§ 773.1 Inquest; procedures
§ 773.2 Inquest; jury; selection
§ 773.3 Inquest; oath or affirmation to be administered jurors; view of body by jurors not required
§ 773.4 Inquest; subpoenas for witnesses; enforcement; requiring attendance by physician or surgeon; employment of chemist; compensation; audit and allowance
§ 773.5 Inquest; oath or affirmation to be administered witnesses
§ 773.6 Inquest; recording testimony of witnesses; transcript
§ 773.7 Inquisition of jury; contents
§ 773.8 Inquisition of jury; form
§ 773.9 Returning inquisition, physical evidence, and transcript to circuit court or recorder’s court if jury finds murder, manslaughter, or assault committed
§ 773.11 Expenses and fees of inquest; payment
§ 773.15 Complaint concerning deceased person buried in judicial district; request of prosecuting attorney or medical examiner; examination of complainant who knows or has good reason to believe deceased perso
§ 773.16 Inquest by justice of the peace; body once buried; reinterment
§ 773.18 Property of value found on unknown decedent; deposit with county treasurer; ultimate disposition, time
§ 773.22 Violation of chapter; misdemeanor, penalty
§ 773.23 Effect on prior acts

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapters 760-777 > Act 175 of 1927 > Chapter XIII - Proceedings for the Discovery of Crime

  • 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.
  • Antenna: means communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals used in the provision of wireless services. See Michigan Laws 460.1303
  • Applicable codes: means uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical codes adopted under the Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act, 1972 PA 230, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 460.1303
  • Applicant: means a wireless provider that submits an application described in this act. See Michigan Laws 460.1303
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attaching entity: means a public or private party or entity, other than the municipally owned electric utility, that, pursuant to an agreement with the municipally owned electric utility, places a wire or cable attachment on a nonauthority pole or related infrastructure within the communication space. See Michigan Laws 460.1303
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Authority pole: means a utility pole owned or operated by an authority and located in the ROW. See Michigan Laws 460.1303
  • 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
  • Colocate: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace wireless facilities on or adjacent to a wireless support structure or utility pole. See Michigan Laws 460.1305
  • Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 460.1003
  • 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.
  • Communication space: means that term as defined in the "National Electric Safety Code" published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. See Michigan Laws 460.1305
  • Communications facility: means the set of equipment and network components, including wires, cables, antennas, and associated facilities, used by a communications service provider to provide communications service. See Michigan Laws 460.1305
  • Communications service: means service provided over a communications facility, including cable service as defined in 47 USC 522, information service as defined in 47 USC 153, telecommunications service as defined in 47 USC 153, or wireless service. See Michigan Laws 460.1305
  • Complaint: means a written accusation, under oath or upon affirmation, that a felony, misdemeanor, or ordinance violation has been committed and that the person named or described in the accusation is guilty of the offense. See Michigan Laws 761.1
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • County road commission: means that term as defined in section 19b of 1909 PA 283, MCL 224. See Michigan Laws 460.1305
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Distributed generation program: means the program established by the commission under section 173. See Michigan Laws 460.1003
  • electric utility: means any person or entity whose rates are regulated by the commission for the purpose of selling electricity to retail customers in this state. See Michigan Laws 460.1171
  • Eligible electric generator: means a methane digester or renewable energy system with a generation capacity limited to the customer's electric need and that does not exceed the following:
  (i) For a renewable energy system, 150 kilowatts of aggregate generation at a single site. See Michigan Laws 460.1005
  • Energy project: means the installation or modification of an energy waste reduction improvement or the acquisition, installation, or improvement of a renewable energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.1201
  • Energy waste reduction 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 460.1201
  • 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.
  • FCC: means the Federal Communications Commission. See Michigan Laws 460.1305
  • Fee: means a nonrecurring charge for services. See Michigan Laws 460.1305
  • Historic district: means a historic district established under section 3 of the local historic districts act, 1970 PA 169, MCL 399. See Michigan Laws 460.1305
  • Home energy audit: means an evaluation of the energy performance of a residential structure that meets all of the following requirements:
  •   (i) Is performed by a qualified person using building-performance diagnostic equipment. See Michigan Laws 460.1201
  • 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
  • Judicial district: means the following:
  •   (i) With regard to the circuit court, the county. See Michigan Laws 761.1
  • 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.
