Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 399 > Act 169 of 1970 - Local Historic Districts Act

• Alteration: means work that changes the detail of a resource but does not change its basic size or shape. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Certificate of appropriateness: means the written approval of a permit application for work that is appropriate and that does not adversely affect a resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Commission: means a historic district commission created by the legislative body of a local unit under section 4. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Committee: means a historic district study committee appointed by the legislative body of a local unit under section 3 or 14. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Demolition: means the razing or destruction, whether entirely or in part, of a resource and includes, but is not limited to, demolition by neglect. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Demolition by neglect: means neglect in maintaining, repairing, or securing a resource that results in deterioration of an exterior feature of the resource or the loss of structural integrity of the resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Denial: means the written rejection of a permit application for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects a resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fire alarm system: means a system designed to detect and annunciate the presence of fire or by-products of fire. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• 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}
• Historic district: means an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that contains 1 resource or a group of resources that are related by history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Historic preservation: means the identification, evaluation, establishment, and protection of resources significant in history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Historic resource: means a publicly or privately owned building, structure, site, object, feature, or open space that is significant in the history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture of this state or a community within this state, or of the United States. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• 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
• 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.
• Local unit: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Multiple-station alarm: means 2 or more single-station alarms that are capable of interconnection such that actuation of 1 alarm causes all integrated separate audible alarms to operate. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Notice to proceed: means the written permission to issue a permit for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects a resource, pursuant to a finding under section 5(6). See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Open space: means undeveloped land, a naturally landscaped area, or a formal or man-made landscaped area that provides a connective link or a buffer between other resources. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Ordinary maintenance: means keeping a resource unimpaired and in good condition through ongoing minor intervention, undertaken from time to time, in its exterior condition. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Partnership: 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.
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Proposed historic district: means an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that has delineated boundaries and that is under review by a committee or a standing committee for the purpose of making a recommendation as to whether it should be established as a historic district or added to an established historic district. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• 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.
• Repair: means to restore a decayed or damaged resource to a good or sound condition by any process. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Resource: means 1 or more publicly or privately owned historic or nonhistoric buildings, structures, sites, objects, features, or open spaces located within a historic district. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
• Smoke alarm: means a single-station or multiple-station alarm responsive to smoke and not connected to a system. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Standing committee: means a permanent body established by the legislative body of a local unit under section 14 to conduct the activities of a historic district study committee on a continuing basis. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• 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
• Work: means construction, addition, alteration, repair, moving, excavation, or demolition. See Michigan Laws 399.201a