§ 35.1071 Short title
§ 35.1072 Assistance or services based on income level; exclusion of judgment or settlement for exposure to agent orange

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 35 > Act 144 of 1990 - Agent Orange Award Exemption Act

  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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.
  • occupational disease: means an illness of the human body arising out of and in the course of an individual's employment and having 1 or more of the following characteristics:
  (a) It is caused by a frequently repeated or continuous exposure to a hazardous substance or agent or to a specific industrial practice which is hazardous and which has continued over an extended period of time. See Michigan Laws 333.5601
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Resolution: means a resolution or an ordinance, if the governing body of a municipality chooses to act by ordinance rather than by resolution. See Michigan Laws 123.731
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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