§ 333.26421 Short title
§ 333.26422 Findings, declaration
§ 333.26423 Definitions
§ 333.26424 Qualifying patient or primary caregiver; arrest, prosecution, or penalty prohibited; conditions; privilege from arrests; presumption; compensation; physician subject to arrest, prosecution, or penalty
§ 333.26424a Registered qualifying patient or registered primary caregiver; arrest, prosecution, or penalty, or denial of right or privilege prohibited; conditions
§ 333.26424b Transporting or possessing marihuana-infused product; violation; fine
§ 333.26425 Rules
§ 333.26426 Administration and enforcement of rules by marijuana regulatory agency; transfer of funds
§ 333.26427 Scope of act; limitations; application of certain provisions of the revised judicature act of 1961
§ 333.26428 Defenses
§ 333.26429 Failure of department to adopt rules or issue valid registry identification card
§ 333.26430 Severabilty

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 333 > Initiated Law 1 of 2008 - Michigan Medical Marihuana Act

  • Aggregator site: means a website that provides access to information regarding insurance products from more than 1 insurer, including product and insurer information, for use in comparison shopping. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Blanket travel insurance: means a policy of travel insurance issued to any eligible group providing coverage for specific classes of persons defined in the policy with coverage provided to all members of the eligible group without a separate charge to individual members of the eligible group. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • Bona fide physician-patient relationship: means a treatment or counseling relationship between a physician and patient in which all of the following are present:
  (1) The physician has reviewed the patient's relevant medical records and completed a full assessment of the patient's medical history and current medical condition, including a relevant medical evaluation of the patient. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Cancellation fee waiver: means a contractual agreement between a supplier of travel services and its customer to waive some or all of the nonrefundable cancellation fee provisions of the supplier's underlying travel contract with or without regard to the reason for the cancellation or form of reimbursement. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • caregiver: means a person who is at least 21 years old and who has agreed to assist with a patient's medical use of marihuana and who has not been convicted of any felony within the past 10 years and has never been convicted of a felony involving illegal drugs or a felony that is an assaultive crime as defined in section 9a of chapter X of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 770. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Debilitating medical condition: means 1 or more of the following:
  •   (1) Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, agitation of Alzheimer's disease, nail patella, or the treatment of these conditions. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Eligible group: means 2 or more persons that are engaged in a common enterprise, or have an economic, educational, or social affinity or relationship, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
  •   (i) Persons engaged in the business of providing travel or travel services, including, but not limited to, tour operators, lodging providers, vacation property owners, hotels and resorts, travel clubs, travel agencies, property managers, cultural exchange programs, and common carriers or the operators, owners, or lessors of a means of transportation of passengers, including, but not limited to, airlines, cruise lines, railroads, steamship companies, and public bus carriers, in which, with regard to any particular travel or type of travel or travelers, all members or customers of the group must have a common exposure to risk attendant to the travel. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • Enterprise risk: means an activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving 1 or more affiliates of an insurer that, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer or its insurance holding company system as a whole, including, but not limited to, anything that would cause the insurer to be hazardous to policyholders, creditors, and the public. See Michigan Laws 500.1301
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Fulfillment materials: means documentation sent to the purchaser of a travel protection plan confirming the purchase and providing the travel protection plan's coverage and assistance details. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • Group travel insurance: means travel insurance issued to any eligible group. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Insurance holding company system: means 2 or more affiliated persons, 1 or more of which is an insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.115
  • Insurance producer: means that term as defined in section 1201. See Michigan Laws 500.116
  • 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
  • Insurer: means that term as defined in section 106 and includes a nonprofit dental care corporation operating under 1963 PA 125, MCL 550. See Michigan Laws 500.1301
  • Internationally active insurance group: means an insurance holding company system to which both of the following apply:
  •   (i) The insurance holding company system includes an insurer registered under section 1324. See Michigan Laws 500.1301
  • 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
  • Marihuana: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Marihuana plant: means any plant of the species Cannabis sativa L. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Marihuana-infused product: means a topical formulation, tincture, beverage, edible substance, or similar product containing any usable marihuana that is intended for human consumption in a manner other than smoke inhalation. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Marijuana regulatory agency: means the marijuana regulatory agency created under Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Medical use of marihuana: means the acquisition, possession, cultivation, manufacture, extraction, use, internal possession, delivery, transfer, or transportation of marihuana, marihuana-infused products, or paraphernalia relating to the administration of marihuana to treat or alleviate a registered qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition or symptoms associated with the debilitating medical condition. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Michigan Laws 500.1301
  • NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework: means a separate NAIC publication that includes all of the following components:
  •   (i) A history of the NAIC's development of regulatory liquidity stress testing. See Michigan Laws 500.1301
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • patient: means a person who has been diagnosed by a physician as having a debilitating medical condition. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Person: means that term as defined in section 114, except that it does not include a securities broker that does not perform more than the usual and customary broker's function, so long as the securities broker holds less than 10% of the voting securities of an insurer or of any person that controls an insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.1301
  • Physician: means an individual licensed as a physician under part 170 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Plant: means any living organism that produces its own food through photosynthesis and has observable root formation or is in growth material. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Primary certificate holder: means an individual who elects and purchases travel insurance under a group policy. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • Primary policyholder: means an individual who elects and purchases individual travel insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • 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
  • Registry identification card: means a document issued by the marijuana regulatory agency that identifies a person as a registered qualifying patient or registered primary caregiver. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Scope criteria: means , as detailed in the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework, the designated exposure bases and their minimum magnitudes for a specified data year that are used to establish a preliminary list of insurers considered scoped into the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework for that data year. See Michigan Laws 500.1301
  • Travel assistance services: means noninsurance services for which the consumer is not indemnified based on a fortuitous event, and as to which providing the service does not result in the transfer or shifting of risk that would constitute the business of insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • Travel insurance: means that term as defined in section 1202. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • Travel protection plans: means plans that provide 1 or more of the following:
  •   (i) Travel insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1283
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Usable marihuana: means the dried leaves, flowers, plant resin, or extract of the marihuana plant, but does not include the seeds, stalks, and roots of the plant. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Visiting qualifying patient: means a patient who is not a resident of this state or who has been a resident of this state for less than 30 days. See Michigan Laws 333.26423
  • Voting security: includes any security convertible into or evidencing a right to acquire a voting security. See Michigan Laws 500.115
  • Written certification: means a document signed by a physician, stating all of the following:
  •   (1) The patient's debilitating medical condition. See Michigan Laws 333.26423