§ 125.4802 Definitions; A to M
§ 125.4803 Definitions; O to T
§ 125.4804 Multiple authorities; establishment; authority as public body corporate
§ 125.4805 Operation of authority; resolution of intent; public hearing; notice; adoption of ordinance establishing authority; filing; alteration or amendment of boundaries; exclusions; duration
§ 125.4806 Annexation or consolidation with another municipality
§ 125.4807 Board; chief executive officer; membership; appointment; terms; vacancy; oath; open meetings; removal of member; financial records; writings subject to freedom of information act
§ 125.4808 Director; compensation; service; eligibility; oath; posting of bond; director as chief executive officer; duties of director; acting director; treasurer; secretary; retention of legal counsel; other p
§ 125.4809 Municipal retirement and insurance programs; participation
§ 125.4810 Powers of board
§ 125.4811 Financing sources; disposition of money received
§ 125.4812 Borrowing money and issuing negotiable revenue bonds
§ 125.4813 Acquisition or construction of property; borrowing money and issuing revenue bonds; other financing; securing bonds and notes; pledge; exemption from taxation; exceptions; liability; investments
§ 125.4814 Tax increment financing plan; preparation and submission; contents; hearing and approval procedure; agreement with taxing jurisdiction; modification; exemption from tax; separate millage for public li
§ 125.4815 Tax increment revenues; transmission to authority; expenditures
§ 125.4816 Authorization, issuance, and sale of tax increment bonds; limitations; pledge; resolution to create lien on revenues; limited tax pledge
§ 125.4817 Development plan; contents
§ 125.4818 Development plan; public hearing; notice; opportunity to speak and provide written comment
§ 125.4819 Development plan or tax increment financing plan as public purpose; consideration for approval, rejection, or modification
§ 125.4820 Budget; submission; approval; cost of handling and auditing funds
§ 125.4821 Dissolution of authority; property and assets

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 125 > Act 57 of 2018 > Part 8 - Neighborhood Improvement Authorities

  • Advance: means a transfer of funds made by a municipality to an authority or to another person on behalf of the authority in anticipation of repayment by the authority. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Alternate payee: means a spouse of a participant under a judgment of separate maintenance, or a former spouse, child, or dependent of a participant, who is named in an eligible domestic relations order. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Assessed value: means the taxable value as determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Authority: means a neighborhood improvement authority created under this part. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • 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
  • Benefit: means an annuity, a pension, a retirement allowance, or an optional benefit accrued or accruing to a participant under a retirement system or a postretirement subsidy payable to a participant under a retirement system. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • Board: means the governing body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Board: as used in this part means each board created in this article and as used in any other part covering a specific health profession means the board created in that part. See Michigan Laws 333.16103
  • Captured assessed value: means the amount in any 1 year by which the current assessed value of the development area, including the assessed value of property for which specific local taxes are paid in lieu of property taxes as determined in section 803(d), exceeds the initial assessed value. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Chief executive officer: means the mayor or city manager of a city or the president or village manager of a village. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • 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 333.16103
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Conviction: means a judgment entered by a court on a plea of guilty, guilty but mentally ill, or nolo contendere or on a jury verdict or court finding that a defendant is guilty or guilty but mentally ill. See Michigan Laws 333.16103
  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Department: means the department of technology, management, and budget. See Michigan Laws 38.1682
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Development area: means that area described in section 805 to which a development plan is applicable. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Development plan: means that information and those requirements for a development area set forth in section 819. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Development program: means the implementation of the development plan. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Domestic relations order: means a judgment, decree, or order of a court made according to the domestic relations law of this state and relating to the provision of alimony payments, child support, or marital property rights to a spouse of a participant under a judgment of separate maintenance, or to a former spouse, child, or dependent of a participant. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • Earliest retirement date: means the earliest date on which a participant meets all of the requirements for retirement under a retirement system except for termination of employment. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • EDRO: means a domestic relations order that is considered an eligible domestic relations order under section 11 or that meets all of the following requirements:
  (i) The domestic relations order states the names and last known addresses of the participant and alternate payee. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • Employer contributions: means the amount transferred by an employer to a participating unit retirement system on behalf of members of the retirement system to pay for the actuarial accrued liabilities of the retirement system. See Michigan Laws 38.1682
  • 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.
