§ 500.2204 Settlement of action brought by third party against person insured under commercial liability insurance policy; notice to insured required
§ 500.2205 Minor’s contracts for insurance
§ 500.2207 Insurable interest; personal insurance; rights of beneficiaries, creditors
§ 500.2209 Insurable interest; married woman; right to proceeds, devise
§ 500.2210 Definitions; insurable interest; employer; trust; exemption from claims
§ 500.2210a Trustee having insurable interest under MCL 700.7114
§ 500.2211 Consent of insured
§ 500.2212 Insurable interest in life of individual
§ 500.2212a Health insurance policy; description of terms, conditions, and information; written request; style, arrangement and appearance of policy; “board certified” defined
§ 500.2212b Policy issued under MCL 550.3405 and to health maintenance organization contract; applicability; termination of affiliation or participation between primary care physician and insurer; notice to insur
§ 500.2212c Prescription drug prior authorization workgroup; creation; development of methodology; prior authorization request; definitions
§ 500.2212d National or regional certification of physician; condition of payment or reimbursement by insurer or health maintenance organization; prohibited
§ 500.2212e Standard electronic prior authorization transaction process; requirements; adverse determination process; denial and appeals; standard report; modification program; definitions
§ 500.2213 Internal formal grievance procedure; approval by director; provisions; person authorized to act on behalf of insured or enrollee; section inapplicable to provider complaint and insurance listed in rig
§ 500.2213a Expenses incurred by director; calculation; assessment; “insurer” defined
§ 500.2213b Renewal or continuation of policy; modification; guaranteed renewal; discontinuing plan or product in nongroup or group market; short-term or 1-time limited duration policy or certificate; reports
§ 500.2213c Disability income insurer; internal grievance procedure; establishment; contents; “grievance” defined
§ 500.2213d Uniform prescription drug information card or other technology
§ 500.2214 Disability insurance; application, use as evidence
§ 500.2216 Life or disability insurance; alteration of application
§ 500.2218 Disability insurance; false statement in application; effect
§ 500.2220 Life insurance; solicitor as agent of insurer
§ 500.2226 Life insurance; benefits, manner of payment, period, and premiums to be contained in policy
§ 500.2227 Withholding final settlement amount; notice; escrow procedure to be followed by city, village, or township; disposition of money by local treasurer; commingling funds prohibited; retention of interest
§ 500.2228 Automobile insurance; contents of policy
§ 500.2230 Mutual insurers other than life; contents of policy
§ 500.2232 Reciprocal insurers; contents of policy
§ 500.2235 Written notice to insured under worker’s compensation insurance policy
§ 500.2236 Forms generally; filing; approval; type size; membership in or subscription to rating organization; substitute form; readability score and other requirements; approval of changes or additions; notice
§ 500.2236a Interest indexed universal life insurance; information to be maintained on file
§ 500.2237 Policy issued under chapter 34; prohibited restriction of liability
§ 500.2239 Health care service rendered by dentist; benefits or reimbursement; “dentist” defined; policies to which section applicable
§ 500.2242 Group disability policy; filing and approval of form; grounds for disapproval; notice, hearing, and appeal requirements; withdrawal of approval; quarterly filing; applicability of section to forms fil
§ 500.2243 Group policies; optometric service; coverage
§ 500.2246 Insured or applicant for life insurance policy as victim of domestic violence; refusal to provide coverage prohibited; exceptions; liability; applicability to policies on or after June 1, 1998; “domes
§ 500.2248 Automobile insurance; delivery of policy to insured
§ 500.2250 Binders or other contracts for temporary insurance; applicability
§ 500.2254 Action against domestic insurer by member or beneficiary; conditions
§ 500.2260 Life or disability insurance; acts not constituting waiver of defenses
§ 500.2264 Termination of dependent coverage at specified age; exception
§ 500.2264a Hospital or medical care coverage or reimbursement for children who are full-time or part-time students and take leave of absence
§ 500.2266 Electronic delivery of insurance documents; requirements; withdrawal of consent; civil liability; applicability to health insurer or health maintenance organization; definitions

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 500 > Act 218 of 1956 > Chapter 22 - The Insurance Contract

  • ABLE: means achieving a better life experience. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • account: means an account established under section 4. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • account: means an account established under this act. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Account holder: means a person who is the owner of an individual or family development account or the family if the account is a family account. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Account owner: means an individual who is a resident of this state, or a resident of a contracting state, and who enters into a Michigan ABLE savings program agreement and establishes an ABLE savings account. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • 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.
