Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 290 > Act 44 of 1984 - Motor Fuels Quality Act

• access line: means the medium over which a telecommunication user connects into the local exchange. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• Access service: means access to a local exchange network for the purpose of enabling a provider to originate or terminate telecommunication services within the local exchange. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• Additive: means any substance in gasoline other than gasoline but does not include approved blending components, other than lead, sodium, and phosphate components, introduced at refineries or terminals as octane or product quality enhancers in quantities of less than 1% of volume. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• AKI: means an index number arrived at by adding the motor octane number and the research octane number, then dividing by 2. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• American society for testing and materials: means an international nonprofit scientific and educational society devoted to the promotion of knowledge of the materials of engineering and the standardization of specification and methods of testing. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Biodiesel: means a fuel composed of mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats, and, in accordance with standards specified by the American society for testing and materials, designated B100, and meeting the requirements of D-6751, as approved by the department. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Biodiesel blend: means a fuel comprised of a blend of biodiesel fuel with petroleum-based diesel fuel, suitable for use as a fuel in a compression-ignition internal combustion diesel engine. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Blender: means a person who as an individual or through his or her agent adds an oxygenate to a gasoline. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Bulk purchaser-end user: means a person who is an ultimate consumer of gasoline and receives delivery of gasoline into a storage tank of at least 550-gallon capacity substantially under his or her control. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• case: means a proceeding as defined in section 3 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Committee: means the emergency 9-1-1 service committee created under section 712. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• 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.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Delivery vessel: means a tank truck, tank equipped trailer, or a similar vessel used for the delivery of gasoline to a dispensing facility. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Department: means the department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Diesel fuel: means any liquid other than gasoline that is suitable for use as a fuel or a component of a fuel in a compression-ignition internal combustion diesel engine. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Director: means the director of the department of agriculture or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dispensing facility: means a site used for gasoline refueling. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Dispensing unit: means a device designed for the delivery of gasoline in which 1 nozzle equates to 1 dispensing unit. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Distributor: means a person who purchases, transports, or stores or causes the transportation or storage of gasoline at any point between a gasoline refinery and a retail outlet or bulk purchaser-end user facility. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Educational institution: means a public educational institution or a private non-profit educational institution approved by the department of education to provide a program of primary, secondary, or higher education, a public library, or a nonprofit association or consortium whose primary purpose is education. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• End user: means the retail subscriber of a telecommunication service. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• Energy management services: means a service of a public utility providing electric power, heat, or light for energy use management, energy use control, energy use information, and energy use communication. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• enhanced services: means the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information, including energy management services, that is conveyed by telecommunications. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• 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.
• Exchange: means 1 or more contiguous central offices and all associated facilities within a geographical area in which basic local exchange service is offered by a provider. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• 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}
• Gasoline: means a volatile mixture of liquid hydrocarbons generally containing small amounts of additives suitable for use in spark-ignition internal combustion engines, and commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Hydrogen fuel: means a substance containing the chemical formula H2 that exists as a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas except at low cryogenic temperatures or when highly compressed that is gaseous or liquefied and suitable for use in a fuel cell or hydrogen fuel vehicle. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• 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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interconnection: means the technical arrangements and other elements necessary to permit the connection between the switched networks of 2 or more providers to enable a telecommunication service originating on the network of 1 provider to terminate on the network of another provider. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• 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.
• License: means a license issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local calling area: means a geographic area encompassing 1 or more local communities as described in maps, tariffs, or rate schedules filed with and approved by the commission. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• local exchange service: means the provision of an access line and usage within a local calling area for the transmission of high-quality 2-way interactive switched voice or data communication. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• Loop: means the transmission facility between the network interface on a subscriber's premises and the main distribution frame in the servicing central office. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Modification: means any change, removal, or addition, other than an identical replacement, of any component contained within a stage I vapor-recovery system. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• MON: means a knock characteristic of gasoline determined by use of standard procedures on a motor engine. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• 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
• Operator: means a person who owns, leases, operates, manages, supervises, or controls, directly or indirectly, a gasoline-dispensing facility. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Operator service: means a telecommunication service that includes automatic or live assistance to a person to arrange for completion and billing of a telephone call originating within this state that is specified by the caller through a method other than 1 of the following: