Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 484 > Act 32 of 1986 > Chapter III

• ALI: means a 9-1-1 service feature provided by the service supplier that automatically provides the name and service address or, for a CMRS service supplier, the location associated with the calling party's telephone number as identified by automatic number identification to a 9-1-1 public safety answering point. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• ANI: means a 9-1-1 service feature provided by the service supplier that automatically provides the calling party's telephone number to a 9-1-1 public safety answering point. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beans: means Michigan dry, edible beans, except soybeans. See Michigan Laws 290.551
• Certificate of conformance: means a document issued by the NCWM based on testing by a participating laboratory that constitutes evidence of conformance of a type. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• CMRS: means commercial mobile radio service regulated under section 3 of title I and section 332 of title III of the communications act of 1934, chapter 652, 48 Stat 1064, 47 USC 153 and 332, and the rules of the Federal Communications Commission or provided under the wireless emergency service order. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Commission: means the Michigan bean commission. See Michigan Laws 290.551
• Commodity in package form: means a commodity put up or packaged in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable for either wholesale or retail sale including an individual item or lot of any commodity not in a form as described in this subdivision but upon which there is marked a selling price based on an established price per unit of weight or measure. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• Consolidated dispatch: means a countywide or regional emergency dispatch service that provides dispatch service for 75% or more of the law enforcement, fire fighting, emergency medical service, and other emergency service agencies within the geographical area of a 9-1-1 service district or serves 75% or more of the population within a 9-1-1 service district. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Consumer package: means a package that is customarily produced or distributed for sale through retail sales agencies or instrumentalities for consumption or use by individuals for the purposes of personal care or in performance of services ordinarily rendered in or about the household or in connection with personal possessions. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• 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.
• Database service provider: means a service supplier who maintains and supplies or contracts to maintain and supply an ALI database or an MSAG. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• Director: means the director of the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 290.551
• Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• 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.
• 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.
• Grower: means any business unit, including a family operation, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, company, association, trust, or other business organization engaged in the business of producing beans for sale within 1 of the past 3 years. See Michigan Laws 290.551
• 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.
• 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
• NCWM: means the national conference on weights and measures, inc. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• Net weight: means the weight of a commodity excluding any materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• NIST: means the United States Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• NTEP: means the national type evaluation program administered by the NCWM, in cooperation with the states, the private sector, and the NIST for determining on a uniform basis conformance of a type. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• Participating laboratory: means a state measurement laboratory that is accredited by NCWM to conduct a type evaluation under the NTEP and determined otherwise acceptable to the director. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• 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, partnership, association, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• Placed-in-service report: means the approved form issued to registered servicepersons and registered service agencies for their use in accordance with the requirements of section 9b. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• primary PSAP: means a communications facility operated or answered on a 24-hour basis assigned responsibility by a public agency or county to receive 9-1-1 calls and to dispatch public safety response services, as appropriate, by the direct dispatch method, relay method, or transfer method. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Public agency: means a village, township, charter township, or city within the state and any special purpose district located in whole or in part within the state. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Public safety agency: means a functional division of a public agency, county, or the state that provides fire fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Registered service agency: means an agency, firm, company, or corporation that installs, services, repairs, reconditions, or places into service commercial weights and measures and that holds a registration issued by the director. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• Registered serviceperson: means an individual who installs, services, repairs, reconditions, or places into service commercial weights and measures and who holds a registration issued by the director. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• Registration audit: means an official inspection of a registered service agency's or registered serviceperson's accounts, paperwork, and offices. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• 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.
• Rule: means an administrative rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• sale: means sale, barter, or exchange. See Michigan Laws 290.602
• seal: shall be construed to include any of the following: