Terms Used In Michigan Laws 399.613

  • Lender: means a person whose name appears on the records of the museum as the person legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person the museum knows to be legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person who establishes his or her legal entitlement to that property. See Michigan Laws 399.602
  • Museum: means an institution generally known as a museum, archives, or library located in this state that is or does each of the following:
  (i) Established primarily for artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or preservation purposes. See Michigan Laws 399.602
  • Property: means an animate or inanimate object in a museum's possession or under a museum's care because of that object's artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or cultural value. See Michigan Laws 399.602
  •    Beginning January 1, 1993, a museum that in good faith relinquishes property in compliance with this act to a lender is immune from civil liability for that relinquishment.