Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 286 > Act 547 of 2014 - Industrial Hemp Research and Development Act

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• annual meeting: when applied to townships, mean the annual meeting required by law to be held on the Saturday immediately preceding the first Monday in April. See Michigan Laws 8.3d
• 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.
• 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.
• Broker: means to engage or participate in the marketing of industrial hemp by acting as an intermediary or negotiator between prospective buyers and sellers. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Cannabis: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Director: means the director of the department, or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• 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.
• 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}
• GPS coordinates: means latitude and longitude coordinates derived from a global positioning system. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Grow: means to plant, propagate, grow, cultivate, or harvest live plants or viable seeds. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Grower: means a person registered by the department under this act to grow industrial hemp. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Handle: means to possess, store, or transport industrial hemp on premises owned, operated, or controlled by a registered grower or licensed processor-handler. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• 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
• Industrial hemp: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• 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.
• Licensing and registration fund: means the industrial hemp licensing and registration fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Market: means to promote or sell industrial hemp or an industrial hemp commodity or product. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• 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: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Plot: means a contiguous area in a field, greenhouse, or indoor growing structure containing the same variety of industrial hemp throughout the area. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Process: means to convert raw industrial hemp into a marketable form. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Processor-handler: means a person licensed by the department under this act to process, handle, broker, or market industrial hemp. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Program: means the industrial hemp licensing and registration program established by this act. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Research fund: means the industrial hemp research and development fund created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Testing facility: means a safety compliance facility licensed under the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, 2016 PA 281, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• THC: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 286.842
• Variety: means a subdivision of a species that has the following characteristics: