§ 399.601 Short title
§ 399.602 Definitions
§ 399.603 Property loaned to museum on or after January 1, 1993; duties
§ 399.604 Property loaned to museum generally; duties
§ 399.605 Notice of change in lender or designee’s address or ownership
§ 399.606 Notice by museum to terminate loan of property; conditions
§ 399.607 Notice by museum to terminate loan of property; determining identity and last known address of lender; written statement included in notice; signed return receipt not received; publication of notice i
§ 399.608 Property loaned for indefinite term
§ 399.609 Documentation establishing ownership
§ 399.610 Competing claims for property
§ 399.611 Museum gaining title to property; conditions; notice
§ 399.612 Abrogation of rights and obligations
§ 399.613 Immunity from civil liability

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 399 > Act 24 of 1992 - The Museum Disposition of Property 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.
  • 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.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • 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.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Lender: means a person whose name appears on the records of the museum as the person legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person the museum knows to be legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person who establishes his or her legal entitlement to that property. See Michigan Laws 399.602
  • Loan: means a deposit of property that is not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property. See Michigan Laws 399.602
  • Museum: means an institution generally known as a museum, archives, or library located in this state that is or does each of the following:
  (i) Established primarily for artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or preservation purposes. See Michigan Laws 399.602
  • 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.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Property: means an animate or inanimate object in a museum's possession or under a museum's care because of that object's artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or cultural value. See Michigan Laws 399.602
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • 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
  • Undocumented property: means property in the possession of a museum, the owner or lender of which the museum has no reasonable means of identifying. See Michigan Laws 399.602