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- Accession: means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
- Account: means an arrangement under a terms-of-service agreement in which the digital custodian carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of the user or provides goods or services to the user. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
- Account debtor: means a person obligated on an account, chattel paper, or general intangible. See Michigan Laws 440.9102
- accounting for: means a record that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Authenticated by a secured party. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Accuser: means a person who signs and swears to charges, a person who directs that charges be signed and sworn to by another, or a person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Acquittal: Active service: means that term as defined in section 105 of the Michigan military act, 1967 PA 150, MCL 32. See Michigan Laws 32.432 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 Active service: means service, active state service, or special duty required by law, regulation, or order of the governor. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Active state duty: means the actual weekend, annual training, or special call up duty in the state military forces and includes travel to and from the duty site or station. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Active state service: means military service in support of civil authorities ordered by the governor or as provided by the Michigan military act. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Ad valorem general property tax: means taxes levied under the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session. Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of this state. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of this state. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of this state. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of this state. See Michigan Laws 35.1022 administrator: means the administrator of veterans affairs, or his successor. See Michigan Laws 35.71 Advisor: means a person who is given authority by the terms of a trust instrument to remove, appoint, or both, 1 or more trustees or to direct, consent to, approve, or veto a trustee's actual or proposed investment or distribution decisions. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 advisor: means an individual who has entered into a volunteer agreement with the department to serve as a nondeployable advisor in the Michigan cyber civilian corps. See Michigan Laws 18.222 Advisory board: means the Michigan cyber civilian corps advisory board created under section 9. See Michigan Laws 18.222 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. Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court. Agent: means an attorney-in-fact granted authority under a durable or nondurable power of attorney. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Agricultural lien: means an interest, other than a security interest, in farm products that meets all of the following requirements:
- Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
- A verdict of "not guilty."
(i) The interest secures payment or performance of an obligation for 1 or more of the following:
(A) Goods or services furnished in connection with a debtor's farming operation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Alcoholic liquor: means that term as defined in section 105 of the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Allegation: something that someone says happened. annual meeting: when applied to townships, mean the annual meeting required by law to be held on the Saturday immediately preceding the first Monday in April. See Michigan Laws 8.3d Annual user costs: means an annual charge levied by a water supplier on users of the waterworks system to pay for each user's share of the cost for operation, maintenance, and replacement of the waterworks system. See Michigan Laws 324.5401 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. Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal. Appraisal: A determination of property value. Apprehension: means the taking of a person into custody. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Aquatic nuisance: means an organism that lives or propagates, or both, within the aquatic environment and that impairs the use or enjoyment of the waters of the state, including the intermediate aquatic hosts for schistosomes that cause swimmer's itch. See Michigan Laws 324.3301 Armory: means a building, facility, or the lots and grounds used by an army, navy, or air unit of the national guard or organized militia as a home station or for military training. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty. Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority. Art: means an original, visual creation of quality executed in any size or shape, in any media, using any kind or combination of materials. See Michigan Laws 18.71 As-extracted collateral: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) Oil, gas, or other minerals that are subject to a security interest that is created by a debtor having an interest in the minerals before extraction and attaches to the minerals as extracted. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Ascertainable standard: means that term as defined in section 7103 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Assistance: means 1 or more of the following activities to the extent authorized by the federal water pollution control act:
(i) Provision of loans to municipalities for construction of sewage treatment works projects, stormwater management projects, or nonpoint source projects. See Michigan Laws 324.5301Assistance: means 1 or more of the following activities to the extent authorized by the federal safe drinking water act:
(i) Provision of loans for the planning, design, and construction or alteration of waterworks systems. See Michigan Laws 324.5401Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court. Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings. Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court. Authority: means the Michigan municipal bond authority created in the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5301 Authority: means the Michigan municipal bond authority created in the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5401 Authority: means the Michigan forest finance authority created in section 50503. See Michigan Laws 324.50502 Authorizing body: means any of the following that issues a contract as provided in this part:
(i) The board of a school district. See Michigan Laws 380.501Authorizing body: means the governing board of a state public university that issues a contract as provided in this part. See Michigan Laws 380.521 Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed. Bank: means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 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. Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels. 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 Beneficiary: means , in relation to a deceased veteran, the surviving husband or wife, the child or children, or the surviving dependent mother, dependent father, dependent person standing in loco parentis, or dependent brothers and sisters, in the order named, which determination may be made by the probate court of the county of residence of the veteran at the time of death on petition of the adjutant general. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Beneficiary: means , in relation to a deceased veteran, the surviving husband or wife, child or children, or the surviving mother, father, person standing in loco parentis, brothers and sisters, in the order named, which determination may be made by the probate court of the county of residence of the veteran at the time of death on petition of the adjutant general. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Beneficiary: means in relation to a deceased veteran the surviving husband or wife, child or children, or the dependent surviving mother or father, in the order named which determination may be made by the probate court of the county of residence of the veteran at the time of death. See Michigan Laws 35.1001 benefits: shall mean all moneys paid or payable by the United States through the veterans administration. See Michigan Laws 35.71 Bequest: Property gifted by will. Board: means the Michigan veterans' trust fund board of trustees created in subsection (1). See Michigan Laws 35.603b Board: means the state administrative board. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Board: means the state administrative board. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Board: means the department of state. See Michigan Laws 3.161 Board: means the board of directors of the Michigan forest finance authority, except where the context clearly requires a different definition. See Michigan Laws 324.50502 Bonds: means bonds of the authority issued as provided in this part. See Michigan Laws 324.50502 Bureau: means the legislative service bureau. See Michigan Laws 4.1102 Buyer in ordinary course of business: means a person that buys goods in good faith, without knowledge that the sale violates the rights of another person in the goods, and in the ordinary course from a person, other than a pawnbroker, in the business of selling goods of that kind. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Capitalization grant: means the federal grant made to this state by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the purpose of establishing a state water pollution control revolving fund, as provided in title VI of the federal water pollution control act, 33 USC 1381 to 1389. See Michigan Laws 324.5301 Care: includes treatment, control, transportation, confinement, and isolation in a facility or other location. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 Carrier: means an individual who serves as a potential source of infection and who harbors or who the department reasonably believes to harbor a specific infectious agent or a serious communicable disease or infection, whether or not there is present discernible disease. See Michigan Laws 333.5201 Carries: means engaging in the transmission of an electronic communication. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Cash proceeds: means proceeds that are money, checks, deposit accounts, or the like. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Catalogue of electronic communications: means information that identifies each person with which a user has had an electronic communication, the time and date of the communication, and the electronic address of the person. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses. Certificate of coverage: means written authorization from the department to implement a project under a general permit. See Michigan Laws 324.3301 Certificate of title: means a certificate of title with respect to which a statute provides for the security interest in question to be indicated on the certificate as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the collateral. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Certified nurse midwife: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification in the practice of nurse midwifery by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Certified nurse practitioner: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification as a nurse practitioner by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Chattel paper: means a record or records that evidence both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Chief executive official: means :
(i) In the case of a county with an elected county executive, the county executive. See Michigan Laws 30.402Chief information officer: means the individual within the department designated by the governor as the chief information officer for this state. See Michigan Laws 18.222 Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Child-support order: means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Children: means individuals who are 7 years old or younger. See Michigan Laws 333.5481 chronic disease: includes an impairment or deviation from normal having 1 or more of the following characteristics:
