§ 750.151 Contracts; conspiracy; penalty
§ 750.152 Illegal contracts
§ 750.153 Illegal contracts; carrying into effect
§ 750.154 Violation by corporation forfeits charter
§ 750.155 Violation by corporation forfeits charter; quo warranto
§ 750.156 Chapter inapplicable to agricultural products or livestock under certain conditions; chapter inapplicable to conspiracy committed under chapter LXVIIA
§ 750.157 Providing incriminating testimony or evidence; use of truthful testimony, evidence, or other information against witness in criminal case
§ 750.157a Conspiracy to commit offense or legal act in illegal manner; penalty
§ 750.157b Solicitation to commit murder or felony; penalty; affirmative defense
§ 750.157c Recruiting, inducing, soliciting, or coercing minor to commit felony
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 750 > Act 328 of 1931 > Chapter XXIV - Conspiracy

  • AASSPs: means anhydrous ammonia safety and security practices established by the commission under section 5. See Michigan Laws 286.773
  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Adoption: means a transfer of ownership, with or without remuneration, of an animal from an animal control shelter or animal protection shelter to an individual for the purpose of being a companion animal for that individual. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Advertising: means all representations other than those on the label, disseminated in any manner or by any means, and relating to seed within the scope of this act. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • 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.
  • Advisory committee: means the seed potato advisory committee created in section 6. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • 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.
  • Agent: means a person that buys, receives, sells, exchanges, negotiates, or solicits the sale, resale, exchange, or transfer of 1 or more animals for or on behalf of another person. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Agricultural product: means any agricultural commodity or product, whether raw or processed, including any commodity or product derived from livestock that is marketed for human or livestock use or consumption. See Michigan Laws 286.903
  • Agricultural seed: means the seed of grass, forage, cereal, fiber, oil plants, and any other seed commonly recognized within this state as agricultural or field seed, lawn seed, or mixtures of those seeds. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Alteration: means a professional sterilization procedure performed by a veterinarian that renders a dog, cat, or ferret incapable of reproducing. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • 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.
  • Anhydrous ammonia: means an inorganic compound that consists of 1 nitrogen atom and 3 hydrogen atoms and has a chemical formula of NH3. See Michigan Laws 286.773
  • Animal: means any vertebrate animal, other than human beings, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians, and any domesticated insect. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • animal: means a mammal except livestock as defined in 1937 PA 284, MCL 287. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Animal abuse offense: means 1 or more of the following, but does not include the lawful use of an animal to hunt or to participate in field trials or the lawful killing or other use of an animal in farming or a generally accepted animal husbandry or farming practice involving livestock:
  (i) A violation of section 49 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Animal control shelter: means a facility operated by a municipality for the impoundment and care of animals that are found in the streets or at large, animals that are otherwise held due to the violation of a municipal ordinance or state law, or animals that are surrendered to the animal control shelter. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Animal feed: means edible material that is consumed by an animal and contributes energy, nutrients, or both, to the animal's diet. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Animal protection shelter: means a facility operated by a person, humane society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or any other nonprofit organization for the care of homeless animals. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Aquacultural products: means any products, coproducts, or by-products of aquaculture species. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Aquaculture: means the commercial husbandry of aquaculture species on the approved list of aquaculture species, including, but not limited to, the culturing, producing, growing, using, propagating, harvesting, transporting, importing, exporting, or marketing of aquacultural products under an appropriate permit or registration. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Aquaculture facility: means a farm or farm operation engaged in any aspect of aquaculture in privately controlled waters capable of holding all life stages of aquaculture species with a barrier or enclosure to prevent their escape into waters of the state. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Aquaculture facility registration: means a registration issued by the director allowing a facility to engage in aquaculture. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Aquaculture research permit: means a permit issued by the director to researchers to study and culture aquaculture species not included on the approved list of aquaculture species for the evaluation of aquacultural potential and to provide a scientific basis for including the aquaculture species on the approved list. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Aquaculture species: means aquatic animal organisms including, but not limited to, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, reptiles, or amphibians reared or cultured under controlled conditions in an aquaculture facility. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Aquaculture species: means aquatic animal organisms, including, but not limited to, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, reptiles, or amphibians, reared or cultured under controlled conditions for commercial aquaculture or the pet trade. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Aquaculturist: means a person involved in or engaged in any aspect of aquaculture. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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.
  • Bee disease: means American or European foulbrood, sacbrood, bee paralysis, parasites of bees, or other disease or abnormal condition of the egg, larval, pupal, or adult stages of bees. See Michigan Laws 286.801
  • Bees: means any life stage of the common honey bee, Apis mellifera L. See Michigan Laws 286.801
  • 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
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Blend: means seed consisting of more than 1 variety of a kind, each in excess of 5% of the whole. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Board: means the rural development fund board established in section 3. See Michigan Laws 286.942
  • Brand: means a word, name, symbol, or device, or a combination of any of these that identifies the commercial feed of a manufacturer or distributor and distinguishes it from that of other manufacturers or distributors. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Brand: means a word, name, symbol, number, or design used to identify seed of 1 person to distinguish it from the seed of another person. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Broker: means to engage or participate in the marketing of industrial hemp by acting as an intermediary or negotiator between prospective buyers and sellers. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • broker: means a person that, as a principal or agent, engages in the business of buying, receiving, selling, exchanging, buying for slaughter, negotiating, or soliciting sale, resale, exchange, transportation, or transfer of animals. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Buying station: means a facility or location where livestock are congregated and purchased by the owner or agent of the facility or location for movement or sale. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Cannabis: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Cat: means any live domestic cat (felis catus) for use or intended to be used for research, tests or experiments at research facilities. See Michigan Laws 287.381
  • Cat: means a domestic cat of any age of the species Felis catus. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Cattle: means ruminating and nonruminating bovine animals sold for slaughter, ruminating and nonruminating bovine animals produced in this state to be fed for slaughter, and ruminating and nonruminating bovine animals to be fed for slaughter and sold in this state more than 30 days after arrival in this state. See Michigan Laws 287.602
  • Cease order: means a cease order issued by the director pursuant to section 15. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • certified: means a determination made by a registered certifying agent that an agricultural product has been produced and handled in compliance with the Michigan organic standards. See Michigan Laws 286.903
  • Certified seed: means a class of seed that meets the requirements of 1959 PA 221, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Certifying agent: means an entity registered by the department that certifies production or handling operations or portions of production or handling operations as meeting the Michigan organic standards. See Michigan Laws 286.903
  • Certifying authority: means the official seed-certifying agency of this state or the authorized seed potato certifying agency of another state, territory, or country. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Collection point: means a facility or location where livestock are congregated by the owner or agent of the facility or location for transfer or movement. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Commercial feed: means all materials or combination of materials, including feed ingredients, that are distributed or intended for distribution for use as animal feed or for mixing in animal feed. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Commingling: means the mixing together of or physical contact between unpackaged organic products and nonorganic agricultural products during production or handling. See Michigan Laws 286.903
  • Commission: means the commission of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Commission: means the state beef industry commission. See Michigan Laws 287.602
  • Commission: means the commission of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 286.773
  • Commission: means the commission of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 286.942
  • 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.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Conditioning: means drying, cleaning, scarifying, and other operations that change the purity or germination of the seed and require the seed lot to be retested to determine the label information. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Confinement research facility: means a facility holding an aquaculture research permit, enclosed in a secure structure, and separated from other aquaculture facilities and in which aquaculture species are isolated and maintained in complete and continuous confinement to prevent their escape into the environment and to prevent the release of any possible pathogens into the environment. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contract feeder: means a person that is an independent contractor that feeds animals pursuant to a contract if the feed is supplied, furnished, or otherwise provided to the person. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Controlling the pollination: means a method of hybridization that will produce pure seed that is at least 75% hybrid seed. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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.
