Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 141 > Act 100 of 1990 - City Utility Users Tax Act

• Acupressure: means a form of manual therapy in which physical pressure is applied to various points on the body. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Acupuncture: means the insertion and manipulation of needles through the surface of the human body. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Acupuncturist: means an individual who is licensed under this part to engage in the practice of acupuncture. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• Agent: includes , but is not limited to, an attorney-in-fact under a durable or nondurable power of attorney and an individual authorized to make decisions as a patient advocate concerning another's health care. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
• 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.
• 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
• Assignment: means that a dentist has designated a patient of record on whom services are to be performed and has described the procedures to be performed. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Child: includes , but is not limited to, an individual entitled to take as a child under this act by intestate succession from the parent whose relationship is involved. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
• Conservator: means a person appointed by a court to manage a protected individual's estate. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Cost of services: means the total operating and capital costs incurred by the department or a community mental health services program with respect to, or on behalf of, an individual. See Michigan Laws 330.1800
• Cupping: means the placement of a specially designed cup on the body to create suction. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Dental laboratory: means a dental workroom that is operated as a part of a dental office or otherwise, by a person, other than a dentist, who is engaged in, or holds himself, herself, or itself out as being directly or indirectly engaged in, constructing, repairing, or altering prosthetic dentures, bridges, orthodontic or other appliances, or structures to be used as substitutes for or as a part of human teeth or jaws or associated structures, or for the correction of malocclusions or deformities. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Dentist: means an individual who is licensed under this article to engage in the practice of dentistry. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dermal friction: means the use of repeated, closely timed, unidirectional press-stroking with a smooth-edged instrument over a lubricated area of the body. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Dietary counseling: means the process of advising a patient about healthy food choices and healthy eating habits in accordance with East Asian medical theory. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Dry needling: means a rehabilitative procedure using filiform needles to penetrate the skin or underlying tissues by targeting only myofascial trigger points and muscular and connective tissues to affect change in body structures and functions for the evaluation and management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and movement impairment. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• East Asian medicine techniques: includes , but is not limited to, acupuncture, manual therapy, moxibustion, heat therapy, dietary counseling, therapeutic exercise, acupressure, cupping, dermal friction, homeopathy, lifestyle coaching, and treatment with herbal medicines. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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}
• Estate: includes the property of the decedent, trust, or other person whose affairs are subject to this act as the property is originally constituted and as it exists throughout administration. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
• 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.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
• Guardian: means a person who has qualified as a guardian of a minor or a legally incapacitated individual under a parental or spousal nomination or a court appointment and includes a limited guardian as described in sections 5205, 5206, and 5306. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
• 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.
• Heat therapy: means the use of heat in therapy, such as for pain relief and health. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Herbal medicine: means the internal and external use of a plant or a plant extract, a mineral, or an animal product, that is not a prescription drug as that term is defined in section 17708. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Homeopathy: means the use of a highly diluted natural remedy from the plant, mineral, and animal domain. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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
• Individual: means the individual, minor or adult, who receives services from the department or a community mental health services program or from a provider under contract with the department or a community mental health services program. See Michigan Laws 330.1800
• Insurance benefits: means payments made in accordance with insurance coverage for the cost of health care services provided to an individual. See Michigan Laws 330.1800
• Insurance coverage: means any policy, plan, program, or fund established or maintained for the purpose of providing for its participants or their dependents medical, surgical, or hospital benefits. See Michigan Laws 330.1800
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lifestyle coaching: means the process of advising a patient about healthy lifestyle choices and habits in accordance with East Asian medical theory. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• lighting authority: means a lighting authority created under the municipal lighting authority act. See Michigan Laws 141.1152
• Manual therapy: means the application of an accurately determined and specifically directed manual force to the body, excluding a high-velocity, low-amplitude thrust to the spine. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Manufacturer: means a person that prepares, produces, derives, propagates, compounds, processes, packages, or repackages a drug or device salable on prescription only, or otherwise changes the container or the labeling of a drug or device salable on prescription only, and that supplies, distributes, sells, offers for sale, barters, or otherwise disposes of that drug or device and any other drug or device salable on prescription only, to another person for resale, compounding, or dispensing. See Michigan Laws 333.17706
• Minor: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
• Moxibustion: means burning the dried plant Artemisia vulgaris on or very near the surface of the skin as a form of therapy. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parent: includes , but is not limited to, an individual entitled to take, or who would be entitled to take, as a parent under this act by intestate succession from a child who dies without a will and whose relationship is in question. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Partial guardian: means that term as defined in section 600 of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• 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.
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Person: means an individual or an organization. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Personal representative: includes , but is not limited to, an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, and special personal representative, and any other person, other than a trustee of a trust subject to article VII, who performs substantially the same function under the law governing that person's status. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Plenary guardian: means that term as defined in section 600 of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• police officer: means a police officer, investigator, or police sergeant. See Michigan Laws 141.1152
• Power of appointment: means that term as defined in section 2 of the powers of appointment act of 1967, 1967 PA 224, MCL 556. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• 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}
• Practice as a dental assistant: means assistance in the clinical practice of dentistry based on formal education, specialized knowledge, and skill at the assignment and under the supervision of a dentist. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Practice as a dental hygienist: means practice at the assignment of a dentist in that specific area of dentistry based on specialized knowledge, formal education, and skill with particular emphasis on preventive services and oral health education. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Practice as a dental therapist: means providing any of the care and services, and performing any of the duties, described in section 16656. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Practice of chiropractic: means that term as defined in section 16401. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Practice of dentistry: means the diagnosis, treatment, prescription, or operation for a disease, pain, deformity, deficiency, injury, or physical condition of the human tooth, teeth, alveolar process, gums or jaws, or their dependent tissues, or an offer, undertaking, attempt to do, or holding oneself out as able to do any of these acts. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Practice of massage therapy: means that term as defined in section 17951. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Practice of medicine: means that term as defined in section 17001. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery: means that term as defined in section 17501. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Practice of physical therapy: means that term as defined in section 17801. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Registered acupuncturist: means an individual who is registered or otherwise authorized under this part before the effective date of the rules promulgated under section 16525 regarding licensure. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• Responsible party: means a person who is financially liable for services furnished to the individual. See Michigan Laws 330.1800
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Systematic acupuncture education: means a course of education that covers the foundation of acupuncture science and theory, channel and point location, needling techniques, approaches to diagnosis and therapy, and patient management. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Therapeutic exercise: means a range of physical activities that help restore and build physical strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, and stability. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Trust: includes , but is not limited to, an express trust, private or charitable, with additions to the trust, wherever and however created. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
• Ward: means an individual for whom a guardian is appointed. See Michigan Laws 700.1108