Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 333 > Act 193 of 1996 - Michigan Do-Not-Resuscitate Procedure Act

• Actual notice: includes the physical presentation of an order, a revocation of an order, or another written document authorized under this act from or on behalf of a declarant. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Advanced illness: means a medical or surgical condition with significant functional impairment that is not reversible by curative therapies and that is anticipated to progress toward death despite attempts at curative therapies or modulation. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attending physician: means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of a declarant. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Declarant: means an individual who has executed a do-not-resuscitate order on his or her own behalf or on whose behalf a do-not-resuscitate order has been executed as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Delegatee: means an individual to whom a physician has delegated the authority to perform 1 or more selected acts, tasks, or functions under section 16215 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Emergency medical technician: means that term as defined in section 20904 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Emergency medical technician specialist: means that term as defined in section 20904 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• 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.
• 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}
• group disability insurance: means voluntary disability insurance that covers 2 or more employees or members, with or without their eligible dependents, written under a master policy issued to a governmental corporation, unit, agency, or department of a governmental entity, to a corporation, copartnership, or individual employer, or, on application of an executive officer or trustee of the association, to an association that has a constitution or bylaws and that is formed in good faith for purposes other than that of obtaining insurance, and under which officers, members, employees, or classes or departments of the association may be insured for their individual benefit. See Michigan Laws 500.607
• 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.
• Guardian: means that term as defined in section 1104 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Hospital: means that term as defined in section 20106 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• identification bracelet: means a wrist bracelet that meets the requirements of section 7 and that is worn by a declarant while a do-not-resuscitate order is in effect. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• 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.
• Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Medical first responder: means that term as defined in section 20906 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Minor child: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age, has been diagnosed by an attending physician as having an advanced illness, and is not emancipated by operation of law as provided in section 4 of 1968 PA 293, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Nurse: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of nursing or practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse under part 172 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• order: means a document executed under this act directing that, if an individual suffers cessation of both spontaneous respiration and circulation in a setting outside of a hospital, resuscitation will not be initiated. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Organization: means a company, corporation, firm, partnership, association, trust, or other business entity or a governmental agency. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Paramedic: means that term as defined in section 20908 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Parent: means the natural or adoptive parent of a minor child who possesses legal decision-making authority as to the important decisions affecting the welfare of the minor child. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• 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.
• Patient advocate: means an individual who is designated to make medical treatment decisions for a patient under section 5506 to 5515 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Physician: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of medicine or the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery under article 15 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Probate: Proving a will
• Public health code: means the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
• Rate: means the cost of insurance per payroll before adjustment for an individual insured's size, exposure, or loss experience. See Michigan Laws 500.2402
• resuscitate: means perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a component of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including, but not limited to, any of the following: