Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 290 > Act 57 of 1925 - Standard Grades of Naval Stores

• Certificate of authority: means a certificate issued under this act to a motor carrier authorizing a transportation service. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• Destructively distilled wood turpentine: means wood turpentine obtained in the destructive distillation of the wood. See Michigan Laws 290.301
• Gum rosin: means rosin remaining after the distillation of gum spirits of turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301
• Gum spirits of turpentine: means spirits of turpentine made from gum (oleoresin) from a living tree. See Michigan Laws 290.301
• Household goods: means personal effects and property used or to be used in a dwelling when a part of the equipment or supply of that dwelling. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• 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.
• Local move: means a household goods shipment of 40 miles or less, from point of origin to point of destination, as determined by actual miles traveled by the motor carrier and verifiable by odometer reading or mileage guide in general public use. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• Motor carrier: means a motor carrier of general commodities or a motor carrier of household goods. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• Motor carrier of household goods: means a person that, either directly or through any device or arrangement, packs, loads, unloads, or transports household goods upon or over a public highway for the general public in exchange for payment. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• Naval stores: means spirits of turpentine and rosin. See Michigan Laws 290.301
• Person: means an individual, partnership, association, or corporation, and their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by a court. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• Predatory rate: means a rate that is either below its fully allocated costs or in excess of reasonable industry standards. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• public: means the part or portion of the general public that a motor carrier is ready, able, willing, and equipped to serve. See Michigan Laws 475.1
• Rosin: includes gum rosin and wood rosin. See Michigan Laws 290.301
• Spirits of turpentine: includes gum spirits of turpentine and wood turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301
• 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.
• Steam distilled wood turpentine: means wood turpentine distilled with steam from the oleoresin within or extracted from the wood. See Michigan Laws 290.301
• United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
• Wood turpentine: includes steam distilled wood turpentine and destructively distilled wood turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301