Michigan survey readiness
What Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.
What Michigan requires
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: Four fire drills a year, two of them during sleeping hours. Separately the licensee must practice the emergency preparedness plan — including the fire safety plan — at least once a quarter on EACH shift, counted against Michigan's named shifts of 7am–3pm, 3pm–11pm and 11pm–7am. Mich. Admin. Code R 400.601 et seq. (adult foster care)
- Records going back as far as the rule requires. Records of emergency preparedness plan practices maintained for 2 years. Mich. Admin. Code R 400.601 et seq. (adult foster care)
- Named failure modes, not just 'emergency'. Michigan requires a written plan and procedure for fire, explosion, LOSS OF HEAT, loss of power, loss of water, or other emergency. Loss of heat is named separately — a Michigan winter outage is its own scenario, not a footnote to power failure. Mich. Admin. Code R 325.1976
The evidence, and where it comes from
Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Michigan fire drill log produces the drill record at the frequency this state sets, the emergency plan builder writes the plan itself from the same research, and the compliance calendar puts the life-safety tests on dates. Anything you record against the building shows up on the checklist already ticked.
Everything else we’ve researched about Michigan
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
- Michigan deposit return law & letterThe landlord's deadline to return a deposit, and the itemized letter.
- Michigan deposit demand letterFor the tenant: whether the landlord is late, and by how many days.
- Michigan deposit deduction rulesWhat may fairly come out of a deposit, prorated by useful life.
- Michigan move-in condition reportThe walkthrough record that decides deposit arguments later.
A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.
Questions people ask
- What does a Michigan surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period (Mich. Admin. Code R 400.601 et seq. (adult foster care)). Records going back as far as the rule requires (Mich. Admin. Code R 400.601 et seq. (adult foster care)). Source: Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems. Last checked July 2026.