Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 124 > Act 258 of 2011 - Municipal Partnership Act

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Aggrieved party: means a party entitled to resort to a remedy. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• annual meeting: when applied to townships, mean the annual meeting required by law to be held on the Saturday immediately preceding the first Monday in April. See Michigan Laws 8.3d
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Authority: means an authority formed by contract pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 124.112
• Bill of lading: means a document of title evidencing the receipt of goods for shipment issued by a person engaged in the business of directly or indirectly transporting or forwarding goods. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• Creditor: includes a general creditor, a secured creditor, a lien creditor, and any representative of creditors, including an assignee for the benefit of creditors, a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver in equity, and an executor or administrator of an insolvent debtor's or assignor's estate. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• Good faith: except as otherwise provided in article 5, means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• Governing body: means the board, council, commission, or body in which the policy-making powers of the local government are vested. See Michigan Laws 124.112
• Local government: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 124.112
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Probate: Proving a will
• Public agency: means a single- or multi-purpose public body corporate formed pursuant to a law other than this act or an Indian tribe recognized by the federal government before the year 2000 that exercises governmental authority over land within this state. See Michigan Laws 124.112
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• Right: includes remedy. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• Security interest: means an interest in personal property or fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• Term: means a portion of an agreement that relates to a particular matter. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
• third party: means a person that has engaged in a transaction or made an agreement subject to this act. See Michigan Laws 440.1201