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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 722.682a

  • Computer: means any connected, directly interoperable or interactive device, equipment, or facility that uses a computer program or other instructions to perform specific operations including logical, arithmetic, or memory functions with or on computer data or a computer program and that can store, retrieve, alter, or communicate the results of the operations to a person, computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network. See Michigan Laws 722.673
  • Computer network: means the interconnection of hardwire or wireless communication lines with a computer through remote terminals, or a complex consisting of 2 or more interconnected computers. See Michigan Laws 722.673
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Sexually explicit matter: means sexually explicit visual material, sexually explicit verbal material, or sexually explicit performance. See Michigan Laws 722.673
  This part does not apply to any of the following:
  (a) A medium of communication to the extent regulated by the federal communications commission.
  (b) An internet service provider or computer network service provider that is not selling the sexually explicit matter being communicated but that provides the medium for communication of the matter. As used in this section, “internet service provider” means a person who provides a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the internet or a computer network.
  (c) A person providing a subscription multichannel video service under terms of service that require the subscriber to meet both of the following conditions:
  (i) The subscriber is not less than 18 years of age at the time of the subscription.
  (ii) The subscriber proves that he or she is not less than 18 years of age through the use of a credit card, through the presentation of government-issued identification, or by other reasonable means of verifying the subscriber’s age.