  • Crop seed: means the seed of plants grown as crops, other than the kind or variety included in the pure seed, as determined by methods defined by rule promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Cultivar: means unique variety. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Customer-formula feed: means commercial feed that consists of a mixture of commercial feeds or feed ingredients, each batch of which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser or purchaser's agent. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dangerous animal: means a dog or other animal that bites or attacks a person, or a dog that bites or attacks and causes serious injury or death to another dog while the other dog is on the property or under the control of its owner. See Michigan Laws 287.321
  • Dealer: means any person who for compensation or profit delivers for transportation, transports, boards, buys or sells dogs or cats for research purposes and does not mean a person who breeds or raises dogs or cats for sale to a research facility. See Michigan Laws 287.381
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Department: means the state department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 287.602
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Department: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Department: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 286.903
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 286.942
  • Department: means the department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 287.111
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 287.251
  • Department: means the state department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means the director of the department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 287.381
  • Director: means the director of the department or the director's authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Director: means the director of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 287.551
  • Director: means the director of labor or any person authorized to act in his behalf. See Michigan Laws 286.651
  • Director: means the director of the state department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 287.602
  • Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Director: means director of the department of agriculture and rural development or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Director: means the director of the department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 286.801
  • Director: means the director of the department, or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Director: means the director of the Michigan department of agriculture or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 286.903
  • Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 286.942
  • Director: means the director of the department or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Director: means the director of the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 287.251
  • Director: means the director of the department or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • 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:
  • Distribute: means either of the following:
  •   (i) To offer for sale, hold for sale, sell, exchange, or barter commercial feed. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, barter, deliver, supply, furnish, or otherwise provide seed potatoes. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Distributor: means a person that distributes. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Dog: means any live dog of the species canis familiaris for use or intended to be used for research tests or experiments at research facilities. See Michigan Laws 287.381
  • Dog: means a domestic dog of any age of the species Canis familiaris. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Dormant seed: means viable seed, excluding hard seed that fail to germinate when provided with the specified germination conditions for the kind of seed in question. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Drug: means either of the following:
  •   (i) Any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Embargo order: means an embargo order issued by the director pursuant to section 15. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • 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
  • Emigrant agent: means a person engaged in recruiting, hiring, soliciting or enticing laborers by any means whatsoever in this state to be employed beyond the limits of this state in farm labor. See Michigan Laws 286.651
  • Employer: means a person employing or seeking to employ an employee for farm labor. See Michigan Laws 286.651
  • End user: means the person actually using anhydrous ammonia for a legal purpose. See Michigan Laws 286.773
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Farm labor: means cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodity, the raising of livestock, bees, furbearing animals or poultry, any practices performed on the farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market or any forestry or lumbering operations, and first processing of any agricultural or horticultural commodity during seasonal operations. See Michigan Laws 286.651
  • farm operation: means those terms as defined in the Michigan right to farm act, 1981 PA 93, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Feed ingredient: means each of the constituent materials making up a commercial feed. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • felony: when used in this act, shall be construed to mean an offense for which the offender, on conviction may be punished by death, or by imprisonment in state prison. See Michigan Laws 750.7
  • Ferret: means an animal of any age of the species Mustela furo. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Field year: means the number of years a particular seed lot has been grown in the field after greenhouse propagation. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • 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.
  • Flower seed: means the seed of those plants usually grown for their blooms, ornamental foliage, or other ornamental parts and commonly are known and sold under the name of flower seed in this state. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Food additive: means that term as defined in 21 USC 321(s). See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Forest tree seed: means the seeds of those forest trees that are usually grown in nurseries and forests in this state, and that are listed in the rules promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • 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 feed control fund created in section 17. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Fund: means the agriculture licensing and inspection fees fund created in section 9 of the insect pest and plant disease act, 1931 PA 189, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Fund: means the rural development fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 286.942
  • Genetically engineered: refers to an organism whose genome, chromosomal or extrachromosomal, is modified permanently and heritably using recombinant nucleic acid techniques, or the progeny thereof. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • GPS coordinates: means latitude and longitude coordinates derived from a global positioning system. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Grow: means to plant, propagate, grow, cultivate, or harvest live plants or viable seeds. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Grower: means a person registered by the department under this act to grow industrial hemp. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Guarantor: means a person that agrees to be responsible for labeling, information, guarantees, and claims. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • 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.
