Michigan Laws > Chapter 440 > Act 174 of 1962 – Uniform Commercial Code


Article 1	General Provisions
Article 2	Sales
Article 2A	Leases
Article 3	Negotiable Instruments
Article 4	Bank Deposits and Collections
Article 4A	Funds Transfers
Article 5	Letters of Credit
Article 7	Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title
Article 8	Investment Securities
Article 9	Secured Transactions

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 440 > Act 174 of 1962 - Uniform Commercial Code

Acceptor: means a drawee who has accepted a draft. See Michigan Laws 440.3103
Accession: means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
Accessory: means any accessory, equipment, additional part or replacement part for a vehicle for which a certificate of title is required to be issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 257.1a
Account: means any depositor credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit. See Michigan Laws 440.4104
Account debtor: means a person obligated on an account, chattel paper, or general intangible. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
account for: means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, for services rendered or to be rendered, for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, for energy provided or to be provided, for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract, arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card, or as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a state, governmental unit of a state, or person licensed or authorized to operate the game by a state or governmental unit of a state. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
accounting for: means a record that meets all of the following requirements:

(i) Authenticated by a secured party. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Accuser: means a person who signs and swears to charges, a person who directs that charges be signed and sworn to by another, or a person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

ACH: means a national and governmental organization that has authority to process electronic payments, including, but not limited to, the national automated clearing house association and the federal reserve system. See Michigan Laws 124.301

ACH arrangement: means the agreement between the originator of the ACH transaction and the receiver of the ACH transaction. See Michigan Laws 124.301

ACH policy: means the procedures and internal controls as determined under a written policy developed and adopted by the treasurer or the electronic transactions officer of a local unit under section 3. See Michigan Laws 124.301

ACH transaction: means an electronic payment, debit, or credit transfer processed through an automated clearing house. See Michigan Laws 124.301

Acquittal:

Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
A verdict of "not guilty."

Active cell-unit: means a cell-unit set forth in the approved progressive cell-unit mining and reclamation plan provided for in section 63706(1), in which vegetation and topsoil have been removed in preparation for sand dune mining or sand removal has been initiated after the date of issuance of the sand dune mining permit. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Active service: means service, including active state service and special duty required by law, regulation, or pursuant to order of the governor. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Active service: means service, active state service, or special duty required by law, regulation, or order of the governor. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Active state duty: means the actual weekend, annual training, or special call up duty in the state military forces and includes travel to and from the duty site or station. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Active state service: means military service in support of civil authorities ordered by the governor or as provided by the Michigan military act. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Adequate in-person services: means providing in-person service options, without the requirement of an advance appointment, on each day and at each location a secretary of state branch office is open for services in this state. See Michigan Laws 257.1a

Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.

Administrative adjustment request: means an administrative adjustment request filed by a partnership under section 6227 of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Administrative authority: means the state or local official responsible for the administration and enforcement of this act. See Michigan Laws 125.1351

Administratively complete: describes an application for a mining permit under this part that contains all of the documents and information required under this part and any rules promulgated under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Administratively complete: refers to an application for a mining permit under this part that includes the fee and all of the documents and other information required under this part and any rules promulgated under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Administrator: means the secretary of state or any individual designated by the secretary of state to act in his or her place. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Adverse claim: means a claim that a claimant has a property interest in a financial asset and that it is a violation of the rights of the claimant for another person to hold, transfer, or deal with the financial asset. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

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.

Adviser: means a person who, at the request of the issuer, a confirmer, or another adviser, notifies or requests another adviser to notify the beneficiary that a letter of credit has been issued, confirmed, or amended. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

advisor: means an individual who has entered into a volunteer agreement with the department to serve as a nondeployable advisor in the Michigan cyber civilian corps. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Advisory board: means the Michigan cyber civilian corps advisory board created under section 9. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Aeronautics: means any act or matter that treats or deals with flight in the airspace. See Michigan Laws 259.2

Affected area: means an area outside of the mining area where the land surface, surface water, groundwater, or air resources are determined through an environmental impact assessment to be potentially affected by mining operations within the proposed mining area. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

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.

Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.

Aftermarket crash part: means a replacement part for a nonmechanical sheet metal part or plastic part that constitutes part of the exterior of a motor vehicle, including, but not limited to, an inner or outer panel. See Michigan Laws 257.1362

Afternoon: means the period of a day between noon and midnight. See Michigan Laws 440.4104

Age: means chronological age except as otherwise provided by law. See Michigan Laws 37.2103

Agent: means an individual who, for compensation or valuable consideration, is employed either directly or indirectly by a dealer. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Aggrieved party: means a party entitled to resort to a remedy. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Agricultural conservation easement: means a conveyance, by a written instrument, in which, subject to permitted uses, the owner relinquishes to the public in perpetuity his or her development rights and makes a covenant running with the land not to undertake development. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Agricultural lien: means an interest, other than a security interest, in farm products that meets all of the following requirements:

(i) The interest secures payment or performance of an obligation for 1 or more of the following:

(A) Goods or services furnished in connection with a debtor's farming operation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Agricultural use: means substantially undeveloped land devoted to the production of plants and animals useful to humans, including forages and sod crops; grains, feed crops, and field crops; dairy and dairy products; poultry and poultry products; livestock, including breeding and grazing of cattle, swine, captive cervidae, and similar animals; berries; herbs; flowers; seeds; grasses; nursery stock; fruits; vegetables; Christmas trees; and other similar uses and activities. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Airboat: means a motorboat that is propelled, wholly or in part, by a propeller projecting above the water surface. See Michigan Laws 324.80101

Aircraft: means any contrivance used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air. See Michigan Laws 259.2

Airport: means any location, either on land or water, that is used for the landing or take-off of aircraft, and includes the buildings and facilities, if any, on that location. See Michigan Laws 259.2

Airport manager: means any individual who is properly appointed and designated by the airport owner as the airport manager, and who is responsible for the supervision and operation of the airport to the airport owner. See Michigan Laws 259.2

Alcoholic liquor: means that term as defined in section 105 of the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436. See Michigan Laws 37.1103

Alcoholic liquor: means that term as defined in section 105 of the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Allegation: something that someone says happened.

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.

Amphibian: means any frog, toad, or salamander of the class Amphibia. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

annual meeting: when applied to townships, mean the annual meeting required by law to be held on the Saturday immediately preceding the first Monday in April. See Michigan Laws 8.3d

Annual user costs: means an annual charge levied by a water supplier on users of the waterworks system to pay for each user's share of the cost for operation, maintenance, and replacement of the waterworks system. See Michigan Laws 324.5401

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.

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.

Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.

Applicant: means a person at whose request or for whose account a letter of credit is issued. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Appraisal: A determination of property value.

Apprehension: means the taking of a person into custody. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

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

Approved educational institution: means a school, academy, or other similar establishment approved by the administrator under section 13a to provide training to mechanics or mechanical trainees under this act. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Aquatic invasive plant species: means an aquatic plant species, hybrid, or genotype that is not native and whose introduction causes, or is likely to cause, economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. See Michigan Laws 324.41401

Aquatic nuisance: means an organism that lives or propagates, or both, within the aquatic environment and that impairs the use or enjoyment of the waters of the state, including the intermediate aquatic hosts for schistosomes that cause swimmer's itch. See Michigan Laws 324.3301

Aquatic nuisance species: means a nonindigenous species that threatens the diversity or abundance of native species or the ecological stability of infested waters, or commercial, agricultural, aquacultural, or recreational activities dependent on such waters. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Aquatic plant: means a submergent, emergent, obligate wetland, facultative wetland, or floating-leaf plant or a fragment thereof, including a seed or other propagule. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Area: means the whole of the state and the whole or any designated portion of any township or townships or county or counties within the state. See Michigan Laws 324.41101

Armory: means a building, facility, or the lots and grounds used by an army, navy, or air unit of the national guard or organized militia as a home station or for military training. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.

Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.

Arrest card: means a paper form or an electronic format prescribed by the department that facilitates the collection and compilation of criminal and juvenile arrest history record information and biometric data. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Art: means an original, visual creation of quality executed in any size or shape, in any media, using any kind or combination of materials. See Michigan Laws 18.71

Artificial brine: means mineralized water formed by dissolving rock salt or other readily soluble rocks or minerals. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

As-extracted collateral: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) Oil, gas, or other minerals that are subject to a security interest that is created by a debtor having an interest in the minerals before extraction and attaches to the minerals as extracted. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Asset: means infrastructure related to drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, transportation, energy, or communications, including, but not limited to, drinking water supply systems, wastewater systems, stormwater systems, drains, roads, bridges, broadband and communication systems, and electricity and natural gas networks. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Asset class: means a single type of asset including its network and all associated appurtenances critical to its performance. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Asset management: means an ongoing process of maintaining, preserving, upgrading, and operating physical assets cost-effectively, based on a continuous physical inventory and condition assessment and investment to achieve performance goals. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Asset management plan: means a set of procedures to manage assets through their life cycles, based on principles of life cycle costing. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Asset management program: means the program that identifies the desired level of service at the lowest life cycle cost for rehabilitating, repairing, or replacing the assets associated with a municipality's wastewater or storm water system. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Asset owner: means a person that owns or operates an asset. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.

Assistance: means 1 or more of the following activities to the extent authorized by the federal water pollution control act:

(i) Provision of loans to municipalities for construction of sewage treatment works projects, stormwater management projects, or nonpoint source projects. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Assistance: means 1 or more of the following activities to the extent authorized by the federal safe drinking water act:

(i) Provision of loans for the planning, design, and construction or alteration of waterworks systems. See Michigan Laws 324.5401

Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.

Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.

Audited partnership: means a partnership subject to a partnership level audit resulting in a federal adjustment. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Authority: means a public transportation authority formed under this act. See Michigan Laws 124.351

Authority: means an authority created by or pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 124.402

Authority: means a regional transit authority created under this act. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Authority: means the Michigan municipal bond authority created in section 4 of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Authority: means an authority incorporated under this act. See Michigan Laws 124.601

Authority: means the Michigan municipal bond authority created in the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Authority: means the Michigan municipal bond authority created in the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5401

Authority: means an authority formed by contract pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 124.112

Authorized account: means a deposit account of a customer in a bank designated by the customer as a source of payment of payment orders issued by the customer to the bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4605

Automobile or light truck: means a motor vehicle that has a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 14,000 pounds. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

BAIID service: means the installation, removal, repair, or other servicing of breath alcohol ignition interlock devices. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.

Bailee: means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Ballast water: means water and associated solids taken on board a vessel to control or maintain trim, draft, stability, or stresses on the vessel, without regard to the manner in which it is carried. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Ballast water treatment method: means a method of treating ballast water and sediments to remove or destroy living biological organisms through 1 or more of the following:

(i) Filtration. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Bank: means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Bank: means a person engaged in the business of banking, including a saving bank, saving and loan association, credit union, or trust company. See Michigan Laws 440.4105

Bank: means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. See Michigan Laws 440.4605

Bank: means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Banking day: means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions. See Michigan Laws 440.4104

Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.

Barrier dune: means the first landward sand dune formation along the shoreline of a Great Lake or a sand dune formation designated by the department. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Barrier free design: means those architectural designs which eliminate the type of barriers and hindrances that deter physically limited persons from having access to and free mobility in and around a building, structure, or improved area. See Michigan Laws 125.1351

Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.

Bearer: means a person in control of a negotiable electronic document of title or a person in possession of an instrument, a negotiable tangible document of title, or a certificated security payable to bearer or indorsed in blank. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

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: means a person who under the terms of a letter of credit is entitled to have its complying presentation honored. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Beneficiary: means the person to be paid by the beneficiary's bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4603

Beneficiation: means to process sand for any of the following purposes, but does not include the drying process:

(i) Regulating the grain size of the desired product. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Bequest: Property gifted by will.

Bill of lading: means a document of title evidencing the receipt of goods for shipment issued by a person engaged in the business of directly or indirectly transporting or forwarding goods. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Biometric data: means all of the following:

(i) Fingerprint images recorded in a manner prescribed by the department. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Blighted area: means a portion of a municipality, developed or undeveloped, improved or unimproved, with business or residential uses, marked by a demonstrated pattern of deterioration in physical, economic, or social conditions, and characterized by such conditions as functional or economic obsolescense of buildings or the area as a whole, physical deterioration of structures, substandard building or facility conditions, improper or inefficient division or arrangement of lots and ownerships and streets and other open spaces, inappropriate mixed character and uses of the structures, deterioration in the condition of public facilities or services, or any other similar characteristics which endanger the health, safety, morals, or general welfare of the municipality, and which may include any buildings or improvements not in themselves obsolescent, and any real property, residential or nonresidential, whether improved or unimproved, the acquisition of which is considered necessary for rehabilitation of the area. See Michigan Laws 125.72

Blighted property: means property that meets any of the following criteria:

(i) The property has been declared a public nuisance in accordance with a local housing, building, plumbing, fire, or other related code or ordinance. See Michigan Laws 125.72

Blighted property: means property that meets any of the following criteria:

(i) The property has been declared a public nuisance in accordance with a local housing, building, plumbing, fire, or other related code or ordinance. See Michigan Laws 125.942

Block: means block as that term is used by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census in conducting the 2010 decennial census. See Michigan Laws 3.55

Board: means the governing body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 124.351

Board: means the governing and administrative body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 124.402

Board: means the governing body of a public authority. See Michigan Laws 124.452

Board: means the governing body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Board: means the agricultural preservation fund board created in section 36204. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Board: means the department of state. See Michigan Laws 3.161

Board: means the Michigan natural resources trust fund board established in section 1905. See Michigan Laws 324.2130

Board: means the state historical records advisory board. See Michigan Laws 24.401

Boat: means a vessel. See Michigan Laws 324.80101

Borrower: means either of the following:

(i) The city, village, township, or county operating under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.651

Branch: includes a separately incorporated foreign branch of a bank. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Broker: means a person defined as a broker or dealer under the federal securities laws, but without excluding a bank acting in that capacity. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Building: means a building as defined in section 2 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 125.1351

Business activity: means that term as defined in section 3(2) of the former single business tax act, 1975 PA 228, or in section 105 of the Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208. See Michigan Laws 125.651

Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Michigan Laws 440.2103

Buyer in ordinary course of business: means a person that buys goods in good faith, without knowledge that the sale violates the rights of another person in the goods, and in the ordinary course from a person, other than a pawnbroker, in the business of selling goods of that kind. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Capitalization grant: means the federal grant made to this state by the United States Environmental Protection Agency 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 324.5301

Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Carrier: means a health, dental, or vision insurance company authorized to do business in this state under, and a health maintenance organization or multiple employer welfare arrangement operating under, the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500. See Michigan Laws 124.73

Cash proceeds: means proceeds that are money, checks, deposit accounts, or the like. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Cell-unit: means a subunit of the total sand dune mining project as determined in size and location by the operator. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Certificate of coverage: means written authorization from the department to implement a project under a general permit. See Michigan Laws 324.3301

Certificate of title: means a certificate of title with respect to which a statute provides for the security interest in question to be indicated on the certificate as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the collateral. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Certificated security: means a security that is represented by a certificate. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Chambers: A judge's office.

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.

Chattel paper: means a record or records that evidence both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Chief executive officer: means , with respect to a city, the mayor of the city and, with respect to a county, either the county executive of the county or, for a county not having a county executive, the chairperson of the county board of commissioners. See Michigan Laws 124.402

Chief information officer: means the individual within the department designated by the governor as the chief information officer for this state. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.

Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Child-support order: means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

citation: means a complaint or notice upon which a police officer shall record an occurrence involving 1 or more vehicle law violations by the person cited. See Michigan Laws 257.727c

City: means a city incorporated under the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Claimant: means a victim or intervenor who is injured, or any other person eligible for an award under section 4(1) or 5(1), who files a claim under this act. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Classification system: means a mechanism to identify the current use of land and any structures on the land. See Michigan Laws 324.60901

Clearing corporation: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A person that is registered as a clearing agency under the federal securities laws. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Clearing-house: means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items. See Michigan Laws 440.4104

Clerk: means the clerk of a township elected under chapter XVI of Act No. See Michigan Laws 41.1b

Client: means a municipal, educational, nonprofit, or critical infrastructure organization that has requested and is using the rapid response assistance of the Michigan cyber civilian corps under the direction of the department. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Collecting bank: means a bank handling the item for collection except the payor bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4105

Collecting sewers: means lateral, branch, submain, and trunk sewers consisting of pipes or conduits including pumps, lift stations, force mains, and other appurtenances necessary for a system to prevent or eliminate discharges of raw or inadequately treated sewage of human origin into any waters of the state. See Michigan Laws 324.4901

Collector plate: means a collector plate that matches any registration plate developed and issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 257.811d

Commander-in-chief: means the governor of this state. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Commanding officer: means the director of the department of state police or the director's designee. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Commanding officer: includes only a commissioned officer. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Commercial purposes: means offering for sale, selling, giving, or furnishing to others. See Michigan Laws 324.48728

Commercial tort claim: means a claim arising in tort with respect to which of the following applies:

(i) The claimant is an organization. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Commercial unit: means a unit of goods that by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of lease and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Commission: means the civil rights commission established by section 29 of article V of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 37.1103

Commission: means the civil rights commission established by section 29 of article V of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 37.2103

Commission: means the Mackinac Island state park commission created in section 76503. See Michigan Laws 324.76501

Commission: means the Michigan aeronautics commission. See Michigan Laws 259.3

commission: means the Mackinac Island state park commission. See Michigan Laws 324.76701

Commission: means the housing commission created under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.651

Commission: means the commission of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Commission: means the Hispanic/Latino commission of Michigan created in section 2. See Michigan Laws 18.301

Commission: means the crime victim services commission. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Commission: means the state commission on criminal justice created in section 2. See Michigan Laws 18.401

Commission: means the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards created in section 3 of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Commission: means the commission of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.301

Commissioner: means the commissioner of the office of financial and insurance services of the department of consumer and industry services. See Michigan Laws 21.147

Commissioner: means the director of the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 124.73

Committee: means the committee on art in public places. See Michigan Laws 18.71

Commodity account: means an account maintained by a commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Commodity contract: means a commodity futures contract, an option on a commodity futures contract, a commodity option, or another contract if the contract or option is 1 of the following:

(i) Traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market for such a contract pursuant to federal commodities laws. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Commodity customer: means a person for which a commodity intermediary carries a commodity contract on its books. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Commodity intermediary: means 1 of the following:

(i) A person that is registered as a futures commission merchant under federal commodities law. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.

common source of supply: means a natural underground reservoir containing or appearing to contain a common accumulation of oil and gas. See Michigan Laws 324.61701

Communicate: means either of the following:

(i) Send a signed writing. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Communicate: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) To send a written or other tangible record. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Community water supply: means a public water supply that provides year-round service to not less than 15 living units or that regularly provides year-round service to not less than 25 residents. See Michigan Laws 324.5401

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.

Confinement: means the physical restraint of a person. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Confirmer: means a nominated person who undertakes, at the request or with the consent of the issuer, to honor a presentation under a letter of credit issued by another. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Conformance bond: means a surety bond that has been executed by a surety company authorized to do business in this state, cash, a certificate of deposit, a letter of credit, or other security filed by a person and accepted by the department to ensure compliance with this part or rules promulgated under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Conformance bond: means a surety bond that is executed by a surety company authorized to do business in this state, cash, certificates of deposit, letters of credit, or other securities that are filed by an operator to ensure compliance with this part, rules promulgated under this part, or conditions of a sand dune mining permit. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Conforming: means goods or performance under a lease contract that are in accordance with the obligations under the lease contract. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Conservation easement: means an interest in land that provides limitation on the use of land or a body of water or requires or prohibits certain acts on or with respect to the land or body of water, whether or not the interest is stated in the form of a restriction, easement, covenant, or condition in a deed, will, or other instrument executed by or on behalf of the owner of the land or body of water or in an order of taking, which interest is appropriate to retaining or maintaining the land or body of water, including improvements on the land or body of water, predominantly in its natural, scenic, or open condition, or in an agricultural, farming, open space, or forest use, or similar use or condition. See Michigan Laws 324.2140

Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Consignee: means a merchant to which goods are delivered in a consignment. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Consignment: means a transaction, regardless of its form, in which a person delivers goods to a merchant for the purpose of sale and that meets all of the following:

(i) The merchant deals in goods of that kind under a name other than the name of the person making delivery, is not an auctioneer, and is not generally known by its creditors to be substantially engaged in selling the goods of others. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Consignor: means a person that delivers goods to a consignee in a consignment. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

constituent municipalities: includes all of the municipalities that signed or became signatories of articles of incorporation of any authority incorporated under this act. See Michigan Laws 124.281

Construction: means the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other similar actions necessary to the construction of collecting sewers; the installation, erection, and building of collecting sewers; and the inspection and supervision of the construction of such sewers. See Michigan Laws 324.4901

Construction activities: means an action undertaken to plan, design, or build sewage treatment works projects, stormwater management projects, or nonpoint source projects. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Construction activities: means any actions undertaken in the planning, designing, or building of a waterworks system. See Michigan Laws 324.5401

Consumer: means an individual who enters into a transaction primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Consumer: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A person who purchases or leases a new motor vehicle for personal, family, or household use and not for the purpose of selling or leasing the new motor vehicle to another person. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Consumer account: means an account established by an individual primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Consumer goods: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose, if the total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, do not exceed $25,000. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Consumer obligor: means an obligor who is an individual and who incurred the obligation as part of a transaction entered into primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Consumer transaction: means a transaction in which an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Consumer transaction: means a transaction in which an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, a security interest secures the obligation, and the collateral is held or acquired primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Consumer-goods transaction: means a consumer transaction in which an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and a security interest in consumer goods secures the obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.

Continuation statement: means an amendment of a financing statement which identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates and indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it is filed to continue the effectiveness of, the identified financing statement. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Contract: means a written or oral agreement, or a similar understanding or arrangement, in which a person agrees that another person will perform work, labor, diagnosis, repair, reconditioning, replacement, adjustment, or alteration, directly or indirectly, on a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Michigan Laws 440.2106

Contractor: means the private entity, nonprofit entity, or academic institution selected by the department under section 5 to evaluate certain economic development incentives. See Michigan Laws 18.1753

Controlled substance: means that term as defined in section 7104 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 37.1103

Controlled substance: means that term as defined in section 7104 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Controlled substance: means opium, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, methamphetamine, phencyclidine, barbituric acid, marihuana, any compound or derivative of any such substance, and any other substance that is listed in schedules I through V of section 202 of the controlled substances act, 21 USC 812, including any subsequent amendments thereto. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

controlling board: means all boards having the care, management, or control over public school districts and public educational institutions other than a public school academy established under the revised school code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 38.73

Convention: means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Conventional gravity sewer extension: means the installation of a new gravity sewer and connection to an existing collection system to provide sewer service to new areas previously not served by the public sewer system. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

Convicted: means 1 of the following:

(i) Having a judgment of conviction or a probation order entered in any court having jurisdiction over criminal offenses, including, but not limited to, a tribal court or a military court. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.

Corporate partner: means a partner, other than a unitary business group, that is subject to tax under chapter 11, including a partner that has unrelated business activity. See Michigan Laws 206.721

corporation: means that term as defined in section 605. See Michigan Laws 206.721

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.

Correctional custody: means the physical restraint of a person during duty or nonduty while on active state duty and includes extra duty, fatigue duty, or hard labor. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Council: means a regional transit coordinating council formed pursuant to section 4a. See Michigan Laws 124.402

Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.

County executive: means the county executive of a county or, if the county does not have an elected county executive, the chair of the county board of commissioners. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Crayfish: means any arthropod of the decapoda family. See Michigan Laws 324.48728

Creditor: includes a general creditor, a secured creditor, a lien creditor, and any representative of creditors, including an assignee for the benefit of creditors, a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver in equity, and an executor or administrator of an insolvent debtor's or assignor's estate. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Crime: means an act that is 1 of the following:

(i) A crime under the laws of this state or the United States that causes an injury within this state. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Criminal history record information: means name; date of birth; personal descriptions including identifying marks, scars, amputations, and tattoos; aliases and prior names; social security number, driver's license number, and other identifying numbers; and information on misdemeanor arrests and convictions and felony arrests and convictions. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Criminal justice in-service training: means a criminal justice program that includes education or training that is designed and intended to enhance the direct delivery of criminal justice services by participants who are authorized to receive education or training as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Critical infrastructure: means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States or this state that the incapacity or destruction of that system or asset would have a debilitating impact on security, economic security, public health or safety, or any combination of these as determined by the department. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Crustacea: means any freshwater crayfish, shrimp, or prawn of the order decapoda. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Crustacean: means freshwater crayfish, shrimp, or prawn of the order Decapoda. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Custodial authority: means 1 or more of the following apply:

(i) The actor was a member of the same household as the victim. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Customer: means the owner or operator of a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Customer: means any person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4104

Customer: means a person, including a bank, having an account with a bank or from whom a bank has agreed to receive payment orders. See Michigan Laws 440.4605

Cybersecurity incident: means an event occurring on or conducted through a computer network that actually or imminently jeopardizes the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of computers, information or communications systems or networks, physical or virtual infrastructure controlled by computers or information systems, or information resident on any of these. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.

damages: means the fair market value on the stump or at the mill, whichever is greater of a forest product cut or removed, or the fair and actual value of any other property removed or damaged in trespass, plus any other damages caused before, during, or after the cutting or removal. See Michigan Laws 324.2155

Data management system: means a mechanism which relies on a computer to manipulate, store, and retrieve information collected and updated during a resource inventory. See Michigan Laws 324.60901

Data transfer: means the copying or transmission of electronic information that does not alter the content, context, or structure of a record from 1 medium to another medium. See Michigan Laws 24.401

Dating relationship: means frequent, intimate associations primarily characterized by the expectation of affectional involvement. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended

Dealer: means any person that engages in the ordinary course of repeated and recurrent transactions of buying or receiving used motor vehicle parts from persons other than a licensee. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Dealer: means any person, other than the manufacturer as defined in this act, who sells 3 or more mobile homes in any consecutive 12-month period or is licensed by the state as a mobile home dealer. See Michigan Laws 125.992

Debtor: means 1 of the following:

(i) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Decedent: A deceased person.

Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.

Defendant: includes a person in the position of defendant in a counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.

Delivery: means either of the following:

(i) With respect to an electronic document of title, a voluntary transfer of control. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Delivery order: means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouseman, carrier, or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 28.122

Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

Department: means the department of civil rights or its employees. See Michigan Laws 37.2103

Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.3301

Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Department: means the department of state. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Department: means the state transportation department. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Department: means the state transportation department, bureau of aeronautics. See Michigan Laws 259.3

Department: means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy or its authorized agent or representative. See Michigan Laws 324.5402

Department: means the department of commerce. See Michigan Laws 125.1222

Department: means the department of management and budget. See Michigan Laws 18.71

Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.41401

Department: means the department of technology, management, and budget. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.61001

Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Department: means the department of technology, management, and budget. See Michigan Laws 18.1753

Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Department: means the director of the department of natural resources or his or her designee to whom the director delegates a power or duty by written instrument. See Michigan Laws 324.301

Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 24.401

Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Department of natural resources: means the principal state department created in section 501. See Michigan Laws 324.301

Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.

Dependent: means an individual principally dependent on another for support. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended

Deposit: includes the purchase of, or investment in, shares of credit unions. See Michigan Laws 21.147

Deposit account: means a demand, time, savings, passbook, or similar account maintained with a bank. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Depositary bank: means the first bank to take an item even though it is also the payor bank, unless the item is presented for immediate payment over the counter. See Michigan Laws 440.4105

Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.

