{"id":"AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS-088","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan (Governor; every public body)","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer","authority":"Mich. Const. 1963, art. 5, sec. 1; MCL 30.403(1)-(2); MCL 10.31(1) (recited)","instrument":"Executive Order No. 2020-38","title":"Temporary extensions of certain FOIA deadlines to facilitate COVID-19 emergency response efforts","dateIssued":"2020-04-05","effective":"2020-04-05, 8:47 p.m.","end":"\u0027This order is effective immediately and continues through June 4, 2020 at 11:59 pm\u0027 (para. 6)","startDate":"2020-04-05","endDate":"2020-06-04","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CRT","OTHER"],"addressees":["public bodies as defined in MCL 15.232","requestors of public records"],"clause":"1. Strict compliance with the required response periods set forth under sections 5(2), 10(2), and 10a(2) of the Freedom of Information Act (\u0027FOIA\u0027)... is temporarily suspended, as follows: (a) A public body must respond in writing to a request or an appeal received at its physical office via mail, hand delivery, or facsimile within 10 business days after actual receipt of the request or appeal.... (b) If COVID-19 or any accompanying response efforts... interferes with the timely grant or denial of a request... a public body may issue a notice... extending the period of time in which to respond for as long as the public body deems necessary but no longer than until the expiration of this order or any order that follows from it. 2.... (a) If a public records request requires in-person efforts, such as an in-person search, inspection, examination, preparation, or production of public records, by the requestor or the public body, a public body may defer that portion of the request until the expiration of this order or any order that follows from it.","enforcement":"MCL 30.405(3); the order applies \u0027notwithstanding any contrary policy adopted by a public body\u0027 (para. 4)","functions":["CT public-records and land-records inspection (in-person efforts deferred)","PM permit files","OF","CB"],"notes":"Registers of deeds, assessors and clerks are \u0027public bodies\u0027; in-person record searches were deferred to June 4, 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-38.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":201902,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS-088","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS-088","citation":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order No. 2020-38 (Apr. 5, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS-088)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS-041"]}