§ 400.1201 Short title
§ 400.1202 Meanings of words and phrases
§ 400.1203 Definitions; A to C
§ 400.1204 Definitions; D to P
§ 400.1205 Definitions; P to S
§ 400.1206 Definitions; S to W
§ 400.1207 Low income heating assistance and shut-off protection program; creation; administration; purpose; duties of department
§ 400.1207a Low income customer energy bills subject to shutoff; direct payment by department to energy provider; agreement; eligibility
§ 400.1208 Annual consumption cap; establishment; conditions requiring payments in excess of limits; lowering or raising consumption caps
§ 400.1209 Enrollment in program; conditions; automatic reenrollment
§ 400.1210 Shut-off protection; application of payments in excess of actual billings; duration of protection; effect of vacating dwelling; treatment of emergency needs recipient; relocation of assisted household
§ 400.1211 Excess energy consumption; review and investigation; noncompliance with suggested corrections; reduction of excess consumption
§ 400.1212 Preenrollment arrearage; determination; payment
§ 400.1213 Quarterly projections or compilation of actual billings by provider utility; billing department; deduction of payments from total department obligation; sample of account status; monthly cost settleme
§ 400.1214 Annual reconciliation; payment to provider utility; section inapplicable to certain assisted households
§ 400.1215 Energy refunds or credits; application
§ 400.1216 Assistance programs for temporarily and long-term unemployed workers; development; scope; implementation and duration of programs
§ 400.1217 Conditional effective date

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 400 > Act 34 of 1984 - Michigan Low Income Heating Assistance and Shut-Off Protection Act

  • Alley: means a public or private right of way shown on a plat which provides secondary access to a lot, block, or parcel of land. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • 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
  • Caption: means the name by which the plat is legally and commonly known. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • 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 plat board: means the register of deeds, who shall act as chairperson, the county clerk, who shall act as secretary, and the county treasurer. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • 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.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • 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.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governing body: means the legislative body of a city or village or the township board of a township. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • 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.
  • Land: means all land areas occupied by real property. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • Lot: means a measured portion of a parcel or tract of land, which is described and fixed in a recorded plat. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • 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
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipality: means a township, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • 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
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plat: means a map or chart of a subdivision of land. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • Proprietor: means a natural person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or combination of any of them that holds an ownership interest in land whether recorded or not. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • Public utility: means all persons, firms, corporations, copartnerships, or municipal or other public authority providing gas, electricity, water, steam, telephone, sewer, or other services of a similar nature. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • subdivision: means the partitioning or splitting of a parcel or tract of land by the proprietor thereof or by his or her heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors, or assigns for the purpose of sale, or lease of more than 1 year, or of building development that results in 1 or more parcels of less than 40 acres or the equivalent, and that is not exempted from the platting requirements of this act by section 108 and 109. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • Surveyor: means a professional surveyor licensed under article 20 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339. See Michigan Laws 560.102
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.