Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 333 > Act 368 of 1978 > Article 17 > Part 221 - Federal Certification of Nursing Homes

• Absent voter: is a voter who utilizes the process described in section 759. See Michigan Laws 168.2
• Absent voter ballot: means a ballot that is issued to a voter through the absentee voter process. See Michigan Laws 168.2
• Accessory: means any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded on a land corner recordation certificate that has been filed under this act. See Michigan Laws 54.202
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Certification: means certification issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to a nursing home as evidence that the nursing home complies with requirements under federal law for participation in Medicare. See Michigan Laws 333.22101
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consecutive days: means calendar days, but does not include Saturday, Sunday, or state- or federally recognized holidays. See Michigan Laws 333.22101
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Coordinates: means the x and y plane rectangular coordinate values computed for a geographic position from a pair of mutually perpendicular axes. See Michigan Laws 54.231a
• Corner: means an original public land survey corner, a protracted public land survey corner, a property controlling corner, a witness monument, or a property corner. See Michigan Laws 54.202
• County representative: means the individual performing the duties of county representative under section 9 of the state survey and remonumentation act, 1990 PA 345, MCL 54. See Michigan Laws 54.202
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Election: means an election or primary election at which the electors of this state or of a subdivision of this state choose or nominate by ballot an individual for public office or decide a ballot question lawfully submitted to them. See Michigan Laws 168.2
• 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.
• 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}
• 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.
• Immediate jeopardy: means that term as defined in the "state operations manual" published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. See Michigan Laws 333.22101
• 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
• Informal dispute resolution process: means the process described in section 22115. See Michigan Laws 333.22101
• 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.
• Land corner recordation certificate: means a written record for a corner in the form prescribed under section 5 that is to be filed as provided by this act. See Michigan Laws 54.202
• 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}
• 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
• Monument: means a marker that occupies the position of a corner and that possesses or is made to possess a magnetic field. See Michigan Laws 54.202
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 54.202
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• qualified elector: as used in this act , means a person who possesses the qualifications of an elector as prescribed in section 1 of article II of the state constitution of 1963 and who has resided in the city or township 30 days. See Michigan Laws 168.10
• Reference monument: means an accessory that is employed if the site of a corner is such that a monument cannot be set or is liable to destruction or if occupation of the site provides for unsafe conditions. See Michigan Laws 54.202
• 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
• Surveyor: means a professional surveyor who is licensed to practice professional surveying under article 20 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339. See Michigan Laws 54.202
• United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
• village: as used in this act , shall mean an incorporated village. See Michigan Laws 168.9
• Witness monument: is a n accessory that is a monumented point near a corner. See Michigan Laws 54.202