Depository library: means a depository library designated under section 10 of the library of Michigan act, Act No. See Michigan Laws 21.55

Derivative instrument or product: means either of the following, subject to subdivision (c):

(i) A contract or convertible security that changes in value in concert with a related or underlying security, future, or other instrument or index; or that obtains much of its value from price movements in a related or underlying security, future, or other instrument or index; or both. See Michigan Laws 21.55

Detroit consumer price index: means the most comprehensive index of consumer prices available for the Detroit area from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Development: means an activity that materially alters or affects the existing conditions or use of any land. See Michigan Laws 324.36101

Development: means an activity that materially alters or affects the existing conditions or use of any land in a manner that is inconsistent with an agricultural use. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Development area: means that portion of a blighted area to which a development plan is applicable. See Michigan Laws 125.72

Development plan: means a plan for the rehabilitation of all or any part of a blighted area. See Michigan Laws 125.72

Development rights: means an interest in land that includes the right to construct a building or structure, to improve land for development, or to divide a parcel for development purposes. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Devise: To gift property by will.

Digital imaging: means the techniques for capturing, recording, processing, storing, transferring, and using images of records electronically. See Michigan Laws 24.401

Digital migration: means the conversion of digital information from an existing format to another format that maintains the content, context, and structure of a record. See Michigan Laws 24.401

Digitization: means the conversion of information into digitally coded electronic images suitable for electronic storage. See Michigan Laws 24.401

Direct partner: means a partner that holds an interest directly in a partnership or other flow-through entity. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 324.3301

Director: means the director of the Mackinac Island state park commission. See Michigan Laws 324.76501

Director: means the deputy director of the department, bureau of aeronautics who is the director of the Michigan aeronautics commission. See Michigan Laws 259.3

Director: means the director of the department or his or her designated representative. See Michigan Laws 324.5402

Director: means the director of the department of management and budget or the designated representative of the director. See Michigan Laws 18.71

Director: means the director of the office of Hispanic/Latino affairs. See Michigan Laws 18.301

Director: means the director of the office of criminal justice. See Michigan Laws 18.401

Director: means the director of the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.301

disability: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A determinable physical or mental characteristic of an individual, which may result from disease, injury, congenital condition of birth, or functional disorder, if the characteristic:

(A) For purposes of article 2, substantially limits 1 or more of the major life activities of that individual and is unrelated to the individual's ability to perform the duties of a particular job or position or substantially limits 1 or more of the major life activities of that individual and is unrelated to the individual's qualifications for employment or promotion. See Michigan Laws 37.1103

Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.

Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:

Disposal well: means a well drilled or converted for subsurface disposal of waste products or processed brine and its related surface facilities. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Distressed vehicle: means that term as defined in section 12a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Division: means the division of minority business enterprise. See Michigan Laws 125.1222

Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.

Document: means a draft or other demand, document of title, investment security, certificate, invoice, or other record, statement, or representation of fact, law, right, or opinion that is not oral which is both of the following:

(i) Presented in a written or other medium permitted by the letter of credit or, unless prohibited by the letter of credit, by the standard practice referred to in section 5108(5). See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Document: means a document of title or a receipt of the type described in section 7201(2). See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Document of title: means a record that in the regular course of business or financing is treated as adequately evidencing that the person in possession or control of the record is entitled to receive, control, hold, and dispose of the record and the goods the record covers and that purports to be issued by or addressed to a bailee and to cover goods in the bailee's possession which are either identified or are fungible portions of an identified mass. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Documentary draft: means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities as defined in section 8102 or instructions for uncertificated securities as defined in section 8102, or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft. See Michigan Laws 440.4104

Donor: The person who makes a gift.

Draft: means a draft as defined in section 3104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order. See Michigan Laws 440.4104

Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Michigan Laws 440.4104

Drawer: means a person who signs or is identified in a draft as a person ordering payment. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Due notice: means notice published at least twice, with an interval of at least 7 days between the 2 publication dates, in a newspaper or other publication of general circulation within the appropriate area or, if a publication of general circulation is not available, by posting at a reasonable number of conspicuous places within the appropriate area. See Michigan Laws 324.4701

Duty of support: means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Economic development incentive: means the abatements, tax credits, exemptions, grants, loans, or loan guarantees related to economic development activities in this state as determined by the Michigan strategic fund provided under the following acts:

(i) The Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208. See Michigan Laws 18.1753

Economic development project: means land and existing or planned improvements suitable for use by an industrial or commercial enterprise, or housing development, or the protection of the environment, including, but not limited to, groundwater or surface water. See Michigan Laws 124.21

educational institution: means a public or private institution or a separate school or department of a public or private institution, includes an academy, college, elementary or secondary school, extension course, kindergarten, nursery, school system, school district, or university, and a business, nursing, professional, secretarial, technical, or vocational school, and includes an agent of an educational institution. See Michigan Laws 37.1401

educational institution: means a public or private institution, or a separate school or department thereof, and includes an academy, college, elementary or secondary school, extension course, kindergarten, nursery, local school system, university, or a business, nursing, professional, secretarial, technical, or vocational school; and includes an agent of an educational institution. See Michigan Laws 37.2401

Electric patrol vehicle: means an electrically powered motor vehicle designed to carry not more than 4 persons at a speed of not more than 25 miles per hour and having an unloaded weight of not more than 1,300 pounds. See Michigan Laws 257.1572

Electronic chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information stored in an electronic medium. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Electronic document of title: means a document of title evidenced by a record consisting of information stored in an electronic medium. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}

Eligible applicant: means a person that meets the requirements under section 41402. See Michigan Laws 324.41401

Eligible entity: means a governmental agency of the executive branch of this state or a subdivision of this state that is established and maintained in accordance with the laws of this state and that is authorized by the laws of this state to employ or appoint law enforcement officers licensed under section 9 and 9a of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Eligible project: means a project that meets the requirements under section 41402. See Michigan Laws 324.41401

Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}

Emergency management coordinator: means that term as defined in section 2 of the emergency management act, 1976 PA 390, MCL 30. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Emergency management coordinator: means that term as defined in section 2 of the emergency management act, 1976 PA 390, MCL 30. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Emergency services: means fire protection services, emergency medical services, police protection, and any other emergency health or safety services designated in the articles of incorporation of an authority. See Michigan Laws 124.601

Employee: means an individual who is self-employed or works for any other entity as a full-time or part-time employee, contractual provider, or volunteer, regardless of whether he or she is financially compensated. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Employee-owned corporation: means an employee-owned corporation as defined by the employee-owned corporation act. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Employer: means a person who has 1 or more employees or a person who as contractor or subcontractor is furnishing material or performing work for the state or a governmental entity or agency of the state and includes an agent of such a person. See Michigan Laws 37.1201

Employer: means a person who has 1 or more employees, and includes an agent of that person. See Michigan Laws 37.2201

Employment agency: means a person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person. See Michigan Laws 37.1201

Employment agency: means a person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure, refer, recruit, or place an employee for an employer or to procure, refer, recruit, or place for an employer or person the opportunity to work for an employer and includes an agent of that person. See Michigan Laws 37.2201

Encumbrance: means a right, other than an ownership interest, in real property. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

End-user: means that term as defined in section 16901 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Endangered species: means any species of fish, plant life, or wildlife that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant part of its range, other than a species of insecta determined by the department or the secretary of the United States department of the interior to constitute a pest whose protection under this part would present an overwhelming and overriding risk to humans. See Michigan Laws 324.36501

Enlisted member: means a person in an enlisted grade. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.

Entitlement holder: means a person identified in the records of a securities intermediary as the person having a security entitlement against the securities intermediary. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Entitlement order: means a notification communicated to a securities intermediary directing transfer or redemption of a financial asset to which the entitlement holder has a security entitlement. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Environmental elements: means the biological, physical, and chemical characteristics of the environment, including but not limited to the following:

(i) Watersheds. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Equipment: means goods other than inventory, farm products, or consumer goods. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}

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}

Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.

Estimate: means a written statement that itemizes as closely as possible the price for labor, by showing the labor price per hour, the number of hours required to perform the work, and the price of parts necessary for a specific repair. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

ETO: means the person designated under this act by charter or by the governing body in a local unit other than a township or county. See Michigan Laws 124.301

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.

Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent

Expedited review: means an expedited review of an application for a construction permit under section 4112. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

Exploratory purposes: means test well drilling for the specific purpose of discovering or outlining an orebody or mineable mineral resource. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.

Facility used by the public: means a building, structure, or improved area utilized for purposes of education, employment, housing other than a privately owned 1 or 2 family dwelling, transportation, or recreation and for the purchase, rental, or acquisition of goods or services. See Michigan Laws 125.1351

Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.

Familial status: means 1 or more individuals under the age of 18 residing with a parent or other person having custody or in the process of securing legal custody of the individual or individuals or residing with the designee of the parent or other person having or securing custody, with the written permission of the parent or other person. See Michigan Laws 37.2103

Farm products: means goods, other than standing timber, with respect to which the debtor is engaged in a farming operation and which are 1 of the following:

(i) Crops grown, growing, or to be grown, including crops produced on trees, vines, and bushes, and aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Farming operation: means raising, cultivating, propagating, fattening, grazing, or any other farming, livestock, or aquacultural operation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Farmland: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A farm of 40 or more acres in 1 ownership, with 51% or more of the land area devoted to an agricultural use. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Fault: means a default, breach, or wrongful act or omission. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach, or default. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Federal adjustment: means a change to an item or amount determined under the internal revenue code that is used by a taxpayer to compute tax liability under this act whether that change results from action by the IRS, including a partnership level audit, or the filing of an amended federal return, federal refund claim, or an administrative adjustment request by the taxpayer. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Federal adjustments report: includes methods or forms required by the department for use by a taxpayer to report final federal adjustments, including an amended tax return or information return. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}

Federal partnership representative: means the person the partnership designates for the reviewed year as the partnership's representative, or the person the IRS has appointed to act as the federal partnership representative, pursuant to section 6223 of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}

Federal safe drinking water act: means the safe drinking water act, 42 USC 300f to 300j-25, and the rules promulgated under that act. See Michigan Laws 324.5402

Federal service: means military duty in the armed forces of the United States, including, without limitation, the army national guard of the United States and the air national guard of the United States, while subject to the uniform code of military justice, 10 USC, 801 to 946. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Federal water pollution control act: means 33 USC 1251 to 1389. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.

Felony: means a violation of a penal law of this state for which the offender may be punished by imprisonment for more than 1 year or an offense expressly designated by law to be a felony. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Felony: means that term as defined in section 1 of chapter I of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 174, MCL 761. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Ferrous product: means a commercially salable ferrous mineral in its final marketable form or state. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.

Field: means an underground reservoir or reservoirs containing oil or gas, or both. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Field: means an underground reservoir or reservoirs containing oil or gas, or both. See Michigan Laws 324.61701

File number: means the number assigned to an initial financing statement pursuant to section 9519(1). See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Filing office: means an office designated in section 9501 as the place to file a financing statement. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Filing-office rule: means a rule adopted pursuant to section 9526. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Final determination date: means that term as defined in section 325. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which all of the following apply:

(i) The lessor does not select, manufacture, or supply the goods. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Financial asset: except as otherwise provided in section 8103, means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A security. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

financial institution: means a state or nationally chartered bank or a state or federally chartered savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union whose deposits are insured by an agency of the United States government and which maintains a principal office or branch office located in this state under the laws of this state or the United States. See Michigan Laws 21.147

Financing statement: means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

firearm: except as otherwise specifically defined in statute, includes any weapon which will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of an explosive. See Michigan Laws 8.3t

Fiscal year: means the time period between October 1 of a calendar year through September 30 of the following calendar year. See Michigan Laws 124.542

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.

Fixture filing: means the filing of a financing statement covering goods that are or are to become fixtures and satisfying section 9502(1) and (2). See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Fixtures: means goods that have become so related to particular real property that an interest in them arises under real property law. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Flow-through entity: means an entity that for the applicable tax year is treated as an S corporation under section 1362(a) of the internal revenue code, a general partnership, a limited partnership, a limited liability partnership, or a limited liability company, that for the applicable tax year is not taxed as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. See Michigan Laws 206.721

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 country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and 1 or more of the following:

(i) That has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}

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}

Fund: means the nonferrous metallic mineral surveillance fund created in section 63217. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Fund: means the infrastructure construction fund created in section 4113. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

Fund: means the small native copper mine surveillance fund created in section 63415. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Fund: means the strategic water quality initiatives fund created in section 5204. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Fund: means the state water pollution control revolving fund established under section 16a of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Fund: means the state drinking water revolving fund established under section 16b of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5402

Fund: means the state art in public places fund. See Michigan Laws 18.71

Fund: means the inland lake aquatic invasive plant species control and eradication fund created in section 41403. See Michigan Laws 324.41401

Fund: means the agricultural preservation fund created in section 36202. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Fund: means the oil and gas regulatory fund created in section 61525b. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Fund: means the orphan well fund created in section 61602. See Michigan Laws 324.61601

Fund: means the mineral well regulatory fund created in section 62509b. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Fundable range: means those projects, taken in descending order on the priority lists, for which sufficient funds are estimated by the department to exist to provide assistance at the beginning of each annual funding cycle. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Fundable range: means those projects, taken in descending order on the priority list, for which the department estimates sufficient funds exist to provide assistance during each annual funding cycle. See Michigan Laws 324.5402

Funds transfer: means the series of transactions, beginning with the originator's payment order, made for the purpose of making payment to the beneficiary of the order. See Michigan Laws 440.4604

Funds-transfer system: means a wire transfer network, automated clearinghouse, or other communication system of a clearinghouse or other association of banks through which a payment order by a bank may be transmitted to the bank to which the order is addressed. See Michigan Laws 440.4605

Fungible goods: means either of the following:

(i) Goods of which any unit, by nature or usage of trade, is the equivalent of any other like unit. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Game: has the meaning given that term in part 401. See Michigan Laws 324.43504

Game and fish protection account: means the game and fish protection account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2010. See Michigan Laws 324.43701

Game and fish protection account: means the game and fish protection account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2010. See Michigan Laws 324.43504

Game fish: includes all of the following:

(i) Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor

Gas: means a mixture of hydrocarbons and nonhydrocarbons in a gaseous state which may or may not be associated with oil and includes liquids resulting from the condensation of those hydrocarbons and nonhydrocarbons. See Michigan Laws 324.43701

Gas: means a mixture of hydrocarbons and varying quantities of nonhydrocarbons in a gaseous state which may or may not be associated with oil, and includes those liquids resulting from condensation. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Gender identity or expression: means having or being perceived as having a gender-related self-identity or expression whether or not associated with an individual's assigned sex at birth. See Michigan Laws 37.2103.amended

General intangible: means any personal property, including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

General permit: means a permit for a category of activities that the department determines will not negatively impact human health and will have no more than minimal short-term adverse impacts on the natural resources and environment. See Michigan Laws 324.3302

Genetic information: means information about a gene, gene product, or inherited characteristic of an individual derived from the individual's family history or a genetic test. See Michigan Laws 37.1201

Genetic test: means the analysis of human DNA, RNA, chromosomes, and those proteins and metabolites used to detect heritable or somatic disease-related genotypes or karyotypes for clinical purposes. See Michigan Laws 37.1201

Genetically engineered: refers to an organism whose genome, chromosomal or extrachromosomal, is modified permanently and heritably, using recombinant nucleic acid techniques, or the progeny of such an organism. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Genetically engineered: refers to a fish whose genome, chromosomal or extrachromosomal, is modified permanently and heritably, using recombinant nucleic acid techniques. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Genuine: means free of forgery or counterfeiting. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.

