Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 500 > Act 218 of 1956 > Chapter 83 - Repeals, Saving Clause, Effective Date

• 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.
• Commission: means a historic district commission created by the legislative body of a local unit under section 4. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Committee: means a historic district study committee appointed by the legislative body of a local unit under section 3 or 14. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Denial: means the written rejection of a permit application for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects a resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Historic district: means an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that contains 1 resource or a group of resources that are related by history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Historic preservation: means the identification, evaluation, establishment, and protection of resources significant in history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• 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.
• Local unit: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Resource: means 1 or more publicly or privately owned historic or nonhistoric buildings, structures, sites, objects, features, or open spaces located within a historic district. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Standing committee: means a permanent body established by the legislative body of a local unit under section 14 to conduct the activities of a historic district study committee on a continuing basis. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• 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