§ 400.1 Family independence agency; creation; powers and duties; director, assistants, and employees; rules; successor to juvenile institute commission; other references
§ 400.1a Social welfare act; short title
§ 400.1b Annual appropriation act as time-limited addendum; inclusion of program not as entitlement
§ 400.1c Compensation of certain employees injured during course of employment as result of assault by recipient of social services
§ 400.2 Michigan social welfare commission; powers and duties; appointment, terms, and qualifications of members; governor as ex officio member; oath; removal; vacancies; conducting business at public meeting
§ 400.3 Family independence agency; director; appointment; salary; expenses; intent as to references
§ 400.3a Advisory committee; establishment; appointment of members; recommendations from county social services boards and county social services association; advising on statutes and policies
§ 400.4 Executive heads of state institutions; appointment; employees, salaries and expenses
§ 400.5 Divisions within state department of social welfare; creation, abolition
§ 400.5a Adverse action against child placing agency prohibited; basis
§ 400.6 Rules, regulations, and policies; appointment and duties of bipartisan task force of legislators; applicability of subsection (2) to enrolled medicaid providers
§ 400.7 Rules and regulations; publication, seal, certified copies as evidence; body corporate, powers
§ 400.8 Witnesses; compelled attendance, oaths; jurisdiction of courts
§ 400.9 Rules for conduct of hearings; procedure; hearing authority; powers and duties; review; representation of department; compliance with Open Meetings Act
§ 400.10 Administration of social security act and food stamp act; cooperation with federal, state, and local governments; reports; welfare and relief problems; plan for distribution and allotment of federal m
§ 400.10a Disclosure of certain recipients to law enforcement agency; federal approval; definitions
§ 400.10b Individual subject to felony charge; eligibility for cash or food assistance; federal approval; review by department director; definitions
§ 400.10c Automated program; development and implementation; comparison of list of individuals receiving public assistance with information regarding outstanding felony or extradition warrants; access to addres
§ 400.10d Determination of financial eligibility for family independence program or food assistance program; application of asset test
§ 400.10e Determination of financial eligibility for family independence program and food assistance program; inclusion of money received from lottery or gambling winnings
§ 400.10f Performance of monthly incarceration match to determine eligibility for bridge card; issuance prohibited or terminated; performance of monthly match to determine if recipient is deceased
§ 400.10g Determination of financial eligibility; money associated with designated beneficiary’s ABLE savings account; “ABLE savings account”, “designated beneficiary”, and “qualified disability expenses” defin
§ 400.11 Definitions
§ 400.11a Reporting abuse, neglect, or exploitation of adult; oral report; contents of written report; reporting criminal activity; construction of section
§ 400.11b Investigation; purpose; basis; providing licensee with substance of allegations; response to allegations; cooperation of local law enforcement officers; investigation not to be in place of investigati
§ 400.11c Confidentiality of identity of person making report; immunity from civil liability; presumption; extent of immunity; abrogation of privileged communication; exception; sharing of information and recor
§ 400.11d Availability of writing to public; exception; correction of inaccurate statements; identification of unsubstantiated statements
§ 400.11e Failure to make report; liability; disposition of fine
§ 400.11f Certain actions and investigations prohibited; report; interdepartmental agreements; coordinating investigations; agreement establishing criteria
§ 400.12 Transfer of funds
§ 400.13 Reciprocal agreements with other states; authorization, exception
§ 400.14 Additional powers and duties of department; powers and duties of county social services boards as to general public relief transferred to department; changing eligibility standards and coverages for m
§ 400.14a State department; camps, purposes
§ 400.14b Family planning services; notice of availability, contents; referral, drugs and appliances, rules and regulations
§ 400.14c Minimum housing standards; establishment, annual review; use of relief grants
§ 400.14d Juvenile residential care facility in county with population less than 50,000; direct care worker; qualification; conflict with administrative rule
§ 400.14e Federal food stamps; distribution by mail; rules
§ 400.14f Administration of program or performance of duty; contract with private individual or agency
§ 400.14g Pilot projects
§ 400.14h Electronic benefit transfer system; use for food stamp distribution; rescission of rules
§ 400.14j Issuance of food assistance benefits; number of times per month
§ 400.14l Replacement cost of electronic benefits transfer card
§ 400.14m Federal ineligibility for food assistance for convictions of certain felonies; state op-out
§ 400.15 Gifts; acceptance by commission; duties of attorney general
§ 400.16 Budget; preparation by commission, submission to governor
§ 400.17 Report of program goals and biennial report to governor and legislature; recommendations
§ 400.18 Appropriations for general public relief; distribution of moneys to county and district departments; assumption of program costs by state; exclusions; county expenditures and costs; reimbursement of c
§ 400.18a Friend of the court incentive payment program; establishment; activities; subsection (1) inapplicable to certain judicial circuits; annual appropriation
§ 400.18c Foster care of children; use of licensed child caring institutions or placement agencies; supervision by county department; standards of care and service; placement of child at least 16 but less than
§ 400.18d Foster care of children; county emergency receiving facility for temporary care, standards
§ 400.18e State plan for foster care; focus groups; establishment; funds
§ 400.19 Powers and duties as to Michigan employment institution for blind; transfer to state department
§ 400.20 Powers and duties as to social welfare; transfer to state department
§ 400.21 Refusal of access or information to social welfare commission; misdemeanor

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 400 > Act 280 of 1939 > STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • 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.
  • Aggrieved party: means a party entitled to resort to a remedy. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • 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.
  • annual meeting: when applied to townships, mean the annual meeting required by law to be held on the Saturday immediately preceding the first Monday in April. See Michigan Laws 8.3d
  • 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.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • 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.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Authority: means an authority formed by contract pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 124.112
  • Bank: means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • 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
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Bill of lading: means a document of title evidencing the receipt of goods for shipment issued by a person engaged in the business of directly or indirectly transporting or forwarding goods. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Michigan Laws 440.2103
  • Capital preventive treatments: means any preventive maintenance category project on state trunk line highways that qualifies under the department's capital preventive maintenance program. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Carrier: means a health, dental, or vision insurance company authorized to do business in this state under, and a health maintenance organization or multiple employer welfare arrangement operating under, the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500. See Michigan Laws 124.73
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • commission: means the state transportation commission established in section 28 of article V of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Commissioner: means the director of the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 124.73
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • constituent municipalities: includes all of the municipalities that signed or became signatories of articles of incorporation of any authority incorporated under this act. See Michigan Laws 124.281
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Michigan Laws 440.2106
  • 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.
  • County road commission: means the board of county road commissioners elected or appointed pursuant to section 6 of chapter IV of 1909 PA 283, MCL 224. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Covered individual: means an individual covered by a contract under section 15(3)(a)(iv). See Michigan Laws 124.73
  • Creditor: includes a general creditor, a secured creditor, a lien creditor, and any representative of creditors, including an assignee for the benefit of creditors, a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver in equity, and an executor or administrator of an insolvent debtor's or assignor's estate. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • 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.
  • Delivery: means either of the following:
  (i) With respect to an electronic document of title, a voluntary transfer of control. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Demand actuated vehicle: means a bus or smaller transit vehicle operated for providing group rides to members of the general public paying fares individually, and on demand rather than in regularly scheduled route service. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Department: means the state transportation department. See Michigan Laws 247.401
  • department of transportation: means the state transportation department, the principal department of state government created under section 350 of the executive organization act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Eligible attraction: means a tourist-oriented activity that is all of the following:
    •   (i) Within 10 miles of the rural road for which a tourist-oriented directional sign is sought, unless otherwise restricted or permitted by the department. See Michigan Laws 247.401
  • Eligible authority: means an authority organized under the metropolitan transportation authorities act of 1967, 1967 PA 204, MCL 124. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Eligible governmental agency: means a county, city, or village or an authority created under 1963 PA 55, MCL 124. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • 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.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • 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.
  • Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
  • 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.
  • Fault: means a default, breach, or wrongful act or omission. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Good faith: except as otherwise provided in article 5, means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Governing body: means the board, council, commission, or body in which the policy-making powers of the local government are vested. See Michigan Laws 124.112
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • hospitalization: means medical, surgical, or obstetrical care in the university hospital or in a hospital licensed under article 17 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 400.66a
  • 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
  • Indian tribe: means an Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians that is recognized as eligible for services by the United States secretary of the interior because of their status as Indians. See Michigan Laws 124.281
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • 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
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Local government: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 124.112
  • Maintenance: means routine maintenance or preventive maintenance, or both. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
  • Medical benefit plan: means a plan, established and maintained by a carrier or 1 or more public employers, that provides for the payment of medical, optical, or dental benefits, including, but not limited to, hospital and physician services, prescription drugs, and related benefits, to public employees. See Michigan Laws 124.73
  • Medical care: as used in this act means medical care rendered under the supervision of a licensed physician in an organized out-patient department of a hospital licensed by the department of community health under article 17 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 400.55
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Money: means a medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
  • Municipality: means a county, township, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 124.281
  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • 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.
