
    • Pesticide and Plant Pesticide Management Division

Other State Legal Resources

• Department of Agriculture & Rural Development
  • Firewood: Buy It Where You Burn It
    Don't pack your own firewood for use at your campsite or cabin. Unfortunately, our native trees and forests are being threatened by invasive insects and diseases that live in dead and dying wood. In many cases, these pests are being accidentally spread to new locations by homeowners and recreationists moving firewood from one location to another.
  • Emerald Ash Borer Interior Quarantine (Revised Revised Feb 8, 2011; PDF | 31 KB) and Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine Area Map (Feb 22, 2007; PDF | 385 KB)
  • Prohibited and Restricted Weeds
  • State Exterior Quarantine Regulated Articles
  
  
• Department of Environmental Quality
  • Analysis of Laws & Policies Concerning Exotic Invasions of the Great Lakes (PDF | 1.02 MB)
    A Report Commissioned by the Office of the Great Lakes, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (Mar 1999)
  • Ballast Water Reporting Legislation - Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act (Act 451, Part 31, Section 3103a) (DOC | 42 KB)
  • Aquatic Nuisance Control Administrative Rules
  • Act 368 of Public Acts of 1978, Public Health Code (Excerpts) (PDF | 11 KB)
    
    
• Department of Natural Resources and Environment - Laws and Legislation
  • Ballast Water Reporting
  • Buy and Burn Firewood Locally to Stop Invasive Hitchhikers (May 26, 2011)
  • Fisheries Order 245 (Dec 4, 2008; PDF | 43 KB) and Related Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia information
  • Invasive Species Order
  • Prohibited and restricted species as defined in the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act 451 of 1994, Section 324.41301 (PDF | 21 KB)
  • Requirements for possession of live prohibited and restricted organisms as taken from Part 413, Transgenic and Nonnative Organisms, Act 451 of 1994 (PDF | 20 KB)
  • DNRE Director Signs Order to Make Feral Swine Invasive Species (Dec 10, 2010)
    Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
    Feral swine and wild boar have been declared invasive species in Michigan, effective Jul 8, 2011. This provides the state Legislature time to enact laws to provide regulations for facilities that currently provide wild boar breeding and hunting. If legislation is not passed to regulate the facilities, the invasive species order will go in to effect, making it illegal to possess wild boar in Michigan.
    
    
• New Law Requiring Ships to Kill Ballast Water Invasive Species
  First time a state plans to regulate ballast water beyond national standards. Senate Bill 322 is effective Jan 1, 2007.
  • Michigan ballast water takes maiden voyage; has legal implications for other states (Dec 20, 2006)
    BusinessNorth.com.
  • Michigan’s New Ballast Water Regime: Navigating the Treacherous Waters of States’ Rights, Federal Preemption, and International Commerce (Oct 2006; PDF | 84 KB)
    Minnesota Sea Grant.
    Prepared by: National Sea Grant Law Center
  
  
  
• National Plant Board
  • State Plant Quarantine Summaries (select State)