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- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Base state: means the state selected by a motor carrier according to the procedures established by the uniform program. See Michigan Laws 29.472
- Broker: means that term as defined in 49 USC 13102. See Michigan Laws 475.1
- Certificate of authority: means a certificate issued under this act to a motor carrier authorizing a transportation service. See Michigan Laws 475.1
- Commercial motor vehicle: means that term as defined in 49 USC 14504a. See Michigan Laws 475.1
- Commission: means the potato industry commission. See Michigan Laws 290.421
- Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 475.1
- Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 290.421
- Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 29.472
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Destructively distilled wood turpentine: means wood turpentine obtained in the destructive distillation of the wood. See Michigan Laws 290.301
- Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 290.421
- Director: means the director of the department of agriculture and his or her authorized agents and representatives. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Emergency: means that term as defined in 49 C. See Michigan Laws 475.1
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC
- Financial institution: means a commercial bank whose deposits are insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or a national bank for cooperatives subject to the farm credit act of 1971, Public Law 92-181, 85 Stat. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- For hire: means for remuneration or reward of any kind, paid or promised, either directly or indirectly. See Michigan Laws 475.1
- Freight forwarder: means that term as defined in 49 USC 13102. See Michigan Laws 475.1
- Fund: means the environmental pollution prevention fund created in section 11130 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 29.472
- General rate: means a rate applicable to 2 or more motor carriers that is filed under section 6b of article V. See Michigan Laws 475.1
- Grower: means any business unit, including a family operation, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, company, association, trust, or other business organization engaged in the business of growing potatoes for market. See Michigan Laws 290.421
- Grower: means a person engaged in the business of growing and producing potatoes. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- Grower cooperative: means an organization of growers or a division of an organization of growers, or a federation of cooperatives of growers engaged in the marketing, bargaining, shipping, or processing functions of potatoes on behalf of its members or nonmembers who are the producers of potatoes. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- 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
- Hazardous materials: means any of the following:
(i) "Hazardous waste" as that term is defined in section 11103 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 29.472Household 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 Hundredweight: means a 100-pound unit or a combination of packages making a 100-pound unit, or the equivalent in metric units, of any shipment of potatoes. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Intrastate motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle that is operated by 1 of the following:
(i) An intrastate-only motor carrier of property. See Michigan Laws 475.1Leasing company: means that term as defined in 49 USC 14504a. See Michigan Laws 475.1 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: means a person engaged in the transportation of hazardous materials by highway. See Michigan Laws 29.472 Motor carrier of general commodities: means a person that is an authorized for-hire motor carrier, either directly or through any device or arrangement, of property other than household goods upon or over a public highway. 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 Motor private carrier: means that term as defined in 49 USC 13102. See Michigan Laws 475.1 Motor vehicle: means an automobile, truck, trailer, semitrailer, truck tractor, road tractor, or a self-propelled or motor or mechanically driven vehicle, or a vehicle attached to, connected with, or drawn by a self-propelled or motor or mechanically driven vehicle, used upon a public highway of this state. See Michigan Laws 475.1 Naval stores: means spirits of turpentine and rosin. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Participating state: means a state electing to participate in the uniform program by entering a base state agreement. See Michigan Laws 29.472 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or any other business unit. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Person: means a corporation, company, association, cooperative organization, partnership, individual, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 290.451 Person: means an individual, partnership, association, or corporation, and their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by a court. See Michigan Laws 475.1 Potatoes: means any variety of Irish potatoes in fresh form included in the species solanum tuberosum. See Michigan Laws 290.451 Power unit: means a motor vehicle that provides motor power to the entire combination, or to the vehicle if a single unit. See Michigan Laws 29.472 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 Probate: Proving a will Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. Processor: means a person engaged in canning, freezing, dehydrating, chipping, fermenting, distilling, extracting, preserving, or changing the form of potatoes for the purpose of consumption or for any other commercial use. See Michigan Laws 290.421 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 Public highway: means a public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, or thoroughfare of any kind, or a bridge, tunnel, or subway used by the public. See Michigan Laws 475.1 Rosin: includes gum rosin and wood rosin. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Shipment of potatoes: means , and a shipment of potatoes shall be considered to take place, when potatoes are loaded within this state in a rail car, truck, or other conveyance in which the potatoes are to be transported for sale or otherwise put into the channel of trade and commerce. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Shipper: means a person engaged in the shipment of potatoes, whether as owner, agent, or otherwise; or engaged in the processing of potatoes for human or animal consumption in any form or for any other commercial use. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Spirits of turpentine: includes gum spirits of turpentine and wood turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Steam distilled wood turpentine: means wood turpentine distilled with steam from the oleoresin within or extracted from the wood. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition. UCR motor carrier: means a person that is required to pay fees and file information under section 14504a of the federal unified carrier registration act of 2005, 49 USC 14504a. See Michigan Laws 475.1 Unified carrier registration agreement: means the interstate agreement developed under the unified carrier registration plan governing the collection and distribution of registration and financial responsibility information provided and fees paid by UCR motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies under section 14504a of the federal unified carrier registration act of 2005, 49 USC 14504a. See Michigan Laws 475.1 Unified carrier registration plan: means the organization of state, federal, and industry representatives responsible for developing, implementing, and administering the unified carrier registration agreement under section 14504a of the federal unified carrier registration act of 2005, 49 USC 14504a. See Michigan Laws 475.1 Uniform application: means the uniform registration and permit application form established under the uniform program. See Michigan Laws 29.472 Uniform program: means the uniform state hazardous materials transportation registration and permit program established in the report submitted and amended pursuant to 49 USC 5119(b). See Michigan Laws 29.472 Wholesale potato dealer: means a person who buys potatoes in wholesale lots directly from a grower or grower cooperative or who sells or handles those potatoes in wholesale lots for the purpose of processing or resale to other wholesale potato dealers, retailers, restaurants, hotels, institutions, or hospitals. See Michigan Laws 290.451 Wood turpentine: includes steam distilled wood turpentine and destructively distilled wood turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301