Michigan Laws 780.907 – Disbursements for crime victim’s rights services; priority; financial incentive programs; administrative costs
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(1) The department shall direct and authorize the state treasurer in writing to disburse money from the fund to pay for crime victim’s rights services as required under this act. The department may direct and authorize the state treasurer in writing to disburse money from the fund to pay for crime victims’ compensation as provided in section 4(2).
(2) The department shall make the implementation of crime victim’s rights a priority, and may develop financial incentive programs to enhance the delivery of crime victim’s rights services under this act.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 780.907
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 780.901
- Fund: means the crime victim's rights fund created under section 4. See Michigan Laws 780.901
- 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
- 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
(3) The department shall make disbursements under this act to the treasurer of a unit of government, and the treasurer shall transmit that money to courts, departments, and local agencies within that unit of government as the department directs. The department may withhold a distribution to a unit of government until the treasurer of that unit of government has distributed all previous disbursements made by the department to courts, departments, and local agencies within that unit of government.
(4) The department shall receive disbursements for its administrative costs as authorized by appropriation.