Mich. Comp. Laws § 338.1059: License; issuance; term; revocation; form; fees; bond; additional license for branch office; refunds; receipt of completed application; issuance of license within certain time period; report; security business fund; service in armed forces; waiver of fee; “completed application” defined.

d in this subsection is tolled from the date the department notifies the applicant of a deficiency until the date the requested information is received by the department. The determination of the completeness of an application does not operate as an approval of the application for the license and does not confer eligibility of an applicant determined otherwise ineligible for issuance of a license.

(9) If the department fails to issue or deny a license in the time required under this section, the department shall return the license fee and shall reduce the license fee for the applicant's next renewal application, if any, by 15%. The failure to issue a license in the time required under this section does not allow the department to otherwise delay the processing of an application, and on completion, the department shall place the application in sequence with any other completed applications received at that same time. The department shall not discriminate against an applicant in processing an application based on the fact that the license fee was refunded or discounted under this subsection.

(10) Beginning October 1, 2005, the director of the department shall submit a report by December 1 of each year to the standing committees and appropriations subcommittees of the senate and house of representatives concerned with occupational issues. The director shall include all of the following information in the report concerning the preceding fiscal year:

(a) The number of initial and renewal applications the department received and completed within the 180-day time period described in subsection (8).

(b) The number of applications denied.

(c) The number of applicants not issued a license within the 180-day time period and the amount of money returned to licensees and registrants under subsection (8).

(11) The fees collected by the department under this section shall be deposited into the security business fund created in subsection (12).

(12) The security business fund is created in the state treasury. The department shall deposit all license fees collected under this act into the fund. The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments. Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and be available for appropriation and expenditure by the department in subsequent fiscal years. The money in the fund shall not lapse to the general fund. The department shall expend money from the fund, on appropriation, only for enforcement and administration of this act. The department is the administrator of the fund for auditing purposes.

(13) The department, or the department of state police if section 29 applies, shall waive an initial license fee required under this section, or any application processing fee charged by the department for an initial license, if the applicant is an individual who served in the armed forces and he or she provides to the department a form DD214, form DD215, or any other form that is satisfactory to the department that demonstrates he or she was separated from that service with an honorable character of service or under honorable conditions (general) character of service.

charged by the department for an initial license, if the applicant is an individual who served in the armed forces and he or she provides to the department a form DD214, form DD215, or any other form that is satisfactory to the department that demonstrates he or she was separated from that service with an honorable character of service or under honorable conditions (general) character of service.

(14) As used in this section, "completed application" means an application that is complete on its face and submitted with any applicable licensing fees and any other information, records, approval, security, or similar item required by law or rule from a local unit of government, a federal agency, or a private person but not from another department or agency of this state.