  • Handle: means to possess, store, or transport industrial hemp on premises owned, operated, or controlled by a registered grower or licensed processor-handler. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Handle: means to sell, process, or package agricultural products. See Michigan Laws 286.905
  • Handler: means any person engaged in the business of handling agricultural products as organic products including producers who handle crops or livestock of their own production. See Michigan Laws 286.905
  • Handling operation: means any operation or portion of an operation that sells, transports, receives, or otherwise acquires agricultural products as organic products and processes, packages, or stores such organic products. See Michigan Laws 286.905
  • housed or kept for the primary purpose of breeding: means that the female dog has previously been bred and whelped. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Humane method: means either: (1) A method whereby the animal is rendered insensible to pain by mechanical, electrical, chemical or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast or cut; or (2) a method in accordance with ritual requirements of any religious faith whereby the animal suffers loss of consciousness by anemia of the brain caused by the simultaneous and instantaneous severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument. See Michigan Laws 287.551
  • Hundredweight: means a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Hybrid: means , as applied to kinds or varieties of seed, the first generation seed of a cross, produced by controlling the pollination and by combining 2 or more inbred lines, or 1 inbred line or a single cross with an open pollinated variety, or 2 selected clones, seed lines, varieties, or species, except open pollinated varieties of corn such as zea mays. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • 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.
  • in bulk: means feed that is not divided into parts or packaged in separate units or any lot that is not in a closed container at the time it passes to the possession of the purchaser and includes that feed at any stage of distribution. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Industrial hemp: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Inert matter: means broken seed 1/2 or less the original size, seeds of legumes or crucifers with seed coats removed, undeveloped or badly injured weed seed, the empty glumes or attached sterile glumes of grasses, stems, leaves, stones, chaff, soil, insects, fungal bodies, material added in coating or pelleting, and all other matter other than pure seed, weed, or crop seed, as determined by methods defined by rule promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Insolvent: means being unable to pay debts as they become due in the usual course of a debtor's business. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  • Intact dog: means a dog that has not been altered. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
  • Integrated operator: means a person located within this state that manufactures animal feed for other integrated operators if there is a minimum of 5% ownership by all persons involved in each aspect of the operation that supply or share feed and ingredients. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Ionizing radiation: means gamma-ray emissions from radioactive isotopes such as cobalt-60 or cesium-137; x-rays; electron beams; or any other radiation capable of altering a food's molecular structure, used for purposes that include, but are not limited to, controlling microbes, pathogens, parasites, and pests in food, preserving a food, or inhibiting physiological processes such as sprouting or ripening. See Michigan Laws 286.905
  • 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.
  • Kind: means 1 or more related species or subspecies that singly or collectively is known by 1 common name, including, but not limited to, oats, wheat, soybeans, and corn. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed or on the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed is distributed. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Label: includes all labels, and other written, printed, or graphic representation in any form, accompanying or pertaining to any seed in bulk or in containers and includes representation on invoices, bills, and letterheads. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, electronic, or graphic matter, and includes advertising. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying the article. See Michigan Laws 286.905
  • Land-based industries: means food and agriculture, forestry, mining, oil and gas production, and tourism. See Michigan Laws 286.942
  • Large-scale dog breeding kennel: means a facility where more than 15 female intact dogs over the age of 4 months are housed or kept for the primary purpose of breeding. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Law enforcement officer: means a person appointed by the state or a local governmental unit who is responsible for the enforcement of the criminal laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • License: means a commercial feed license issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Licensee: means a person that has been issued a license. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Licensee: means a person holding a license issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Licensing and registration fund: means the industrial hemp licensing and registration fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Livestock: means cattle, calves, sheep, swine, horses, mules, goats and any other animal which can or may be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products. See Michigan Laws 287.551
