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- Advance: means a transfer of funds made by a municipality to an authority or to another person on behalf of the authority. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
- Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
- 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.
- Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
- 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.
- 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
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Assessed value: means 1 of the following:
(i) For valuations made before January 1, 1995, the state equalized valuation as determined under the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.4301Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account. Authority: means a downtown development authority created pursuant to this part. See Michigan Laws 125.4201 Authority: means a tax increment finance authority created under this part. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Authority district: means that area within which an authority exercises its powers and within which 1 or more development areas may exist. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Board: means the governing body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Board: means the ski area safety board. See Michigan Laws 408.322 Captured assessed value: means the amount in any 1 year by which the current assessed value of the development area, including the assessed value of property for which specific local taxes are paid in lieu of property taxes as determined in subdivision (w), exceeds the initial assessed value. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Chief executive officer: means the mayor or city manager of a city, the president of a village, or the supervisor of a township. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority. Civil infraction: means an act or omission that is prohibited by a law and is not a crime under that law or that is prohibited by an ordinance, as defined in section 8701, and is not a crime under that ordinance, and for which civil sanctions may be ordered. See Michigan Laws 600.113 Civil infraction action: means a civil action in which the defendant is alleged to be responsible for a civil infraction. See Michigan Laws 600.113 Commissioner: means the director of commerce or an authorized representative of the director. See Michigan Laws 408.322 Commissioner: means the director of the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 408.412 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant. Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name. Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another. Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime. Department: means the state department of commerce. See Michigan Laws 408.322 Development area: means that area to which a development plan is applicable. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Development plan: means that information and those requirements for a development set forth in section 16. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source: district: means that area to which the tax increment finance plan pertains. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Downtown district: means that part of an area in a business district that is specifically designated by ordinance of the governing body of the municipality pursuant to this part. See Michigan Laws 125.4201 Eligible advance: means an advance made before August 19, 1993. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Eligible obligation: means an obligation issued or incurred by an authority or by a municipality on behalf of an authority before August 19, 1993 and its subsequent refunding by a qualified refunding obligation. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Employee: means an individual not less than 16 years of age employed by an employer on the premises of the employer or at a fixed site designated by the employer, and includes a minor employed subject to section 15(1) of the youth employment standards act, 1978 PA 90, MCL 409. See Michigan Laws 408.412 Employer: means a person, firm, or corporation, including this state and its political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities, and a person acting in the interest of the employer, who employs 2 or more employees at any 1 time within a calendar year. See Michigan Laws 408.412 Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs. 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. Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office. Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. Fire alarm system: means a system designed to detect and annunciate the presence of fire, or by-products of fire. See Michigan Laws 125.4201 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. 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 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 Governing body: means the elected body of a municipality having legislative powers. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted. 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 Initial assessed value: means the assessed value, as equalized, of all the taxable property within the boundaries of the development area at the time the resolution establishing the tax increment financing plan is approved as shown by the most recent assessment roll of the municipality for which equalization has been completed at the time the resolution is adopted. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 judgment: as used in this act , includes decree. See Michigan Laws 600.112 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. 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 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money. Municipal civil infraction: means a civil infraction involving a violation of an ordinance, as defined in section 8701. See Michigan Laws 600.113 Municipal civil infraction action: means a civil action in which the defendant is alleged to be responsible for a municipal civil infraction. See Michigan Laws 600.113 Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.4201 Municipality: means a city. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Oath: A promise to tell the truth. oath: shall be construed to include the word "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in like cases the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed". See Michigan Laws 8.3k 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. Obligation: means a written promise to pay, whether evidenced by a contract, agreement, lease, sublease, bond, or note, or a requirement to pay imposed by law. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Operator: means a person who owns or controls, or who has operational responsibility for, a ski area or ski lift. See Michigan Laws 408.322 Other protected obligation: means :
(i) A qualified refunding obligation issued to refund an obligation described in subparagraph (ii) or (iii), an obligation that is not a qualified refunding obligation that is issued to refund an eligible obligation, or a qualified refunding obligation issued to refund an obligation described in this subparagraph. See Michigan Laws 125.4301Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. Passenger: means a person, skier or nonskier, who boards, disembarks from, or is transported by a ski lift, regardless of whether the ski lift is being used during the skiing season or nonskiing season, and includes a person waiting for or moving away from the loading or unloading point of a ski lift. See Michigan Laws 408.322 person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l Personal property: All property that is not real property. Probate: Proving a will Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Public facility: means a street, plaza, pedestrian mall, and any improvements to a street, plaza, or pedestrian mall including street furniture and beautification, park, parking facility, recreational facility, right-of-way, structure, waterway, bridge, lake, pond, canal, utility line or pipe, building, and access routes to any of the foregoing, designed and dedicated to use by the public generally, or used by a public agency. See Michigan Laws 125.4201 Public facility: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) A street, plaza, or pedestrian mall, and any improvements to a street, plaza, boulevard, alley, or pedestrian mall, including street furniture and beautification, park, parking facility, recreation facility, playground, school, library, public institution or administration building, right-of-way, structure, waterway, bridge, lake, pond, canal, utility line or pipeline, transit-oriented development, transit-oriented facility, and other similar facilities and necessary easements of these facilities designed and dedicated to use by the public generally or used by a public agency. See Michigan Laws 125.4301Qualified refunding obligation: means an obligation issued or incurred by an authority or by a municipality on behalf of an authority to refund an obligation if 1 of the following applies:
(i) The refunding obligation meets both of the following:
(A) The net present value of the principal and interest to be paid on the refunding obligation, including the cost of issuance, will be less than the net present value of the principal and interest to be paid on the obligation being refunded, as calculated using a method approved by the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 125.4301Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals). seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
(a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3nSki area: means an area used for skiing and served by 1 or more ski lifts. See Michigan Laws 408.322 Ski lift: means a device for transporting persons uphill on skis, or in cars on tracks, or suspended in the air by the use of cables, chains, belts, or ropes, and usually supported by trestles or towers with 1 or more spans. See Michigan Laws 408.322 Skier: means a person wearing skis or utilizing a device that attaches to at least 1 foot or the lower torso for the purpose of sliding on a slope. See Michigan Laws 408.322 Specific local tax: means a tax levied under 1974 PA 198, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 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 State civil infraction: means a civil infraction involving either of the following:
(i) A violation of state law that is designated by statute as a state civil infraction. See Michigan Laws 600.113State civil infraction action: means a civil action in which the defendant is alleged to be responsible for a state civil infraction. See Michigan Laws 600.113 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Tax increment financing plan: means that information and those requirements set forth in section 313 to 315. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Tax increment revenues: means the amount of ad valorem property taxes and specific local taxes attributable to the application of the levy of all taxing jurisdictions upon the captured assessed value of real and personal property in the development area, subject to the following requirements:
(i) Tax increment revenues include ad valorem property taxes and specific local taxes attributable to the application of the levy of all taxing jurisdictions other than the state pursuant to the state education tax act, 1993 PA 331, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.4301Testify: Answer questions in court. Trailway municipal civil infraction: means a municipal civil infraction involving the operation of a vehicle on a recreational trailway at a time, in a place, or in a manner prohibited by ordinance. See Michigan Laws 600.113 Transit-oriented development: means infrastructure improvements that are located within 1/2 mile of a transit station or transit-oriented facility that promotes transit ridership or passenger rail use as determined by the board and approved by the municipality in which it is located. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Transit-oriented facility: means a facility that houses a transit station in a manner that promotes transit ridership or passenger rail use. See Michigan Laws 125.4301 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House. Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.