Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 388 > Act 143 of 1976 - Parent Cooperative Preschools

• Automobile insurance: means that term as defined in section 2102. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
• Child development course work: means child development course work, early childhood course work, child psychology course work, or any combination thereof. See Michigan Laws 388.1021
• Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• 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}
• insurer: as used in this chapter , includes a person that files the security as provided in this section. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
• 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.
• Motor vehicle: means a vehicle, including a trailer, that is operated or designed for operation on a public highway by power other than muscular power and has more than 2 wheels. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
• Parent cooperative preschool: means a nonprofit, nondiscriminatory institution, maintained as a community service and administered by parents of children currently enrolled in the preschool, which institution provides an educational and developmental program for children younger than compulsory school age and which provides an educational program for parents, including active parental participation with children in preschool activities. See Michigan Laws 388.1021
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• 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