  • Law: means federal, state, or local law, including common law, a statute, a rule, a regulation, an order, or an ordinance. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Magistrate: means a judge of the district court or a judge of a municipal court. See Michigan Laws 761.1
  • Make-ready work: means work necessary to enable an authority pole or utility pole to support collocation, which may include modification or replacement of utility poles or modification of lines. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • Micro wireless facility: means a small cell wireless facility that is not more than 24 inches in length, 15 inches in width, and 12 inches in height and that does not have an exterior antenna more than 11 inches in length. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • Minor offense: means a misdemeanor or ordinance violation for which the maximum permissible imprisonment does not exceed 92 days and the maximum permissible fine does not exceed $1,000. See Michigan Laws 761.1
  • 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
  • Modified net metering: means a utility billing method that applies the power supply component of the full retail rate to the net of the bidirectional flow of kilowatt hours across the customer interconnection with the utility distribution system, during a billing period or time-of-use pricing period. See Michigan Laws 460.1007
  • MPSC: means the Michigan Public Service Commission created in section 1 of 1939 PA 3, MCL 460. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • Municipally owned electric utility: means a system owned by a municipality or combination of municipalities to furnish power or light and includes a cooperative electric utility that, on or after the effective date of this act, acquired all or substantially all of the assets of a municipal electric utility, when applying this act to the former territory of the municipal electric utility. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • Nonauthority pole: means a utility pole used for electric delivery service and controlled by the governing body of a municipally owned electric utility. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust, or other entity or organization, including an authority. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • plan: means a plan approved under section 22 or former section 21 or 23 or found to comply with this act under former section 25, with any amendments adopted under this act. See Michigan Laws 460.1011
  • program: means a program as described in section 203(2). See Michigan Laws 460.1201
  • Property: includes any matter or thing upon or in respect to which an offense may be committed. See Michigan Laws 761.1
  • Property: means privately owned residential real property. See Michigan Laws 460.1201
  • Prosecuting attorney: means the prosecuting attorney for a county, an assistant prosecuting attorney for a county, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, an assistant attorney general, a special prosecuting attorney, or, in connection with the prosecution of an ordinance violation, an attorney for the political subdivision or governmental entity that enacted the ordinance, charter, rule, or regulation upon which the ordinance violation is based. See Michigan Laws 761.1
  • Provider: means an electric provider or a natural gas provider. See Michigan Laws 460.1009
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Rate: means a recurring charge. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • 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 460.1201
  • 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.
  • Renewable energy: means electricity or steam generated using a renewable energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.1011
  • ROW: means the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, alley, bridge, sidewalk, or utility easement dedicated for compatible uses. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • Site: means a contiguous site, regardless of the number of meters at that site. See Michigan Laws 460.1013
  • Small cell wireless facility: means a wireless facility that meets both of the following requirements:
  •   (i) Each antenna is located inside an enclosure of not more than 6 cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements would fit within an imaginary enclosure of not more than 6 cubic feet. See Michigan Laws 460.1307
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • 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.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • True net metering: means a utility billing method that applies the full retail rate to the net of the bidirectional flow of kilowatt hours across the customer interconnection with the utility distribution system, during a billing period or time-of-use pricing period. See Michigan Laws 460.1013
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Utility pole: means a pole or similar structure that is or may be used in whole or in part for cable or wireline communications service, electric distribution, lighting, traffic control, signage, or a similar function, or a pole or similar structure that meets the height requirements in section 13(5) and is designed to support small cell wireless facilities. See Michigan Laws 460.1309
  • Wireless facility: means equipment at a fixed location that enables the provision of wireless services between user equipment and a communications network, including, but not limited to, radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration. See Michigan Laws 460.1309
  • Wireless infrastructure provider: means any person, including a person authorized to provide telecommunications services in this state but not including a wireless services provider, that builds or installs wireless communication transmission equipment, wireless facilities, or wireless support structures and who, when filing an application with an authority under this act, provides written authorization to perform the work on behalf of a wireless services provider. See Michigan Laws 460.1309
  • Wireless provider: means a wireless infrastructure provider or a wireless services provider. See Michigan Laws 460.1309
  • Wireless services: means any services, provided using licensed or unlicensed spectrum, including the use of Wi-Fi, whether at a fixed location or mobile. See Michigan Laws 460.1309
  • Wireless services provider: means a person that provides wireless services. See Michigan Laws 460.1309
  • Wireless support structure: means a freestanding structure designed to support or capable of supporting small cell wireless facilities. See Michigan Laws 460.1309
  • Wireline backhaul facility: means a facility used to transport services by wire or fiber-optic cable from a wireless facility to a network. See Michigan Laws 460.1309