Terms Used In Michigan Laws 24.205

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Office: means , unless expressly stated otherwise, the office of performance and transformation. See Michigan Laws 24.205
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a paper or electronic medium. See Michigan Laws 24.205
  • 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
  As used in this act:
  (a) “License” includes the whole or part of an agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or similar form of permission required by law. License does not include a license required solely for revenue purposes or a license or registration issued under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923.
  (b) “Licensing” includes agency activity involving the grant, denial, renewal, suspension, revocation, annulment, withdrawal, recall, cancellation, or amendment of a license.
  (c) “Michigan register” means the publication described in section 8.
  (d) “Notice” means a written or electronic record that informs a person of past or future action of the person generating the record.
  (e) “Notice of objection” means the record adopted by the committee that indicates the committee’s formal objection to a proposed rule.
  (f) “Office” means, unless expressly stated otherwise, the office of performance and transformation.
  (g) “Office of regulatory reform”, “state office of administrative hearings and rules”, and “office of regulatory reinvention” mean the office.
  (h) “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. In a contested case regarding an application for a license, party includes the applicant for the license.
  (i) “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.
  (j) “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.
  (k) “Promulgation of a rule” means that step in the processing of a rule consisting of the filing of the rule with the secretary of state.
  (l) “Record” means information that is inscribed on a paper or electronic medium.