(a) It is permanent. See Michigan Laws 333.5401citation: means a complaint or notice upon which a police officer shall record an occurrence involving 1 or more vehicle law violations by the person cited. See Michigan Laws 257.727c city: whenever used in this act , shall be construed to mean a city incorporated under this act, or made subject to its provisions. See Michigan Laws 113.10 Claim: means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 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 Classification system: means a mechanism to identify the current use of land and any structures on the land. See Michigan Laws 324.60901 Client: means a municipal, educational, nonprofit, or critical infrastructure organization that has requested and is using the rapid response assistance of the Michigan cyber civilian corps under the direction of the department. See Michigan Laws 18.222 Clinical nurse specialist-certified: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification as a clinical nurse specialist by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Combat veteran: means a veteran eligible to wear the Vietnam Service Medal or Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. See Michigan Laws 35.1001 Combat veteran: means a veteran listed as missing in action, or a veteran eligible to wear the Vietnam Service Medal or the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal if eligibility for the award occurred during the period of service. See Michigan Laws 35.1022 Commander-in-chief: means the governor of this state. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Commanding officer: includes only a commissioned officer. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 commercial forestland: means forestland that is determined to be a commercial forest under section 51104. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 Commission: means the Hispanic/Latino commission of Michigan created in section 2. See Michigan Laws 18.301 Commission: means the Michigan law revision commission. See Michigan Laws 4.1102 Commission: means the health information technology commission created under section 2503. See Michigan Laws 333.2501 Commission: means the crime victim services commission. See Michigan Laws 18.351 Commission: means the state commission on criminal justice created in section 2. See Michigan Laws 18.401 Commission: means the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards created in section 3 of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Commissioner: means the commissioner of the office of financial and insurance services of the department of consumer and industry services. See Michigan Laws 21.147 Committee: means the committee on art in public places. See Michigan Laws 18.71 Commodity account: means an account maintained by a commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Commodity contract: means a commodity futures contract, an option on a commodity futures contract, a commodity option, or another contract if the contract or option is 1 of the following:
(i) Traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market for such a contract pursuant to federal commodities laws. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Commodity intermediary: means 1 of the following:
(i) A person that is registered as a futures commission merchant under federal commodities law. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Common 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. common source of supply: means a natural underground reservoir containing or appearing to contain a common accumulation of oil and gas. See Michigan Laws 324.61701 Communicable disease: means an illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that results from transmission of that infectious agent or its products from a reservoir to a susceptible host, directly as from an infected individual or animal, or indirectly through the agency of an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 Communicate: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) To send a written or other tangible record. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Community college: means a community college organized under the community college act of 1966, 1966 PA 331, MCL 389. See Michigan Laws 380.501 Community water supply: means a public water supply that provides year-round service to not less than 15 living units or that regularly provides year-round service to not less than 25 residents. See Michigan Laws 324.5401 Complainant: means a prisoner or legislator who files a complaint under section 4. See Michigan Laws 4.351 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law. Conference committee: A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of conferees from both chamber of a legislature which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers. Conference committees are usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation. Conference report: The compromise product negotiated by the conference committee. The "conference report" is submitted to each chamber for its consideration, such as approval or disapproval. Confinement: means the physical restraint of a person. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Conservator: means a person that is appointed by a court to manage all or part of the estate of a protected person. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Consignee: means a merchant to which goods are delivered in a consignment. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Consignment: means a transaction, regardless of its form, in which a person delivers goods to a merchant for the purpose of sale and that meets all of the following:
(i) The merchant deals in goods of that kind under a name other than the name of the person making delivery, is not an auctioneer, and is not generally known by its creditors to be substantially engaged in selling the goods of others. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Consignor: means a person that delivers goods to a consignee in a consignment. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Construction activities: means any actions undertaken in the planning, designing, or building of a waterworks system. See Michigan Laws 324.5401 Consumer: means an individual who enters into a transaction primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Consumer: means that term as used in the consumer product safety act, 15 USC 2051 to 2085. See Michigan Laws 333.5481 Consumer goods: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Consumer obligor: means an obligor who is an individual and who incurred the obligation as part of a transaction entered into primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Consumer-goods transaction: means a consumer transaction in which an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and a security interest in consumer goods secures the obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Content of an electronic communication: means information concerning the substance or meaning of an electronic communication to which all of the following apply:
(i) The information has been sent or received by a user. See Michigan Laws 700.1002Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time. Continuation statement: means an amendment of a financing statement which identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates and indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it is filed to continue the effectiveness of, the identified financing statement. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Contract: means the executive act taken by an authorizing body that evidences the authorization of a public school academy and that establishes, subject to the constitutional powers of the state board and applicable law, the written instrument executed by an authorizing body conferring certain rights, franchises, privileges, and obligations on a public school academy, as provided by this part, and confirming the status of a public school academy as a public school in this state. See Michigan Laws 380.501 Contractor: means the private entity, nonprofit entity, or academic institution selected by the department under section 5 to evaluate certain economic development incentives. See Michigan Laws 18.1753 Controlled substance: means that term as defined in section 7104 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Controlled substance: means opium, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, methamphetamine, phencyclidine, barbituric acid, marihuana, any compound or derivative of any such substance, and any other substance that is listed in schedules I through V of section 202 of the controlled substances act, 21 USC 812, including any subsequent amendments thereto. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Convention: means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Correctional custody: means the physical restraint of a person during duty or nonduty while on active state duty and includes extra duty, fatigue duty, or hard labor. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Council: means the Michigan emergency management advisory council. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Council: means the legislative council. See Michigan Laws 4.1102 Council: means the legislative council established under section 15 of article IV of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 4.351 Council administrator: means the chief executive officer of all legislative council agencies. See Michigan Laws 4.1102 Course of study: means an individual class, or group of classes, in which an eligible person is enrolled for the purpose of obtaining a not-yet-completed training program, obtaining a not-yet-completed certificate program, or obtaining a not-yet-completed associate, bachelor's, or master's degree. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Court: means the probate court or, when applicable, the circuit court. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Creditor: includes a general creditor, a secured creditor, a lien creditor, and any representative of creditors, including an assignee for the benefit of creditors, a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver in equity, and an executor or administrator of an insolvent debtor's or assignor's estate. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Creditor: means , with respect to a transferor, a person who has a claim whether directly or indirectly. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 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 18.351Criminal justice in-service training: means a criminal justice program that includes education or training that is designed and intended to enhance the direct delivery of criminal justice services by participants who are authorized to receive education or training as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Critical infrastructure: means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States or this state that the incapacity or destruction of that system or asset would have a debilitating impact on security, economic security, public health or safety, or any combination of these as determined by the department. See Michigan Laws 18.222 Cybersecurity incident: means an event occurring on or conducted through a computer network that actually or imminently jeopardizes the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of computers, information or communications systems or networks, physical or virtual infrastructure controlled by computers or information systems, or information resident on any of these. See Michigan Laws 18.222 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Data management system: means a mechanism which relies on a computer to manipulate, store, and retrieve information collected and updated during a resource inventory. See Michigan Laws 324.60901 Dating relationship: means frequent, intimate associations primarily characterized by the expectation of affectional involvement. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended Debt: means liability on a claim. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Debtor: means 1 of the following:
