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- Active service: means service, including active state service and special duty required by law, regulation, or pursuant to order of the governor. See Michigan Laws 32.505
- Allegation: something that someone says happened.
- 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.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Board: means the state administrative board created in 1921 PA 2, MCL 17. See Michigan Laws 125.2683
- board: shall be deemed to mean the water management board of a water management district. See Michigan Laws 280.551
- Claimant: means a victim or intervenor who is injured, or any other person eligible for an award under section 4(1) or 5(1), who files a claim under this act. See Michigan Laws 18.351
- Commission: means the crime victim services commission. See Michigan Laws 18.351
- commission: shall be deemed to mean the water management commission of a water management district. See Michigan Laws 280.551
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Crime: means an act that is 1 of the following:
(i) A crime under the laws of this state or the United States that causes an injury within this state. See Michigan Laws 18.351Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another. Department: means the director of the department of natural resources or his or her designee to whom the director delegates a power or duty by written instrument. See Michigan Laws 324.301 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. Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. 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. Income-withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as defined by the support and parenting time enforcement act, 1982 PA 295, MCL 552. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Intervenor: means a person who goes to the aid of one who has become a victim of a crime and who suffers personal physical injury. See Michigan Laws 18.351 Issuing tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 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. Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Local governmental unit: means a county, city, village, township, or, for taxes levied after 2009, any other taxing jurisdiction that levies an ad valorem property tax. See Michigan Laws 125.2683 Military: means a reference to all components of the state military establishment. See Michigan Laws 32.505 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 Nongame fish and wildlife: means fish or wild animals that are unconfined and not ordinarily taken for sport, fur, or food, and the habitat that supports them. See Michigan Laws 324.43901 Obligor: means an individual about whom 1 of the following is true, or the estate of a decedent about whom 1 of the following was true before the individual's death:
(i) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102Other services necessary: means recognized medical treatment, convalescent aids, supplies, and other equipment needed by the victim because of physical incapacity sustained as a direct result of the crime. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended Out-of-pocket loss: means the unreimbursed and unreimbursable expenses or indebtedness reasonably incurred for medical care, psychological counseling, replacement services, any nonmedical remedial treatment rendered in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing, or other services necessary as a result of the injury upon which a claim is based. See Michigan Laws 18.351 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 324.301 Personal injury: means either of the following injuries:
(i) Actual bodily harm, including pregnancy or death. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amendedProbation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. project: shall be deemed to mean any flood control or drainage project petitioned for or undertaken under the provisions of this chapter in any water management district or subdistrict. See Michigan Laws 280.551 Qualified local governmental unit: means either of the following:
(i) A county. See Michigan Laws 125.2683Registering tribunal: means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Renaissance zone: means a geographic area designated under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2683 Replacement services: means homemaking tasks, child care, transportation, and other services previously performed by the victim that, because of the victim's injury, must temporarily or permanently be performed by a person other than the victim. See Michigan Laws 18.351 Review board: means the renaissance zone review board created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 125.2683 Rural area: means an area that lies outside of the boundaries of an urban area. See Michigan Laws 125.2683 State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 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. subdistrict: shall be deemed to mean the area comprising that portion of a water management district in which a project is petitioned for under the provisions of this chapter, which project benefits only 1 or more public corporations within the water management district. See Michigan Laws 280.551 Support: means actual monetary payments made by a victim or intervenor to or for a person principally dependent on the victim or intervenor. See Michigan Laws 18.351 Support enforcement agency: means a public official or governmental entity or private agency authorized to do 1 or more of the following:
(i) Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, that provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Trust fund: means the Michigan nongame fish and wildlife trust fund established in section 42 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in section 43902. See Michigan Laws 324.43901 Trust fund: means the game and fish lifetime license trust fund created in section 44104. See Michigan Laws 324.44101 United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o Victim: means a person who suffers a personal physical injury as a direct result of a crime. See Michigan Laws 18.351 Victim services organization: means an organization or agency that has a documented history of providing services to address issues arising from victimization to victims or to family members or household members of victims. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended water management district: shall be deemed to mean the area comprising all or part of 3 or more contiguous counties within a single drainage basin in which a project is petitioned for or undertaken under the provisions of this chapter, and shall include such counties and all public corporations within such area as shall be subject to assessment for the cost of such project. See Michigan Laws 280.551