§ 330.1700 Definitions
§ 330.1702 Receipt of mental health services; rights, benefits, privileges, and competency not affected
§ 330.1704 Rights of recipient
§ 330.1705 Second opinion
§ 330.1706 Notice of rights
§ 330.1706a Pamphlet; preparation; distribution; contents
§ 330.1707 Rights of minor
§ 330.1708 Suitable services; treatment environment; setting; rights
§ 330.1710 Physical and mental examination; reexamination
§ 330.1711 Rights of family members
§ 330.1712 Individualized written plan of services
§ 330.1713 Choice of physician or mental health professional
§ 330.1714 Informing resident of clinical status and progress
§ 330.1715 Services of mental health professional
§ 330.1716 Surgery; consent
§ 330.1717 Electroconvulsive therapy or other procedure; consent
§ 330.1718 Psychotropic drugs
§ 330.1719 Psychotropic drug treatment; duties of prescriber or licensed health professional
§ 330.1720 Statistical report of deaths; investigation
§ 330.1721 Investigation of certain deaths reported by psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit
§ 330.1722 Protection of recipient from abuse or neglect
§ 330.1723 Suspected abuse of recipient or resident; report to law enforcement agency
§ 330.1723a Appointment of guardian ad litem
§ 330.1723b Report by person not employed by or under contract to department, facility, or community mental health services program
§ 330.1723c Violation of MCL 330.1723 or making of false report as misdemeanor; civil liability
§ 330.1724 Fingerprints, photographs, audiorecording, or use of 1-way glass
§ 330.1726 Communication by mail and telephone; visits
§ 330.1728 Personal property
§ 330.1730 Money
§ 330.1732 Accepting funds for use of resident
§ 330.1734 Facility as representative payee or fiduciary
§ 330.1736 Performance of labor by resident
§ 330.1740 Physical restraint
§ 330.1742 Seclusion
§ 330.1744 Freedom of movement
§ 330.1746 Record
§ 330.1748 Confidentiality
§ 330.1748a Child abuse or neglect investigation; request for mental health records and information; immunity from civil or administrative liability; imposition of duties under another statute
§ 330.1749 Statement correcting or amending information
§ 330.1750 Privileged communications
§ 330.1752 Policies and procedures
§ 330.1753 Recipient rights system; review by department
§ 330.1754 State office of recipient rights; establishment by department; selection of director; powers and authority of state office of recipient rights
§ 330.1755 Office of recipient rights; establishment by community mental health services program and hospital
§ 330.1756 State recipient rights advisory committee; appointment by director
§ 330.1757 Recipient rights advisory committee; appointment by community mental health services program board
§ 330.1758 Recipient rights advisory committee; appointment by licensed hospital

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 330 > Act 258 of 1974 > Chapter 7 - Rights of Recipients of Mental Health Services

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Agent: includes , but is not limited to, an attorney-in-fact under a durable or nondurable power of attorney and an individual authorized to make decisions as a patient advocate concerning another's health care. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Application: means a written request to the probate register for an order of informal probate or informal appointment under part 3 of article III. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Ascertainable standard: means a standard relating to an individual's health, education, support, or maintenance within the meaning of section 2041(b)(1)(A) or 2514(c)(1) of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 2041 and 2514. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attorney: means , if appointed to represent a child under the provisions referenced in section 5213, an attorney serving as the child's legal advocate in the manner defined and described in section 13a of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Authority: means the Michigan finance authority created by Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Beneficiary: includes , but is not limited to, the following:
    (i) In relation to a trust, a person that is a trust beneficiary as defined in section 7103. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Beneficiary form: means a registration of a security that indicates the present owner of the security and the owner's intention regarding the person who will become the security's owner upon the owner's death. See Michigan Laws 700.6301
  • Board: means the local emergency financial assistance loan board created under section 2. See Michigan Laws 141.931
  • Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Bonds: means bonds of the authority issued under this act with a maturity greater than 3 years. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Capitalization grant: means the federal grant made to this state by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for either of the following purposes:
  •     (i) For the purpose of establishing a state water pollution control revolving fund, as provided in title VI of the federal water pollution control act, 33 USC 1381 to 1389. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Charitable trust: means a trust, or portion of a trust, created for a charitable purpose described in section 7405(1) if the charitable purpose is a material purpose of the trust. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Child: includes , but is not limited to, an individual entitled to take as a child under this act by intestate succession from the parent whose relationship is involved. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Claim: includes , but is not limited to, in respect to a decedent's or protected individual's estate, a liability of the decedent or protected individual, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise, and a liability of the estate that arises at or after the decedent's death or after a conservator's appointment, including funeral and burial expenses and costs and expenses of administration. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Community water supply: means a community water supply as defined in part 54 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Conservator: means a person appointed by a court to manage a protected individual's estate. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Court: means the probate court or, when applicable, the family division of circuit court. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Criminal abuse: means 1 or more of the following:
  •     (i) An assault that is a violation or an attempt or conspiracy to commit a violation of section 81 to 90 of the Michigan penal code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devisee: means a person designated in a will to receive a devise. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Director: means the director of the department of management and budget. See Michigan Laws 141.951
  • Disability: means cause for a protective order as described in section 5401. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Discretionary trust provision: means a provision in a trust, regardless of whether the terms of the trust provide a standard for the exercise of the trustee's discretion and regardless of whether the trust contains a spendthrift provision, that provides that the trustee has discretion, or words of similar import, to determine 1 or more of the following:
  •     (i) Whether to distribute to or for the benefit of an individual or a class of beneficiaries the income or principal or both of the trust. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Distributee: means a person that receives a decedent's property from the decedent's personal representative or trust property from the trustee other than as a creditor or purchaser. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
  • Environmental law: means a federal, state, or local law, rule, regulation, or ordinance that relates to the protection of the environment or human health. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Estate: includes the property of the decedent, trust, or other person whose affairs are subject to this act as the property is originally constituted and as it exists throughout administration. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
  • Estimated equalized value: means 50% of the final estimated value of a state facility as determined by the director. See Michigan Laws 141.951
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Federal safe drinking water act: means 42 USC 300f to 300j-25. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Federal water pollution control act: means 33 USC 1251 to 1389. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: includes , but is not limited to, a personal representative, funeral representative, guardian, conservator, trustee, plenary guardian, partial guardian, and successor fiduciary. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
  • Financial institution: means an organization authorized to do business under state or federal laws relating to a financial institution and includes, but is not limited to, a bank, trust company, savings bank, building and loan association, savings and loan company or association, credit union, insurance company, and entity that offers mutual fund, securities brokerage, money market, or retail investment accounts. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
  • Fiscal year: means , unless otherwise provided in this act, the fiscal year of the municipality applying for a loan under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.931
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
    • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
    • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
    • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Fully marketable form: means a municipal obligation duly executed and accompanied by all of the following:
  •     (i) An approving legal opinion of a bond counsel approved by the authority and of nationally recognized standing in the field of municipal law. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governing instrument: means a deed; will; trust; funeral representative designation; insurance or annuity policy; account with POD designation; security registered in beneficiary form (TOD); pension, profit-sharing, retirement, or similar benefit plan; instrument creating or exercising a power of appointment or a power of attorney; or dispositive, appointive, or nominative instrument of any similar type. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
  • Governmental unit: means this state, a county, city, township, village, school district, intermediate school district, community college, public university, authority, district, any other body corporate and politic or other political subdivision, any agency or instrumentality of the foregoing, or any group self-insurance pool formed pursuant to 1951 PA 35, MCL 124. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Guardian: means a person who has qualified as a guardian of a minor or a legally incapacitated individual under a parental or spousal nomination or a court appointment and includes a limited guardian as described in sections 5205, 5206, and 5306. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
  • Health care corporation: means a nonprofit health care corporation operating under the nonprofit health care corporation reform act, Act No. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Health care insurer: means an insurer authorized to provide health insurance in this state or a legal entity that is self-insured and provides health care benefits to its employees. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Health maintenance organization: means an organization licensed under part 210 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Heir: means , except as controlled by section 2720, a person, including the surviving spouse or the state, that is entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to a decedent's property. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • Incapacitated individual: means an individual who is impaired by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, or other cause, not including minority, to the extent of lacking sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate informed decisions. See Michigan Laws 700.1105