(i) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Decedent: A deceased person. declassification: means the removal of the commercial forest designation pursuant to section 51116. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime. Delivery: means either of the following:
(i) With respect to an electronic document of title, a voluntary transfer of control. See Michigan Laws 440.1201Dental school: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become dentists. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Dentist: means an individual who is licensed to engage in the practice of dentistry under part 166. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.3301 Department: means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy or its authorized agent or representative. See Michigan Laws 324.5402 Department: means the department of management and budget. See Michigan Laws 18.71 Department: means the department of technology, management, and budget. See Michigan Laws 18.222 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.2501 Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.61001 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Department: means the department of technology, management, and budget. See Michigan Laws 18.1753 Department: means the department of corrections. See Michigan Laws 4.351 Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Dependent: means an individual principally dependent on another for support. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amended Deposit: includes the purchase of, or investment in, shares of credit unions. See Michigan Laws 21.147 Deposit account: means a demand, time, savings, passbook, or similar account maintained with a bank. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial. Depository library: means a depository library designated under section 10 of the library of Michigan act, Act No. See Michigan Laws 21.55 Deputy: means any deputy, assistant or other subordinate officer, authorized pursuant to law to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See Michigan Laws 31.2 Derivative instrument or product: means either of the following, subject to subdivision (c):
(i) A contract or convertible security that changes in value in concert with a related or underlying security, future, or other instrument or index; or that obtains much of its value from price movements in a related or underlying security, future, or other instrument or index; or both. See Michigan Laws 21.55Designated advanced practice registered nurse: means a certified nurse midwife, certified nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist-certified. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Designated mental health professional: means an individual who is qualified in the area of mental illness or developmental disabilities and who is 1 of the following:
(i) A nurse. See Michigan Laws 333.2701Designated physician: means a physician qualified in 1 of the physician specialty areas identified in section 2711. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Designated professional: means a designated physician, designated advanced practice registered nurse, dentist, physician's assistant, or designated mental health professional. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Designated recipient: means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Detroit consumer price index: means the most comprehensive index of consumer prices available for the Detroit area from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Developmental disability: means that term as defined in section 100a of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Devise: To gift property by will. Digital asset: means an electronic record in which a user has a right or interest. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Digital custodian: means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 324.3301 Director: means the director of the department or his or her designated representative. See Michigan Laws 324.5402 Director: means the director of the department of management and budget or the designated representative of the director. See Michigan Laws 18.71 Director: means the director of the office of Hispanic/Latino affairs. See Michigan Laws 18.301 Director: means the director of the office of criminal justice. See Michigan Laws 18.401 Director: means the director of the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Disaster: means an occurrence or threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from a natural or human-made cause, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, snowstorm, ice storm, tornado, windstorm, wave action, oil spill, water contamination, utility failure, hazardous peacetime radiological incident, major transportation accident, hazardous materials incident, epidemic, air contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, or hostile military action or paramilitary action, or similar occurrences resulting from terrorist activities, riots, or civil disorders. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Disaster: means an extraordinary misfortune caused by an enemy attack upon the United States or by civil disorder and resulting in widespread destruction of life and property. See Michigan Laws 31.2 Disaster relief forces: means all agencies of state, county, and municipal government, private and volunteer personnel, public officers and employees, and all other persons or groups of persons having duties or responsibilities under this act or pursuant to a lawful order or directive authorized by this act. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Discharge: means spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping. See Michigan Laws 324.9501 Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Discretionary trust provision: means that term as defined in section 7103 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source: Disposition: means a transfer of property that either creates a new fiduciary relation between at least 1 trustee and a trust beneficiary or newly subjects property to a preexisting fiduciary relation between at least 1 trustee and a trust beneficiary. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Distribution decision: means a decision regarding the distribution of trust property to or for the benefit of a trust beneficiary. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 District coordinator: means the state police emergency management division district coordinator. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings. Docking facility: means a public, private, or commercial marina, yacht club, dock, or wharf used for mooring, serving, or otherwise handling watercraft. See Michigan Laws 324.9501 Document of title: means a record that in the regular course of business or financing is treated as adequately evidencing that the person in possession or control of the record is entitled to receive, control, hold, and dispose of the record and the goods the record covers and that purports to be issued by or addressed to a bailee and to cover goods in the bailee's possession which are either identified or are fungible portions of an identified mass. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Domestic service: means military service by a veteran during the period of service in 1 or more states of the United States or in the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Domestic service: means military service by a veteran during the period of service in any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Donee: The recipient of a gift. Donor: The person who makes a gift. Duty of support: means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Economic development incentive: means the abatements, tax credits, exemptions, grants, loans, or loan guarantees related to economic development activities in this state as determined by the Michigan strategic fund provided under the following acts:
(i) The Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208. See Michigan Laws 18.1753Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Michigan Laws 4.1121 Electronic communication: means that term as defined in 18 USC 2510. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Electronic communication service: means a digital custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Eligible educational institution: means a public or private college, university, vocational school, technical school, or trade school located in this state. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Eligible entity: means a governmental agency of the executive branch of this state or a subdivision of this state that is established and maintained in accordance with the laws of this state and that is authorized by the laws of this state to employ or appoint law enforcement officers licensed under section 9 and 9a of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Eligible person: means a member of the Michigan national guard who meets all of the following conditions:
(i) Is in active service. See Michigan Laws 32.432Emergency: means any occasion or instance in which the governor determines state assistance is needed to supplement local efforts and capabilities to save lives, protect property and the public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the state. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Emergency interim successor: means a person designated pursuant to this act who, in the event the incumbent or his deputy is unavailable, is to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by law, or until the lawful incumbent or his deputy is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge of the duties of the office. See Michigan Laws 31.2 Emergency management coordinator: means a person appointed pursuant to section 9 to coordinate emergency management within the county or municipality. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Encumbrance: means a right, other than an ownership interest, in real property. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Enlisted member: means a person in an enlisted grade. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs. Entity: means a partnership, nonprofit or business corporation, labor organization, or any other association, corporation, trust, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 380.501 Entity: means a nonprofit corporation that is organized under the nonprofit corporation act, 1982 PA 162, MCL 450. See Michigan Laws 380.521 Equipment: means goods other than inventory, farm products, or consumer goods. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 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. Estate: means the ownership of real or personal property at the time of death, the title to which was held either in the sole name of the decedent or by the entireties, tenancy in common, or joint tenancy with the spouse, child, or parent of the decedent, but does not include real property owned by the decedent as the homestead of the decedent. See Michigan Laws 35.801 Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office. Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent Farm products: means goods, other than standing timber, with respect to which the debtor is engaged in a farming operation and which are 1 of the following:
(i) Crops grown, growing, or to be grown, including crops produced on trees, vines, and bushes, and aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Federal safe drinking water act: means the safe drinking water act, 42 USC 300f to 300j-25, and the rules promulgated under that act. See Michigan Laws 324.5402 Federal service: means military duty in the armed forces of the United States, including, without limitation, the army national guard of the United States and the air national guard of the United States, while subject to the uniform code of military justice, 10 USC, 801 to 946. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Federal water pollution control act: means 33 USC 1251 to 1389. See Michigan Laws 324.5301 Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it. Fiduciary: means a person who is an original, additional, or successor personal representative, conservator, agent, or trustee. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. Fiduciary disposition: means a disposition made by a trustee acting in a fiduciary capacity. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Fiduciary qualified disposition: means a qualified disposition made by a trustee acting in a fiduciary capacity. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Field: means an underground reservoir or reservoirs containing oil or gas, or both. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Field: means an underground reservoir or reservoirs containing oil or gas, or both. See Michigan Laws 324.61701 File number: means the number assigned to an initial financing statement pursuant to section 9519(1). See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Filing office: means an office designated in section 9501 as the place to file a financing statement. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Filing-office rule: means a rule adopted pursuant to section 9526. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 financial institution: means a state or nationally chartered bank or a state or federally chartered savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union whose deposits are insured by an agency of the United States government and which maintains a principal office or branch office located in this state under the laws of this state or the United States. See Michigan Laws 21.147 Financing statement: means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 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 Fixture filing: means the filing of a financing statement covering goods that are or are to become fixtures and satisfying section 9502(1) and (2). See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Fixtures: means goods that have become so related to particular real property that an interest in them arises under real property law. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC Foreign country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and 1 or more of the following:
(i) That has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102Foreign service: means military service by a veteran during the period of service anywhere outside of any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Foreign service: means military service by a veteran during the period of service anywhere outside of any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Forest management operations and practices: means activities related to the harvesting, reforestation, and other forest management, including, but not limited to, road access for silviculture activity and forest thinning, pest control, disease control, fertilization, forest protection, and wildlife management, that are consistent with principles of sustainable forestry. See Michigan Laws 324.50502 Forest management plan: means a written plan prepared and signed by a registered forester or a natural resources professional that prescribes measures to optimize production, utilization, and regeneration of forest resources. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 Forestland: means a tract of land that may include nonproductive land that is intermixed with productive land that is an integral part of a managed forest and that meets all the following:
(i) Does not have material natural resources other than those resources suitable for forest growth or the potential for forest growth. See Michigan Laws 324.51101Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. Fund: means the Michigan national guard tuition assistance fund created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Fund: means the state water pollution control revolving fund established under section 16a of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5301 Fund: means the state drinking water revolving fund established under section 16b of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5402 Fund: means the state art in public places fund. See Michigan Laws 18.71 Fund: means the oil and gas regulatory fund created in section 61525b. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Fund: means the commercial forest fund created under section 51112. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 Fund: means the orphan well fund created in section 61602. See Michigan Laws 324.61601 Fundable range: means those projects, taken in descending order on the priority list, for which the department estimates sufficient funds exist to provide assistance during each annual funding cycle. See Michigan Laws 324.5402 Game: has the meaning given that term in part 401. See Michigan Laws 324.43504 Game and fish protection account: means the game and fish protection account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2010. See Michigan Laws 324.43701 Game and fish protection account: means the game and fish protection account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2010. See Michigan Laws 324.43504 Gas: means a mixture of hydrocarbons and nonhydrocarbons in a gaseous state which may or may not be associated with oil and includes liquids resulting from the condensation of those hydrocarbons and nonhydrocarbons. See Michigan Laws 324.43701 Gas: means a mixture of hydrocarbons and varying quantities of nonhydrocarbons in a gaseous state which may or may not be associated with oil, and includes those liquids resulting from condensation. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 General intangible: means any personal property, including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 General permit: means a permit for a category of activities that the department determines will not negatively impact human health and will have no more than minimal short-term adverse impacts on the natural resources and environment. See Michigan Laws 324.3302 General power of appointment: means a general power as that term is defined in section 2 of the powers of appointment act of 1967, 1967 PA 224, MCL 556. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Good faith: except as otherwise provided in article 5, means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Governing institution: means the state university within which the Michigan geological survey is established or continued under section 60102. See Michigan Laws 324.60101 Governmental unit: means a subdivision, agency, department, county, parish, municipality, or other unit of the government of the United States, a state, or a foreign country. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Grade: means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or rule. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Grant awards: means funds paid to grantees from the Michigan justice training fund as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Grantee: means an entity eligible to receive grant awards from the Michigan justice training fund, including any of the following or a combination of any of the following:
(i) An agency, department, division, bureau, board, commission, council, or authority of this state or of a city, village, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 18.421Grantor: 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 Guardian: means that term as defined in section 1104 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 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. Health resource shortage area: means a geographic area, population group, or health facility designated by the department under section 2717. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Health threat to others: means that an individual who is a carrier has demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to conduct himself or herself in such a manner as to not place others at risk of exposure to a serious communicable disease or infection. See Michigan Laws 333.5201 HIV: means human immunodeficiency virus. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 HIV infected: means the status of an individual who is infected with HIV, as evidenced by any of the following:
(i) An HIV test, or a combination of tests, that is considered a confirmatory diagnostic test according to prevailing medical technology and algorithms or guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. See Michigan Laws 333.5101Holder: means any of the following:
(i) A person in possession of a negotiable instrument that is payable either to bearer or to an identified person that is the person in possession. See Michigan Laws 440.1201Homestead: means a dwelling or a unit in a multiple unit dwelling and includes a mobile home or trailer coach. See Michigan Laws 35.801 Honorable service: means that service as evidenced by:
(i) Honorable or general discharge, or separation under honorable conditions. See Michigan Laws 35.1001Honorable service: means that service as evidenced by:
(i) Honorable or general discharge, or separation under honorable conditions. See Michigan Laws 35.1022Identification for election purposes: means , if issued to the individual presenting the card or document and if presented for voting purposes the name on the card or document sufficiently matches the individual's name in his or her voter registration record so as to accurately identify the individual as the registered elector, or if issued to the individual presenting the card or document and if presented for voter registration purposes, any of the following:
(i) An operator's or chauffeur's license issued under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 168.2Illegal oil or gas: means oil or gas that has been produced by an owner or producer in violation of this part, a rule promulgated under this part, or an order of the supervisor issued under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Illegal product: means a product of oil or gas or any part of a product of oil or gas that was knowingly processed or derived in whole or in part from illegal oil or gas. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Immunization: means the process of increasing an individual's immunity to a disease by use of a vaccine, antibody preparation, or other substance. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 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 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 Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies. Infection: means the invasion of the body with microorganisms or parasites, whether or not the invasion results in detectable pathologic effects. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 Information: means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 inhabitant: means a resident of a city, township, village, district or county. See Michigan Laws 8.3f Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Instrument: means a negotiable instrument or any other writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not itself a security agreement or lease, and is of a type that in ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 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 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 Inventory: means goods, other than farm products, that meet 1 of the following:
(i) Are leased by a person as lessor. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Inventory: means the land resource and current use inventory. See Michigan Laws 324.60901 Investment decision: means a decision regarding whether or not to purchase, sell, exchange, tender, or pledge any trust property. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Investment property: means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract, or commodity account. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Issuing state: means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 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 Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation. Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants. Judge advocate: means an officer who is designated as a judge advocate by the state judge advocate general. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Jurisdiction: means , except as otherwise provided in section 3, other states of the United States, the District of Columbia, territories and possessions of the United States, foreign countries, or political subdivisions of foreign countries. See Michigan Laws 3.161 Juror: A person who is on the jury. Lake management plan: means a document that contains all of the following:
