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- 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.
- 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.
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- 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.
- Clerk: means the clerk or a deputy clerk of the court. See Michigan Laws 761.1
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- District: means a district created under a clean energy program by a municipality. See Michigan Laws 460.963
- Energy efficiency improvement: means equipment, devices, or materials intended to decrease energy consumption, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(i) Insulation in walls, roofs, floors, foundations, or heating and cooling distribution systems. See Michigan Laws 460.963Energy project: means the installation or modification of an energy efficiency improvement or the acquisition, installation, or improvement of a renewable energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Governing body: means the township board of a township or the council or other similar elected legislative body of a city or village. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Home energy audit: means an evaluation of the energy performance of a residential structure, by a qualified person using building-performance diagnostic equipment and complying with American national standards institute approved home energy audit standards, that meets both of the following requirements:
(i) Determines how best to optimize energy performance while maintaining or improving human comfort, health, and safety and the durability of the structure. See Michigan Laws 460.963Judicial district: means the following:
(i) With regard to the circuit court, the county. See Michigan Laws 761.1Jurisdiction: (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. Misdemeanor: means 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 761.1 Municipality: means a city, village, or township, all or some of whose residents are served by a municipal electric utility. See Michigan Laws 460.963 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. Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, unincorporated joint venture, or trust, organized, permitted, or existing under the laws of this state or any other state, including a federal corporation, or a combination thereof. See Michigan Laws 460.963 person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l program: means a program as described in section 5(2). See Michigan Laws 460.963 Property: means privately owned residential real property located within the municipality. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Record owner: means the person or persons possessed of the most recent fee title or land contract vendee's interest in property as shown by the records of the county register of deeds. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Renewable energy resource: means a resource that naturally replenishes over a human, not a geological, time frame and that is ultimately derived from solar power, water power, or wind power. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Renewable energy system: means a fixture, product, device, or interacting group of fixtures, products, or devices on the customer's side of the meter that use 1 or more renewable energy resources. See Michigan Laws 460.963 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