Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 390 > Act 195 of 1996 - Police Officer's and Fire Fighter's Survivor Tuition Grant Act

• Academic year: means the period from September 1 of a calendar year to August 31 of the next calendar year. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Child: means an individual who is a natural or adopted child of a deceased Michigan police officer or deceased Michigan fire fighter and who was under the age of 21 at the time of the Michigan police officer's or Michigan fire fighter's death. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Eligible student: means a child or surviving spouse of a Michigan police officer or Michigan fire fighter who was or is killed in the line of duty. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Eligible tuition: means the tuition charged by a state institution of higher education for an undergraduate class. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Gift aid: means formal scholarships or grants from sources that do not require repayment. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• 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
• Killed: means that the Michigan police officer's or Michigan fire fighter's death is the direct and proximate result of a traumatic injury incurred in the line of duty. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Line of duty: means an action that a Michigan police officer or Michigan fire fighter is obligated or authorized to perform by rule, regulation, condition of employment or service, or law, including, but not limited to, a social, ceremonial, or athletic function that the Michigan police officer or Michigan fire fighter is assigned to or compensated for by the public agency he or she serves. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Michigan fire fighter: means a member including volunteer members and members paid on call of a fire department, or other organization that provides fire suppression and other fire-related services, of a city, township, village, or county who is responsible for or is in a capacity that includes responsibility for the extinguishment of fires. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Michigan police officer: means a sheriff or sheriff's deputy of a sheriff's department in this state; village or township marshal of a village or township in this state; officer of the police department of any city, village, or township in this state; officer of the Michigan state police; or any other police officer or law enforcement officer trained and licensed or certified under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Occupational disease: means a disease that routinely constitutes a special hazard in, or is commonly regarded as concomitant of, the Michigan police officer's or Michigan fire fighter's occupation. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• 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
• State institution of higher education: means a public community or junior college established under section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963 or part 25 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Traumatic injury: means a wound or the condition of the body caused by external force, including, but not limited to, an injury inflicted by bullet, explosive, sharp instrument, blunt object or other physical blow, fire, smoke, chemical, electricity, climatic condition, infectious disease, radiation, or bacteria, but excluding an injury resulting from stress, strain, or occupational disease. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
• Undergraduate class: means a class or course that provides a student with academic credit applicable toward a bachelor or associate degree from a state institution of higher education. See Michigan Laws 390.1242