  • pooled plan: means a public employer pooled plan established pursuant to section 5(1)(b). See Michigan Laws 124.73
  • present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See Michigan Laws 440.2106
  • Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of 1 or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain by use of either an interest rate specified by the parties if that rate is not manifestly unreasonable at the time the transaction is entered into or, if an interest rate is not so specified, a commercially reasonable rate that takes into account the facts and circumstances at the time the transaction is entered into. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Preservation: means an activity undertaken to preserve the integrity of the existing roadway system. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Preventive maintenance: means a planned strategy of cost-effective treatments to an existing roadway system and its appurtenances that preserve assets by retarding deterioration and maintaining functional condition without significantly increasing structural capacity. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public agency: means a single- or multi-purpose public body corporate formed pursuant to a law other than this act or an Indian tribe recognized by the federal government before the year 2000 that exercises governmental authority over land within this state. See Michigan Laws 124.112
  • Public employer: means a city, village, township, county, or other political subdivision of this state; any intergovernmental, metropolitan, or local department, agency, or authority, or other local political subdivision; a school district, a public school academy, or an intermediate school district, as those terms are defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 124.73
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Public transit region: means that term as defined in the regional transit authority act. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Public university: means a public university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 124.73
  • Purchase: means taking by sale, lease, discount, negotiation, mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest, issue or reissue, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in property. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Quorum: 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.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Regional transit authority: means an authority created under the regional transit authority act. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • 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.
  • Remedy: means any remedial right to which an aggrieved party is entitled with or without resort to a tribunal. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Right: includes remedy. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Routine maintenance: means actions performed on a regular or controllable basis or in response to uncontrollable events upon a highway, road, street, or bridge. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Rural road: means a highway as that term is defined in section 20 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 247.401
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
    •   (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
  • Security interest: means an interest in personal property or fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Michigan Laws 440.2103
  • 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.
  • Sewage disposal system: includes all interceptor sewers, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, combined sanitary and storm sewers, sewage treatment plants, and all other plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage or industrial wastes. See Michigan Laws 124.281
  • 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
  • Signed: includes any symbol executed or adopted by a party with present intention to adopt or accept a writing. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Solid waste management system: includes all plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with the collection, transportation, processing, or disposal of discarded or waste materials of any sort, including access roads and facilities for resource recovery. See Michigan Laws 124.281
  • Specialty prescription drug: means a prescription drug used to treat a rare, complex, or chronic medical condition that meets any of the following requirements:
    •   (i) Requires special administration including, but not limited to, inhalation or infusion. See Michigan Laws 124.73
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Term: means a portion of an agreement that relates to a particular matter. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • third party: means a person that has engaged in a transaction or made an agreement subject to this act. See Michigan Laws 440.1201
  • Title XX: means title XX of the social security act, 42 USC 1397 to 1397n-13. See Michigan Laws 400.109
  • Tourist-oriented activity: means a lawful cultural, historical, recreational, educational, or commercial activity that is annually attended by 2,000 or more people and for which a major portion of the activity's income or visitors are derived during the normal business season from motorists not residing in the immediate area of the activity. See Michigan Laws 247.401
  • Tourist-oriented directional sign: means a sign used to provide motorists with advanced notice of a tourist-oriented activity. See Michigan Laws 247.401
  • Transit vehicle: means a bus, rapid transit vehicle, railroad car, street railway car, water vehicle, taxicab, or other type of public transportation vehicle or individual unit, whether operated singly or in a group that provides public transportation. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • 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
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • Water supply system: includes all plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with obtaining a water supply, the treatment of water, or the distribution of water. See Michigan Laws 124.281
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • writing: includes printing, typewriting, or any other intentional reduction to tangible form. See Michigan Laws 440.1201