  • Agency: means the Michigan state housing development authority of the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Agreement: means the streamlined sales and use tax agreement. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • ALS: means amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. See Michigan Laws 206.932
  • Alternative fuel: means that term as defined in section 151 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Amateur: means any of following:
  (i) An individual who is not competing and has never competed for a prize or who is not competing and has not competed with or against a professional for a prize. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • 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.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • Appraiser: means that term as defined in section 2601. See Michigan Laws 339.2661
  • Apprentice: means an individual who is engaged in learning cosmetology in a cosmetology establishment. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • 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.
  • Attest: means providing any of the following services, but does not include providing a compilation:
    •   (i) An audit or other engagement to be performed in accordance with the statements on auditing standards. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • Authority: means the local community stabilization authority created under the local community stabilization authority act. See Michigan Laws 205.92c
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Barber: means a person who shaves or trims the beard of a person; cuts, trims, shampoos, relaxes, curls, permanently waves, dresses, tints, bleaches, colors, arranges, or styles the hair of a person; massages the face and head of a person; or renders personal services of a similar nature customarily done by a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Barber college: means an establishment which renders for compensation the services of a barber, but having for its primary purpose the teaching for compensation of the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Barbershop: means a place, establishment, or premises or part of a premises where a person performs as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • 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
  • Board: means the governing board under the agreement. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Boxing: means the sport of attack and defense with fists, using padded gloves, in a square ring. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Braiding: means providing or offering to the general public for compensation any of the following services solely for development or improvement of physical qualities of the natural hair structure:
    •   (i) Intertwining in a systematic motion to create patterns in a 3-dimensional form. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Business: means all activities engaged in by a person or caused to be engaged in by a person with the object of gain, benefit, or advantage, either direct or indirect. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Business entity: means a person described in section 105(5)(b) or (c), except a sole proprietorship or general partnership. See Michigan Laws 339.1801
  • carbon dioxide secondary or enhanced recovery project: means operations designed to increase the amount of oil or gas recoverable from a reservoir by injection of carbon dioxide, either alone or as a primary component of a mixture with other substances, provided the project has been approved as a secondary or enhanced recovery project by order of the supervisor of wells under the authority of part 615 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 205.311a
  • Certified automated system: means computer software certified under the agreement to calculate the tax imposed by each jurisdiction on a transaction, determine the amount of tax to remit to the appropriate state, and maintain a record of the transaction. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Certified public accountant: means an individual who is either of the following:
    •   (i) Qualified by education, examination, and experience to engage or offer to engage in the practice of public accounting as evidenced by the issuance of a certificate as a certified public accountant under section 725 or 726 and a license or registration issued under section 727. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • Certified service provider: means an agent certified under the agreement to perform all of the seller's sales and use tax functions, other than the seller's obligation to remit tax on its own purchases. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Cigar: means any roll of tobacco wrapped in leaf tobacco or in any substance containing tobacco. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Cigarette: means a roll for smoking or heating that is made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, which roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper or any other material. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Cigarette making machine: means any machine or other mechanical device that meets all of the following criteria:
    •   (i) Is capable of being loaded with loose tobacco, cigarette tubes or cigarette papers, and any other components related to the production of cigarettes, including, but not limited to, cigarette filters. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Client: means an individual or entity that engages a licensee or licensee's employer to receive any service in the practice of public accounting. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • Client: means a person who engages the services of a personnel agency. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Client: means a person that contracts with, or otherwise enters into an agreement with, an appraisal management company for the performance of real estate appraisal services. See Michigan Laws 339.2661
  • Client: means any person who enters into a professional employer agreement with a PEO. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • Coemployment relationship: means a relationship that is intended to be an ongoing relationship rather than a temporary or project-specific one, wherein the rights, duties, and obligations of an employer arising out of an employment relationship have been allocated between coemployers pursuant to a professional employer agreement. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • Collection agency: means a person that is directly engaged in collecting or attempting to collect a claim owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another, or, subject to subsection (2), repossessing or attempting to repossess a thing of value owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another arising out of an expressed or implied agreement. See Michigan Laws 339.901
  • Collection agency manager: means the individual responsible for the operation of a collection agency. See Michigan Laws 339.901
  • Commission: means the Michigan unarmed combat commission created in section 20. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Compilation: means providing a service to be performed in accordance with statements on standards for accounting and review services that are presenting, in the form of financial statements, information that is the representation of management or owners without undertaking to express any assurance on the statements. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • Complainant: means a person who has filed a complaint with the department alleging that a person has violated this act or a rule promulgated or an order issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.501a
  • Complainant: means a person that files a complaint with the department alleging that a person has violated this act or a rule promulgated or an order issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Computer: means an electronic device that accepts information in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence of instructions. See Michigan Laws 205.92b
  • Computer software: means a set of coded instructions designed to cause a computer or automatic data processing equipment to perform a task. See Michigan Laws 205.92b
  • Consulting agent: means the individual designated by a type B personnel agency who is responsible for the general management of that type B personnel agency. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Consumer: means the person who has purchased tangible personal property or services for storage, use, or other consumption in this state and includes, but is not limited to, 1 or more of the following:
    •   (i) A person acquiring tangible personal property if engaged in the business of constructing, altering, repairing, or improving the real estate of others. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Contemplation of death: The expectation of death that provides the primary motive to make a gift.
  • Contest: means an individual bout between 2 boxers, 2 mixed martial artists, or 2 individuals engaged in other unarmed combat that is subject to this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Contestant: means an individual who competes in an unarmed combat contest or event. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Contingent beneficiary: Receiver of property or benefits if the first named beneficiary fails to receive any or all of the property or benefits in question before his (her) death.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Continuing education: means instructional courses designed to bring participants up to date on a particular area of knowledge or skills. See Michigan Laws 338.3702
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contracting state: means a state without a qualified ABLE program that has entered into a contract with this state to provide its residents access to the Michigan ABLE program. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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.
  • Cosmetologist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology: means performing 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology establishment: means a place of business at which 1 or more cosmetology services are offered or provided. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology services: means any of the following:
    •   (i) Hair care services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology suite: means a room or suite located inside a licensed cosmetology establishment that is leased or rented from the owner of the cosmetology establishment for the purposes of offering or providing 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Counterfeit cigarette: means a cigarette in an individual package of cigarettes or other container with a false manufacturing label or a cigarette in an individual package of cigarettes or other container with a counterfeit stamp. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Counterfeit stamp: means any stamp, label, or print, indicium, or character, that evidences, or purports to evidence, the payment of any tax levied under this act and that has not been printed, manufactured, or made by authority of the department as provided in this act and has not been issued, sold, or circulated by the department. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Covered employee: means an individual having a coemployment relationship with a PEO and a client who has received written notice of coemployment with the PEO and the individual has created a coemployment relationship pursuant to a professional employer agreement. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) Source: OCC
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • debt: means an obligation or alleged obligation for the payment of money or thing of value arising out of an expressed or implied agreement or contract for a purchase made primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 339.901
  • debtor: means an individual who is obligated or allegedly obligated to pay a debt. See Michigan Laws 339.901
  • Decedent: means a deceased person and includes, but is not limited to, a testator, grantor, bargainor, vendor, donor, or person who dies intestate. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Demonstration: means a show, seminar, or contest in which barber services are rendered for the purpose of educating barbers. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Demonstrator: means a person who performs a service of a barber at a demonstration. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Dental prosthesis: means a bridge, crown, denture, or other similar artificial device used to repair or replace intraoral defects such as missing teeth, missing parts of teeth, and missing soft or hard structures of the jaw or palate. See Michigan Laws 205.92b
  • Department: means the bureau of revenue of the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Department: means the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.922
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.932
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.943
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.963
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Department: means the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1013
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1033
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1043
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1063
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1083
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Designated beneficiary: means an eligible individual designated as the individual whose qualified disability expenses are expected to be paid from the account. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Designated representative: means an individual who is authorized to act on behalf of the designated beneficiary if the designated beneficiary is a minor or has a guardian, conservator, or other fiduciary who has been appointed for purposes of managing that designated beneficiary's financial affairs. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Diesel fuel: means that term as defined in section 2 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Electrologist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform electrology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Electrology: means the permanent removal of hair from the body of an individual by the use of electricity. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Michigan Laws 205.92b
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Eligible educational institution: means any of the following:
    •   (i) A college, university, community college, or junior college described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963 or established under section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Eligible individual: means that term as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Employee: means a person performing work or service for compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Employee of the department: means an individual who is employed by the department, or a person that is under contract to the department, whose duty it is to enforce the provisions of this act or rules promulgated or orders issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Employer: means a person employing or seeking to employ a person for compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Employment agent: means the individual designated by a type A personnel agency who is responsible for the general management of that type A personnel agency. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Enrollee: means an individual who is entitled to receive health services under a health insurance contract, unless the context requires otherwise. See Michigan Laws 500.116
  • 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
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Esthetician: means an individual who performs or offers to perform skin care services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Event: means a program of unarmed combat that is planned for a specific date and time by a promoter and is subject to the approval of the department under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • 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.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Expiration date: means the date prescribed in rules promulgated by the department in accordance with section 202(2). See Michigan Laws 339.402
  • 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.