Good faith: except as otherwise provided in article 5, means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Goods: means baggage, accessories, or other personal property carried by or accompanying persons using public transportation service. See Michigan Laws 124.351

Goods: means baggage, accessories, or other personal property carried by or accompanying persons using public transportation service. See Michigan Laws 124.452

Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures under section 2A309, but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Governing body: means any of the following:

(i) The council, commission, or other entity vested with the legislative power of a city or village. See Michigan Laws 124.301

Governing body: means the board, council or body in which the legislative powers of a political subdivision are vested. See Michigan Laws 124.531

Governing body: means in the case of a city, the council or commission of the city; in the case of a village, the council, commission, or board of trustees of the village; in the case of a township, the township board; and in the case of a county, the board of supervisors or county commissioners. See Michigan Laws 125.651

Governing body: means the board, by whatever name known, charged with governing the municipality. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Governing body: means the board, council, commission, or body in which the policy-making powers of the local government are vested. See Michigan Laws 124.112

Governing institution: means the state university within which the Michigan geological survey is established or continued under section 60102. See Michigan Laws 324.60101

Governmental unit: means a subdivision, agency, department, county, parish, municipality, or other unit of the government of the United States, a state, or a foreign country. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Governor: means the governor of the state. See Michigan Laws 124.402

Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}

Grade: means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or rule. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,

Grant: means a grant from the grant program. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Grant: means an inland lake aquatic invasive plant species control or eradication grant issued through the program. See Michigan Laws 324.41401

Grant: means a grant for the purchase of an agriculture conservation easement under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Grant awards: means funds paid to grantees from the Michigan justice training fund as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Grant program: means the strategic water quality initiatives grant program established under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Grantee: means an entity eligible to receive grant awards from the Michigan justice training fund, including any of the following or a combination of any of the following:

(i) An agency, department, division, bureau, board, commission, council, or authority of this state or of a city, village, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 18.421

grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e

Great Lakes: means the Great Lakes and their connecting waters, including Lake St. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Great Lakes: means any of the Great Lakes that have a shoreline within this state. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}

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.

Health-care-insurance receivable: means an interest in or claim under a policy of insurance which is a right to payment of a monetary obligation for health-care goods or services provided. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Heavy-duty truck: means a motor vehicle that has a gross vehicle weight rating of 14,000 pounds or more and includes both single-unit and combination tractor trailer or tractor semitrailer vehicles. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Highway or street: means a highway or street as defined in section 20 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 257.1702

Historic preservation easement: means an interest in land that provides a limitation on the use of a structure or site that is listed as a national historic landmark under chapter 593, 49 Stat. See Michigan Laws 324.2140

Holder: means any of the following:

(i) A person in possession of a negotiable instrument that is payable either to bearer or to an identified person that is the person in possession. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Household member: means an individual who resides in the same dwelling unit as a victim or intervenor. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended

Housing accommodation: includes improved or unimproved real property, or a part thereof, which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied, as the home or residence of 1 or more persons. See Michigan Laws 37.1501

Illegal oil or gas: means oil or gas that has been produced by an owner or producer in violation of this part, a rule promulgated under this part, or an order of the supervisor issued under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Illegal product: means a product of oil or gas or any part of a product of oil or gas that was knowingly processed or derived in whole or in part from illegal oil or gas. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Immediate family: means a spouse, parent, child, or sibling. See Michigan Laws 37.1501

Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.

Import: means to bring into, introduce into, or attempt to bring into or introduce into any place subject to the jurisdiction of this state. See Michigan Laws 324.36501

Improved area: includes parking lots, harbors, parks, beaches, public telephones, and drinking fountains. See Michigan Laws 125.1351

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

Income-withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as defined by the support and parenting time enforcement act, 1982 PA 295, MCL 552. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Incorporating municipality: means a municipality that becomes part of a new authority in the manner provided in section 2, or joins an existing authority in the manner provided in section 3. See Michigan Laws 124.601

Incorporating unit: means the city, village, township, or county that creates a commission. See Michigan Laws 125.651

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}

Indian tribe: means an Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians that is recognized as eligible for services by the United States secretary of the interior because of their status as Indians. See Michigan Laws 124.281

Indigent: means an individual to whom 1 or more of the following apply:

(i) He or she has been found by a court to be indigent within the last 6 months. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Indirect partner: means a partner in a partnership or other flow-through entity that itself holds an interest directly, or through another indirect partner, in a partnership or other flow-through entity. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Indorsement: means a signature that alone or accompanied by other words is made on a security certificate in registered form or on a separate document for the purpose of assigning, transferring, or redeeming the security or granting a power to assign, transfer, or redeem the security. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Industrial building: means a building or structure suitable for, and intended for or incidental to, use as a factory, mill, shop, processing plant, assembly plant, fabricating plant, warehouse, research and development facility, an engineering, architectural, or design facility, or a tourist and resort facility. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Industrial machinery and equipment: means such machinery and equipment, including water and air pollution control equipment and solid waste disposal facilities, other than vehicular equipment, as shall be necessary, suitable, intended for, or incidental to the use to which the industrial building in or near which the machinery or equipment shall be situated is to be put. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.

Inland waters of this state: means the waters within the jurisdiction of the state except Saginaw river, Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, and Erie, and the bays and the connecting waters. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Insolvency proceedings: includes an assignment for the benefit of creditors or other proceeding intended to liquidate or rehabilitate the estate of the person involved. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Insolvent: means any of the following:

(i) Having generally ceased to pay debts in the ordinary course of business other than as a result of a bona fide dispute. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Installer: means an individual who replaces or repairs parts of a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 257.1362

Installment lease contract: means a lease contract that authorizes or requires the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the lease contract contains a clause "each delivery is a separate lease" or its equivalent. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Institution of higher education: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A public or private community college, college, or university. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Instruction: means a notification communicated to the issuer of an uncertificated security which directs that the transfer of the security be registered or that the security be redeemed. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Instrument: means a negotiable instrument or any other writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not itself a security agreement or lease, and is of a type that in ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Insurer: means an insurance company authorized to transact property, fire, or casualty insurance in this state and an agent of the insurer and includes an insurance association, pool, or facility created under the insurance code of 1956, Act No. See Michigan Laws 257.1362

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}

Interim cell-unit status: means a cell-unit as set forth in an approved progressive cell-unit mining and reclamation plan provided for in section 63706(1), in which all sand dune mining and reclamation within the cell-unit has been completed, but the vegetation has not sustained itself through 1 full growing season. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Interlocal agreement: means an agreement entered into under this act. See Michigan Laws 124.502

Intermediary bank: means a receiving bank other than the originator's bank or the beneficiary's bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4604

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.

Intervenor: means a person who goes to the aid of one who has become a victim of a crime and who suffers personal physical injury. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Inventory: means goods, other than farm products, that meet 1 of the following:

(i) Are leased by a person as lessor. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Inventory: means the land resource and current use inventory. See Michigan Laws 324.60901

Investment property: means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract, or commodity account. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

IRS: means the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the Treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Issuer: means a bank or other person that issues a letter of credit, but does not include an individual who makes an engagement for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Issuer: means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Issuing state: means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Issuing tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Item: means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or pay. See Michigan Laws 440.4104

Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.

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.

Judge advocate: means an officer who is designated as a judge advocate by the state judge advocate general. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

judgment: as used in this act , includes decree. See Michigan Laws 600.112

Jurisdiction: means , except as otherwise provided in section 3, other states of the United States, the District of Columbia, territories and possessions of the United States, foreign countries, or political subdivisions of foreign countries. See Michigan Laws 3.161

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.

Juror: A person who is on the jury.

Juvenile history record information: means name; date of birth; personal descriptions including identifying marks, scars, amputations, and tattoos; aliases and prior names; social security number, driver's license number, and other identifying numbers; and information on juvenile offense arrests and adjudications or convictions. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Juvenile offense: means an offense committed by a juvenile that, if committed by an adult, would be a felony, a criminal contempt conviction under section 2950 or 2950a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Labor organization: includes :

(i) An organization of any kind, an agency or employee representation committee, group, association, or plan in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours, or other terms or conditions of employment. See Michigan Laws 37.1201

Labor organization: includes :

Lake management plan: means a document that contains all of the following:

(i) A description of the physical, chemical, and biological attributes of a waterbody. See Michigan Laws 324.3302

Land: includes lands, tenements, and real estate and rights to and interests in lands, tenements, and real estate. See Michigan Laws 324.2130

land disposal wastewater management program: means the program developed in the United States army corps of engineers southeastern Michigan survey scope wastewater management study, as authorized by section 102 of title I of the federal water pollution control act, chapter 758, 86 Stat. See Michigan Laws 324.5101

Landing field: means any location, either on land or water, that is used for the landing or take-off of aircraft. See Michigan Laws 259.6

Late model vehicle: means that term as defined in section 24b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Late model vehicle: means a motor vehicle manufactured in the current model year or the 5 model years immediately preceding the current model year. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Law enforcement agency: means the police department of a city, township, or village, the sheriff's department of a county, the department, or any other governmental law enforcement agency of this state. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Law enforcement agency: means an entity that is established and maintained in accordance with the laws of this state and that is authorized by the laws of this state to appoint or employ law enforcement officers. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Law enforcement distribution: means funds paid to eligible entities as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.

Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

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}

Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this article. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this article and any other applicable rules of law. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Lease price: means the actual vehicle sales price paid by the lessor including any cash payment by the consumer and the sum equal to any allowance for any trade-in but excludes debt from any other transaction as well as any manufacturer to consumer discount, rebate, or incentive appearing in the agreement or contract that the consumer received or that was applied to reduce the purchase or lease cost. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the lessee under a lease contract. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Legacy: A gift of property made by will.

Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}

Legislative body: means the city council, city commission, township board, or other legislative body of a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.942

Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).

Lessee: means a person who, under a lease, acquires the right to possession and use of a new motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Lessee: means lessees under oil and gas leases and also the owners of unleased lands or mineral rights having the right to develop them for oil and gas. See Michigan Laws 324.61701

Lessor: means a person who, under a lease, transfers the right to possession and use of a new motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Letter of credit: means a definite undertaking that satisfies the requirements of section 5104 by an issuer to a beneficiary at the request or for the account of an applicant or, in the case of a financial institution, to itself or for its own account, to honor a documentary presentation by payment or delivery of an item of value. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Letter-of-credit right: means a right to payment or performance under a letter of credit, whether or not the beneficiary has demanded or is at the time entitled to demand payment or performance. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.

license: means a license issued by the department to operate a game bird hunting preserve. See Michigan Laws 324.41701

License: means a game breeder's license issued pursuant to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.42701

License: includes the whole or part of an agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or similar form of permission required by law. See Michigan Laws 24.205

Licensed professional engineer: means a professional engineer licensed under article 20 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

Licensee: means a person that is licensed under section 248 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.

Lien: means a charge against or interest in goods to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, but the term does not include a security interest. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Lien creditor: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, levy, or the like. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Life of the mine: means the period of time from issuance of a permit under this part through the completion of reclamation as required by this part. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

Life of the mine: means the period from initiation of mining activities through the completion of reclamation. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Line of duty: as used in this act means an act performed by a member of the state military establishment in obedience to or in conformity with a law, rule, regulation, order, command or custom of the military service or an act performed which is not in violation of a law, rule, regulation, order, command or custom of the military service, or that will not bring discredit to the military service. See Michigan Laws 32.521

Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.

Listed offense: means a tier I, tier II, or tier III offense. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.

