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- Absent voter: is a voter who utilizes the process described in section 759. See Michigan Laws 168.2
- Absent voter ballot: means a ballot that is issued to a voter through the absent voter process. See Michigan Laws 168.2
- Act of congress: means the act of congress approved June 18, 1934, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment, operation and maintenance of foreign trade zones in ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for other purposes". See Michigan Laws 447.1
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Adoptee: means the individual who is to be adopted, regardless of whether the individual is a child or an adult. See Michigan Laws 710.22
- Adoption attorney: means an attorney acting as counsel in an adoption proceeding or case. See Michigan Laws 710.22
- Adult former sibling: means an individual who is 18 years of age or older and is related to an adult adoptee either biologically or through adoption by at least 1 common parent, regardless of whether the adult former sibling ever lived in the same household as the adult adoptee. See Michigan Laws 710.22
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Affiliate: means a person who directly or indirectly owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, another person. See Michigan Laws 445.2051
- Agency placement: means a placement in which a child placing agency, the department, or a court selects the adoptive parent for the child and transfers physical custody of the child to the prospective adoptive parent. See Michigan Laws 710.22
- Allegation: something that someone says happened.
- Allocable share: means that term as defined in the master settlement agreement. See Michigan Laws 445.2051
- 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.
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- 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.
- Applicant: means an individual or individuals who desire to adopt a child and who have submitted an adoption application to a child placing agency. See Michigan Laws 710.22
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Attending practitioner: means a licensed physician or a registered professional nurse certified as a nurse midwife by the Michigan board of nursing. See Michigan Laws 710.22
- Auction sale: as used in this act shall mean the offering for sale or selling of personal property to the highest bidder, or offering for sale or selling of personal property at a high price and then offering the same at successive lower prices until a buyer is secured. See Michigan Laws 446.57
- Authority: means the Michigan export development authority created by section 3. See Michigan Laws 447.152
- Bequest: Property gifted by will.
- best interests of the child: means the sum total of the following factors to be considered, evaluated, and determined by the court to be applied to give the adoptee permanence at the earliest possible date:
(i) The love, affection, and other emotional ties existing between the adopting individual or individuals and the adoptee or, in the case of a hearing under section 39 of this chapter, the putative father and the adoptee. See Michigan Laws 710.22Board: means the board of directors of the authority established by section 4. See Michigan Laws 447.152 Born out of wedlock: means a child conceived and born to a woman who was not married from the conception to the date of birth of the child, or a child whom the court has determined to be a child born during a marriage but not the issue of that marriage. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Central adoption registry: means the registry established by the department under section 27b of this chapter to control the release of identifying adoption information. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Certified nurse midwife: means a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification in the profession specialty field of nurse midwifery by the board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.17101 Chambers: A judge's office. Chief executive officer: means any of the following:
(i) For a city, the mayor. See Michigan Laws 446.203Child: means an individual less than 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Child placing agency: means a private organization licensed under 1973 PA 116, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Child placing agency: means that term as defined in section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 712.1 cigarette: includes "roll-your-own" (i. See Michigan Laws 445.2051 Civil infraction: means that term as defined in section 113 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Commercial e-mail: means an electronic message, file, data, or other information promoting the sale, lease, or exchange of goods, services, real property, or any other thing of value that is transmitted between 2 or more computers, computer networks, or electronic terminals or within a computer network. See Michigan Laws 445.2502 Compensation: means a payment of any money, thing of value, or financial benefit conferred in return for inducing an individual to participate in a pyramid promotional scheme. See Michigan Laws 445.2582 Computer network: means 2 or more computers that are, directly or indirectly, interconnected to exchange electronic messages, files, data, or other information. See Michigan Laws 445.2502 Consent: means a document in which all parental rights over a specific child are voluntarily relinquished to the court for placement with a specific adoptive parent. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Consideration: means the payment of cash or anything of value or the purchase of goods, services, or intangible property. See Michigan Laws 445.2582 Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time. Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant. Copyright laws: means those laws specified pursuant to title 17 of the United States Code, 17 U. See Michigan Laws 445.2102 Copyright owner: means the owner of a copyright of a musical work recognized and enforceable under the copyright laws. See Michigan Laws 445.2102 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. County juvenile agency: means that term as defined in section 2 of the county juvenile agency act, 1998 PA 518, MCL 45. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Court: means the family division of circuit court of this state, or if the context requires, the court having jurisdiction over adoption in another state or country. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Court: means the family division of circuit court. See Michigan Laws 712.1 Court: means the family division of circuit court. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Customer: means an individual who is lawfully on the premises of a retail establishment. See Michigan Laws 446.71 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Dealer: means a person, including, but not limited to, a person that operates a business as a plastics recycler, processor, or shredder or reseller, that purchases plastic bulk merchandise containers from any seller other than the manufacturer of the bulk merchandise containers or an authorized dealer or distributor of those containers. See Michigan Laws 445.2073 Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime. Department: means the department of health and human services. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Department: means the department of human services. See Michigan Laws 712.1 Department: means the department of health and human services. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Devise: To gift property by will. Direct placement: means a placement in which a parent or guardian selects an adoptive parent for a child, other than a stepparent or an individual related to the child within the fifth degree by marriage, blood, or adoption, and transfers physical custody of the child to the prospective adoptive parent. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source: Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings. Doctor: means a licensed doctor of medicine or a licensed doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery. See Michigan Laws 446.71 Documentation: means a signed statement that indicates where a person obtained a plastic bulk merchandise container offered for sale, indicates that a person is authorized to sell a plastic bulk merchandise container, or provides other evidence that reasonably demonstrates ownership of a plastic bulk merchandise container offered for sale and the source of the container. See Michigan Laws 445.2073 Domestic violence: means that term as defined in section 1 of 1978 PA 389, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 712.1 E-mail address: means a destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, to which e-mail may be sent or delivered. See Michigan Laws 445.2502 E-mail service provider: means a person that is an intermediary in the transmission of e-mail or provides to end users of e-mail service the ability to send and receive e-mail. See Michigan Laws 445.2502 Educational institution: means a public or private institution, or a separate school or department of a public or private institution, that is authorized by law or an accrediting body to grant or issue a diploma, degree, certificate, or license, or to grant approval to practice a profession or engage in an enterprise, and includes, but is not limited to, an academy, high school, college, university, community college, junior college, secondary school, extension course, or a business, nursing, professional, secretarial, technical, or vocational school. See Michigan Laws 168.2 Eligible export loan: means a loan by a participating financial institution located within this state the proceeds of which are restricted to the financing of eligible export transactions. See Michigan Laws 447.152 Eligible export transaction: means the sale of goods or services, or the development of goods or services for sale, outside of the United States by a person doing business in this state, which goods or services, in the judgment of the authority, have a substantial portion of their value created within this state and which sale or development, in the judgment of the authority, creates or maintains employment in this state. See Michigan Laws 447.152 Eligible medical condition: means Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, any other inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, pregnancy, or any other medical condition that requires immediate access to a toilet facility. See Michigan Laws 446.71 Emergency service provider: means a uniformed or otherwise identified employee or contractor of a fire department, hospital, or police station when that individual is inside the premises and on duty. See Michigan Laws 712.1 Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. 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. Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office. Export insurance: means insurance made available by the authority to protect an exporter against a foreign buyer's failure to pay for goods or services for political or commercial reasons. See Michigan Laws 447.152 Facilitator: means a person that individually or in conjunction or cooperation with another person processes, receives, or accepts for delivery an application for a refund anticipation loan or a check in payment of refund anticipation loan proceeds or in any other manner materially facilitates the making of a refund anticipation loan. See Michigan Laws 446.113 family independence agency: means the department of health and human services. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Financial institution: means a state or nationally chartered bank or a state or federally chartered savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union. See Michigan Laws 446.113 Fire department: means an organized fire department as that term is defined in section 1 of the fire prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29. See Michigan Laws 712.1 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. Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC Foreign protection order: means that term as defined in section 2950h of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Formal placement: means a placement that is approved by the court under section 51 of this chapter. See Michigan Laws 710.22 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 Genetic counselor: means an individual who is licensed under this part to engage in the practice of genetic counseling. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Governmental unit: means a city, township, charter township, county, or incorporated village. See Michigan Laws 446.203 Grant: means an amount of money provided by the authority to a nonprofit organization. See Michigan Laws 447.152 Gross negligence: means conduct so reckless as to demonstrate a substantial lack of concern for whether an injury results. See Michigan Laws 712.1 Guarantee: means a guarantee against loss, in whole or in part, of principal of and interest on an eligible export loan. See Michigan Laws 447.152 Guarantee amount: means the maximum amount payable under a guarantee which amount shall be specifically set forth in writing at the time the guarantee is entered into by the authority. See Michigan Laws 447.152 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. Hospital: means a hospital that is licensed under article 17 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 712.1 Industrial or commercial account: means a person that sells plastic or plastic articles to a dealer from a fixed location pursuant to a written agreement with that dealer. See Michigan Laws 445.2073 Inflation adjustment: means that term as defined in the master settlement agreement. See Michigan Laws 445.2051 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes. Internet domain name: means a globally unique, hierarchical reference to an internet host or service, assigned through centralized internet authorities, comprising a series of character strings separated by periods, with the right-most string specifying the top of the hierarchy. See Michigan Laws 445.2502 Internet drop-off store: means a person, corporation, or firm that contracts with other persons, corporations, or firms to offer its personal property or other valuable thing for sale, purchase, consignment, or trade through means of an internet website and meets the conditions described in section 1(3). See Michigan Laws 446.203 Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit. Inventory: means goods, including company-produced promotional materials, sales aids, and sales kits, that a plan or operation requires participants to purchase. See Michigan Laws 445.2582 Inventory repurchase program: means a program that does all of the following:
(i) Upon request, repurchases all current and marketable inventory in the possession of a participant within 12 months after the date of purchase, at not less than 90% of the original net cost, less appropriate setoffs, if any, when the participant's business relation is terminated. See Michigan Laws 445.2582juvenile: means a person who is less than 17 years of age who is the subject of a delinquency petition. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Lawyer-guardian ad litem: means an attorney appointed under section 2 of this chapter. See Michigan Laws 712.1 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 Lender: means a person that makes a refund anticipation loan. See Michigan Laws 446.113 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Licensed child caring institution: means a child caring institution as defined and licensed under 1973 PA 116, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Local police agency: means the police agency of the city, village, or township, or if none, the county sheriff of the county in which the internet drop-off store conducts business. See Michigan Laws 446.203 major political party: means each of the 2 political parties whose candidate for the office of secretary of state received the highest and second highest number of votes at the immediately preceding general election in which a secretary of state was elected. See Michigan Laws 168.16 Majority leader: see Floor Leaders Manufacturer: means a person that prepares, produces, derives, propagates, compounds, processes, packages, or repackages a drug or device salable on prescription only, or otherwise changes the container or the labeling of a drug or device salable on prescription only, and that supplies, distributes, sells, offers for sale, barters, or otherwise disposes of that drug or device and any other drug or device salable on prescription only, to another person for resale, compounding, or dispensing. See Michigan Laws 333.17706 Master settlement agreement: means the settlement agreement (and related documents) entered into on November 23, 1998, and incorporated into a consent decree and final judgment entered into on December 7, 1998, in Kelley Ex Rel. See Michigan Laws 445.2051 Mental health code: means the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Metropolitan district: means a district incorporated under the metropolitan district act, 1929 PA 312, MCL 119. See Michigan Laws 168.17 Midwife: means an individual licensed under this part to engage in the practice of midwifery. See Michigan Laws 333.17101 Minority leader: See Floor Leaders 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. National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC New merchandise: as used in this act shall mean all merchandise not previously sold at retail. See Michigan Laws 446.57 Newborn: means a child who a physician reasonably believes to be not more than 72 hours old. See Michigan Laws 712.1 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. Original participating manufacturer: means that term as defined in the master settlement agreement. See Michigan Laws 445.2051 Participant: means an individual who joins a plan or operation. See Michigan Laws 445.2582 Participating financial institution: means a bank as defined by the banking code of 1999, 1999 PA 276, MCL 487. See Michigan Laws 447.152 Participating manufacturer: means that term as defined in the master settlement agreement. See Michigan Laws 445.2051 Pawnbroker: means a person, corporation, or member, or members of a copartnership or firm, who loans money on deposit, or pledge of personal property, or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidence of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable thing on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price. See Michigan Laws 446.203 Performing rights society: means an association, corporation, or other entity that licenses the nondramatic public performance, broadcast, or transmittal of musical works on behalf of copyright owners including, but not limited to, the American society of composers, authors, and publishers; broadcast