  • Federal poverty level: means the poverty guidelines published annually in the federal register by the United States department of health and human services under its authority to revise the poverty line under section 673(2) of subtitle B of title VI of the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1981, Public Law 97-35, 42 USC 9902. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Fee: means any direct or indirect compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. Source: OCC
  • Financial institution: means a state chartered bank, state chartered savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or trust company; or a national banking association or federal savings and loan association or credit union. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Financial literacy: means personal financial planning and education. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • firearm: except as otherwise specifically defined in statute, includes any weapon which will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of an explosive. See Michigan Laws 8.3t
  • Firm: means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, unincorporated association, sole proprietorship operating under an assumed name, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • 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
  • Fund: means the Michigan unarmed combat fund created in section 22. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Fund: means the girl scouts of Michigan fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 206.922
  • Fund: means the ALS of Michigan ("Lou Gehrig's disease") fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 206.932
  • Fund: means the special Olympics Michigan fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.943
  • Fund: means the Michigan Alzheimer's association fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.963
  • Fund: means the Michigan junior achievement fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1013
  • Fund: means the American Red Cross Michigan fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1033
  • Fund: means the Lions of Michigan Foundation fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1043
  • Fund: means the Kiwanis fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1063
  • Fund: means the Michigan World War II Legacy Memorial fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1083
  • Funeral establishment: means a place of business used in the care and preparation for burial or transportation of a dead human body or a place where an individual represents that he or she is engaged in the profession of undertaking or the practice of mortuary science. See Michigan Laws 339.1801
  • Gallon equivalent: means that term as defined in section 151 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Gas: as used in this act does not include methane gas extracted from a landfill. See Michigan Laws 205.311
  • Gasoline: means that term as defined in section 3 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • General sales tax act: means 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Good moral character: means good moral character as determined and defined under 1974 PA 381, MCL 338. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • grantor: may be construed as including every person from or by whom any estate in lands passes in or by any deed. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
  • Gray market cigarette: means any cigarette the package of which bears any statement, label, stamp, sticker, or notice indicating that the manufacturer did not intend the cigarettes to be sold, distributed, or used in the United States, including, but not limited to, a label stating "For Export Only" "U. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • group disability insurance: means voluntary disability insurance that covers 2 or more employees or members, with or without their eligible dependents, written under a master policy issued to a governmental corporation, unit, agency, or department of a governmental entity, to a corporation, copartnership, or individual employer, or, on application of an executive officer or trustee of the association, to an association that has a constitution or bylaws and that is formed in good faith for purposes other than that of obtaining insurance, and under which officers, members, employees, or classes or departments of the association may be insured for their individual benefit. See Michigan Laws 500.607
  • 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.
  • Hair care services: means arranging, cutting, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, coloring, tinting, trimming, styling, relaxing, perming, straightening, or similar work upon the hair of the head or a wig that an individual is wearing. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Health insurance policy: means an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy, certificate, or contract. See Michigan Laws 500.608
  • Health maintenance organization: means that term as defined in section 3501. See Michigan Laws 500.106
  • Hearing aid: means an instrument or device designed for regular and constant use in or proximate to the human ear and represented as aiding or improving defective human hearing. See Michigan Laws 339.1301
  • Hearing aid dealer: means an individual who engages in the sale or offering for sale at retail of a hearing aid. See Michigan Laws 339.1301
  • Hearing aid salesperson: means an individual who engages in the sale or offering for sale at retail of a hearing aid and who is an employee of a hearing aid dealer. See Michigan Laws 339.1301
  • Holder of a license for the practice of mortuary science: means an individual who satisfactorily completes a course in mortuary science, passes an examination required under this article, serves the required resident training, and is issued a license for the practice of mortuary science. See Michigan Laws 339.1801
  • Hookah: means a device, including a waterpipe, used for smoking hookah tobacco that consists of a tube connected to a chamber where the smoke is cooled passing through water. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Hookah tobacco: means tobacco that is designed, manufactured, or otherwise intended for consumption by smoking in a hookah and that is flavored with honey, molasses, fruit, or other natural or artificial flavors. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Immediate family: means persons residing together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Impaired: means the inability or immediately impending inability of an individual to safely participate in a contest or event due to his or her substance abuse, chemical dependency, or use of drugs or alcohol that does not constitute substance abuse or chemical dependency. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • 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
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Individual package: means an individual packet or pack used to contain or to convey cigarettes to the consumer. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Instructor: means a person who instructs another in the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Instructor: means an individual who teaches or offers to teach 1 or more cosmetology services in a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • insurance contract: means a contract of insurance, indemnity, suretyship, or annuity issued or proposed or intended for issuance by a person engaged in the business of insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.116
  • Insurance producer: means that term as defined in section 1201. See Michigan Laws 500.116
  • Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
