§ 206.981 Short title
§ 206.982 Definitions
§ 206.983 Michigan ABLE savings program; establishment; program manager; purposes, powers, and duties of state treasurer or designee; selection of program managers; proposals; factors; duties of treasurer and p
§ 206.984 Management contract; supervision
§ 206.985 Management contract; term of years; termination
§ 206.986 Contracts as necessary and proper
§ 206.987 ABLE savings accounts; establishment; opening of account by individual or designated representative; agreement; form; contents; contributions; exemption from creditor process; distributions; separate
§ 206.988 Changes in account owners or designated beneficiaries; transfers
§ 206.989 Directing investment of contributions in violation of internal revenue code; prohibition; administrative services; use of interest as loan security
§ 206.990 Maximum account balance limit
§ 206.991 Submission of certain information to internal revenue service, department, and account owner
§ 206.992 Disclosure of information to account owner and other person requesting information
§ 206.993 Construction and interpretation of act and agreement
§ 206.994 State obligation
§ 206.995 Annual report
§ 206.996 Tax exemption
§ 206.997 Consideration of financial circumstances for purpose of assistance program; effect of ABLE savings account

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 206 > Act 160 of 2015 - Michigan Achieving a Better Life Experience (Able) Program Act

  • ABLE: means achieving a better life experience. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • account: means an account established under this act. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Account owner: means an individual who is a resident of this state, or a resident of a contracting state, and who enters into a Michigan ABLE savings program agreement and establishes an ABLE savings account. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • 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.
  • Barber: means a person who shaves or trims the beard of a person; cuts, trims, shampoos, relaxes, curls, permanently waves, dresses, tints, bleaches, colors, arranges, or styles the hair of a person; massages the face and head of a person; or renders personal services of a similar nature customarily done by a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Barber college: means an establishment which renders for compensation the services of a barber, but having for its primary purpose the teaching for compensation of the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Barbershop: means a place, establishment, or premises or part of a premises where a person performs as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • 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
  • Braiding: means providing or offering to the general public for compensation any of the following services solely for development or improvement of physical qualities of the natural hair structure:
  (i) Intertwining in a systematic motion to create patterns in a 3-dimensional form. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Client: means a person that contracts with, or otherwise enters into an agreement with, an appraisal management company for the performance of real estate appraisal services. See Michigan Laws 339.2661
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contracting state: means a state without a qualified ABLE program that has entered into a contract with this state to provide its residents access to the Michigan ABLE program. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Cosmetologist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology: means performing 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology establishment: means a place of business at which 1 or more cosmetology services are offered or provided. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology services: means any of the following:
  •   (i) Hair care services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology suite: means a room or suite located inside a licensed cosmetology establishment that is leased or rented from the owner of the cosmetology establishment for the purposes of offering or providing 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Demonstration: means a show, seminar, or contest in which barber services are rendered for the purpose of educating barbers. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Demonstrator: means a person who performs a service of a barber at a demonstration. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Designated beneficiary: means an eligible individual designated as the individual whose qualified disability expenses are expected to be paid from the account. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Designated representative: means an individual who is authorized to act on behalf of the designated beneficiary if the designated beneficiary is a minor or has a guardian, conservator, or other fiduciary who has been appointed for purposes of managing that designated beneficiary's financial affairs. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Electrologist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform electrology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Electrology: means the permanent removal of hair from the body of an individual by the use of electricity. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Eligible individual: means that term as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Esthetician: means an individual who performs or offers to perform skin care services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Hair care services: means arranging, cutting, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, coloring, tinting, trimming, styling, relaxing, perming, straightening, or similar work upon the hair of the head or a wig that an individual is wearing. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • 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
  • Instructor: means a person who instructs another in the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Internal revenue code: means the United States internal revenue code of 1986 in effect on January 1, 2015 or at the option of the taxpayer, in effect for the current year. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • 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.
  • Management contract: means the contract executed between the treasurer and a program manager. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Manicuring services: means the cleansing, filing, shaping, buffing, polishing, or beautifying of the nails of the hands or feet, and the cleansing, massaging, stimulating, exercising, or beautifying of the skin of the hands, arms, and feet, manually or with the use of tools, appliances, or cosmetic preparations, including the repair of nails, or the creation or decoration of artificial nails. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Manicurist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform manicuring services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Member of the family: means a family member as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Michigan ABLE savings program agreement: means the agreement between the program and an account owner that establishes an ABLE savings account. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Mobile salon: means either of the following:
  •   (i) A self-contained vehicle or other device that is moved, towed, or transported from 1 location to another and in which equipment used to perform 1 or more cosmetology services is installed. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Natural hair cultivation: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking, or braiding of the hair by hand, if that work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals, or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl, or alter the structure of the hair. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Natural hair culturist: means an individual who is engaged in natural hair cultivation but does not include an individual who is engaged in natural hair cultivation if that activity is performed as part of the practice of a recognized religion. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • 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.
  • Owner: means a person who owns and conducts a cosmetology establishment or a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • plan: means a plan that provides different investment strategies and allows account distributions for qualified disability expenses. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • premises: means 1 of the following, as applicable:
  •   (i) For a mobile salon described in subdivision (o)(i), the vehicle or other device and the equipment installed in the vehicle or device. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Program: means the Michigan ABLE savings program established pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Program manager: means 1 or more entities selected by the treasurer to act as a manager of the program. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Qualified disability expenses: means that term as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Qualified withdrawal: means a distribution that is not subject to a penalty or an excise tax under section 529A of the internal revenue code or taxation under the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • School of cosmetology: means a school that teaches 1 or more cosmetology services at a premises designated in the license application. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Skin care services: includes the following services or combination of services:
  •   (i) Beautifying the skin of the body of an individual by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams, including body wrapping. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • 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
  • Student: means a person learning the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Student: means an individual who is engaged in learning cosmetology or 1 or more cosmetology services in a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Student instructor: means a person learning the theory and practice of teaching barbering. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Treasurer: means the state treasurer. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • 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