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- abortion: means that term as defined in section 2803. See Michigan Laws 333.10102
- Adult: means an individual who is at least 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 333.10102
- Agent: means an individual who meets 1 or more of the following requirements:
(i) Is authorized to make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care. See Michigan Laws 333.10102Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it. Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year. 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 Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account. Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC Board: means the board of directors of the Michigan strategic fund, except where the context clearly requires a different definition. See Michigan Laws 125.2004 Body part: means an organ, eye, or tissue of a human being. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Committee: means the Michigan pharmacy and therapeutics committee established by Executive Order No. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time. Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Controlled substance: means that term as defined in section 7104. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name. Disinterested witness: means a witness who is not a spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent, or guardian of or other adult who exhibited special care and concern for the individual who makes, amends, revokes, or refuses to make an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Document of gift: means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Donor: means an individual whose body or body part is the subject of an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Donor: The person who makes a gift. Donor registry: means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts as provided for in section 10120. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Driver license: means an operator's or chauffeur's license or permit issued to an individual by the secretary of state under chapter III of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Drug: means that term as defined in section 17703. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Eye: means a human eye or any portion of a human eye. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Eye bank: means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006. Fund: means the Michigan strategic fund created under section 5, except where the context clearly requires a different definition. See Michigan Laws 125.2004 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Guardian: means a person appointed by a court to make decisions regarding the support, care, education, health, or welfare of an individual. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs. Hospital: means a facility licensed as a hospital under the law of any state or a facility operated as a hospital by the United States, a state, or a subdivision of a state. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Identification card: means an official state personal identification card issued by the secretary of state under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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 Initiative: means the pharmaceutical best practices initiative established by this part. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 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. Medicaid: means the program of medical assistance established under title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396 to 1396w-5. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 MESBIC: means a small business investment company licensed under section 301(d) of the small business investment act of 1958, 15 U. See Michigan Laws 125.2061 Minor: means an individual who is under 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Minority: means a person who is black, hispanic, oriental, eskimo, or an American Indian. See Michigan Laws 125.2061 Minority owned business: means a business which is at least 50% owned, controlled, and managed by minorities. See Michigan Laws 125.2061 Minority venture capital company: means a business which makes investments solely in minority owned businesses. See Michigan Laws 125.2061 Municipality: includes a county, township, charter township, city, or incorporated village. See Michigan Laws 38.557 Organ: means a human kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, or intestine or multivisceral organs when transplanted at the same time as an intestine. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Organ procurement organization: means a person certified or recertified by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as a qualified organ procurement organization under 42 USC 273(b). See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Parent: means a parent whose parental rights have not been terminated. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l Person: means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, profit or nonprofit corporation including a public or private college or university, public utility, municipality, local industrial development corporation, economic development corporation, other association of persons organized for agricultural, commercial, or industrial purposes, a lender, or any other entity approved by the board. See Michigan Laws 125.2004 Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Physician: means that term as defined in section 17001 and 17501. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 Physician: means an individual authorized to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery under the law of any state. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC Prescriber: means that term as defined in section 17708. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 Prescription: means that term as defined in section 17708. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 Prescription drug: means that term as defined in section 17708. See Michigan Laws 333.9701 Probate: Proving a will Procurement organization: means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Recipient: means an individual into whose body a decedent's body part has been or is intended to be transplanted. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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 333.10102 Refusal: means a record created under section 10107 that expressly refuses to make an anatomical gift of an individual's body or body part. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Sign: means that, with the present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, an individual does either of the following:
(i) Executes or adopts a tangible symbol. See Michigan Laws 333.10102State: 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 333.10102 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 Tissue: means a portion of the human body other than an organ or an eye. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Tissue bank: means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Transitional public employment program: means a public service employment program in the area of environmental quality, health care, education, public safety, crime prevention and control, prison rehabilitation, transportation, recreation, maintenance of parks, streets and other public facilities, solid waste removal, pollution control, housing and neighborhood improvements, rural development, conservation, beautification, veterans' outreach, or any other area of human betterment and community improvement as part of a program of comprehensive manpower services authorized, undertaken, and financed pursuant to the comprehensive employment and training act of 1973, 29 U. See Michigan Laws 38.557 United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o