Michigan Laws > Chapter 380 > Act 451 of 1976


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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 380 > Act 451 of 1976 > Article 4

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.
Articles: means the articles of incorporation of an authority. See Michigan Laws 123.1061
Articles: means the articles of incorporation of an authority. See Michigan Laws 123.1133
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Authority: means a community swimming pool authority created under section 3. See Michigan Laws 123.1061
Authority: means a recreational authority established under section 5. See Michigan Laws 123.1133
Bequest: Property gifted by will.
Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Michigan Laws 123.1061
Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Michigan Laws 123.1133
Community swimming pool: means an artificial body of water owned or operated by an authority or a district that is used collectively by a number of individuals primarily for the purpose of swimming, wading, recreation, or instruction and includes related equipment, structures, areas, and enclosures intended for the use of individuals using or operating the swimming pool such as equipment, dressing, locker, shower, and toilet rooms. See Michigan Laws 123.1061
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.
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Department: means the department of treasury or its designee. See Michigan Laws 207.1002
Devise: To gift property by will.
District: means a school district that serves a municipality whose population is not less than 15,000 and whose territory is located in not less than 2 counties, each of which has at least 15% of the municipality's population. See Michigan Laws 123.1061
District: means a portion of a municipality having boundaries coterminous with those of a precinct used for general elections. See Michigan Laws 123.1133
Electors of the authority: means the qualified and registered electors of the participating municipalities who reside within the territory of the authority. See Michigan Laws 123.1133
Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
Firearm: means any weapon which will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of an explosive. See Michigan Laws 123.1101
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}
Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
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.
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: 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}
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Local unit of government: means a city, village, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 123.1101
local unit of government: means a city, village, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 123.1115
Motor fuel: means gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, a mixture of gasoline, diesel fuel, or kerosene, or a mixture of gasoline, diesel fuel, or kerosene and any other substance. See Michigan Laws 207.1004
Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 123.1061
Municipality: means a city, county, village, township, or school district. See Michigan Laws 123.1133
Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
oath: shall be construed to include the word "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in like cases the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed". See Michigan Laws 8.3k
Park: means an area of land or water, or both, dedicated to 1 or more of the following uses:

(i) Recreational purposes, including, but not limited to, landscaped tracts; picnic grounds; playgrounds; athletic fields; camps; campgrounds; zoological and botanical gardens; living historical farms; boating, hunting, fishing, and birding areas; swimming areas; and foot, bicycle, and bridle paths. See Michigan Laws 123.1133

Participating municipality: means a municipality that has adopted a resolution providing for the establishment of and the municipality's participation in an authority. See Michigan Laws 123.1061

Participating municipality: means a municipality or district that is named in articles of incorporation or proposed articles of incorporation as joining in the original establishment of an authority, or a municipality or district that joins an existing authority and is added to the articles of incorporation, and that has not withdrawn from the authority. See Michigan Laws 123.1133

Person: means and includes an individual, cooperative, partnership, firm, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, joint stock company, syndicate, and corporation, both private and municipal, and any receiver, trustee, conservator, or any other officer having jurisdiction and control of property by law or by appointment of a court other than units of government. See Michigan Laws 207.1004

person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l

Personal property: All property that is not real property.

Pistol: means that term as defined in section 222 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750. See Michigan Laws 123.1101

Pneumatic gun: means any implement, designed as a gun, that will expel a BB or pellet by spring, gas, or air. See Michigan Laws 123.1101

Public historic farm: means a parcel of public land and its buildings that are accessible to the public, and provides, but is not limited to, agricultural and historical programs, farming activities and animal husbandry, community recreation activities and events, programs held in common areas, meeting rooms, and community gardens, and access to surrounding parkland. See Michigan Laws 123.1133

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.

Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.

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

Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.

Swimming pool: includes equipment, structures, areas, and enclosures intended for the use of individuals using or operating a swimming pool, such as equipment, dressing, locker, shower, and toilet rooms. See Michigan Laws 123.1133

Tax: means a tax, interest, or penalty levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 207.1006

Territory of the authority: means the combined territory of the participating municipalities that is served by an authority. See Michigan Laws 123.1133

Testify: Answer questions in court.

Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.

true cash value: means the usual selling price at the place where the property to which the term is applied is at the time of assessment, being the price that could be obtained for the property at private sale, and not at auction sale except as otherwise provided in this section, or at forced sale. See Michigan Laws 211.27

United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o