music, inc. See Michigan Laws 445.2102 Permanent mail ballot voter: means a registered elector who submits a signed absent voter ballot application to receive an absent voter ballot by mail for all future elections and whose application has been verified. See Michigan Laws 168.6 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 710.22 person: means an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, or any other organization or group of persons. See Michigan Laws 445.2051 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 445.2073 Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 445.2502 Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 446.113 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 446.163 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. Personal protection order: means a personal protection order issued under section 2950 or 2950a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Physician: means an individual who is licensed or authorized under this article to engage in the practice of medicine. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 Physician: means an individual licensed to engage in the practice of medicine under part 170 or the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery under part 175. See Michigan Laws 333.17101 Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. Plastic bulk merchandise container: means a plastic pallet, crate, container, or shell used by a producer, distributor, or retailer for the bulk transportation or storage of goods for sale at retail, including, but not limited to, food or beverages. See Michigan Laws 445.2073 Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court. Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer. Police station: means that term as defined in section 43 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 712.1 Practice agreement: means an agreement described in section 17047. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 Practice of genetic counseling: means provision of any of the following services:
(i) Obtaining and evaluating individual, family, and medical histories to determine the genetic risk for genetic or medical conditions or diseases in a client, the client's descendants, or other family members of the client. See Michigan Laws 333.17001Preexisting business relationship: means a relationship existing before the receipt of an e-mail formed voluntarily by the recipient with another person by means of an inquiry, application, purchase, or use of a product or service of the person sending the e-mail. See Michigan Laws 445.2502 Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial. Preplacement assessment: means an assessment of a prospective adoptive parent as described in section 23f of chapter X. See Michigan Laws 712.1 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. Probate: Proving a will Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. Promote: means to contrive, prepare, establish, plan, operate, advertise, or otherwise induce or attempt to induce an individual to participate in a pyramid promotional scheme. See Michigan Laws 445.2582 Proprietor: means the owner of a retail establishment, restaurant, inn, bar, tavern, sports or entertainment facility, not-for-profit organization, or any other place of business or professional office located in this state in which the public may assemble and in which musical works are publicly and nondramatically performed, broadcast, or transmitted for the enjoyment of the members of the public assembled in that place. See Michigan Laws 445.2102 Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Pyramid promotional scheme: means any plan or operation in which an individual gives consideration for the opportunity to receive compensation that is derived primarily from recruiting other individuals into the plan or operation rather than from the sale of products or services to ultimate users or from the consumption or use of product or services by ultimate users. See Michigan Laws 445.2582 qualified elector: as used in this act , means a person who possesses the qualifications of an elector as prescribed in section 1 of article II of the state constitution of 1963 and who has resided in the city or township 30 days. See Michigan Laws 168.10 Qualified supervisor: means an individual who is a genetic counselor and who holds a license under this part other than a temporary or limited license. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 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. Record: means a paper, electronic, or other generally accepted method of storing information in a retrievable form. See Michigan Laws 445.2073 record owner: means a person, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, firm, corporation, or other legal entity, possessed of the most recent fee title or a land contract vendee's interest in the land as shown by the records of the county register of deeds. See Michigan Laws 41.721a Refund anticipation loan: means an extension of credit to a taxpayer that a person arranges to be repaid directly from the proceeds of the taxpayer's federal or state personal income tax refund. See Michigan Laws 446.113 Regular election: means an election held on a regular election date to elect an individual to, or nominate an individual for, elective office in the regular course of the terms of that elective office. See Michigan Laws 168.3 Regular election date: means 1 of the dates established as a regular election date in section 641. See Michigan Laws 168.3 Relative: means that term as defined in section 13a of chapter XIIA. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Release: means a document in which all parental rights over a specific child are voluntarily relinquished to the department or to a child placing agency. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Releasing parties: means that term as defined in the master settlement agreement. See Michigan Laws 445.2051 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. Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation. Rescission petition: means a petition filed by an adult adoptee and his or her parent whose rights have been terminated to rescind the adoption in which a stepparent acquired parental rights and to restore parental rights of that parent according to section 66 of this chapter. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Residence: as used in this act , for registration and voting purposes means that place at which a person habitually sleeps, keeps his or her personal effects, and has a regular place of lodging. See Michigan Laws 168.11 Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Restoration: means the process by which education or treatment of a juvenile results in that juvenile becoming competent to proceed. See Michigan Laws 712A.1 Retail establishment: means a place of business open to the general public for the sale of goods or services. See Michigan Laws 446.71 Royalties: means the fees payable by a proprietor to a performing rights society for the nondramatic public performance, broadcast, or transmittal of musical works. See Michigan Laws 445.2102 Satellite office of a clerk: means a place designated by a clerk, and staffed by employees of the clerk or assistants as authorized under section 29, to perform specific duties under this act and to offer specified election administration services to electors of a municipality. See Michigan Laws 168.8 School board: means the governing body of a school district, including the board of trustees of a community college. See Michigan Laws 168.4 School board member: means an individual holding the office of school board member under the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 168.4 School district: means a school district, a local act school district, or an intermediate school district, as those terms are defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 168.4 School district election coordinator: means 1 of the following:
(i) For a school district whose entire territory lies within a single city or township, the city or township clerk. See Michigan Laws 168.4seal: means a seal of high tensile strength that is approved by the secretary of state under section 36. See Michigan Laws 168.14a secular day: means a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. See Michigan Laws 168.2 Seller: means a person that sells, barters, or trades a plastic bulk merchandise container to a dealer. See Michigan Laws 445.2073 Sentencing guidelines: A set of rules and principles established by the United States Sentencing Commission that trial judges use to determine the sentence for a convicted defendant. Source: U.S. Courts Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party. 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. Special election: means an election to elect an individual to, or nominate an individual for, a partial term in office or to submit a ballot question to the electors. See Michigan Laws 168.4 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Suitable to be a parent of an adoptee: means a conclusion that there is no specific concern with respect to an individual that would suggest that placement of any child, or a particular child, in the home of the individual would pose a risk of harm to the physical or psychological well-being of the child. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Surrender: means to leave a newborn with an emergency service provider without expressing an intent to return for the newborn. See Michigan Laws 712.1 Target: means a person that purchases, rents, leases, or otherwise obtains a product or service in the commercial market that is not for resale in the commercial market and that is, or later becomes, the subject of the patent infringement allegation. See Michigan Laws 446.163 Task force: means the joint task force created in section 17025. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 Taxpayer: means an individual who files a federal or Michigan personal income tax return. See Michigan Laws 446.113 Temporary licensed genetic counselor: means a genetic counselor who has been issued a temporary license under this article. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 Temporary placement: means a placement that occurs before court approval under section 51 of this chapter and that meets the requirements of section 23d of this chapter. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Testify: Answer questions in court. to place: means selection of an adoptive parent for a child and transfer of physical custody of the child to a prospective adoptive parent in compliance with this chapter. See Michigan Laws 710.22 Tobacco product manufacturer: means an entity that after December 28, 1999 directly (and not exclusively through any affiliate) meets 1 or more of the following:
(i) Manufactures cigarettes anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in the United States, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer (except where such importer is an original participating manufacturer that will be responsible for the payments under the master settlement agreement with respect to such cigarettes as a result of the provisions of subsection II(mm) of the master settlement agreement and that pays the taxes specified in subsection II(z) of the master settlement agreement, and provided that the manufacturer of such cigarettes does not market or advertise such cigarettes in the United States). See Michigan Laws 445.2051Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on Source: OCC Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC Uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act: means the uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act, 42 USC 1973ff to 1973ff-6. See Michigan Laws 168.18 Units sold: means the number of individual cigarettes sold in the state by the applicable tobacco product manufacturer (whether directly or through a distributor, retailer, or similar intermediary or intermediaries) during the year in question, as measured by excise taxes collected by the state on packs (or "roll-your-own" tobacco containers) bearing the excise tax stamp of the state. See Michigan Laws 445.2051 Unsolicited: means without the recipient's express permission. See Michigan Laws 445.2502 Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge. Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House. village: as used in this act , shall mean an incorporated village. See Michigan Laws 168.9 Voting accessibility for the elderly and handicapped act: means the voting accessibility for the elderly and handicapped act, 42 USC 1973ee to 1973ee-6. See Michigan Laws 168.18