§ 338.3451 Short title
§ 338.3453 Definitions
§ 338.3455 Exemptions
§ 338.3461 Charge for services
§ 338.3463 Contract requirements
§ 338.3467 Prohibited conduct
§ 338.3469 Delivery of documents and forms
§ 338.3471 Violations; penalties; exemption

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 338 > Act 161 of 2004 - Michigan Immigration Clerical Assistant Act

  • Adverse action: means an increase in any charge for, or a reduction or other adverse or unfavorable change in the terms of coverage or amount of, any personal insurance, existing or applied for. See Michigan Laws 500.2151
  • Business relationship: means a relationship with any of the following:
  (i) An individual who serves as a designated school official or principal designated school official as defined by the United States citizenship and immigration services, but only when acting within the scope of authority in that capacity on behalf of the designated educational institution. See Michigan Laws 338.3453
  • Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Compensation: means money, donations, property, promise of payment, or anything else of value required in exchange for a person's services. See Michigan Laws 338.3453
  • Consumer: means an individual who utilizes or seeks to utilize the services of an immigration clerical assistant. See Michigan Laws 338.3453
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Credit information: means any credit-related information derived from a credit report, found on a credit report itself, or provided on an application for personal insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.2151
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Immigration clerical assistant: means any individual who provides or offers to provide services, for compensation, relating to any immigration matter. See Michigan Laws 338.3453
  • Immigration matter: means any matter affecting the immigrant status, nonimmigrant status, or citizenship status of any individual and includes, but is not limited to, federal or state administrative or court proceedings or the filing of accompanying documents in those proceedings, or both. See Michigan Laws 338.3453
  • 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 score: means a number or rating that is derived from an algorithm, computer application, model, or other process that is based in whole or in part on credit information for the purposes of predicting the future insurance loss exposure of an individual applicant or insured. See Michigan Laws 500.2151
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • 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
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Services: means any action taken on behalf of any consumer for the benefit of that consumer or another individual regarding the immigrant status, nonimmigrant status, or citizenship status of any consumer or other individual, and includes, but is not limited to, the following:
  •   (i) Transcribing responses onto government agency forms on behalf of a consumer relating to an immigration matter. See Michigan Laws 338.3453
  • Solicit: means any contact with a specific consumer by an immigration clerical assistant or his or her agent, representative, or employee about providing services, for compensation, regarding an immigration matter. See Michigan Laws 338.3453
  • 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
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o