Terms Used In Michigan Laws 125.2071

  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Fund: means the Michigan strategic fund created under section 5, except where the context clearly requires a different definition. See Michigan Laws 125.2004
  • Green chemistry: means chemistry and chemical engineering to design chemical products or processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances, while producing high-quality products through safe and efficient manufacturing processes. See Michigan Laws 125.2004
  • Person: means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, profit or nonprofit corporation including a public or private college or university, public utility, municipality, local industrial development corporation, economic development corporation, other association of persons organized for agricultural, commercial, or industrial purposes, a lender, or any other entity approved by the board. See Michigan Laws 125.2004
    As used in this chapter:
    (a) “Economic development fund” means that fund to which the fund succeeded in ownership pursuant to section 22.
    (b) “Research and development enterprise” means any person found by the fund to be engaged in a business which uses green chemistry as a design guidance, or the discovery of new substances and the refinement of known substances, processes, products, theories, and ideas, except for those persons whose businesses are directed primarily to the accumulation or analysis of commercial, financial, or mercantile data.
    (c) “Research center fund” means that fund created by section 27 of former 1982 PA 70, to which the fund succeeds in ownership pursuant to section 76.