Section 600.3810 - Owner; definition; authority of court; closing of premises; vehicles; parties-defendant. - Michigan Statutes

REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961

600.3810 Owner; definition; authority of court; closing of premises; vehicles; parties-defendant.

Sec. 3810.

(1) An owner of the premises within the meaning of this chapter is deemed to be the grantee or vendee of the last recorded deed or contract which describes the premises, or any part thereof upon which any nuisance exists as heretofore defined, and the naming of such person a party defendant gives the court authority to abate the nuisance by closing the premises and such defendant is subject to the order and judgment of the court.

(2) An owner of a vehicle within the meaning of this chapter is deemed to be the person in whose name the vehicle is titled, and any chattel mortgagee or assignee thereof or other lien holder whose lien has been filed in the office of the register of deeds prior to the commencement of suit, and the plaintiff shall join such mortgagee, assignee or lien holder as a party defendant.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963