  • Livestock: means any cattle, sheep, goat, swine, poultry, captive cervidae, ratites, or equine animals used for food, fiber, feed, or other agricultural based consumer products, wild or domesticated game, or other nonplant life including fish or bees. See Michigan Laws 286.905
  • livestock: includes horses, ponies, mules, cattle, calves, swine, sheep, poultry, privately owned cervids, ratites, aquaculture species, and goats. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Livestock: means cattle, swine, sheep, goats, or poultry located in this state. See Michigan Laws 287.251
  • Livestock: means animals used for human food and fiber or animals used for service to human beings. See Michigan Laws 287.321
  • Livestock auction: means a livestock congregation point where livestock are accepted on consignment and the auction method is used in the marketing of livestock. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Livestock trucker: means a person, not otherwise licensed under this act, that engages in the business of transporting livestock not owned by the person, or the person's employer, from 1 premises to another. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • Local unit of government: means a county, township, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Local unit of government: means a county, city, township, village, school district, or any authority composed of counties, cities, townships, villages, or school districts, or any combination of these entities. See Michigan Laws 286.942
  • Lot: means a definite quantity of seed identified by a number or other mark, every portion of which is uniform within recognized tolerances for the factors that appear in the labeling. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Manufacture: means to prepare, grind, mix, package, repackage, or relabel commercial feed for distribution. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Manufacturer: means a person that manufactures. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Market: means to promote or sell industrial hemp or an industrial hemp commodity or product. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Market agency: means a person, including a producer, who sells, offers for sale, markets, distributes, trades, or processes cattle which have been purchased or acquired from a producer or other, or which is marketed on behalf of a producer, and includes meat packing firms and their agents which purchase or consign to purchase cattle. See Michigan Laws 287.602
  • Member capital: means the assets that a member must provide by payment, transfer, or allocation of net savings to a cooperative as a condition of admission to or retention of membership and with respect to which the member has rights to dividends, redemption, or distributions on dissolution under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  • Membership fee: means a nonredeemable fee that a member must pay to a cooperative as a condition of admission to or retention of membership in the cooperative that is not member capital or a fee for goods, services, or facilities. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  • Michigan organic standards: means those organic production and handling standards defined by this act, rules adopted under this act, or both, that are designed to combine organic production or handling practices and an audit trail that will ensure the integrity of organic products from the producer to the consumer. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Mixture: means seed consisting of more than 1 kind, each in excess of 5% of the whole. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • 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.
  • Noncommercial feed: means all materials or combination of materials, not distributed or intended for distribution, that are for manufacturing and use as feed or for mixing in feed. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Official sample: means a sample of feed taken by the director in accordance with section 7. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Organic: means a labeling term referring to an agricultural product produced in accordance with the standards described in this act, rules adopted under this act, or both. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Organic advisory committee: means the committee created under section 25. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Organic agriculture: means an agricultural management system that enhances biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity to produce healthy plants and animals and fosters human and environmental health. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Organic plan: means a plan of management of an organic production or handling operation that has been agreed to by the producer or handler and the certifying agent and that includes written plans concerning all aspects of agricultural production and handling as described in this act, rules adopted under this act, or both. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Organic product: means agricultural products including, but not limited to, crops, livestock, livestock products, or other agricultural products that are produced organically for human or livestock use or consumption. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means a person who owns or harbors a dog or other animal. See Michigan Laws 287.321
  • Packer: means any person engaged in the business of slaughtering, or of manufacturing or preparing meat or meat products for sale, either by such person or others; or of manufacturing or preparing livestock products for sale by such person or others. See Michigan Laws 287.551
  • 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.
  • Patron: means a person whose economic exchange is a regular part of the business of a cooperative or foreign cooperative, if the economic exchange is the same type of regular economic exchange engaged in by any class of members. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  • Patronage: means the selling or providing of goods, services, or facilities to, or the buying of goods, services, or facilities from members or other persons, or providing labor or services to or by a cooperative. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  • percentage: means the percentage by weight. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Person: includes any individual, partnership, association or corporation. See Michigan Laws 287.381
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation or association doing business in this state, in whole or in part. See Michigan Laws 287.551
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy or receiver. See Michigan Laws 286.651
  • Person: means a natural person, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, or trust, or other business unit or organization. See Michigan Laws 287.602
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, company, corporation, society, cooperative, union, or association. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, joint venture, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Person: means an individual, group of individuals, contractor, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, cooperative, community supported agricultural entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 287.121
  • 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, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 287.251
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Pet health certificate: means a certificate in a form prescribed by the director in which a veterinarian attests to the species, age, sex, breed, and description of an animal; any medical conditions of the animal; any medical treatment and vaccinations that the animal received while under the control of a pet shop or large-scale dog breeding kennel; and to the fact that at the time of the preparation of the certificate the veterinarian examined the animal and found the animal free from visual evidence of communicable disease. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Pet shop: means a place where animals are sold or offered for sale, exchange, or transfer. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • 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.
  • Plot: means a contiguous area in a field, greenhouse, or indoor growing structure containing the same variety of industrial hemp throughout the area. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Privately controlled waters: means waters controlled within ponds, vats, raceways, tanks, and any other indoor or outdoor structure wholly within or on land owned or leased by an aquaculturist and used with an aquaculture facility or confinement research facility. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Process: means to convert raw industrial hemp into a marketable form. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Processing: means processes that include, but are not limited to, cooking, baking, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, cutting, fermenting, eviscerating, preserving, dehydrating, freezing, or other manufacturing process and includes the packaging, canning, jarring, or otherwise enclosing of food in a container. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Processor-handler: means a person licensed by the department under this act to process, handle, broker, or market industrial hemp. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Producer: means a person who raises or feeds cattle for market. See Michigan Laws 287.602
  • Producer: means a person who engages in the business of growing or producing agricultural products. See Michigan Laws 286.907
  • Product name: means the name of the commercial feed that identifies it as to kind, class, or specific use and distinguishes it from all other products bearing the same brand name. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Program: means the industrial hemp licensing and registration program established by this act. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Pure seed: means seed exclusive of inert matter and all other seeds not of the seed being considered, as determined by methods defined by rule promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Quantity statement: means a writing containing the net weight of a solid or net weight or net volume of a liquid. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • 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 286.872
  • Records: means all label information and the source of this information required by this act for the seed being considered, and all information relating to the shipment or shipments involved with seed, such as invoices, vouchers, freight bills, and other records. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Redemption: means any method by which a cooperative exchanges cash or debt instruments for member capital, including, but not limited to, repurchase, redemption, refund, or repayment. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  • Referendum: means a method of member voting that utilizes secret ballot and established polling places as provided in the cooperative's bylaws or under section 409. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  • 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.
  • Representative sample: means a sample taken from a seed lot that is of sufficient size to supply an adequate amount of seed for laboratory testing and that is secured and submitted according to the guidelines approved by the director. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • 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.
  • Research facility: means any school, hospital, laboratory, institution, organization or person that uses or intends to use dogs or cats in research, tests or experiments, and that (1) purchases or transports such animals, or (2) receives any funds from the state or local government or any agency or instrumentality thereof to finance its operations by means of grants, loans or otherwise. See Michigan Laws 287.381
  • Research fund: means the industrial hemp research and development fund created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Restricted noxious weed seed: means the seeds of the plants that are objectionable in the fields, lawns, and gardens of this state but can be controlled by ordinary good cultural practices, and that are listed in the rules promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Riding stable: means any establishment in which, for business purposes, 6 or more horses or ponies are rented, hired, or loaned for riding. See Michigan Laws 287.111
  • Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). Source: OCC
  • Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • sale: means the exchange of ownership. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Sales barn: means any establishment where horses or ponies owned by others are sold or offered for sale. See Michigan Laws 287.111
  • 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
  • Seed lot: means all the seed potatoes of the same variety that are of a single class and specific seed source and are harvested from a field or stored together in a specific storage facility. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Seed potato: means the tuber that is used for the reproduction of the potato. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Seizure: means a legal process carried out by a court order against a definite amount of seed. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Seizure order: means a seizure order issued by the director pursuant to section 15. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • Seller: means a person selling anhydrous ammonia at wholesale or retail to an end user for a legal purpose. See Michigan Laws 286.773
  • Serious injury: means permanent, serious disfigurement, serious impairment of health, or serious impairment of a bodily function of a person. See Michigan Laws 287.321
  • 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.
