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- 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. 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 Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law. Decedent: means a deceased individual whose body or body part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Decedent: A deceased person. Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. 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. Economic development fund: means that fund to which the fund succeeded in ownership pursuant to section 22. See Michigan Laws 125.2071 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. Green chemistry: means chemistry and chemical engineering to design chemical products or processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances, while producing high-quality products through safe and efficient manufacturing processes. See Michigan Laws 125.2004 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 Judge: means a judge of the district court, the circuit court, or the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, who has converted a portion of his or her state salary standardization payment as an addition to his or her state base salary under section 14a or 14c of Act No. See Michigan Laws 38.841 Know: means to have actual knowledge. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Minor: means an individual who is under 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. 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 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 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 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Physician: means an individual authorized to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery under the law of any state. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents. Probate: Proving a will Procurement organization: means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Prospective donor: means an individual who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a body part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Reasonably available: means able to be contacted by a procurement organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an anatomical gift. 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 Research and development enterprise: means any person found by the fund to be engaged in a business which uses green chemistry as a design guidance, or the discovery of new substances and the refinement of known substances, processes, products, theories, and ideas, except for those persons whose businesses are directed primarily to the accumulation or analysis of commercial, financial, or mercantile data. See Michigan Laws 125.2071 Research center fund: means that fund created by section 27 of former 1982 PA 70, to which the fund succeeds in ownership pursuant to section 76. See Michigan Laws 125.2071 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 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 Technician: means an individual determined to be qualified to remove or process body parts by an appropriate organization that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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