§ 28.411 Stolen and recovered personal property; report to state police, form
§ 28.412 Stolen and recovered personal property; records and files maintained
§ 28.413 Motor vehicles excepted from act

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 28 > Act 294 of 1945 - Report of Stolen and Recovered Property

  • abandoned sign: means a sign or sign structure subject to this act, the owner of which has failed to secure a permit, has failed to identify the sign or sign structure, or has failed to respond to notice. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Adjacent area: means the area measured from the nearest edge of the right-of-way of an interstate highway, freeway, or primary highway and, in urbanized areas, extending 3,000 feet perpendicularly and then along a line parallel to the right-of-way line or, outside of urbanized areas, extending perpendicularly to the limit where a sign is visible and then along a line parallel to the right-of-way line. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Annual permit: means a permit for a billboard under this act. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • 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.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • 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.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Automobile graveyard: means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts. See Michigan Laws 252.201
  • Billboard: means a sign separate from a premises erected for the purpose of advertising a product, event, person, or subject not related to the premises on which the sign is located. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Business area: means an adjacent area that is zoned by a state, county, township, or municipal zoning authority for industrial or commercial purposes, customarily referred to as "b" or business, "c" or commercial, "i" or industrial, "m" or manufacturing, and "s" or service, and all other similar classifications and that is within a city, village, or charter township or is within 1 mile of the corporate limits of a city, village, or charter township or is beyond 1 mile of the corporate limits of a city, village, or charter township and contains 1 or more permanent structures devoted to the industrial or commercial purposes described in this subdivision and that extends along the highway a distance of 800 feet beyond each edge of the activity. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Carrier: means a self-insurer or an insurer. See Michigan Laws 418.601
  • Clean corporate citizen: means a facility that has demonstrated environmental stewardship and a strong environmental ethic by meeting the criteria in this part. See Michigan Laws 324.1401
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.1401
  • Department: means the state transportation department. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Destroyed sign: means a nonconforming sign that has been damaged by storm, fire, or other casualty that requires customary maintenance and repair in excess of 60% of the replacement cost of a new sign structure constructed of equivalent materials and equipment. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Digital billboard: means a sign or sign structure that utilizes an electronic means to display a series of messages that are changed by electronic means. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Digital billboard permit: means a permit for a digital billboard that is renewable on an annual basis. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Directional sign: means a sign that contains only directional information regarding and the identification of 1 of the following:
  (i) A public or private activity or attraction that is owned or operated by the federal or a state or local government or an agency of the federal or a state or local government. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • director: means the director of the bureau or his or her duly authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 418.201
  • Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 324.1401
  • Disability: means a limitation of an employee's wage earning capacity in work suitable to his or her qualifications and training resulting from a personal injury or work-related disease. See Michigan Laws 418.301
  • Embedded electronic message device: means an accessory that is made part of a sign, sign face, or sign structure with a total area that is less than that of the sign face to which it is attached, and displays only static messages containing text or numbers that are directly associated with the current advertiser. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • employee: means :
  •   (a) A person in the service of the state, a county, city, township, village, or school district, under any appointment, or contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written. See Michigan Laws 418.161
  • Environmental management system: means the part of an overall management system that addresses environmental concerns through allocating resources, assigning responsibilities, and evaluating practices, procedures, and processes to achieve sound environmental performance. See Michigan Laws 324.1401
  • Erect: means to construct, build, raise, assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw, or in any other way bring into being or establish. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Existing vegetation: means trees, bushes, and ground cover that the department intends to maintain and that are at least the same size as similar vegetation that the department would customarily install and maintain or allow to be installed and maintained as part of a roadside management plan, roadside management project, or landscaping project. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Facility: means any of the following that is situated in this state and is subject to an applicable state environmental requirement or applicable federal environmental requirement:
  •   (i) A source as defined in section 5501. See Michigan Laws 324.1401
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • 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.