(i) A description of the physical, chemical, and biological attributes of a waterbody. See Michigan Laws 324.3302Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Law enforcement agency: means an entity that is established and maintained in accordance with the laws of this state and that is authorized by the laws of this state to appoint or employ law enforcement officers. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Law enforcement distribution: means funds paid to eligible entities as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Lead-bearing substance: means an item or substance that contains lead, or a coating on an item that contains lead, so that the lead content is more than 0. See Michigan Laws 333.5481 Legacy: A gift of property made by will. Legal material: means any of the following:
(i) The state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 4.1121Legally incapacitated individual: means that term as defined in section 1105 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Legislative council agencies: means the bureau, commission, and any other legislative council agency designated by the council. See Michigan Laws 4.1102 Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto). Legislator: means a member of the senate or the house of representatives of this state. See Michigan Laws 4.351 Lessee: means lessees under oil and gas leases and also the owners of unleased lands or mineral rights having the right to develop them for oil and gas. See Michigan Laws 324.61701 Letter-of-credit right: means a right to payment or performance under a letter of credit, whether or not the beneficiary has demanded or is at the time entitled to demand payment or performance. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Letters: means that term as described in section 1105 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 License: means a game breeder's license issued pursuant to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.42701 Licensed professional counselor: means an individual who is licensed under part 181 to engage in the practice of counseling without supervision. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Lien creditor: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) A creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, levy, or the like. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Line of duty: as used in this act means an act performed by a member of the state military establishment in obedience to or in conformity with a law, rule, regulation, order, command or custom of the military service or an act performed which is not in violation of a law, rule, regulation, order, command or custom of the military service, or that will not bring discredit to the military service. See Michigan Laws 32.521 Litter: means rubbish, refuse, waste material, garbage, offal, paper, glass, cans, bottles, trash, debris, oil, or other foreign substances of every kind and description. See Michigan Laws 324.9501 Local health department: means that term as defined in section 1105 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Local state of emergency: means a proclamation or declaration that activates the response and recovery aspects of any and all applicable local or interjurisdictional emergency operations plans and authorizes the furnishing of aid, assistance, and directives under those plans. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Local unit: means a county, city, village, or township or an agency or instrumentality of any of these entities. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Local unit of government: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 18.1701 major political party: means each of the 2 political parties whose candidate for the office of secretary of state received the highest and second highest number of votes at the immediately preceding general election in which a secretary of state was elected. See Michigan Laws 168.16 Manufactured home: means a structure, transportable in 1 or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Manufactured-home transaction: means a secured transaction that creates a purchase-money security interest in a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as inventory, or in which a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as inventory, is the primary collateral. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Market demand: means the actual demand for oil or gas from any particular pool or field for current requirements for current consumption and use within or outside the state, together with the demand for such amounts as are necessary for building up or maintaining reasonable storage reserves of oil or gas or the products of oil or gas. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Marriage and family therapist: means an individual who is licensed under part 169 to engage in the practice of marriage and family therapy. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 martial rule: means the exercise of partial or complete military control over domestic territory in time of emergency because of public necessity. See Michigan Laws 32.505 MCOLES information and tracking network: means the commission's web-enabled information system for the licensing, reporting, and tracking of personnel and training records for Michigan law enforcement officers. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Medicaid: means benefits under the program of medical assistance established under title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396 to 1396w-6, and administered by the department under the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Medical school: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become physicians. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Medicare: means benefits under the federal Medicare program established under title XVIII of the social security act, 42 USC 1395 to 1395lll. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Mental health professional program: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become a designated mental health professional. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Michigan cyber civilian corps: means the program established by this act under which civilian volunteers who have expertise in addressing cybersecurity incidents may volunteer at the invitation of the department to provide rapid response assistance to a municipal, educational, nonprofit, or critical infrastructure organization in need of expert assistance during a cybersecurity incident. See Michigan Laws 18.222 Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteer: means an individual who has entered into a volunteer agreement with the department to serve as a deployable volunteer in the Michigan cyber civilian corps. See Michigan Laws 18.222 Michigan emergency management plan: means the plan prepared and maintained by the emergency management division of the department and signed by the governor. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Michigan justice training fund: means the Michigan justice training fund created in this act. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Michigan national guard: means the army national guard and the air national guard. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Military: means a reference to all components of the state military establishment. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Military: includes each armed force of the United States and each component of the state military establishment. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Military court: means a court-martial, a court of inquiry, or the military appeals tribunal. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 military duty: means (1) training and service performed by an inductee, enlistee or reservist or any entrant into a temporary component of the armed forces of the United States, and (2) time spent in reporting for and returning from such training and service, or if a rejection occurs, from the place of reporting therefor: Provided, That the time spent does not exceed the minimum time required by law for the inductee or not exceed 3 years for the first enlistment, or not exceed 3 years for the reservist after being recalled to active duty or as soon after the expiration of such 3 years as the reservist is able to obtain orders relieving him from active duty: And provided further, That if the re-employment provision of the selective service act is amended to provide a period of other than 3 years, such a period provided by the selective service act shall apply. See Michigan Laws 35.351 Military establishment: means the organized militia of this state, including the employees and equipment assigned or necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Military judge: means a judge advocate designated as a military judge by the state judge advocate general or an official of a general or special court-martial appointed pursuant to section 26. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Mineral: means an inorganic substance that can be extracted from the earth, except for oil or gas, and includes rock, metal ores, and mineral water. See Michigan Laws 324.43701 Minor: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Minor offense: means an offense under a punitive section of this act that a commanding officer considers minor. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Minority leader: See Floor Leaders Money: means a medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Mortgage: means a consensual interest in real property, including fixtures, which secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money. Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money. motor vehicle liability policy: as used in this chapter , shall mean an owner's or an operator's policy of liability insurance, certified as provided in section 518 or section 519 as proof of financial responsibility, and issued, except as otherwise provided in section 519, by an insurance carrier duly authorized to transact business in this state, to or for the benefit of the person named therein as insured. See Michigan Laws 257.520 Municipality: means this state, a county, city, village, or township, or an agency or instrumentality of any of these entities. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Municipality: means a city, village, county, township, authority, or other public body, including either of the following:
(i) An intermunicipal agency of 2 or more municipalities, authorized or created under state law. See Michigan Laws 324.5301Municipality: means a city, village, county, township, authority, public school district, or other public body with taxing authority, including an intermunicipal agency of 2 or more municipalities, authorized or created under state law. See Michigan Laws 324.5402 National Health Service Corps: means the agency established under 42 USC 254d. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Natural resources professional: means a person who is acknowledged by the department as having the education, knowledge, experience, and skills to identify, schedule, and implement appropriate forest management practices needed to achieve the purposes of this part on land subject to or to be subject to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 New debtor: means a person that becomes bound as debtor under section 9203(4) by a security agreement previously entered into by another person. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 New value: means money, money's worth in property, services, or new credit, or release by a transferee of an interest in property previously transferred to the transferee. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 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. Noncash proceeds: means proceeds other than cash proceeds. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Noncommunity water supply: means a public water supply that is not a community water supply, but that has not less than 15 service connections or that serves not less than 25 individuals on an average daily basis for not less than 60 days per year. See Michigan Laws 324.5402 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 Notes: means notes of the authority issued as provided in this part, including commercial paper. See Michigan Laws 324.50502 Nurse: means an individual who is licensed to engage in the practice of nursing under part 172. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Nursing program: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become nurses. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Oath: A promise to tell the truth. oath: shall be construed to include the word "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in like cases the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed". See Michigan Laws 8.3k Obligee: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued. See Michigan Laws 552.2102Obligor: means a person that, with respect to an obligation secured by a security interest in or an agricultural lien on the collateral, owes payment or other performance of the obligation, has provided property other than the collateral to secure payment or other performance of the obligation, or is otherwise accountable in whole or in part for payment or other performance of the obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 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 552.2102Office: means the office of Hispanic/Latino affairs as created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 18.301 Office: means the office of criminal justice created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 18.401 Office: means the office of the legislative corrections ombudsman created under this act. See Michigan Laws 4.351 Officer: means a supervisor, treasurer, clerk, or trustee. See Michigan Laws 41.1b Officer: means a commissioned officer and a warrant officer, unless a distinction between commissioned officer and warrant officer is clearly evident. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Officer: means a commissioned or warrant officer. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Official: means an official or employee of the department of corrections. See Michigan Laws 4.351 Official publisher: means :
(i) For the state constitution of 1963, the legislative service bureau. See Michigan Laws 4.1121Oil: means oil of any kind or in any form, including petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, and oil refuse. See Michigan Laws 324.9501 Oil: means natural crude oil or petroleum and other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods and which are not the result of condensation of gas after it leaves the underground reservoir. See Michigan Laws 324.43701 Oil: means natural crude oil or petroleum and other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, that are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods and that are not the result of condensation of gas after it leaves the underground reservoir. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Oil and gas: means oil and gas as such in combination one with the other and also means oil, gas, casinghead gas, casinghead gasoline, gas distillate, or other hydrocarbons, or any combination or combinations of these substances, which may be found in or produced from a common source of supply of oil, gas, oil and gas, or gas distillate. See Michigan Laws 324.61701 Oil or gas well: means a well drilled pursuant to part 615, or its predecessor acts, or a well drilled prior to the effective dates of part 615 or its predecessor acts as determined by the supervisor, for oil or gas exploration or development or storage, or associated production or disposal activities. See Michigan Laws 324.61601 Ombudsman: means the office of legislative corrections ombudsman. See Michigan Laws 4.351 Online tool: means an electronic service provided by a digital custodian that allows the user, in an agreement distinct from the terms-of-service agreement between the digital custodian and user, to provide directions for disclosure or nondisclosure of digital assets to a third person. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Operator: means the person authorized by contract or agreement by the owner to drill, operate, maintain, or plug a well. See Michigan Laws 324.61601 Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions. Organization: means a person other than an individual. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Organization: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Original debtor: means , except as used in section 9310(3), a person that, as debtor, entered into a security agreement to which a new debtor has become bound under section 9203(4). See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Other 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 Owner: means a person who holds title to the surface estate of forestland subject to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 Owner: means the person who has the right to drill a well into a pool, to produce from a pool, and to receive and distribute the value of the production from the pool for himself or herself either individually or in combination with others. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Owner: means the person who has the right to drill a well into a pool, to produce from a pool, and to receive and distribute the value of the production from the pool for himself or herself either individually or in combination with others. See Michigan Laws 324.61601 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. Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Period of service: means the period of time between September 16, 1940 and June 30, 1946 and, for purposes of former section 25 of article X of the state constitution of 1908, also means the period of time between June 27, 1950 and the termination of the state of national emergency, which state of national emergency was proclaimed on December 16, 1950. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Period of service: means the period of time between June 27, 1950 and December 31, 1953. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Period of service: means that period of time between 12:01 a. See Michigan Laws 35.1001 Period of service: means that period of time between 12:01 a. See Michigan Laws 35.1022 period of war: means that phrase as described in 38 C. See Michigan Laws 35.602 Person: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or any other entity. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 person: includes a partnership, corporation or an association. See Michigan Laws 35.71 Person: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, and corporation. See Michigan Laws 3.161 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 333.5481 Personal injury: means either of the following injuries:
(i) Actual bodily harm, including pregnancy or death. See Michigan Laws 18.351.amendedPersonal physical injury: means actual bodily harm and includes pregnancy. See Michigan Laws 18.351 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Personal representative: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Physician: means an individual who is licensed as a physician under part 170 or part 175. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. Plan: means a comprehensive adult or juvenile justice plan developed under federal or state law requirements. See Michigan Laws 18.401 Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court. Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer. Police officer: means a police officer as defined in section 42 of the Michigan vehicle code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 324.9501 Political subdivision: means a county, municipality, school district, or any other governmental unit, agency, body, board, or commission which is not a state department, board, commission, or agency of state government. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Pool: means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of oil or gas, or both. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 position: means employment, whether probationary or otherwise, held by a public employee at the time of entrance into military duty, but shall not include temporary or casual employment or an office filled by election, nor officers appointed for a fixed term. See Michigan Laws 35.351 Power of attorney: means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC 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. Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. Source: U.S. Courts President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service. Pretrial conference: A meeting of the judge and lawyers to discuss which matters should be presented to the jury, to review evidence and witnesses, to set a timetable, and to discuss the settlement of the case. Primary public safety answering point: means that term as defined in section 102 of the emergency telephone service enabling act, 1986 PA 32, MCL 484. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Principal: means a person that grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Priority list: means the annual ranked listing of projects developed by the department in section 5406. See Michigan Laws 324.5403 Prisoner: means a person committed to or under the jurisdiction of the department. See Michigan Laws 4.351 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. 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. Proceeding: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Proceeds: means , except as used in section 9609(2), 1 or more of the following property:
(i) Whatever is acquired upon the sale, lease, license, exchange, or other disposition of collateral. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Producer: means the operator, whether owner or not, of a well or wells capable of producing oil or gas or both in paying quantities. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Product: means any commodity or thing made or manufactured from oil or gas, and all derivatives of oil or gas, including refined crude oil, crude tops, topped crude, processed crude petroleum, residue treated crude oil, residuum, gas oil, naphtha, distillate, gasoline, casing-head gasoline, natural gas gasoline, kerosene, benzine, wash oil, waste oil, lubricating oil, and blends or mixtures of oil or gas or any derivatives of oil or gas whether enumerated or not. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Professional association: means a national, state, or local police union, or an association or fraternal organization of police officers, correctional officers, or prosecuting attorneys. See Michigan Laws 18.421 Project: means a sewage treatment works project, stormwater management project, or nonpoint source project, or a combination of these and may include utilization of more efficient energy and resources as described in any of the following:
(i) The cost-effective governmental energy use act, 2012 PA 625, MCL 18. See Michigan Laws 324.5301Project: means a project related to the planning, design, and construction or alteration of a waterworks system and may include utilization of more efficient energy and resources as described in any of the following:
(i) The cost-effective governmental energy use act, 2012 PA 625, MCL 18. See Michigan Laws 324.5403Promissory note: means an instrument that evidences a promise to pay a monetary obligation, does not evidence an order to pay, and does not contain an acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has received for deposit a sum of money or funds. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Property: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Protected individual: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Protected person: includes any of the following:
(i) A protected individual. See Michigan Laws 700.1002Psychologist: means an individual licensed to engage in the practice of psychology under part 182. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit. public employee: means any person holding a position in public employment, both classified and unclassified. See Michigan Laws 35.351 public employer: means any government, department or agency mentioned in subsection (b) of this section employing a public employee in a position. See Michigan Laws 35.351 public employment: means remunerative employment by the government of this state, or of any county, municipality, or other civil or political subdivision thereof, including any department, agency or instrumentality thereof. See Michigan Laws 35.351 Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Public organic record: means a record that is available to the public for inspection and is any of the following:
(i) A record consisting of the record initially filed with or issued by a state or the United States to form or organize an organization and any record filed with or issued by the state or the United States which amends or restates the initial record. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Public water supply: means a waterworks system that provides water for drinking or household purposes to persons other than the water supplier, except for those waterworks systems that supply water to only 1 house, apartment, or other domicile occupied or intended to be occupied on a day-to-day basis by an individual, family group, or equivalent. See Michigan Laws 324.5403 Purchase: means taking by sale, lease, discount, negotiation, mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest, issue or reissue, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in property. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Purchaser: means a person that takes by purchase. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Qualified disposition: means , subject to subparagraphs (iii) and (iv), a disposition after which both subparagraphs (i) and (ii) apply to the subject property:
(i) The subject property is owned by 1 or more trustees at least 1 of whom is a qualified trustee. See Michigan Laws 700.1042qualified military veteran: means an individual who meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Before graduation from a high school, the military veteran enlisted in or was drafted into the armed forces of the United States during World War II between December 16, 1940 and December 31, 1946, during the Korean conflict between June 27, 1950 and January 31, 1955, or during the Vietnam era between February 28, 1961 and May 7, 1975. See Michigan Laws 35.341Qualified trust beneficiary: means that term as defined in section 7103 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Qualified trustee: means a person, other than the transferor, who meets all of the following conditions:
(i) For an individual, the individual is a resident of this state or, in all other cases, is authorized by the law of this state to act as a trustee and whose activities are subject to supervision by the department of insurance and financial services, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Comptroller of the Currency, or the Office of Thrift Supervision. See Michigan Laws 700.1042Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business. Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 4.1121 Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 record owner: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or which is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC Regional planning commission: means a regional planning commission designated by the governor pursuant to executive directive to carry out planning in a multicounty region of the state. See Michigan Laws 324.60901 Register: means to record in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or a foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Registered forester: means a person registered under part 535. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 Registered organization: means an organization organized solely under the law of a single state or the United States by the filing of a public organic record with, the issuance of a public organic record by, or the enactment of legislation by the state or the United States. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Registering tribunal: means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Regular election: means an election held on a regular election date to elect an individual to, or nominate an individual for, elective office in the regular course of the terms of that elective office. See Michigan Laws 168.3 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. Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings. Remote-computing service: means a digital custodian that provides to a user computer processing services or the storage of digital assets by means of an electronic communications system. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 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 Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals). Representative: means a person empowered to act for another, including an agent, an officer of a corporation or association, and a trustee, executor, or administrator of an estate. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 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. Resident: means a person who meets 1 or more of the following:
(i) Was born in and lived in this state until entrance into the armed forces of the United States. See Michigan Laws 35.922Resident: means a person who meets 1 or more of the following:
(i) Was born in and lived in this state until entrance into the armed forces of the United States. See Michigan Laws 35.972Resident: means a person who has acquired a status as follows:
(i) Was born in and lived in this state until entrance into the armed forces of the United States. See Michigan Laws 35.1022Resident: means either of the following:
(i) A person who resides in a settled or permanent home or domicile within the boundaries of this state with the intention of remaining in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.44101Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Retirement benefit: means an interest in 1 of the following types of assets if payable to a trust as a beneficiary or owned by the trust: a qualified or nonqualified annuity; a benefit under a qualified or nonqualified plan of deferred compensation; any account in, or benefit payable under, any pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus, or other qualified retirement plan; any individual retirement account or trust; and all benefits under a plan or arrangement that is established under section 401, 403, 408, 408A, or 457 or a similar provision of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 401, 403, 408, 408A, and 457. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Right: includes remedy. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. See Michigan Laws 30.402 seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
(a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3nSecondary obligor: means an obligor to the extent that the obligor's obligation is secondary or the obligor has a right of recourse with respect to an obligation secured by collateral against the debtor, another obligor, or property of either. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Secured party: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) A person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is outstanding. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a security interest. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Security interest: means an interest in personal property or fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Serious communicable disease or infection: means a communicable disease or infection that is designated as serious by the department under this part. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 service: means service in the armed forces of the United States during a period of war as described in 38 C. See Michigan Laws 35.801 Service obligation: means the contractual obligation undertaken by an individual under section 2705 or section 2707 to provide health care services for a determinable time period at a site designated by the department. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 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. Settlor: means that term as defined in section 7103 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Settlor: means that term as defined in section 7103 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Severed oil and gas rights: means those subsurface oil and gas rights held by the department on land in which the department does not own the surface rights to the land. See Michigan Laws 324.61001 Sewage: means human body wastes, treated or untreated. See Michigan Laws 324.9501 Sewage sludge: means sewage sludge generated in the treatment of domestic sewage, other than only septage or industrial waste. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Sewage sludge derivative: means a product for land application derived from sewage sludge that does not include solid waste or other waste regulated under this act. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Sewage sludge distributor: means a person who applies, markets, or distributes, except at retail, a sewage sludge derivative. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Sewage sludge generator: means a person who generates sewage sludge that is applied to land. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Sexually transmitted infection: means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale, and other sexually transmitted infections that the department may designate and require to be reported under section 5111. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 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 Silvicultural practices: means the management and manipulation of forest vegetation for the protection, growth, and enhancement of forest products. See Michigan Laws 324.51101 Site restoration: means the filling and leveling of all cellars, pits, and excavations; the removal or elimination of all debris; the elimination of conditions that may create a fire or pollution hazard; the minimization of erosion; and the restoration of the well site as nearly as practicable to the original land contour or to a condition approved by the supervisor after consulting with the surface owner of the land and with the operator of a natural gas storage field if the well site is within the boundary of a natural gas storage field. See Michigan Laws 324.61601 Soil scientist: means a person who meets the qualification standards of the GS-470 soil scientist series established by the United States civil service commission. See Michigan Laws 324.60701 Soil survey: means the identification and description of kinds of soil, the plotting of boundaries on aerial photographs between kinds of soils, and the description and evaluation of their importance and response under various uses and management practices. See Michigan Laws 324.60701 Special duty: means military service in support of the full-time operation of the state military establishment for a period of not less than 1 day if ordered by competent authority. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Special election: means an election to elect an individual to, or nominate an individual for, a partial term in office or to submit a ballot question to the electors. See Michigan Laws 168.4 Special fiduciary: means a special fiduciary appointed by the court under sections 1308, 1309, 7704, 7815, and 7901 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Special power of appointment: means a special power as defined in section 2 of the powers of appointment act of 1967, 1967 PA 224, MCL 556. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Spendthrift provision: means that term as defined in section 7103 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Staff judge advocate: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of military justice within a command. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 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 440.9102 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 4.1121 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 agency: means a state department, board, commission, office, agency, institution, or other unit of state government. See Michigan Laws 18.1701 State executive officers: means the elected heads of the principal departments of this state. See Michigan Laws 31.2 State forester: means an employee of the department who has a 4-year degree in forest management from an accredited college or university and experience in forest management and who is designated as the state forester by the director. See Michigan Laws 324.50502 State geologist: means the chief of the office of oil, gas, and minerals, or a successor office, of the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.60101 State judge advocate general: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of the military justice in the state military forces. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 State military forces: means the national guard of the state, as defined in 32 USC 101(3), and any other military force organized under the laws of the state. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 State of disaster: means an executive order or proclamation that activates the disaster response and recovery aspects of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency operations plans applicable to the counties or municipalities affected. See Michigan Laws 30.402 State of emergency: means an executive order or proclamation that activates the emergency response and recovery aspects of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency operations plans applicable to the counties or municipalities affected. See Michigan Laws 30.402 State public university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 380.501 State public university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 380.521 State university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 324.60101 Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights. Stock: means game. See Michigan Laws 324.42701 strategic fund: means the fund under the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 18.1753 Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Superior commissioned officer: means a commissioned officer superior in rank or command. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Supervisor: means the supervisor of a township elected under chapter XVI of the Michigan election law, Act No. See Michigan Laws 41.1b Supervisor: means the supervisor of wells as provided by part 615 or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 324.61601 supervisor of wells: means the department. See Michigan Laws 324.61501 Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act. supplier: means a municipality or its designated representative accepted by the director, a legal business entity, or any other person that owns a public water supply. See Michigan Laws 324.5403 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 Support provision: means that term as defined in section 7103 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Supporting obligation: means a letter-of-credit right or secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, a document, a general intangible, an instrument, or investment property. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Sustainable forestry: means that term as defined in section 52501. See Michigan Laws 324.50502 system: means a system of pipes and structures through which water is obtained or distributed and includes any of the following that are actually used or intended to be used for the purpose of furnishing water for drinking or household purposes:
(i) Wells and well structures. See Michigan Laws 324.5403Tangible chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information that is inscribed on a tangible medium. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Technical assistance: means the aid that the department shall provide to municipalities, counties, and other interested groups and individuals, on the use of the land resource and current use inventory and related information for planning and resource management decisions. See Michigan Laws 324.60901 Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held. Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent Term: means a portion of an agreement that relates to a particular matter. See Michigan Laws 440.1201 Termination statement: means an amendment of a financing statement that identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates and indicates either that it is a termination statement or that the identified financing statement is no longer effective. See Michigan Laws 440.9102 Terms-of-service agreement: means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a digital custodian. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death. Testify: Answer questions in court. 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. Township board: means the township board of a township constituted as provided in section 70. See Michigan Laws 41.1b 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. Transferor: means any of the following, as applicable:
(i) A person and, for more than 1 owner of undivided interests, each of several persons, who, as a beneficial owner of certain property, or as the holder of a general power of appointment over certain property, directly or indirectly, makes a disposition of the property or causes a disposition to be made. See Michigan Laws 700.1042Transmitting utility: means a person primarily engaged in the business of 1 of the following:
(i) Operating a railroad, subway, street railway, or trolley bus. See Michigan Laws 440.9102Treasurer: means the treasurer of a township elected under chapter XVI of Act No. See Michigan Laws 41.1b Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. 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: means that term as defined in section 1107 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC Trust beneficiary: means that term as defined in section 7103 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1042 Trust fund: means the Michigan game and fish protection trust fund established in section 41 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in section 43702. See Michigan Laws 324.43701 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 Trust instrument: means an instrument appointing a qualified trustee or qualified trustees for the property that is the subject of a disposition to which all of the following apply:
(i) The instrument expressly incorporates the law of this state to govern the validity, construction, and administration of the trust. See Michigan Laws 700.1042Trustee: means that term as defined in section 1107 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. Tuition: means the cost of a course of study at an eligible educational institution, including the cost of instructional fees, laboratory fees, computer fees, and other fees directly related to that eligible person's specific course of study at that eligible educational institution. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Tuition assistance program: means the Michigan national guard tuition assistance program created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Unavailable: means that the lawful incumbent of the office, including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of the office because of a vacancy, and his duly authorized deputy are not available to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See Michigan Laws 31.2 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 Unit: means a regularly organized body of the military that is not larger than a company or squadron. See Michigan Laws 32.1002 Unit area: means the formation or formations that are unitized and surface acreage that is a part of the unitized lands, as described in the plan for unit operations that is the subject of the supervisor's order as provided in section 61706. See Michigan Laws 324.61701 Unit expense: means any and all cost, expense, or indebtedness incurred by the unit in the establishment of its organization or incurred in the conduct and management of its affairs or the operations conducted by it. See Michigan Laws 324.61701 Unit production: means all indigenous oil and gas produced and saved from a unit area after the effective date of the order of the supervisor creating the unit, regardless of the well or tract within the unit area from which that oil and gas is produced. See Michigan Laws 324.61701 User: means a person that has an account with a digital custodian. See Michigan Laws 700.1002 User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services. Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate. Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge. veteran: means an individual who meets all of the following:
(a) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.441veteran: means an individual who meets all of the following:
(a) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.602Veteran: means an individual who meets all of the following:
(i) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.922Veteran: means an individual who meets both of the following:
(i) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.972Veteran: means an individual who meets both of the following:
(i) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.1001Veteran: means an individual who meets both of the following:
(i) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.1022veterans administration: means the United States veterans administration, its predecessors or successors. See Michigan Laws 35.71 Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House. Victim: means a person who suffers a personal physical injury as a direct result of a crime. See Michigan Laws 18.351 Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime. Vital resource: means a public or private building, facility, property, or location that the governor considers necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state. See Michigan Laws 32.505 Volunteer agreement: means the contract entered into between the department and a Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteer or advisor under section 4. See Michigan Laws 18.222 ward: means a beneficiary of the veterans administration. See Michigan Laws 35.71 waterbody: means groundwaters, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, and wetlands and all other watercourses and waters within the jurisdiction of this state including the Great Lakes bordering this state. See Michigan Laws 324.3302 Watercraft: means a contrivance used or capable of being used for navigation upon water, whether or not capable of self-propulsion, including foreign and domestic vessels engaged in commerce upon the waters of this state, passenger or other cargo-carrying vessels, and privately owned recreational watercraft. See Michigan Laws 324.9501 Waters of the state: means groundwaters, lakes, rivers, and streams and all other watercourses and waters, including the Great Lakes, within the jurisdiction of this state. See Michigan Laws 324.3101 Waters of this state: means waters within the territorial limits of this state including the waters of the Great Lakes that are under the jurisdiction of this state. See Michigan Laws 324.9501 Wildlife and fisheries: includes any member of the wild animal kingdom, including any mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or invertebrate found in this state at any point in its natural life cycle. See Michigan Laws 324.43504 Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act. writing: includes printing, typewriting, or any other intentional reduction to tangible form. See Michigan Laws 440.1201