Loan: means a loan from the loan program. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Loan program: means the strategic water quality initiatives loan program established under section 5202. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Local agencies: means local units of government or other public bodies created by or pursuant to state law and having jurisdiction over collecting sewers. See Michigan Laws 324.4901

Local government: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 124.112

Local governmental unit: means a county, city, village, township, or charter township. See Michigan Laws 124.502

Local health department: means that term as defined in section 1105 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Local law enforcement agency: means the police department of a municipality. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Local police agency: means the police agency of a city, village, or township, or if none, the county sheriff. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Local road agency: means that term as defined in section 9a of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Local school district: means a school district organized under the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 124.301

Local unit: means a county, city, village, or township or an agency or instrumentality of any of these entities. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Local unit: means any of the following:

(i) A village. See Michigan Laws 124.301

Local unit: means a city, township, or village. See Michigan Laws 124.21

local unit: means a municipality or county. See Michigan Laws 324.301

Local unit of government: means a village, city, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 28.117

Local unit of government: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 18.1701

Lot: means a parcel or a single article that is the subject matter of a separate lease or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient to perform the lease contract. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Major component part: means any of the following parts of a motor vehicle:

(i) The engine. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Major component part: means any of the following subassemblies of a motor vehicle regardless of its actual market value: front end assembly, including fenders, grills, hood, bumper, and related parts; engine; transmission; T-tops; rear clip assembly, including quarter panels and floor panel assembly; or doors. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Majority leader: see Floor Leaders

Maker: means a person who signs or is identified in a note as a person undertaking to pay. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Manufactured home: means a structure, transportable in 1 or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Manufactured-home transaction: means a secured transaction that creates a purchase-money security interest in a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as inventory, or in which a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as inventory, is the primary collateral. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Manufacturer: means a person who manufactures, assembles, or is a distributor of new motor vehicles and includes an agent of a manufacturer but does not include a new motor vehicle dealer. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Manufacturer: means any person who manufactures mobile homes. See Michigan Laws 125.992

Marine law: means this part, a local ordinance adopted in conformity with this part, or a rule promulgated under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.80103

Market demand: means the actual demand for oil or gas from any particular pool or field for current requirements for current consumption and use within or outside the state, together with the demand for such amounts as are necessary for building up or maintaining reasonable storage reserves of oil or gas or the products of oil or gas. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

martial rule: means the exercise of partial or complete military control over domestic territory in time of emergency because of public necessity. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Master mechanic: means any of the following:

(i) A motor vehicle mechanic or specialty mechanic who is certified by the department under this act in all of the specific repair or service categories applicable to automobiles or light trucks described in section 10(5). See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Material fact: means a fact that is used by a person as a premise on which a conclusion is based. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

MCOLES information and tracking network: means the commission's web-enabled information system for the licensing, reporting, and tracking of personnel and training records for Michigan law enforcement officers. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Mechanic trainee: means an individual who desires to become a motor vehicle mechanic, a specialty mechanic, or a master mechanic and receives a permit from the administrator under this act. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Medical benefit plan: means a plan, established and maintained by a carrier or 1 or more public employers, that provides for the payment of medical, optical, or dental benefits, including, but not limited to, hospital and physician services, prescription drugs, and related benefits, to public employees. See Michigan Laws 124.73

Member jurisdiction: means a city or county that appoints a member of a board under section 5. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Merchant lessee: means a lessee that is a merchant with respect to goods of the kind subject to the lease. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Metallic product: means a commercially salable mineral produced primarily for its nonferrous metallic mineral content in its final marketable form or state. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Methamphetamine-related offense: means 1 or more of the following offenses under Michigan law:

(i) A violation or attempted violation of article 7 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 28.122

Metropolitan area: means an area conforming in general to a consolidated metropolitan statistical area as defined by the United States office of management and budget or 2 or more counties which form a generally recognized urban complex. See Michigan Laws 124.402

Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund: means the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund established in section 40 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in section 2002. See Michigan Laws 324.301

Michigan cyber civilian corps: means the program established by this act under which civilian volunteers who have expertise in addressing cybersecurity incidents may volunteer at the invitation of the department to provide rapid response assistance to a municipal, educational, nonprofit, or critical infrastructure organization in need of expert assistance during a cybersecurity incident. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteer: means an individual who has entered into a volunteer agreement with the department to serve as a deployable volunteer in the Michigan cyber civilian corps. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Michigan justice training fund: means the Michigan justice training fund created in this act. See Michigan Laws 18.421

Michigan national guard: means the army national guard and the air national guard. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Military: means a reference to all components of the state military establishment. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Military: includes each armed force of the United States and each component of the state military establishment. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Military court: means a court-martial, a court of inquiry, or the military appeals tribunal. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Military establishment: means the organized militia of this state, including the employees and equipment assigned or necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Military judge: means a judge advocate designated as a military judge by the state judge advocate general or an official of a general or special court-martial appointed pursuant to section 26. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

mineral: means ferrous ore or material mined for its ferrous content. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

Mineral: means an inorganic substance that can be extracted from the earth, except for oil or gas, and includes rock, metal ores, and mineral water. See Michigan Laws 324.43701

Mineral well: means any well subject to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

mining: means an operation to excavate or remove earth material that generates not less than 10,000 tons and not more than 75,000 tons of waste rock in a calendar year or disturbs not less than 1 acre and not more than 10 acres of land in a calendar year in the regular operation of a business for the primary purpose of extracting native copper by 1 or both of the following:

(i) Removing the overburden lying above natural deposits of native copper and excavating directly from the natural deposits thus exposed or by excavating directly from deposits lying exposed in their natural state. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Mining area: means an area of land from which earth material is removed in connection with nonferrous metallic mineral mining, the lands on which material from that mining is stored or deposited, the lands on which beneficiating or treatment plants and auxiliary facilities are located, the lands on which the water reservoirs used in the nonferrous metallic mineral mining process are located, and auxiliary lands that are used in connection with the mining. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Mining area: means all of the following:

(i) Land from which material is removed by surface or open pit mining methods. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Mining operation: means a ferrous mineral mining operation. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

Mining permit: means a permit issued under this part for conducting nonferrous metallic mineral mining and reclamation operations. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Minnows: means chubs, shiners, suckers, when of a size ordinarily used for bait in hook and line fishing, dace, stonerollers, muddlers, and mudminnows. See Michigan Laws 324.48728

Minor: means a victim of a listed offense who was less than 18 years of age at the time the offense was committed. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Minor offense: means an offense under a punitive section of this act that a commanding officer considers minor. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Minority business enterprise: means a business enterprise that is owned or controlled solely by 1 or more socially or economically disadvantaged persons. See Michigan Laws 125.1222

Minority leader: See Floor Leaders

Misdemeanor: means either of the following:

(i) A violation of a penal law of this state that is not a felony or a violation of an order, rule, or regulation of a state agency that is punishable by imprisonment or a fine that is not a civil fine. See Michigan Laws 28.241a

Mobile home: means a factory assembled portable structure designed or used for year-round residence purposes, designed and built to be towed on its own chassis, connected to utilities, and installed on a homesite with or without a permanent foundation. See Michigan Laws 125.771

Mobile home: means a movable or portable unit, designed and constructed to be towed on its own chassis, comprised of a frame and wheels, and designed to be connected to utilities for year-round occupancy as a dwelling unit. See Michigan Laws 125.992

Mollusk: means any mollusk of the classes Bivalvia and Gastropoda. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Mollusks: means any mollusk of the classes bivalvia and gastropoda. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

monetary obligation: means a monetary obligation secured by the goods or owed under a lease of the goods and includes a monetary obligation with respect to software used in the goods. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Money: means a medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

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: means a consensual interest in real property, including fixtures, which secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.

Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}

Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.

Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.

Motor home: means an automotive vehicle built on a truck or bus chassis and equipped as a self-contained traveling home. See Michigan Laws 125.771

Motor vehicle: means a vehicle that is self-propelled, a vehicle that is propelled by electric power, a motorcycle, or a trailer as those terms are defined in the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Motor vehicle: means any device that is self-propelled, or partially self-propelled, by which a person or property may be transported or drawn. See Michigan Laws 324.76501

Motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle as defined in section 33 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled device by which a person or property may be transported upon a public highway. See Michigan Laws 257.1362

Motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle as defined in section 33 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle as defined in section 33 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 257.1702

motor vehicle liability policy: as used in this chapter , shall mean an owner's or an operator's policy of liability insurance, certified as provided in section 518 or section 519 as proof of financial responsibility, and issued, except as otherwise provided in section 519, by an insurance carrier duly authorized to transact business in this state, to or for the benefit of the person named therein as insured. See Michigan Laws 257.520

Motor vehicle mechanic: means a technician or other individual who, for compensation, repairs motor vehicles, including the reconditioning, replacement, adjustment, or alteration of the operating condition, of any component or subassembly of a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

motor vehicle repair facility: means a place of business that is required to register under this act and that, for compensation, is engaged in the business of performing, or employs individuals who perform, maintenance, diagnosis, vehicle body work, or repair service, or, beginning July 1, 2016, BAIID service, on a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 257.1302

Motor vehicle repair facility: means a place of business that engages in the business of performing or employing persons who perform maintenance, diagnosis, or repair service on a motor vehicle for compensation. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Municipal emergency service: means an emergency service performed by a municipality, rather than by an authority. See Michigan Laws 124.601

municipalities: as used in this part means and includes a county, city, village, township, school district, metropolitan district, port district, drainage district, authority, or other governmental authority, agency, or department within or of the state with power to acquire, construct, improve, or operate facilities for the prevention or abatement of water pollution, or any combination of such governmental agencies. See Michigan Laws 324.4501

Municipality: means a county, township, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 124.281

Municipality: means this state, a county, city, village, or township, or an agency or instrumentality of any of these entities. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Municipality: includes a metropolitan district, a water or sewer authority created by law, or a county, township, charter township, incorporated city, or incorporated village. See Michigan Laws 324.4701

Municipality: means that term as it is defined in section 5301. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 124.601

Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township in the state. See Michigan Laws 125.72

Municipality: means a city, village, county, township, authority, or other public body, including either of the following:

(i) An intermunicipal agency of 2 or more municipalities, authorized or created under state law. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.133

Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.942

Municipality: means a city, village, county, township, authority, public school district, or other public body with taxing authority, including an intermunicipal agency of 2 or more municipalities, authorized or created under state law. See Michigan Laws 324.5402

Municipality: means a county, city, incorporated village, township, or port district. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Municipality: means a city, village, or township of this state. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 324.301

municipality or other entity: means a county, city, school district, or other entity that has received a federal bond limitation allocation. See Michigan Laws 125.1295

NADDI: means the national association of drug diversion investigators. See Michigan Laws 28.122

National origin: includes the national origin of an ancestor. See Michigan Laws 37.2103

National response center: means the National Communications Center established under the clean water act, 33 USC 1251 to 1387, located in Washington, DC, that receives and relays notice of oil discharge or releases of hazardous substances to appropriate federal officials. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Native: means indigenous to any location in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Native copper: means copper in its elemental form. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Natural brine: means naturally occurring mineralized water other than potable or fresh water. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Neighborhood area: means a portion of a municipality that has been delimited as a neighborhood unit in a plan of neighborhoods adopted by the legislative body, which plan has the function of designating the service area of elementary schools, playgrounds, or other local improvements. See Michigan Laws 125.942

New debtor: means a person that becomes bound as debtor under section 9203(4) by a security agreement previously entered into by another person. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

New motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle that is purchased or leased in this state or purchased or leased by a resident of this state and is covered by a manufacturer's express warranty at the time of purchase or lease. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

New motor vehicle dealer: means a person or that person's agent who holds a dealer agreement for the sale of new motor vehicles, who is engaged in the business of purchasing, leasing, selling, exchanging, or dealing in new motor vehicles, and who has an established place of business in this state. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

New value: means money, money's worth in property, services, or new credit, or release by a transferee of an interest in property previously transferred to the transferee. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

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.

Nominated person: means both of the following:

(i) A person whom the issuer designates or authorizes to pay, accept, negotiate, or otherwise give value under a letter of credit. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Nonaquatic: describes a bird, insect other than a wiggler, or mammal. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Noncash proceeds: means proceeds other than cash proceeds. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Noncommunity water supply: means a public water supply that is not a community water supply, but that has not less than 15 service connections or that serves not less than 25 individuals on an average daily basis for not less than 60 days per year. See Michigan Laws 324.5402

Nonferrous metallic mineral: means any ore or material to be excavated from the natural deposits on or in the earth for its metallic content, but not primarily for its iron or iron mineral content, to be used for commercial or industrial purposes. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Nongame fish: includes all kinds of fish except game fish. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Nongame fish and wildlife: means fish or wild animals that are unconfined and not ordinarily taken for sport, fur, or food, and the habitat that supports them. See Michigan Laws 324.43901

Nonnative: means not native. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Nonoceangoing vessel: means a vessel that is not an oceangoing vessel. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Nonpoint source project: means construction activities designed to reduce nonpoint source pollution consistent with the state nonpoint source management plan under section 319 of the federal water pollution control act, 33 USC 1329. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Nonprofit: means that which is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 501. See Michigan Laws 257.811d

Nonresident: means a person who is not a resident. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Nonresident partner: means an individual, estate, or trust partner that is not a resident partner. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Notice: means a written or electronic record that informs a person of past or future action of the person generating the record. See Michigan Laws 24.205

NPLEx: means the national precursor log exchange. See Michigan Laws 28.122

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

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.