  • Intangible personal property: means incorporeal personal property including, but not limited to, deposits in banks, negotiable instruments, mortgages, debts, receivables, shares of stock, bonds, notes, credits, evidences of an interest in property, evidences of debt, and choses in action generally. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Internal revenue code: means the United States internal revenue code of 1986, in effect on January 1, 1998 or, at the option of the personal representative, in effect on the date of the decedent's death. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Internal revenue code: means the United States internal revenue code of 1986 in effect on January 1, 2015 or at the option of the taxpayer, in effect for the current year. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Interstate: means a telecommunications service that originates in 1 United States state, territory, or possession and terminates in a different United States state, territory, or possession. See Michigan Laws 205.93a
  • Interstate motor carrier: means a person who operates or causes to be operated a qualified commercial motor vehicle on a public road or highway in this state and at least 1 other state or Canadian province. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Job order: means an oral or written notification by an employer to a personnel agency that a job opening exists for which the employer wishes to find an employee and includes all information regarding the job. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • 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
  • Lease or rental: means any transfer of possession or control of tangible personal property for a fixed or indeterminate term for consideration and may include future options to purchase or extend. See Michigan Laws 205.92b
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • License: means a certificate, registration, accreditation, or license issued by an occupational regulatory agency that allows an individual to engage in a regulated occupation or that allows an individual to use a specific title or professional designation in the practice of an occupation, profession, or vocation. See Michigan Laws 338.3702
  • License cycle: means the term of a license issued under this article. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • Licensee: means a person licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Licensee: means a PEO licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Local community stabilization share: means the local community stabilization share tax described in section 3(5), authorized by the amendatory act that added this section, and included in the specific tax levied under section 3(1). See Michigan Laws 205.92c
  • Management contract: means the contract executed between the treasurer and a program manager. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Manicuring services: means the cleansing, filing, shaping, buffing, polishing, or beautifying of the nails of the hands or feet, and the cleansing, massaging, stimulating, exercising, or beautifying of the skin of the hands, arms, and feet, manually or with the use of tools, appliances, or cosmetic preparations, including the repair of nails, or the creation or decoration of artificial nails. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Manicurist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform manicuring services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Manufacture: means to convert or condition tangible personal property by changing the form, composition, quality, combination, or character of the property. See Michigan Laws 205.93a
  • Manufacturer: means , except as otherwise provided in subdivision (q), any of the following:
    •   (i) A person who manufactures or produces a tobacco product. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
  • Matchmaker: means an individual who is responsible for arranging individual contests of unarmed combat. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Medical clearance: means a determination by a physician, made with reasonable medical certainty, that a contestant does not have a medical condition that would prevent him or her from being able to participate in an event or contest. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Member of the family: means a family member as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Member state: means a state that has entered into the agreement. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Michigan ABLE savings program agreement: means the agreement between the program and an account owner that establishes an ABLE savings account. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Mixed martial arts: means a form of combat, either amateur or professional, that involves the use of a combination of techniques from different disciplines of the martial arts, including grappling, kicking, and striking, subject to the limitations contained in this act and rules promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610
  • Mobile salon: means either of the following:
    •   (i) A self-contained vehicle or other device that is moved, towed, or transported from 1 location to another and in which equipment used to perform 1 or more cosmetology services is installed. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • 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
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • motel: means a building or group of buildings in which the public may obtain accommodations for a consideration, including, without limitation, such establishments as inns, motels, tourist homes, tourist houses or courts, lodging houses, rooming houses, nudist camps, apartment hotels, resort lodges and cabins, camps operated by other than nonprofit organizations but not including those licensed under 1973 PA 116, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 205.93a
  • Motor fuel: means diesel fuel and gasoline. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Natural hair cultivation: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking, or braiding of the hair by hand, if that work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals, or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl, or alter the structure of the hair. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Natural hair culturist: means an individual who is engaged in natural hair cultivation but does not include an individual who is engaged in natural hair cultivation if that activity is performed as part of the practice of a recognized religion. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Noncigarette smoking tobacco: means tobacco sold in loose or bulk form that is intended for consumption by smoking and also includes roll-your-own cigarette tobacco, hookah tobacco, pipe tobacco, or a wrap. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Nonresident: means an individual who is not a resident. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Nonresident licensee: means an individual licensee whose principal place of business is not located in this state. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • 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.
  • Occupational regulatory agency: means a department, bureau, or agency of this state that has regulatory authority over a regulated occupation. See Michigan Laws 338.3702
  • Office: means a regular place of business where complete records are kept of collections and claims handled by a licensee. See Michigan Laws 339.901
  • oil: as used in this act means petroleum oil, mineral oil, or other oil taken from the earth. See Michigan Laws 205.311
  • organization: means a charitable organization exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code that is approved by the agency to manage a reserve fund. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means a person who owns and conducts a cosmetology establishment or a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Participant: means a referee, judge, matchmaker, timekeeper, contestant, or promoter. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • 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.