  • Sewage sludge: means solid, semisolid, liquid, or ash residue generated during treatment of domestic or industrial sewage in a treatment works. See Michigan Laws 286.909
  • 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
  • Slaughterer: means any person regularly engaged in the commercial slaughtering of livestock. See Michigan Laws 287.551
  • 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 national harmonization program: means the state national harmonization program for seed potatoes developed by the plant protection and quarantine program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in the United States Department of Agriculture. See Michigan Laws 286.682
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Stockyard: means any place, establishment or facility commonly known as a stockyard, conducted or operated for compensation or profit as a public market, consisting of pens or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, for the handling, keeping and holding of livestock for the purpose of sale or shipment. See Michigan Laws 287.551
  • Stop sale: means an administrative order restraining the sale, disposition, and movement of a definite amount of seed. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Synthetic: means a substance that is formulated or manufactured by a chemical process or by a process that chemically changes a substance extracted from naturally occurring plant, animal, or mineral sources except those substances created by naturally occurring biological processes. See Michigan Laws 286.909
  • Telecommunication facilities: means either or both of the following:
  •   (i) Telecommunication facilities as defined in section 2 of the metropolitan extension telecommunications rights-of-way oversight act, 2002 PA 48, MCL 484. See Michigan Laws 286.942
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Testing facility: means a safety compliance facility licensed under the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, 2016 PA 281, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • THC: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Tolerance: means the allowable deviation from any percentage claim used on a label and is based on the law of normal variation from a mean. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Ton: means a net weight of 2,000 pounds avoirdupois. See Michigan Laws 287.523
  • 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.
  • Treated: means that the seed has received an effective application of substance or method designed to reduce, control, or repel certain disease organisms, fungi, insects, or other pests attacking the seed or seedlings or has received some other treatment to improve its planting value. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • turtle: includes all animals commonly known as turtles, tortoises, terrapins, and all other animals of the order testudinata, class reptilia. See Michigan Laws 287.311
  • Type: means a group of varieties so nearly similar that individual varieties cannot be clearly differentiated except under special conditions. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • 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
  • Unincorporated cooperative: means either of the following:
  •   (i) An association of 2 or more persons that is organized on a cooperative basis and that is not a corporation. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. Source: OCC
  • Variety: means a subdivision of a kind that is distinct, uniform, and stable; distinct in the sense that the variety can be differentiated by 1 or more identifiable morphological, physiological, or other characteristics from all other varieties of public knowledge; uniform in the sense that variations in essential and distinctive characteristics are describable, and stable in the sense that the variety will remain unchanged in its essential and distinctive characteristics and its uniformity when reproduced or reconstituted as required by the different categories of varieties; for example, heritage oats, augusta wheat, corsoy soybeans. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Variety: means a subdivision of a species that has the following characteristics:
  •   (i) The subdivision is uniform, in the sense that variations between the subdivision and other subdivisions in essential and distinctive characteristics are describable. See Michigan Laws 286.842
  • Vegetable seed: means the seed of those crops that are grown in gardens or on truck farms and that generally are known and sold under the name of vegetable or herb seed in this state. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Vendor: means a person engaged in the selling of seed. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Veterinarian: means a person licensed to practice veterinary medicine under part 188 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 287.331
  • Waters of the state: means groundwaters, lakes, rivers, and streams and all other watercourses and waters within the jurisdiction of the state and also the Great Lakes bordering the state. See Michigan Laws 286.872
  • Weed seed: means the seeds of all plants generally recognized as weeds within the state, as determined by methods defined by rule promulgated under this act, and includes prohibited and restricted noxious weed seeds. See Michigan Laws 286.702
  • Weighmaster: means a person registered under this act that weighs livestock at a livestock auction licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 287.121