Obligee: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Obligor: means a person that, with respect to an obligation secured by a security interest in or an agricultural lien on the collateral, owes payment or other performance of the obligation, has provided property other than the collateral to secure payment or other performance of the obligation, or is otherwise accountable in whole or in part for payment or other performance of the obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Obligor: means an individual about whom 1 of the following is true, or the estate of a decedent about whom 1 of the following was true before the individual's death:

(i) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Oceangoing vessel: means a vessel that operates on the Great Lakes or the St. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Office: means the office of Hispanic/Latino affairs as created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 18.301

Office: means the office of criminal justice created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 18.401

Officer: means a supervisor, treasurer, clerk, or trustee. See Michigan Laws 41.1b

Officer: means a commissioned officer and a warrant officer, unless a distinction between commissioned officer and warrant officer is clearly evident. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Officer: means a commissioned or warrant officer. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Oil: means natural crude oil or petroleum and other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods and which are not the result of condensation of gas after it leaves the underground reservoir. See Michigan Laws 324.43701

Oil: means natural crude oil or petroleum and other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, that are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods and that are not the result of condensation of gas after it leaves the underground reservoir. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Oil and gas: means oil and gas as such in combination one with the other and also means oil, gas, casinghead gas, casinghead gasoline, gas distillate, or other hydrocarbons, or any combination or combinations of these substances, which may be found in or produced from a common source of supply of oil, gas, oil and gas, or gas distillate. See Michigan Laws 324.61701

Oil or gas well: means a well drilled pursuant to part 615, or its predecessor acts, or a well drilled prior to the effective dates of part 615 or its predecessor acts as determined by the supervisor, for oil or gas exploration or development or storage, or associated production or disposal activities. See Michigan Laws 324.61601

Open season: means the time during which fish may be legally taken or killed and includes both the first and last day of the season or period designated by this part. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Operate: means to be in control of a vessel while the vessel is under way and is not secured in some manner such as being docked or at anchor. See Michigan Laws 324.80103

Operator: means the person, whether owner or not, supervising or responsible for the drilling, operating, repairing, abandoning, or plugging of wells subject to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

operator: means a person who owns or leases the plant and equipment utilized in a mining area and is engaged in the business of mining ferrous minerals or preparing to engage in mining operations. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

operator: means a permittee or other person who is engaged in, or who is preparing to engage in, mining operations for nonferrous metallic minerals, whether individually or jointly, or through agents, employees, or contractors. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Operator: means a person that is engaged in or preparing to engage in mining activities, whether individually or jointly, or through agents, employees, or contractors, and that has overall responsibility for the mining activities. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Operator: means an owner or lessee of mineral rights or any other person engaged in or preparing to engage in sand dune mining activities with respect to mineral rights within a sand dune area. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Operator: means the person authorized by contract or agreement by the owner to drill, operate, maintain, or plug a well. See Michigan Laws 324.61601

Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.

Order: means a written instruction to pay money signed by the person giving the instruction. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Ordinance: means either of the following:

(i) An ordinance of a city, village, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 125.651

Organization: means a person other than an individual. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Original debtor: means , except as used in section 9310(3), a person that, as debtor, entered into a security agreement to which a new debtor has become bound under section 9203(4). See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Originator: means the sender of the first payment order in a funds transfer. See Michigan Laws 440.4604

Other services necessary: means recognized medical treatment, convalescent aids, supplies, and other equipment needed by the victim because of physical incapacity sustained as a direct result of the crime. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended

Out-of-pocket loss: means the unreimbursed and unreimbursable expenses or indebtedness reasonably incurred for medical care, psychological counseling, replacement services, any nonmedical remedial treatment rendered in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing, or other services necessary as a result of the injury upon which a claim is based. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.

Owner: means the person who has the right to drill, convert, or operate any well subject to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Owner: means any person or persons, natural or corporate, owning a legal or equitable title to the land. See Michigan Laws 125.942

Owner: means a person having a freehold estate in land coupled with possession and enjoyment. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Owner: means the person who has the right to drill a well into a pool, to produce from a pool, and to receive and distribute the value of the production from the pool for himself or herself either individually or in combination with others. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

parent: includes a person who is pregnant. See Michigan Laws 37.2103

Participating: means , with respect to a municipality, that the municipality is a member of a joint planning commission. See Michigan Laws 125.133

Partner: means a person that holds an interest directly or indirectly in a partnership or other flow-through entity. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Partnership: means an entity subject to taxation under subchapter K of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.721

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.

Partnership level audit: means an examination by the IRS at the partnership level pursuant to section 6221 to 6241 of the internal revenue code, which results in federal adjustments. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Party: means a party to an instrument. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Party: means a person or agency named, admitted, or properly seeking and entitled of right to be admitted, as a party in a contested case. See Michigan Laws 24.205

Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Payment order: means an instruction of a sender to a receiving bank, transmitted orally, electronically, or in writing, to pay, or to cause another bank to pay, a fixed or determinable amount of money to a beneficiary if the following apply:

(i) The instruction does not state a condition to payment to the beneficiary other than time of payment. See Michigan Laws 440.4603

Payor bank: means a bank that is the drawee of a draft. See Michigan Laws 440.4105

peat: means a deposit of unconsolidated, naturally occurring soil material consisting of decomposed and partially decomposed mosses, sedges, trees, and other wetland plants, having 12% or greater organic carbon content on a dry weight basis. See Michigan Laws 324.64101

Performance goals: means standards of system performance that reflect asset management principles for asset preservation and sustainability, operations, capacity consistent with local needs, and identified levels of service. See Michigan Laws 21.602

permit: means a permit issued under section 63405 for conducting mining activities. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Permitted use: means any use expressly authorized within an agriculture conservation easement consistent with the farming operation or that does not adversely affect the productivity of the farmland. See Michigan Laws 324.36201

Permittee: means a person who holds a mining permit. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Permittee: means a person that holds a mining permit. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Person: means a natural person, partnership, cooperative, association, private or public corporation, personal representative, receiver, trustee, assignee, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 28.71

Person: includes an individual, agent, association, corporation, joint apprenticeship committee, joint-stock company, labor union, legal representative, mutual company, partnership, receiver, trust, trustee in bankruptcy, unincorporated organization, this state, or any other legal, commercial, or governmental entity or agency. See Michigan Laws 37.1103

Person: means an individual, agent, association, corporation, joint apprenticeship committee, joint stock company, labor organization, legal representative, mutual company, partnership, receiver, trust, trustee in bankruptcy, unincorporated organization, the state or a political subdivision of the state or an agency of the state, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 37.2103

Person: means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, judiciary or common law trust, guardian, executor, administrator, or fiduciary of any kind. See Michigan Laws 324.63301

Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 259.7

Person: means a natural person, a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, unit or agency of government, trust, estate, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Person: means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 257.1702

Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any kind other than the agency engaged in the particular processing of a rule, declaratory ruling, or contested case. See Michigan Laws 24.205

Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, and corporation. See Michigan Laws 3.161

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

Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 324.301

Personal injury: means either of the following injuries:

(i) Actual bodily harm, including pregnancy or death. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended

Personal physical injury: means actual bodily harm and includes pregnancy. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Personal property: All property that is not real property.

Physically limited: means a temporary or permanent impairment or condition which causes a person to use a wheelchair; causes a person to walk with difficulty or insecurity; affects sight or hearing to the extent that a person is insecure or exposed to danger; or causes faulty coordination or reduces mobility, flexibility, coordination, or perceptiveness; and means persons who are limited in ambulation. See Michigan Laws 125.1351

Place of public accommodation: means a business, educational institution, refreshment, entertainment, recreation, health, or transportation facility of any kind, whether licensed or not, whose goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations are extended, offered, sold, or otherwise made available to the public. See Michigan Laws 37.1301

Place of public accommodation: means a business, or an educational, refreshment, entertainment, recreation, health, or transportation facility, or institution of any kind, whether licensed or not, whose goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations are extended, offered, sold, or otherwise made available to the public. See Michigan Laws 37.2301

Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.

Plan: means a comprehensive adult or juvenile justice plan developed under federal or state law requirements. See Michigan Laws 18.401

Plans and specifications: means a true description or representation of the entire sewerage system and parts of a system as the sewerage system exists or is to be constructed, and also a full and fair statement of how the system is to be operated. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

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.

Political subdivision: means a county, city, village, township, school district, or special district or authority of this state. See Michigan Laws 37.1103

Political subdivision: means a county, city, village, township, school district, or special district or authority of the state. See Michigan Laws 37.2103

Political subdivision: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 124.452

Political subdivision: means a city, village, other incorporated political subdivision, county, school district, community college, intermediate school district, township, charter township, special district or authority. See Michigan Laws 124.531

Political subdivision: means a county, city, village, or township of this state, and any other political subdivision, public corporation, authority, or district in this state that is or may be authorized by law to acquire, establish, construct, maintain, improve, and operate airports, landing fields, and other aeronautical facilities. See Michigan Laws 259.7

Political subdivision: means a county, metropolitan authority, municipality, or combination of those entities in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.80104

Political subdivision: means a village, city, township, county, or a university of this state. See Michigan Laws 257.1572

Pollution: means damage or injury from the loss, escape, or unapproved disposal of any substance at any well subject to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Pollution control facilities: means water and air pollution control equipment and solid waste disposal facilities or any of them. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Pool: means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of oil or gas, or both. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

pooled plan: means a public employer pooled plan established pursuant to section 5(1)(b). See Michigan Laws 124.73

Postclosure monitoring period: means a period following closure of a nonferrous metallic mineral mine during which the permittee is required to conduct monitoring of groundwater and surface water. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

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}

Pre-effective-date financing statement: means a financing statement filed before the effective date of this amendatory act. See Michigan Laws 440.9801

Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.

present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See Michigan Laws 440.2106

Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of 1 or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain by use of either an interest rate specified by the parties if that rate is not manifestly unreasonable at the time the transaction is entered into or, if an interest rate is not so specified, a commercially reasonable rate that takes into account the facts and circumstances at the time the transaction is entered into. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of 1 or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Presentation: means delivery of a document to an issuer or nominated person for honor or giving of value under a letter of credit. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}

Presenter: means a person making a presentation as or on behalf of a beneficiary or nominated person. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Presenting bank: means a bank presenting an item except a payor bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4105

President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.

Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.

Pretrial conference: A meeting of the judge and lawyers to discuss which matters should be presented to the jury, to review evidence and witnesses, to set a timetable, and to discuss the settlement of the case.

Primary public safety answering point: means that term as defined in section 102 of the emergency telephone service enabling act, 1986 PA 32, MCL 484. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Priority list: means the annual ranked listing of projects developed by the department in section 5303. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Priority list: means the annual ranked listing of projects developed by the department in section 5406. See Michigan Laws 324.5403

private enterprise: means a business which provides goods or services and which is not a governmental entity. See Michigan Laws 17.51

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.

Proceeds: means , except as used in section 9609(2), 1 or more of the following property:

(i) Whatever is acquired upon the sale, lease, license, exchange, or other disposition of collateral. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Processing of a rule: means the action required or authorized by this act regarding a rule that is to be promulgated, including the rule's adoption, and ending with the rule's promulgation. See Michigan Laws 24.205

Producer: means the operator, whether owner or not, of a well or wells capable of producing oil or gas or both in paying quantities. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Product: means any commodity or thing made or manufactured from oil or gas, and all derivatives of oil or gas, including refined crude oil, crude tops, topped crude, processed crude petroleum, residue treated crude oil, residuum, gas oil, naphtha, distillate, gasoline, casing-head gasoline, natural gas gasoline, kerosene, benzine, wash oil, waste oil, lubricating oil, and blends or mixtures of oil or gas or any derivatives of oil or gas whether enumerated or not. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Program: means the inland lake aquatic invasive plant species control and eradication program established in section 41402. See Michigan Laws 324.41401

Project: means a proposal to install within 1 general area a new wastewater collection system. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

Project: means all of the undertakings authorized in this act for the rehabilitation of a blighted area. See Michigan Laws 125.72

Project: means a sewage treatment works project, stormwater management project, or nonpoint source project, or a combination of these and may include utilization of more efficient energy and resources as described in any of the following:

(i) The cost-effective governmental energy use act, 2012 PA 625, MCL 18. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Project: means a project related to the planning, design, and construction or alteration of a waterworks system and may include utilization of more efficient energy and resources as described in any of the following:

(i) The cost-effective governmental energy use act, 2012 PA 625, MCL 18. See Michigan Laws 324.5403

Project: means all of the undertakings authorized in this act for the improvement of a neighborhood area. See Michigan Laws 125.942

Promise: means a written undertaking to pay money signed by the person undertaking to pay. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Promissory note: means an instrument that evidences a promise to pay a monetary obligation, does not evidence an order to pay, and does not contain an acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has received for deposit a sum of money or funds. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Property: means any real or personal property, as described in section 34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 124.502

Proposal: means a record authenticated by a secured party which includes the terms on which the secured party is willing to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures pursuant to sections 9620, 9621, and 9622. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.

Province: means a province of Canada. See Michigan Laws 124.502

Public agency: means a political subdivision of this state or of another state of the United States or of Canada, including, but not limited to, a state government; a county, city, village, township, charter township, school district, single or multipurpose special district, or single or multipurpose public authority; a provincial government, metropolitan government, borough, or other political subdivision of Canada; an agency of the United States government; or a similar entity of any other states of the United States and of Canada. See Michigan Laws 124.502

Public agency: means a single- or multi-purpose public body corporate formed pursuant to a law other than this act or an Indian tribe recognized by the federal government before the year 2000 that exercises governmental authority over land within this state. See Michigan Laws 124.112

Public authority: means an authority created under this act. See Michigan Laws 124.452

Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.

Public domain: means all land owned by this state or land deeded to this state under state law. See Michigan Laws 324.301

Public employer: means a city, village, township, county, or other political subdivision of this state; any intergovernmental, metropolitan, or local department, agency, or authority, or other local political subdivision; a school district, a public school academy, or an intermediate school district, as those terms are defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 124.73

Public facility: means a building, structure, or improved area utilized for purposes of education, employment, housing other than a privately owned 1 or 2 family dwelling, transportation, or recreation and for the purchase, rental, or acquisition of goods or services, which is not a facility used by the public as defined in subdivision (d), and which is:

(i) Owned by, or on behalf of, the state or its political subdivisions. See Michigan Laws 125.1351

Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.