  • Income tax revenue growth rate: means the quotient of the following:
  •     (i) The numerator is the income tax collections of the municipality for the calendar year immediately preceding the municipality's application for a loan under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.931
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
  • Issue: means an individual's descendant. See Michigan Laws 700.1105
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: includes , but is not limited to, an oil, gas, or other mineral lease. See Michigan Laws 700.1105
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. Source: U.S. Mint
  • Legally incapacitated individual: means an individual, other than a minor, for whom a guardian is appointed under this act or an individual, other than a minor, who has been adjudged by a court to be an incapacitated individual. See Michigan Laws 700.1105
  • Letters: includes , but is not limited to, letters testamentary, letters of guardianship, letters of administration, and letters of conservatorship. See Michigan Laws 700.1105
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
  • Mental health professional: means an individual who is trained and experienced in the area of mental illness or developmental disabilities and who is 1 of the following:
  •     (i) A physician who is licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state under article 15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Michigan prudent investor rule: means the fiduciary investment and management rule prescribed by part 5 of this article. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Minor: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Money: means any legal tender, note, draft, certificate of deposit, stock, bond, check, or credit card. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Money: means legal tender or a note, draft, certificate of deposit, stock, bond, check, or credit card. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage: means a conveyance, agreement, or arrangement in which property is encumbered or used as security. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Municipal obligation: means a bond or note or evidence of debt issued by a governmental unit for a purpose authorized by law. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township in this state. See Michigan Laws 141.931
  • Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 141.951
  • Noncommunity water supply: means a noncommunity water supply as defined in part 54 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Nonprofit dental care corporation: means a dental care corporation incorporated under Act No. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Notes: means an obligation of the authority issued as provided in this act, including commercial paper, with a maturity of 3 years or less. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Organization: means a corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or another legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Parent: includes , but is not limited to, an individual entitled to take, or who would be entitled to take, as a parent under this act by intestate succession from a child who dies without a will and whose relationship is in question. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Patient advocate: means an individual designated to exercise powers concerning another individual's care, custody, and medical or mental health treatment or authorized to make an anatomical gift on behalf of another individual, or both, as provided in section 5506. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Patient advocate designation: means the written document executed and with the effect as described in section 5506 to 5515. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Person: means an individual or an organization. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Person-centered planning: means a process for planning and supporting the individual receiving services that builds upon the individual's capacity to engage in activities that promote community life and that honors the individual's preferences, choices, and abilities. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal representative: includes , but is not limited to, an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, and special personal representative, and any other person, other than a trustee of a trust subject to article VII, who performs substantially the same function under the law governing that person's status. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Petition: means a written request to the court for an order after notice. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Power of appointment: means that term as defined in section 2 of the powers of appointment act of 1967, 1967 PA 224, MCL 556. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Privileged communication: means a communication made to a psychiatrist or psychologist in connection with the examination, diagnosis, or treatment of a patient, or to another person while the other person is participating in the examination, diagnosis, or treatment or a communication made privileged under other applicable state or federal law. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Proceeding: includes an application and a petition, and may be an action at law or a suit in equity. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Project: means a sewage treatment works project or a nonpoint source project, or both, as defined in part 53 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, and includes both real and personal property or an interest in real or personal property. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Protected individual: means a minor or other individual for whom a conservator has been appointed or other protective order has been made as provided in part 4 of article V. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Protective proceeding: means a proceeding under part 4 of article V. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Qualified trust beneficiary: means either of the following:
  •     (i) A trust beneficiary whom the settlor intends to benefit as a material purpose of the trust and to whom 1 or more of the following apply on the date the trust beneficiary's qualification is determined:
        (A) The trust beneficiary is a distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Registering entity: means a person who originates or transfers a security title by registration, and includes a broker maintaining security accounts for customers and a transfer agent or other person acting for or as an issuer of securities. See Michigan Laws 700.6301
  • Reserve fund: means a bond reserve fund or note reserve fund created and established under section 16. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Restraint: means the use of a physical device to restrict an individual's movement. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Revenues: means all fees, charges, money, profits, payments of principal of or interest on municipal obligations and other investments, gifts, grants, contributions, and all other income derived or to be derived by the authority under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • School loan act: means an act to implement section 16 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, including, but not limited to, former 1961 PA 108, 1961 PA 112, MCL 388. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
  •     (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
  • Seclusion: means the temporary placement of a recipient in a room, alone, where egress is prevented by any means. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Security: means a share, participation, or other interest in property, in a business, or in an obligation of an enterprise or other issuer, and includes a certificated security, uncertificated security, and security account. See Michigan Laws 700.6301
  • Security: includes , but is not limited to, a note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under such a title or lease, collateral trust certificate, transferable share, voting trust certificate, or interest in a regulated investment company or other entity generally referred to as a mutual fund or, in general, an interest or instrument commonly known as a security, or a certificate of interest or participation for, a temporary or interim certificate, receipt, or certificate of deposit for, or any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the items listed in this subdivision. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
  • Security account: includes all of the following:
  •     (i) A reinvestment account associated with a security. See Michigan Laws 700.6301
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Settlement: means , in reference to a decedent's estate, the full process of administration, distribution, and closing. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
  • Settlor: means a person, including a testator or a trustee, who creates a trust. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
  • Sole ownership: The type of property ownership in which one individual holds legal title to the property and has full control of it.
  • Spendthrift provision: means a term of a trust that restrains either the voluntary or involuntary transfer of a trust beneficiary's interest. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
  • State facility: means state owned real property associated with buildings primarily used for office purposes, state prisons, or hospitals, institutions of higher education, and state owned real and inventory personal property associated with a state proprietary function, the inventory personal property of which shall be valued on the basis of the average monthly inventory for the preceding state fiscal year. See Michigan Laws 141.951
  • Statewide tax base growth rate: means the total state equalized valuation for real and personal property for the most recent year for which data is available divided by the total state equalized valuation for the fifth year preceding the most recent year for which data is available. See Michigan Laws 141.931
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Successor: means a person, other than a creditor, who is entitled to property of a decedent under the decedent's will or this act. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
  • Support plan: means a written plan that specifies the personal support services or any other supports that are to be developed with and provided for a recipient. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Support provision: means a provision in a trust that provides the trustee shall distribute income or principal or both for the health, education, support, or maintenance of a trust beneficiary, or language of similar import. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • Survive: means that an individual neither predeceases an event, including the death of another individual, nor is considered to predecease an event under section 2104 or 2702. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
  • terms of the trust: means the manifestation of the settlor's intent regarding a trust's provisions as expressed in the trust instrument or as may be established by other evidence that would be admissible in a judicial proceeding. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Treatment plan: means a written plan that specifies the goal-oriented treatment or training services, including rehabilitation or habilitation services, that are to be developed with and provided for a recipient. See Michigan Laws 330.1700
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trust: includes , but is not limited to, an express trust, private or charitable, with additions to the trust, wherever and however created. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
  • Trust beneficiary: means a person to whom 1 or both of the following apply:
  •     (i) The person has a present or future beneficial interest in a trust, vested or contingent. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • Trust director: means that term as defined in section 7703a. See Michigan Laws 700.7103
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by the court. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Ward: means an individual for whom a guardian is appointed. See Michigan Laws 700.1108