§ 399.151 Short title
§ 399.152 Definitions
§ 399.153 Preservation of history, culture, and related public education as public purpose; administration of Michigan historical marker program; agreement; goals
§ 399.154 State register of historic sites; addition of markers and locations; information provided by department through online, printed, or other media
§ 399.155 Application; filing; form; attachments; fee; review; approval or denial of application; preparation of marker; preference
§ 399.156 Marker; review, modification, and approval of text; location; site number; inclusion of certain names prohibited; words; reference as “Great Lakes State”; agreement
§ 399.157 Official Michigan historical marker; property; control; ownership; transfer prohibited; stolen or damaged marker; recovery; proper maintenance
§ 399.158 Official Michigan historical marker; certain uses prohibited; violations as misdemeanor; penalty; return of marker without penalty; exception; deposit of civil fines into fund
§ 399.159 Administration of program; gifts, grants, bequests, and appropriations; transfer of money to fund; trademark or service mark provisions
§ 399.160 Moving or altering marker; withdrawal of marker designation

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 399 > Act 10 of 1955 - Governor John B. Swainson Michigan Historical Markers Act

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Application: means a request for the placement of an official Michigan historical marker at the location of a historic resource or site and for the resource's or site's listing in the state register of historic sites. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Center: means the Michigan history center established in the Michigan history center act, 2016 PA 470, MCL 399. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • Commission: means the Michigan historical commission created in section 3 of the Michigan historical commission act, 2016 PA 469, MCL 399. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • 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.
  • Creditor: is a person having a claim against the insurer, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, absolute, fixed, or contingent. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Foreign guaranty association: means any similar entities now in existence or hereafter created by the legislature of any other state. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • Fund: means the Michigan history center operations fund created in section 8 of the Michigan history center act, 2016 PA 470, MCL 399. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • Guaranty association: means the Michigan property and casualty guaranty association, the worker's compensation self-insurance security fund, the Michigan life and health insurance guaranty association, and any other similar entity now or hereafter created by the legislature of this state for the payment of claims of insolvent insurers. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • Historic resource: means a publicly or privately owned building, structure, site, object, or open space of historic significance to this state, including places associated with a significant individual, group, or event in this state. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • Historic significance: means value in relation to historical, architectural, archaeological, engineering, technological, or cultural disciplines. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • 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
  • 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
  • insolvent: means :
    (i) For an insurer issuing only assessable fire insurance policies:
    (A) The inability to pay an obligation within 30 days after it becomes payable. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
  • 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.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • 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.
  • official Michigan historical marker: means Michigan historical marker signage as approved by the commission under this act. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • 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.
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other private legal entity. See Michigan Laws 399.152
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Receiver: means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator, or conservator as the context requires. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • 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
  • Secured claim: means a claim secured by mortgage, trust deed, pledge, deposit as security, escrow, or otherwise, but not including a special deposit claim or claim against general assets. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • State: means a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • 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.
  • Transfer: shall include the sale and every other and different mode, direct or indirect, of disposing of or of parting with property or with an interest in property or with the possession of property or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest in property, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily, by or without judicial proceedings. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Work: means construction, addition, alteration, repair, moving, excavation, or demolition. See Michigan Laws 399.152