  • Freeway: means a divided highway of not less than 2 lanes in each direction to which owners or occupants of abutting property or the public do not have a right of ingress or egress to, from, or across the highway, except at points determined by or as otherwise provided by the authorities responsible for the freeway. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • 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
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Index: means the Detroit consumer price index for all urban consumers published by the United States bureau of labor statistics or, if that index ceases to be published by the United States bureau of labor statistics, the published index that most closely measures inflation, as determined by the department. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Insurer: means an organization that transacts the business of worker's compensation insurance within this state. See Michigan Laws 418.601
  • Interim permit: means a permit that can be utilized by the applicant to construct a sign structure that is visible from a freeway, interstate, or primary highway. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Interstate highway: means a highway officially designated as a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways by the department and approved by the federal government under 23 USC 103. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Junk: means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts of automobiles, iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material. See Michigan Laws 252.201
  • Junkyard: means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, including garbage dumps and sanitary fills. See Michigan Laws 252.201
  • 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.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Location: means a place where a sign structure subject to this act is located. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Main-traveled way: means the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Maintain: means to allow to exist and includes the periodic changing of advertising messages, and customary maintenance and repair of signs and sign structures. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Nationally known: means an activity or attraction that is all of the following:
  •   (i) An active part of a national advertising promotion. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Nonconforming sign: means a sign or sign structure, other than a nonstandard sign or a sign that is erected and maintained in a business area along a scenic byway prior to the designation as a scenic byway, that satisfies 1 of the following:
  •   (i) Was legally erected before March 31, 1972 but could not be legally erected under the current provisions of this act. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Nonstandard sign: means a sign or sign structure other than a nonconforming sign, that is subject to this act, was legally erected before March 23, 1999, is not a nonconforming sign, and does not comply with the spacing requirements in section 17(1), but otherwise complies with this act. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • 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.
  • On-premises sign: means a sign advertising activities conducted or maintained on the property on which it is located. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Operate: means to be in control of a vessel while the vessel is under way and is not secured in some manner such as being docked or at anchor. See Michigan Laws 324.80103
  • Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, private association, or corporation, state, county, city, village, township, charter township, or other public or municipal association or corporation. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Pollution prevention: means eliminating or minimizing the initial generation of waste at the source, reuse of waste, or utilizing environmentally sound on-site or off-site recycling. See Michigan Laws 324.1403
  • Primary highway: means a state trunk line highway as designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the state highway department, and approved by the United States secretary of transportation, pursuant to the provisions of title 23 of the United States code. See Michigan Laws 252.201
  • Primary highway: means a highway other than an interstate highway or freeway that is a regulated route. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Regionally known: means an activity or attraction that is all of the following:
  •   (i) Known throughout this state or the peninsula of this state in which the activity or attraction is located and in 1 or more states adjoining this state. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Regulated route: means an interstate highway, freeway, or primary highway required to be regulated under 23 USC 131 and any other route that is required to be regulated or may become required to be regulated by the department under this act or another state or federal statute or legal requirement. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Scenic byway: means a regulated route that is required to be regulated as a scenic byway under 23 USC 131. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Secondary highway: means a state secondary road or county primary road. See Michigan Laws 252.201
  • Self-insurer: means either of the following:
  •   (i) An individual employer authorized to carry its own risk. See Michigan Laws 418.601
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
  • Sign: means any outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or other thing, whether placed individually or on a T-type, V-type, back to back, or double-faced display, that is designed, intended, or used to advertise or inform. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Sign structure: means the assembled components that make up an outdoor advertising display, including, but not limited to, uprights, supports, facings, and trim. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Tobacco product: means any tobacco product sold to the general public and includes, but is not limited to, cigarettes, tobacco snuff, and chewing tobacco. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • 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.
  • Trivision sign: means a sign or sign structure that uses mechanical means to display more than 1 message in sequence. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Unzoned commercial or industrial area: means an area that is within an adjacent area, that is not zoned by state or local law, regulation, or ordinance, that contains 1 or more permanent structures devoted to the industrial or commercial purposes described in subdivision (e), and that extends along the highway a distance of 800 feet beyond each edge of the activity. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • Vessel: means every description of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Michigan Laws 324.80104
  • Visible: means a sign that has a message that is capable of being seen by an individual of normal visual acuity when traveling in a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 252.302
  • wage earning capacity: means the wages the employee earns or is capable of earning at a job reasonably available to that employee, whether or not wages are actually earned. See Michigan Laws 418.301
  • Waters of this state: means any waters within the territorial limits of this state, and includes those waters of the Great Lakes that are under the jurisdiction of this state. See Michigan Laws 324.80104