Part 62 Substance Abuse Services

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 333 > Act 368 of 1978 > Article 6 - Substance Abuse

  • 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.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Assessable property: means real property in a zone area other than property classified as residential real property under section 34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.990
  • Assessment: means an assessment imposed under this chapter against assessable property for the benefit of the property owners. See Michigan Laws 125.990
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Authority: means the Michigan state housing development authority created in this act. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Authority-aided mortgage: means a mortgage made, held, purchased, or assisted by the authority. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • 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
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Board: means the board of directors of a business improvement zone. See Michigan Laws 125.990
  • Business improvement zone: means a business improvement zone created under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 125.990
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Consumer housing cooperative: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated pursuant to the corporation laws of this state and chapter 5. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Conviction: includes any of the following:
    (i) Assignment to youthful trainee status under section 11 to 15 of chapter II. See Michigan Laws 777.50
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: means a county within this state. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 333.6230
  • Development costs: means the costs that have been approved by the authority as appropriate expenditures, and includes:
    •     (i) Payments for options to purchase properties on the proposed housing project site, deposits on contracts of purchase, or, with the prior approval of the authority, payments for the purchases of those properties. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 333.6230
  • Elderly: means a single person who is 55 years of age or older or a household in which at least 1 member is 55 years of age or older and all other members are 50 years of age or older. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Eligible distressed area: means any of the following:
    •     (i) An area located in a city with a population of at least 10,000, which area is either designated as a "blighted area" by a local legislative body pursuant to 1945 PA 344, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • 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.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Family income: means all income that is included in a determination of family income under section 143(f) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 143(f), together with the income of all adults who will reside in the residence, which income might otherwise be excluded from consideration because the individual was not expected to both live in the residence and be primarily or secondarily liable on the mortgage note. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Felony: means a violation of a penal law of this state for which the offender, upon conviction, may be punished by imprisonment for more than 1 year or an offense expressly designated by law to be a felony. See Michigan Laws 761.1
  • 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.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Fund: means the housing development fund created by this act. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governing body: means in the case of a city, the council or commission of the city; in the case of a village, the council, commission, or board of trustees of the village; in the case of a township, the township board; and in the case of a county, the county board of commissioners. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Housing development: means a development that contains a significant element of housing for persons of low or moderate income and elements of other housing and commercial, recreational, industrial, communal, and educational facilities that the authority determines improve the quality of the development as it relates to housing for persons of low or moderate income. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Housing project: means any of the following:
    •     (i) Residential real property developed or to be developed or receiving benefits under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Housing unit: means living accommodations that are intended for occupancy by up to 4 families, with a separate dwelling unit for each family, that may be site constructed or may be a mobile home or other form of manufactured housing, and with respect to which either of the following applies:
    •     (i) The owner of the housing occupies at least 1 of the dwelling units. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • 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
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • 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
  • Internal revenue code: means the United States internal revenue code of 1986. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Limited dividend housing corporation: means a corporation incorporated or qualified pursuant to the corporation laws of this state and chapter 6 and a limited dividend housing association organized and qualified pursuant to chapter 7. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Low income or moderate income persons: means families and persons who cannot afford to pay the amounts at which private enterprise, without federally-aided mortgages or loans from the authority, is providing a substantial supply of decent, safe, and sanitary housing and who fall within income limitations set in this act or by the authority in its rules. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Mobile home: means a structure, transportable in 1 or more sections, that is built on a chassis and is designed to be used as a dwelling with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained in the structure. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Mobile home condominium project: means a condominium project in which mobile homes are intended to be located upon separate sites that constitute individual condominium units and that complies with the condominium act, 1978 PA 59, MCL 559. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Mobile home park: means a parcel or tract of land under the control of a person or entity upon which 3 or more mobile homes are located on a continual, nonrecreational, residential basis and that is offered to the public for general public use for continual, nonrecreational, residential purposes regardless of whether a charge is made for that use, together with any social, recreational, commercial, and communal facilities used or intended for use incident to the occupancy of a mobile home. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Mobile home park association: means a mobile home park association organized and qualified in accordance with chapter 9. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Mobile home park corporation: means a corporation incorporated pursuant to the corporation laws of this state and qualified in accordance with chapter 8. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipality: means a city, village, or township in this state. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • Nonprofit housing corporation: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the corporation laws of this state and chapter 4. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • 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.
  • Proportional voting: means voting with an allocation of votes under section 10f(7) if provided for in a zone plan or a proposed zone plan. See Michigan Laws 125.990
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Qualifying period: means the period in which a business improvement zone is authorized to operate and impose and collect assessments, beginning on the date that the business improvement zone is approved by the property owners voting on the question as provided in section 10f and ending 7 to 10 calendar years after that date as determined in the petition described in section 10c. See Michigan Laws 125.990
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Rehabilitation: means all or part of those repairs and improvements necessary to make residential real property safe, sanitary, or adequate. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Residential real property: means real property located in this state, used for residential purposes, and improved or to be improved by a residential structure. See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • 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
  • Statewide median gross income: means the statewide median gross income as determined under section 143(f) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 143(f). See Michigan Laws 125.1411
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Substance use disorder services: means substance use disorder prevention services or substance use disorder treatment and rehabilitation services, or both, as those terms are defined in section 100d of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 333.6230
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • 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.
  • Zone area: means the area designated in the zone plan as the area to be served by the business improvement zone. See Michigan Laws 125.990
  • Zone plan: means a set of goals, strategies, objectives, and guidelines for the operation of a business improvement zone. See Michigan Laws 125.990