  • Filed with the retirement system: means that the retirement system has determined that the domestic relations order submitted for filing is acceptable as an EDRO. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • Fiscal year: means the fiscal year of the authority. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • 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.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • governing body of a municipality: means the elected body of a municipality having legislative powers. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Housing: means publicly owned housing, individual or multifamily. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • 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
  • Initial assessed value: means the assessed value of all the taxable property within the boundaries of the development area at the time the ordinance establishing the tax increment financing plan is approved, as shown by the most recent assessment roll of the municipality at the time the resolution is adopted. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • 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.
  • Land use plan: means a plan prepared under former 1921 PA 207 or a site plan under the Michigan zoning enabling act, 2006 PA 110, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • License: except as otherwise provided in this subsection and section 17708(2), means an authorization issued under this article to practice where practice would otherwise be unlawful. See Michigan Laws 333.16106
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Limitation: means an action by which a board imposes restrictions or conditions, or both, on a license. See Michigan Laws 333.16106
  • Member: means a member, vested former member, deferred member, beneficiary, designated beneficiary, or refund beneficiary of a retirement system. See Michigan Laws 38.1682
  • month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipality: means a city or a village. See Michigan Laws 125.4802
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • oath: shall be construed to include the word "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in like cases the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed". See Michigan Laws 8.3k
  • Parcel: means an identifiable unit of land that is treated as separate for valuation or zoning purposes. See Michigan Laws 125.4803
  • Participant: means a member, deferred member, vested former member, deceased former member, or retirant under the retirement system. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • Participating unit: means a retirement system that elects to come under the provisions of section 6. See Michigan Laws 38.1682
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Postretirement subsidy: includes , but is not limited to, all of the following:
    •   (i) A supplemental annuity. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Public facility: means housing, a street, plaza, pedestrian mall, and any improvements to a street, plaza, or pedestrian mall including street furniture and beautification, park, parking facility, recreational facility, right-of-way, structure, waterway, bridge, lake, pond, canal, utility line or pipe, or building, including access routes designed and dedicated to use by the public generally, or used by a public agency. See Michigan Laws 125.4803
  • Reclassification: means an action by a disciplinary subcommittee by which restrictions or conditions, or both, applicable to a license are added or removed. See Michigan Laws 333.16108
  • Registration: means an authorization only for the use of a designated title which use would otherwise be prohibited under this article. See Michigan Laws 333.16108
  • Reinstatement: means the granting of a license or certificate of registration, with or without limitations or conditions, to an individual whose license or certificate of registration has been suspended or revoked. See Michigan Laws 333.16108
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Residential district: means an area of a municipality where 75% or more of the area is zoned for residential housing. See Michigan Laws 125.4803
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Retirant: means a person who has retired with a retirement benefit payable from a retirement system. See Michigan Laws 38.1682
  • Retirement benefit: means an annuity, a retirement allowance, an optional benefit, a postretirement benefit, a benefit received from a defined contribution plan, defined benefit plan, deferred compensation plan, disability plan, life insurance plan, all money, investments and income of the various funds created under a public employee retirement system, and any other right accruing to a member under a retirement system. See Michigan Laws 38.1682
  • Retirement system: means a public employee retirement system established by this state or a political subdivision of this state. See Michigan Laws 38.1682
  • Retirement system: means a public employee retirement system created and established by this state or any political subdivision of this state. See Michigan Laws 38.1702
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
    •   (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
  • Specific local tax: means a tax levied under 1974 PA 198, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 125.4803
  • 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
  • State unit: means a retirement system established under the state employees' retirement act, 1943 PA 204, MCL 38. See Michigan Laws 38.1682
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Tax increment revenues: means the amount of ad valorem property taxes and specific local taxes attributable to the application of the levy of all taxing jurisdictions upon the captured assessed value of real and personal property in the development area. See Michigan Laws 125.4803
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.