  • PEO group: means 2 or more PEOs that are majority owned or commonly controlled by the same entity, parent, or controlling person. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, company, estate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, municipal or private corporation whether or not organized for profit, company, limited liability company, estate, trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, the United States, this state, county, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number, unless the intention to give a more limited meaning is disclosed by the context. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club fraternal organization, municipal or private corporation whether or not organized for profit, company, limited liability company, estate, trust receiver, trustee, syndicate, the United States, this state, country, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number, unless the intention to give a more limited meaning is disclosed by the context. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Person: as used in this act shall include any person, firm, concern, receiver, receivers, trustee, executor, administrator, agent, institution, association, partnership, company, corporations, and persons acting under declarations of trust. See Michigan Laws 205.312
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, fiduciary, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Person: means an individual, trust, estate, fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, corporation, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Person: means any of the following:
    •   (i) An individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • 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.
  • Personnel agency: means a type A personnel agency or a type B personnel agency, or both. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Physician: means that term as defined in section 17001 or 17501 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • Pipe tobacco: means any tobacco that, because of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling, is suitable for use and likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as tobacco to smoke in a pipe. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Place of business: means a place where a tobacco product is sold or where a tobacco product is brought or kept for the purpose of sale or consumption, including a vessel, airplane, train, or vending machine. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • plan: means a plan that provides different investment strategies and allows account distributions for qualified disability expenses. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Practice of embalming: means the disinfecting or preserving of a dead human body, entirely or in part, by the use of a chemical substance, fluid, or gas in the body or by the introduction of a chemical substance, fluid, or gas into the body by a vascular or hypodermic injection, or by direct application into an organ or cavity. See Michigan Laws 339.1801
  • Practice of funeral directing: means engaging in or representing oneself as engaging in the supervising of the burial and disposal of a dead human body, managing a funeral establishment for the preparation, disposition, and care of a dead human body, or using, in connection with the user's name or funeral establishment, the word "funeral director" "funeral service professional" "undertaker" or "mortician" or any other title embodying the words "mortuary science" or otherwise implying that the individual is engaged as a funeral director. See Michigan Laws 339.1801
  • Practice of mortuary science: means the practice of embalming or the practice of funeral directing, or both. See Michigan Laws 339.1801
  • practice of public accounting: means rendering or offering to render an opinion on or attesting to or offering to attest to the reliability of a representation or estimate, including, but not limited to, the giving of an opinion in substance that 1 or more of the following types of information concerning the entity that is the subject of the opinion present fairly the condition of the entity:
    •   (i) Financial or other information about which the opinion is given. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • premises: means 1 of the following, as applicable:
    •   (i) For a mobile salon described in subdivision (o)(i), the vehicle or other device and the equipment installed in the vehicle or device. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • price: means the total amount of consideration paid by the consumer to the seller, including cash, credit, property, and services, for which tangible personal property or services are sold, leased, or rented, valued in money, whether received in money or otherwise, and applies to the measure subject to use tax. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • principal: means a person that offers or extends credit creating a debt or a person to which a debt is owed or due or asserted to be owed or due. See Michigan Laws 339.901
  • Principal place of business: means the office location designated by the licensee for the purposes of substantial equivalency and reciprocity. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • 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.
  • Producer: as used in this act means a person who owns, or is entitled to delivery of a share in kind or a share of the monetary proceeds from the sale of, gas or oil as of the time of its production or severance. See Michigan Laws 205.312
  • Professional: means an individual who is competing or has competed in unarmed combat for a prize. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • Professional employer agreement: means a written contract by and between a client and a PEO that provides for the following:
    •   (i) Coemployment of covered employees. See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • professional employer organization: means any person engaged in the business of providing professional employer services regardless of its use of a descriptive term other than "professional employer organization" or "PEO". See Michigan Laws 338.3723
  • Program: means the individual or family development account program established in section 3. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Program: means the Michigan ABLE savings program established pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Program manager: means 1 or more entities selected by the treasurer to act as a manager of the program. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Program site: means a charitable organization exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(14) of the internal revenue code that is approved by the agency to implement the individual or family development account program. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Promoter: means a person that produces or stages, in whole or in part, an unarmed combat contest or event. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • property: means 1 of the following:
    •   (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), all property, real or personal, belonging to the persons, corporations, companies, copartnerships, and associations subject to taxation under this act, including rights-of-way, road beds, stations, cars, rolling stock, tracks, wagons, horses, office furniture, telegraph and telephone poles, wires, conduits, switchboards, all other property used in carrying on their business and owned by them respectively, all other real and personal property, and all franchises. See Michigan Laws 207.5
  • property: means the property or interest in property of the testator, intestate, grantor, bargainor, or vendor, passing or transferred to those not specifically exempted from this act, and not as the property or interest in property passing or transferred to the individual legatees, devisees, heirs, next of kin, grantees, donees, or vendees, and includes all property or interest in property whether situated within or without this state and including all property represented or evidenced by note, certificate, stock, land, contract, mortgage or other kind or character of evidence thereof, and regardless of whether that evidence of property is owned, kept or possessed within or without this state. See Michigan Laws 205.221
  • property having a situs in this state: includes all of the following:
    •   (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the property, real and personal, of the persons, corporations, companies, copartnerships, and associations subject to taxation under this act, owned, used, and occupied by them within this state, and also the proportion of their rolling stock, cars, and other property used partly within and partly outside of this state as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 207.5
  • Prosthetic device: means , except as provided in section 4ff, a replacement, corrective, or supportive device, other than contact lenses and dental prosthesis, dispensed pursuant to a prescription, including repair or replacement parts for that device, worn on or in the body to do 1 or more of the following:
    •   (i) Artificially replace a missing portion of the body. See Michigan Laws 205.92b
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Purchase: means to acquire for a consideration, whether the acquisition is effected by a transfer of title, of possession, or of both, or a license to use or consume; whether the transfer is absolute or conditional, and by whatever means the transfer is effected; and whether consideration is a price or rental in money, or by way of exchange or barter. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Purchase price: means the price paid by the seller for the property. See Michigan Laws 205.93a
  • Purchaser: means a person to whom a sale of tangible personal property is made or to whom a service is furnished. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Purse: means a prize or any other remuneration offered to contestants to compete in a contest or event. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • Qualified commercial motor vehicle: means that term as defined in section 1 of the motor carrier fuel tax act, 1980 PA 119, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Qualified disability expenses: means that term as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Qualified withdrawal: means a distribution that is not subject to a penalty or an excise tax under section 529A of the internal revenue code or taxation under the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • 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.
  • Registration fee: means a fee other than the fee specified in a contract, which a personnel agency requires or accepts from a client prior to execution of a contract. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Regulated occupation: means an occupation, profession, or vocation that requires a license as a predicate for the practice of the occupation, profession, or vocation or that provides for the use of a specific title or professional designation in the practice of the occupation, profession, or vocation. See Michigan Laws 338.3702
  • Reinstatement: means the granting of a license or registration, with or without limitations or conditions, to a person whose license or registration has been revoked. See Michigan Laws 339.402
  • Relicensure: means the granting of a license to a person whose license has lapsed for failure to renew the license within 60 days after the expiration date. See Michigan Laws 339.402
  • 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.
  • Remote retail sale: means a sale of a tobacco product to a consumer in this state if either of the following applies:
    •   (i) The consumer submits the order for the sale by means of a telephone or other method of voice transmission, the mail, or the internet or other online service, or the seller is otherwise not in the physical presence of the purchaser when the request for purchase or order is made. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Report: when used with reference to an attest or compilation service, means an opinion, report, or other form of language that states or implies assurance as to the reliability of attested information or compiled financial statements and that also includes, or is accompanied by, any statement or implication that the individual or firm issuing it has special knowledge or competence in accounting or auditing. See Michigan Laws 339.720
  • Reregistration: means the granting of a registration to a person whose registration has lapsed for failure to renew the registration within 60 days after the expiration date. See Michigan Laws 339.402
  • 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.
  • reserve fund: means an account established and managed by a fiduciary organization housed at a financial institution. See Michigan Laws 206.902
  • Resident: means that term as defined in section 18 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Resident trainee: means an individual who is engaged in learning the practice of embalming or funeral directing or the practice of mortuary science under the instruction and personal supervision of a holder of a license for the practice of mortuary science in this state. See Michigan Laws 339.1801
  • Respondent: means a person against whom a complaint has been filed who may be a person who is or is required to be licensed or registered under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.501a
  • Respondent: means a licensee or other person against which a complaint is filed under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Resume writing service: means a person who provides professional assistance to an applicant in compiling a resume by assembling relevant data, organizing it in writing, and providing copies to the applicant for a fee. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
  • Retailer: means a person other than a transportation company who operates a place of business in this state, or who directs, manages, or has control over the day-to-day operations of a place of business in this state, for the purpose of making, or who does make, sales of a tobacco product at retail other than a remote retail sale. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Roll-your-own cigarette tobacco: means any tobacco that, because of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling, is suitable for use and likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as tobacco for making cigarettes. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Rule: means a rule promulgated under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • Sale: means a transaction by which tangible personal property or services are purchased or rented for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Sale: means a transaction by which the ownership of tangible personal property is transferred for consideration and applies also to use, gifts, exchanges, barter, and theft. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Sales price: means that term as defined in section 1 of the general sales tax act, 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.93a
  • Sales tax: means the tax levied under the general sales tax act, 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Sales tax: means the tax levied under the general sales tax act. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • School of cosmetology: means a school that teaches 1 or more cosmetology services at a premises designated in the license application. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • 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
  • Secondary wholesaler: means either of the following:
    •   (i) A person, other than a manufacturer or a person licensed under this act as a vending machine operator, wholesaler, or unclassified acquirer, who engages in the sale of a tobacco product for resale. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • self-consumption: means production for personal consumption or use and not for sale, resale, or any other profit-making endeavor. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Seller: means the person from whom a purchase is made and includes every person selling tangible personal property or services for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Seller: means any person who sells, leases, or rents tangible personal property or services to another person. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Service area: means that term as defined in section 3501, unless the context requires otherwise. See Michigan Laws 500.116
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • 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.
