§ 257.790 Operation of bicycle or vehicle on streetcar track; removal, overtaking, and passing; requirements; violation as civil infraction
§ 257.791 Use of street railway system or streetcar; prohibitions; violation as civil infraction
§ 257.791a Occupancy and use of a street railway system station; violation as a civil infraction; “shared station” defined
§ 257.791b Smoking prohibited within or on streetcar or station; violation as civil infraction
§ 257.791c Animals, other than service or qualified animals prohibited on or in streetcar or station; violation as civil infraction; definitions
§ 257.791d Food and beverages prohibited on or within a streetcar or station; exceptions; violation as civil infraction
§ 257.791e Disposal of garbage prohibited on or in a streetcar or station; violation as a civil infraction
§ 257.791f Oversized baggage or commercial shopping cart prohibited on or within a streetcar or station
§ 257.791g Disruptive conduct prohibited; live music permit; violation as civil infraction
§ 257.792 Removal of bicycle, vehicle, cargo, or other personal property blocking, delaying, or interfering with movement of streetcar; liability; “gross negligence” defined; reimbursement by owner or carrier;
§ 257.793 Powers, immunities, and authority of law enforcement officers; sworn oath of office; monthly uniform crime reports

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 257 > Act 300 of 1949 > Chapter VIA - Streetcars

  • Adverse claim: means a claim that a claimant has a property interest in a financial asset and that it is a violation of the rights of the claimant for another person to hold, transfer, or deal with the financial asset. See Michigan Laws 440.8102
  • 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.
  • Bearer: means a person in control of a negotiable electronic document of title or a person in possession of an instrument, a negotiable tangible document of title, or a certificated security payable to bearer or indorsed in blank. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Certificated security: means a security that is represented by a certificate. See Michigan Laws 440.8102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Delivery: means either of the following:
  (i) With respect to an electronic document of title, a voluntary transfer of control. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Genuine: means free of forgery or counterfeiting. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Holder: means any of the following:
    •   (i) A person in possession of a negotiable instrument that is payable either to bearer or to an identified person that is the person in possession. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Indorsement: means a signature that alone or accompanied by other words is made on a security certificate in registered form or on a separate document for the purpose of assigning, transferring, or redeeming the security or granting a power to assign, transfer, or redeem the security. See Michigan Laws 440.8102
  • Instruction: means a notification communicated to the issuer of an uncertificated security which directs that the transfer of the security be registered or that the security be redeemed. See Michigan Laws 440.8102
  • 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.
  • Legislative body: means the city council, city commission, township board, or other legislative body of a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.942
  • Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.942
  • Neighborhood area: means a portion of a municipality that has been delimited as a neighborhood unit in a plan of neighborhoods adopted by the legislative body, which plan has the function of designating the service area of elementary schools, playgrounds, or other local improvements. See Michigan Laws 125.942
  • 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 any person or persons, natural or corporate, owning a legal or equitable title to the land. See Michigan Laws 125.942
  • 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
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Project: means all of the undertakings authorized in this act for the improvement of a neighborhood area. See Michigan Laws 125.942
  • Purchase: means taking by sale, lease, discount, negotiation, mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest, issue or reissue, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in property. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Purchaser: means a person that takes by purchase. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Right: includes remedy. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Securities intermediary: means either of the following:
    •   (i) A clearing corporation. See Michigan Laws 440.8102
  • Security: except as otherwise provided in section 8103, means an obligation of an issuer or a share, participation, or other interest in an issuer or in property or an enterprise of an issuer and is all of the following:
    •   (i) Represented by a security certificate in bearer or registered form, or the transfer of which may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer. See Michigan Laws 440.8102
  • Security certificate: means a certificate representing a security. See Michigan Laws 440.8102
  • 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uncertificated security: means a security that is not represented by a certificate. See Michigan Laws 440.8102
  • 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.