§ 109.1 Fire protection; ordinances and regulations; fire department, establishment
§ 109.2 Fire equipment; water supply
§ 109.3 Fire houses
§ 109.4 Fire chief; duties; assistants
§ 109.5 Fire chief; power to command aid at fire; refusal, penalty
§ 109.6 Fire wardens; appointment, duties
§ 109.7 Fire ordinances; limits on wooden structures, construction, regulation; escapes
§ 109.8 Trades within certain districts prohibited; combustibles, regulation
§ 109.9 Prohibited structure; nuisance, abatement
§ 109.10 Compensation of officers, fire fighters, and employees; compensation for injuries
§ 109.11 Destruction of buildings at fires; damages, settlement; jury trial
§ 109.12 Harbor fire ordinances

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapters 81-113 > Act 215 of 1895 > Chapter XXIX - Fire Department

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Care: includes treatment, control, transportation, confinement, and isolation in a facility or other location. See Michigan Laws 333.5101
  • 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
  • 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
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • 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
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • 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.
  • 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 333.5101
  • Homestead: means a dwelling or a unit in a multiple unit dwelling and includes a mobile home or trailer coach. See Michigan Laws 35.801
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • 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.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • 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
  • 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
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • 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
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.