Public organic record: means a record that is available to the public for inspection and is any of the following:

(i) A record consisting of the record initially filed with or issued by a state or the United States to form or organize an organization and any record filed with or issued by the state or the United States which amends or restates the initial record. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Public service: means a public facility, department, agency, board, or commission owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of this state or a subdivision of this state, a county, city, village, township, or independent or regional district in this state or a tax exempt private agency established to provide service to the public, except that public service does not include a state or county correctional facility with respect to actions or decisions regarding an individual serving a sentence of imprisonment. See Michigan Laws 37.1301

Public service: means a public facility, department, agency, board, or commission, owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of the state, a political subdivision, or an agency thereof or a tax exempt private agency established to provide service to the public, except that public service does not include a state or county correctional facility with respect to actions and decisions regarding an individual serving a sentence of imprisonment. See Michigan Laws 37.2301

Public transit region: means an area of this state consisting of a qualified region. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Public transportation: means the movement of individuals and goods by publicly owned bus, rapid transit vehicle, or other conveyance that provides general or special service to the public, but not including school buses or charter or sightseeing service or transportation that is used exclusively for school purposes. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Public transportation provider: means a public or private entity that provides public transportation services and includes a contractor providing services to a public transportation provider. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Public transportation system: means a system for providing public transportation service, including public transportation facilities. See Michigan Laws 124.452

Public transportation system: means a system for providing public transportation in the form of light rail, rolling rapid transit, or other modes of public transportation and public transportation facilities to individuals. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Public university: means a public university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 124.73

Public use: when used with reference to land reserved for public use means only such uses as are for the general use and benefit of the public as a whole, such as schools, libraries, public institutions, administration buildings, parks, boulevards, playgrounds, streets, alleys, or easements for sewers, public lighting, water, gas, or other similar utilities. See Michigan Laws 125.72

Public use: when used with reference to land reserved for that purpose, means and relates to uses for the general benefit of the public, such as schools, libraries, public institutions, administration buildings, parks, boulevards, playgrounds, streets, alleys, easements or sewers, public lighting, water, gas, or other similar utilities, or improvements. See Michigan Laws 125.942

Public utility: means a person, firm, or corporation engaged in the manufacture, production, generation, or distribution of electricity, steam heat, gas, or any combination thereof, for sale to the public. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Public water supply: means a waterworks system that provides water for drinking or household purposes to persons other than the water supplier, except for those waterworks systems that supply water to only 1 house, apartment, or other domicile occupied or intended to be occupied on a day-to-day basis by an individual, family group, or equivalent. See Michigan Laws 324.5403

Purchase: means taking by sale, lease, discount, negotiation, mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest, issue or reissue, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in property. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Purchase: includes taking by sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, pledge, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in goods. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Purchase price: means the actual vehicle sales price listed on the buyer's order including any cash payment by the consumer and the sum equal to any allowance for any trade-in but excludes debt from any other transaction as well as any manufacturer to consumer discount, rebate, or incentive appearing in the agreement or contract that the consumer received or that was applied to reduce the purchase cost. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Purchaser: means a person that takes by purchase. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Purchaser: means the first retail buyer or a transferee or buyer of the first retail buyer. See Michigan Laws 125.992

Qualified county: means a county in this state with the largest population according to the most recent decennial census. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Qualified region: means a geographic area of this state that includes a qualified county and the 3 counties with the largest populations according to the most recent decennial census that are contiguous to the qualified county. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.

Racing event: means a motor vehicle race which is sanctioned by a nationally or internationally recognized racing organization, and includes preparations, practices, and qualifications for the race. See Michigan Laws 257.1702

Real estate broker or salesman: means a person, whether licensed or not, who, for or with the expectation of receiving a consideration, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, or leases real property, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate any of these activities, or who holds himself out as engaged in these activities, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by a mortgage or other encumbrance upon real property, or who is engaged in the business of listing real property in a publication; or a person employed by or acting on behalf of any of these persons. See Michigan Laws 37.1501

Real estate transaction: means the sale, exchange, rental, or lease of real property, or an interest therein. See Michigan Laws 37.1501

Real estate transaction: means the sale, exchange, rental, or lease of real property, or an interest therein. See Michigan Laws 37.2501

Real property: means land, buildings, improvements, land under water, waterfront property, and any and all easements, franchises and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and every estate, interest, privilege, easement, franchise and right therein, or appurtenant thereto, legal or equitable, including rights of way, terms for years, and liens, charges, or incumbrances by mortgage, judgment, or otherwise. See Michigan Laws 125.72

Real property: includes land, building improvements, land under water, waterfront property, and any and all easements, franchises, and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and every estate, interest, privilege, easement, franchise, and right to that property, or appurtenant to that property, legal or equitable, including rights-of-way, terms for years, and liens, charges, or incumbrances by mortgage, judgment, or otherwise. See Michigan Laws 125.942

Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

Real property: includes a building, structure, mobile home, real estate, land, mobile home park, trailer park, tenement, leasehold, or an interest in a real estate cooperative or condominium. See Michigan Laws 37.1501

Receiving bank: means the bank to which the sender's instruction is addressed. See Michigan Laws 440.4603

Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.

Recombinant nucleic acid techniques: means laboratory techniques through which genetic material is isolated and manipulated in vitro and then inserted into an organism. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Recombinant nucleic acid techniques: means laboratory techniques through which genetic material is isolated and manipulated in vitro and then inserted into an organism. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium, or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Record: means information that is inscribed on a paper or electronic medium. See Michigan Laws 24.205

Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

record owner: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or which is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}

Recreational trailer: means a travel trailer, camper trailer, or other special purpose or utility trailer or semitrailer designed or intended to be drawn on the highway by an automobile or light truck that has a gross towing vehicle weight of less than 10,000 pounds. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Recreational vehicle: means a transportable structure which is used for camping or casual travel. See Michigan Laws 125.771

Regional planning commission: means a regional planning commission designated by the governor pursuant to executive directive to carry out planning in a multicounty region of the state. See Michigan Laws 324.60901

Register: means to record in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or a foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Registered elector of the municipality: means a registered elector residing in the municipality or, if the municipality is a township, a registered elector residing in the portion of the township outside the limits of any village. See Michigan Laws 125.133

Registered organization: means an organization organized solely under the law of a single state or the United States by the filing of a public organic record with, the issuance of a public organic record by, or the enactment of legislation by the state or the United States. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Registering authority: means the local law enforcement agency or sheriff's office having jurisdiction over the individual's residence, place of employment, or institution of higher learning, or the nearest department post designated to receive or enter sex offender registration information within a registration jurisdiction. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Registering tribunal: means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Registration jurisdiction: means each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Indian tribes within the United States that elect to function as a registration jurisdiction. See Michigan Laws 28.722

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.

Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.

Remedy: means any remedial right to which an aggrieved party is entitled with or without resort to a tribunal. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Remitter: means a person who purchases an instrument from its issuer if the instrument is payable to an identified person other than the purchaser. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Remotely created consumer item: means an item drawn on a consumer account, which is not created by the payor bank and does not bear a handwritten signature purporting to be the signature of the drawer. See Michigan Laws 440.3103

Repair: means the reconditioning, adjustment, alteration, maintenance, or diagnosis of the operating condition of a motor vehicle, with or without the replacement of any component or subassembly of a motor vehicle, for compensation or under the terms of a warranty. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Repair category: means a category of motor vehicle repair work, listed in section 10b, that certification under this act is required to perform. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Repair facility: means any motor vehicle dealer, garage, body repair shop, or other commercial entity that undertakes the repair or replacement of parts that generally constitute the exterior of a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 257.1362

Replacement services: means homemaking tasks, child care, transportation, and other services previously performed by the victim that, because of the victim's injury, must temporarily or permanently be performed by a person other than the victim. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).

Reporting agency: means 1 of the following:

(i) If property is seized by or forfeited to a local unit of government, that local unit of government. See Michigan Laws 28.117

Representative: means a person empowered to act for another, including an agent, an officer of a corporation or association, and a trustee, executor, or administrator of an estate. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Reptile: means any turtle, snake, or lizard of the class Reptilia. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Reptiles: means any turtle, snake, or lizard of the class reptilia. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

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.

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 28.722

Resident: means that term as defined in section 18. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Resident: means either of the following:

(i) A person who resides in a settled or permanent home or domicile within the boundaries of this state with the intention of remaining in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.44101

Resident: means either of the following:

(i) A person who resides in a settled or permanent home or domicile with the intention of remaining in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Resident of this state: means as follows:

(i) For an individual, an individual who is a legal resident of this state. See Michigan Laws 257.1401

Resident partner: means an individual, estate, or trust that is a resident for the relevant tax year. See Michigan Laws 206.721

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

Revenue: means money received by the public authority as provided in section 17. See Michigan Laws 124.452

Reviewed year: means the tax year of a partnership that is subject to a partnership level audit from which a federal adjustment arises. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Right: includes remedy. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Rolling rapid transit system: means bus services that may combine the technology of intelligent transportation systems, traffic signal priority, cleaner and quieter vehicles, rapid and convenient fare collection, and integration with land use policy. See Michigan Laws 124.542

Royalty interest: means that share of the product or profit that the owner of the land or mineral rights in the land reserves or is entitled to, whether under a lease or under this part, in consideration of permitting the development of the mineral rights. See Michigan Laws 324.63301

Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 324.301

Sand dune area: means that area designated by the department that includes those geomorphic features composed primarily of sand, whether windblown or of other origin and that lies within 2 miles of the ordinary high-water mark on a Great Lake as defined in section 32502, and includes critical dune areas as defined in part 353. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Sand dune mining: means the removal of sand from sand dune areas for commercial or industrial purposes, or both. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

Scrap tire hauler: means that term as defined in section 16901 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

Scrap tire processor: means that term as defined in section 16901 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

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

Secondary obligor: means an obligor to the extent that the obligor's obligation is secondary or the obligor has a right of recourse with respect to an obligation secured by collateral against the debtor, another obligor, or property of either. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Secured party: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is outstanding. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Securities intermediary: means either of the following:

(i) A clearing corporation. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Security: except as otherwise provided in section 8103, means an obligation of an issuer or a share, participation, or other interest in an issuer or in property or an enterprise of an issuer and is all of the following:

(i) Represented by a security certificate in bearer or registered form, or the transfer of which may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a security interest. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Security certificate: means a certificate representing a security. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Security entitlement: means the rights and property interest of an entitlement holder with respect to a financial asset specified in part 5. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Security interest: means an interest in personal property or fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Sediments: means any matter settled out of ballast water within a vessel. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Michigan Laws 440.2103

Sender: means the person giving the instruction to the receiving bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4603

Service area: means that area in which a public authority incorporated under this act operates a mass transportation system or causes a mass transportation system to operate. See Michigan Laws 124.351

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.

Severed oil and gas rights: means those subsurface oil and gas rights held by the department on land in which the department does not own the surface rights to the land. See Michigan Laws 324.61001

Sewage disposal system: includes all interceptor sewers, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, combined sanitary and storm sewers, sewage treatment plants, and all other plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage or industrial wastes. See Michigan Laws 124.281

Sewage disposal systems: includes all interceptor sewers, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, combined sanitary and storm sewers, sewage treatment plants, and all other plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage and industrial wastes. See Michigan Laws 324.4701

Sewage sludge: means sewage sludge generated in the treatment of domestic sewage, other than only septage or industrial waste. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Sewage sludge derivative: means a product for land application derived from sewage sludge that does not include solid waste or other waste regulated under this act. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Sewage sludge distributor: means a person who applies, markets, or distributes, except at retail, a sewage sludge derivative. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Sewage sludge generator: means a person who generates sewage sludge that is applied to land. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Sewage treatment works project: means construction activities on any device or system for the treatment, storage, collection, conveyance, recycling, or reclamation of the sewage of a municipality, including combined sewer overflow correction and major rehabilitation of sewers. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

Sewerage system: means a system of pipes and structures including pipes, channels, conduits, manholes, pumping stations, sewage or waste treatment works, diversion and regulatory devices, outfall structures, and appurtenances, collectively or severally, actually used or intended for use by the public for the purpose of collecting, conveying, transporting, treating, or otherwise handling sanitary sewage or other industrial liquid wastes that are capable of adversely affecting the public health. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

Sex: includes , but is not limited to, pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth that does not include nontherapeutic abortion not intended to save the life of the mother. See Michigan Laws 37.2201

Sexual orientation: means having an orientation for heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality or having a history of such an orientation or being identified with such an orientation. See Michigan Laws 37.2103.amended

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

Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Sidewalk: means a paved public sidewalk intended for pedestrian use situated outside of and adjacent to the improved portion of a street or highway designed for vehicular travel. See Michigan Laws 257.1572

Signed: includes any symbol executed or adopted by a party with present intention to adopt or accept a writing. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Simple pumping station and force main: means the installation of a duplex pumping station and a force main with only 1 high point and of length of no more than 2,000 feet that is to be connected to an existing gravity collection system to provide sewer service to new areas previously not served by the public sewer system. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

Site restoration: means the filling and leveling of all cellars, pits, and excavations; the removal or elimination of all debris; the elimination of conditions that may create a fire or pollution hazard; the minimization of erosion; and the restoration of the well site as nearly as practicable to the original land contour or to a condition approved by the supervisor after consulting with the surface owner of the land and with the operator of a natural gas storage field if the well site is within the boundary of a natural gas storage field. See Michigan Laws 324.61601

Small diameter pressure sewer and grinder pumping station: means a single project that includes the installation of new pressure sewers totaling not more than 5,000 feet and not more than 25 grinder pumping stations with each grinder pumping station serving not more than 5 separate owners and that is to be connected to an existing gravity collection system to provide sewer service to new areas previously not served by the public sewer system. See Michigan Laws 324.4101

Software: means a computer program and any supporting information provided in connection with a transaction relating to the program. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Soil scientist: means a person who meets the qualification standards of the GS-470 soil scientist series established by the United States civil service commission. See Michigan Laws 324.60701

Soil survey: means the identification and description of kinds of soil, the plotting of boundaries on aerial photographs between kinds of soils, and the description and evaluation of their importance and response under various uses and management practices. See Michigan Laws 324.60701

Solid waste disposal facilities: includes any and all buildings, plants, structures, equipment, or facilities and their appurtenances, together with lands or interest in lands therefor or a portion thereof, which qualify as solid waste disposal facilities under section 103(c)(4) of the federal internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Solid waste management system: includes all plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with the collection, transportation, processing, or disposal of discarded or waste materials of any sort, including access roads and facilities for resource recovery. See Michigan Laws 124.281

Special duty: means military service in support of the full-time operation of the state military establishment for a period of not less than 1 day if ordered by competent authority. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Specialty mechanic: means a motor vehicle mechanic who is certified by the department for a specific repair or service category or categories described in section 10(1). See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Species: includes any subspecies of fish, plant life, or wildlife and any other group of fish, plants, or wildlife of the same species or smaller taxa in common spatial arrangement that interbreed or cross-pollinate when mature. See Michigan Laws 324.36501

Staff judge advocate: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of military justice within a command. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

State: means a state of the United States. See Michigan Laws 124.502

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 agency: means a department, board, commission, office, agency, authority, or other unit of state government. See Michigan Laws 2.161

State agency: means a state department, board, commission, office, agency, institution, or other unit of state government. See Michigan Laws 18.1701

State average weekly wage: means the state average weekly wage as determined by the Michigan employment security commission under section 27 of the Michigan employment security act, 1936 (Ex Sess) PA 1, MCL 421. See Michigan Laws 37.1103

State geologist: means the chief of the office of oil, gas, and minerals, or a successor office, of the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.60101

State judge advocate general: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of the military justice in the state military forces. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

State land use agency: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 324.36101

State military forces: means the national guard of the state, as defined in 32 USC 101(3), and any other military force organized under the laws of the state. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

State university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 324.60101

State water pollution control revolving fund: means the state water pollution control revolving fund established under section 16a of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

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.