  • Settlement: means an agreement, stipulation, consent order, waiver, default, or other method of settlement of a complaint that is agreed to by the parties and the department. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • 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
  • shipping case: means an individual receptacle within which a tobacco product or group of tobacco products is placed for shipment, storage, or distribution, such as a box, case, or tote. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Skin care services: includes the following services or combination of services:
    •   (i) Beautifying the skin of the body of an individual by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams, including body wrapping. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Smokeless tobacco: means snuff, snus, chewing tobacco, moist snuff, and any other tobacco that is intended to be used or consumed, whether chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested, by any means other than smoking or combustion. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Stamp: means a distinctive character, indication, or mark, as determined by the department, attached or affixed to an individual package of cigarettes by mechanical device or other means authorized by the department to indicate that the tax imposed under this act has been paid. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Stamping agent: means a wholesaler or unclassified acquirer who is licensed and authorized by the department to affix stamps to individual packages of cigarettes on behalf of themselves and other wholesalers or unclassified acquirers. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • State: means any state of the United States or the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • 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.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Storage: means a keeping or retention of property in this state for any purpose after the property loses its interstate character. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Student: means a person learning the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Student: means an individual who is engaged in learning cosmetology or 1 or more cosmetology services in a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Student instructor: means a person learning the theory and practice of teaching barbering. See Michigan Laws 339.1101
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • subscriber: means an individual who enters into an insurance contract for health insurance, or on whose behalf an insurance contract for health insurance is entered into, with an insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.116
  • Tangible personal property: means corporeal personal property. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Tangible personal property: means personal property that can be seen, weighed, measured, felt, or touched or that is in any other manner perceptible to the senses and includes electricity, water, gas, steam, and prewritten computer software. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Tax: includes all taxes, interest, or penalties levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Tax: includes all taxes, interest, or penalties levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Taxpayer: means a person subject to tax under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Testate: To die leaving a will.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tobacco: means cigarettes, cigars, chewing or pipe tobacco, or any other item that contains tobacco. See Michigan Laws 205.92b
  • Tobacco product: means a product containing any amount of tobacco regardless of form including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, noncigarette smoking tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Transfer: includes the passing of property or an interest in property in possession or enjoyment, present or future, by inheritance, descent, devise, bequest, grant, deed, bargain, sale, or gift in the manner prescribed in this act. See Michigan Laws 205.221
  • Transfer tax: includes an estate, generation-skipping, inheritance, legacy, or succession tax for residents and nonresidents, including aliens. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • Transportation company: means a person operating, or supplying to common carriers, cars, boats, or other vehicles for the transportation or accommodation of passengers and engaged in the sale of a tobacco product at retail. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Transporter: means a person importing or transporting into this state, or transporting in this state, a tobacco product obtained from a source located outside this state, or from any person not duly licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Treasurer: means the state treasurer. See Michigan Laws 206.982
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Unarmed combat: means any of the following:
    •   (i) Professional boxing. See Michigan Laws 338.3611
  • Unclassified acquirer: means a person, except a transportation company or a purchaser at retail from a retailer licensed under the general sales tax act, 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • United States: when used in a geographical sense includes only the 50 states and the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 205.256
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Use: means the exercise of a right or power over tangible personal property incident to the ownership of that property including transfer of the property in a transaction where possession is given. See Michigan Laws 205.92
  • Use tax: means the tax levied under the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.173
  • Use tax: means the tax levied under the use tax act. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Use tax act: means 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.803
  • Vending machine operator: means a person who operates 1 or more vending machines in this state for the sale of a tobacco product. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Wholesale price: means the actual price paid to a seller for a tobacco product, by a wholesaler or unclassified acquirer to acquire that tobacco product from the seller. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Wholesaler: means a person who purchases all or part of its tobacco products from a manufacturer and who sells 75% or more of those tobacco products to others for resale. See Michigan Laws 205.422
  • Wrap: means an individual tobacco wrapper that is made wholly or in part from tobacco, including reconstituted tobacco, whether in the form of tobacco leaf, sheet, or tube, if the wrap is designed to be offered, or is offered, for sale to consumers to create or to use as a component part of a tobacco product. See Michigan Laws 205.422