Sec. 2913. A municipal corporation, county, township, village, school district, department of the state, person, partnership, corporation, association, or an incorporated or unincorporated religious organization may recover damages in an amount not to exceed $2,500.00 in a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the parents or parent of an unemancipated minor, living with his or her parents or parent, who has maliciously or wilfully destroyed real, personal, or mixed property which belongs to the municipal corporation, county, township, village, school district, department of the state, person, partnership, corporation, association, or religious organization incorporated or unincorporated or who has maliciously or wilfully caused bodily harm or injury to a person.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2913
Minor maliciously or wilfully destroying property or causing bodily harm or injury to person; recovery of damages from parents
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 207 Mich. App. 575 - Gorzen v. Westfield Insurance (1994)
Most recently applied in 286 Mich. App. 474 - People v. Dimoski (December 2009)
1961, Act 236, Eff
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