Statutes at large: A chronological listing of the laws enacted each Congress. They are published in volumes numbered by Congress.

Stock: means game. See Michigan Laws 324.42701

Stockpile: means material, including, but not limited to, surface overburden, rock, or lean ore, that in the process of ferrous mineral mining and beneficiation or treatment has been removed from the earth and stored on the surface. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

Stockpile: means material, including, but not limited to, surface overburden, rock, or lean ore, that in the process of mining and beneficiation or treatment has been removed from the earth and stored on the surface. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Storage well: means a well drilled into a subsurface formation to develop an underground storage cavity for subsequent use in storage operations. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Stormwater management project: means construction activities of a municipality on any device or system for the treatment, storage, recycling, or reclamation of storm water that is conveyed by a storm sewer that is separate from a sanitary sewer. See Michigan Laws 324.5301

strategic fund: means the fund under the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 18.1753

Structure: means a structure as defined in section 2 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 125.1351

Student: means an individual enrolled on a full- or part-time basis in a public or private educational institution, including, but not limited to, a secondary school, trade school, professional institution, or institution of higher education. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Sublease: means a lease of goods the right to possession and use of which was acquired by the lessor as a lessee under an existing lease. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

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

Successor of a beneficiary: means a person who succeeds to substantially all of the rights of a beneficiary by operation of law, including a corporation with or into which the beneficiary has been merged or consolidated, an administrator, executor, personal representative, trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, liquidator, and receiver. See Michigan Laws 440.5102

Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.

Superior commissioned officer: means a commissioned officer superior in rank or command. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Supervisor: means the supervisor of a township elected under chapter XVI of the Michigan election law, Act No. See Michigan Laws 41.1b

Supervisor: means the supervisor of wells as provided by part 615 or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 324.61601

Supervisor of mineral wells: means the state geologist. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Supervisor of reclamation: means the department. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

supervisor of wells: means the department. See Michigan Laws 324.61501

Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act.

supplier: means a municipality or its designated representative accepted by the director, a legal business entity, or any other person that owns a public water supply. See Michigan Laws 324.5403

Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Supply contract: means a contract under which a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased. See Michigan Laws 440.2803

Support: means actual monetary payments made by a victim or intervenor to or for a person principally dependent on the victim or intervenor. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Support enforcement agency: means a public official or governmental entity or private agency authorized to do 1 or more of the following:

(i) Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, that provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Supporting obligation: means a letter-of-credit right or secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, a document, a general intangible, an instrument, or investment property. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Surety: includes a guarantor or other secondary obligor. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Surface or open pit mining: means the mining of more than 10,000 tons of a ferrous mineral or disturbing more than 1 acre of land a year in the regular operation of a business either by removing the overburden lying above a natural deposit of a ferrous mineral and mining directly from the natural deposit exposed or by mining directly from a deposit lying exposed in the ferrous mineral's natural state. See Michigan Laws 324.63101

system: means a system of pipes and structures through which water is obtained or distributed and includes any of the following that are actually used or intended to be used for the purpose of furnishing water for drinking or household purposes:

(i) Wells and well structures. See Michigan Laws 324.5403

Tailings basin: means land on which is deposited, by hydraulic or other means, the material that is separated from the metallic product in the beneficiation or treatment of minerals and includes any surrounding dikes constructed to contain the material. See Michigan Laws 324.63201

Take: means , in reference to fish and wildlife, to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, collect, or attempt to engage in any such conduct. See Michigan Laws 324.36501

Tangible chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information that is inscribed on a tangible medium. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Tangible document of title: means a document of title evidenced by a record consisting of information that is inscribed on a tangible medium. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Taxable property: means the property taxable under the general property tax act, Act No. See Michigan Laws 124.351

Taxable property: means the property taxable under the general property tax act, Act No. See Michigan Laws 124.452

Taxpayer: means all of the following:

(i) Any person subject to the taxes imposed by part 1. See Michigan Laws 206.721

teacher: as used in this act means a certificated individual employed for a full school year by any board of education or controlling board. See Michigan Laws 38.71

Technical assistance: means the aid that the department shall provide to municipalities, counties, and other interested groups and individuals, on the use of the land resource and current use inventory and related information for planning and resource management decisions. See Michigan Laws 324.60901

Temporary employee: means an employee hired for a position that will not exceed 90 days in duration. See Michigan Laws 37.1103

Temporary ordinance: means a type of local ordinance adopted by a political subdivision of this state under section 80112a that includes, but is not limited to, a local watercraft control or administrative rule. See Michigan Laws 324.80104

Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.

Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent

Term: means a portion of an agreement that relates to a particular matter. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Termination statement: means an amendment of a financing statement that identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates and indicates either that it is a termination statement or that the identified financing statement is no longer effective. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

termination statement: as used in this act mean those terms as defined in the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440. See Michigan Laws 257.58b

Test well: means a well, core hole, core test, observation well, or other well drilled from the surface to determine the presence of a mineral, mineral resource, ore, or rock unit, or to obtain geological or geophysical information or other subsurface data related to mineral exploration and extraction. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.

Testify: Answer questions in court.

Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.

third party: means a person that has engaged in a transaction or made an agreement subject to this act. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

this amendatory act: means the amendatory act that added this part. See Michigan Laws 440.9701

This amendatory act: means the amendatory act that added this part. See Michigan Laws 440.9801

This amended article: means this article as amended by this amendatory act. See Michigan Laws 440.9801

Threatened species: means any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. See Michigan Laws 324.36501

Threshold reporting quantity: means that term as defined in R 324. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Tiered partner: means any partner that is a partnership or other flow-through entity. See Michigan Laws 206.721

tire wheel or rim: includes a tire wheel or rim on which a tire is mounted. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

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.

Township: means a township having a population over 100. See Michigan Laws 125.651

Township board: means the township board of a township constituted as provided in section 70. See Michigan Laws 41.1b

Tract: means tract as that term is used by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census in conducting the 2010 decennial census. See Michigan Laws 3.55

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.

Transmitting utility: means a person primarily engaged in the business of 1 of the following:

(i) Operating a railroad, subway, street railway, or trolley bus. See Michigan Laws 440.9102

Transportation administration collection fund: means the fund created under section 810b. See Michigan Laws 257.811d

Transportation asset management council: means the transportation asset management council created in section 9a of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Treasurer: means the elected treasurer in a township or county. See Michigan Laws 124.301

Treasurer: means the treasurer of a township elected under chapter XVI of Act No. See Michigan Laws 41.1b

Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.

Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Trout stream: means any stream or portion of a stream that contains a significant population of any species of trout or salmon as determined by the department. See Michigan Laws 324.48701

Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}

Trust fund: means the Michigan game and fish protection trust fund established in section 41 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in section 43702. See Michigan Laws 324.43701

Trust fund: means the Michigan nongame fish and wildlife trust fund established in section 42 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in section 43902. See Michigan Laws 324.43901

Trust fund: means the game and fish lifetime license trust fund created in section 44104. See Michigan Laws 324.44101

Trustee: means a trustee of a township elected under chapter XVI of Act No. See Michigan Laws 41.1b

Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

Unauthorized signature: means a signature made without actual, implied, or apparent authority. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Uncertificated security: means a security that is not represented by a certificate. See Michigan Laws 440.8102

Underground storage cavity: means a cavity formed by dissolving rock salt or other readily soluble rock or mineral, by nuclear explosion, or by any other method for the purpose of storage or disposal. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

Underground waste: means damage or injury to potable water, mineralized water, or other subsurface resources. See Michigan Laws 324.62501

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}

Unit: means a regularly organized body of the military that is not larger than a company or squadron. See Michigan Laws 32.1002

Unit area: means the formation or formations that are unitized and surface acreage that is a part of the unitized lands, as described in the plan for unit operations that is the subject of the supervisor's order as provided in section 61706. See Michigan Laws 324.61701

Unit expense: means any and all cost, expense, or indebtedness incurred by the unit in the establishment of its organization or incurred in the conduct and management of its affairs or the operations conducted by it. See Michigan Laws 324.61701

Unit of local government: means a political subdivision of this state, including school districts, community college districts, intermediate school districts, public school academies, cities, villages, townships, counties, and authorities, if the political subdivision has as its primary purpose the providing of local governmental service for citizens in a geographically limited area of the state and has the power to act primarily on behalf of that area. See Michigan Laws 2.161

Unit production: means all indigenous oil and gas produced and saved from a unit area after the effective date of the order of the supervisor creating the unit, regardless of the well or tract within the unit area from which that oil and gas is produced. See Michigan Laws 324.61701

Unitary business group: means that term as defined in section 611. See Michigan Laws 206.721

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

Unrelated business activity: means that term as defined in section 611. See Michigan Laws 206.721

Use: means operate, navigate, or employ. See Michigan Laws 324.80104

Used motor vehicle part: means any of the following:

(i) A major component part, dashboard, radio, stereo, or seat of a late model motor vehicle for which a certificate of title and registration plate have been issued to a consumer or dealer. See Michigan Laws 257.1351

User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.

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.

Vehicle: means that term as defined in section 79 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 28.722

Vehicle body work: means the business or activity of repairing physical damage to a motor vehicle by repairing, mending, straightening, or replacing a major component part, except for the engine or transmission. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.

Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.

Vessel: means every description of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Michigan Laws 324.80104

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.

Victim: means a person who suffers a personal physical injury as a direct result of a crime. See Michigan Laws 18.351

Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.

Victim services organization: means an organization or agency that has a documented history of providing services to address issues arising from victimization to victims or to family members or household members of victims. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended

Vital resource: means a public or private building, facility, property, or location that the governor considers necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state. See Michigan Laws 32.505

Voice vote: A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say "Yea" or "Nay," respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of legisators voting on each side are not recorded.

Volunteer agreement: means the contract entered into between the department and a Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteer or advisor under section 4. See Michigan Laws 18.222

Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Michigan Laws 440.7102

Warehouse receipt: means a document of title issued by a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Michigan Laws 440.1201

Warranty: means a guarantee given by a motor vehicle repair facility, in writing or by implication, of the merchantability, of the integrity of the subject of a contract, or of the responsibility of the person that makes the warranty for the replacement or repair of defective parts or services, or both, assuring performance, product, or conditions as promised or declared by the person that makes the warranty. See Michigan Laws 257.1302a

Waste rock: means earth material that is excavated during mining, from which the economically recoverable native copper has been separated, and that is stored on the surface for 1 year or more. See Michigan Laws 324.63401

Water and air pollution control equipment: includes buildings, plants, structures, facilities, and equipment and their appurtenances, together with lands or interest in lands therefor or a portion thereof, used or to be used as a change in manufacturing, production, generation, transmission, or distribution process to prevent, reduce, recover, remove, disperse, neutralize, control, or eliminate air or water pollution. See Michigan Laws 125.1252

Water asset management council: means the water asset management council created in section 5002 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 21.602

Water supply system: includes all plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with obtaining a water supply, the treatment of water, or the distribution of water. See Michigan Laws 124.281

Water supply system: includes all plants, work, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with obtaining a water supply, the treatment of water, and the distribution of water. See Michigan Laws 324.4701

Water table: means the surface in an unconfined aquifer at which the pressure is atmospheric. See Michigan Laws 324.63701

waterbody: means groundwaters, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, and wetlands and all other watercourses and waters within the jurisdiction of this state including the Great Lakes bordering this state. See Michigan Laws 324.3302

Watercraft: means any conveyance used or designed for navigation on water, including, but not limited to, any vessel, ship, boat, motor vessel, steam vessel, vessel operated by machinery, motorboat, sailboat, barge, scow, tugboat, and rowboat. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Waters: means any inland lake, stream, river, pond, or other body of water including the Great Lakes and connecting waters, any part or portion of such waters, and any and all chains, systems, or combinations of such waters, in any township or townships or county or counties, within this state, and in which any species of fish or waterfowl are protected by the laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 324.41101

Waters of the state: means groundwaters, lakes, rivers, and streams and all other watercourses and waters, including the Great Lakes, within the jurisdiction of this state. See Michigan Laws 324.3101

Waters of this state: means any waters within the territorial limits of this state, and includes those waters of the Great Lakes that are under the jurisdiction of this state. See Michigan Laws 324.80104

Wetland mitigation bank: means a site where wetlands are restored, created, or preserved for the purpose of doing both of the following:

(i) To provide compensatory mitigation in accordance with the provisions of part 303, in advance of authorized, unavoidable impacts to wetlands. See Michigan Laws 324.5201

Wiggler: means an aquatic egg, nymph, or larva of an insect. See Michigan Laws 324.41301

Wigglers: means Mayfly nymphs or any other aquatic insect nymphs or larvae. See Michigan Laws 324.48728

Wildlife and fisheries: includes any member of the wild animal kingdom, including any mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or invertebrate found in this state at any point in its natural life cycle. See Michigan Laws 324.43504

Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

writing: includes printing, typewriting, or any other intentional reduction to tangible form. See Michigan Laws 440.1201