Terms Used In Michigan Laws 257.942a

  • 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.
  • Parking area: means an area used by the public as a means of access to and egress from, and for the free parking of motor vehicles by patrons of a shopping center, business, factory, hospital, institution, or similar building or location. See Michigan Laws 257.941
  • Shopping center: means a minimum area of 3 acres of land on which there is located 1 or more stores or business establishments, and where there is provided a parking area. See Michigan Laws 257.941
   The governing body of a city or village, or the board of a township, shall provide, by local ordinance, for parking spaces specifically designated for persons with disabilities in numbers to conform with the requirements of section 2 of 1966 PA 1, MCL 125.1352, in each shopping center parking area within its jurisdiction. If on the effective date of this section a shopping center is in compliance with a local ordinance relating to the number of parking spaces that the shopping center is required to provide, the shopping center shall not be held in violation of that ordinance if the designation of parking space required by this section reduces the number of parking spaces below the minimum number required by the local ordinance.