§ 780.851 Short title
§ 780.853 Definitions
§ 780.855 Address confidentiality program; creation; eligibility; application; duties of attorney general; certification of program participant; renewal or cancellation; minor; participation card; applicab
§ 780.857 Use of designated address by governmental entity, employer, school, or institution of higher education; mail and service of process duties; inapplicable to municipally owned utility
§ 780.859 Cancellation of program participant certification; circumstances
§ 780.861 Request for disclosure of confidential information for legitimate governmental purpose; notice of request to program participant
§ 780.863 Certification training program for application assistants and victim advocates
§ 780.865 Computerized database of program participants; limited access by Michigan intelligence operations center
§ 780.867 Promulgation of rules
§ 780.869 Confidential address fund
§ 780.871 False statement or unauthorized disclosure; violation; penalties
§ 780.873 Address confidentiality program advisory council
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 780 > Act 301 of 2020 - Address Confidentiality Program Act

  • Application assistant: means an employee or volunteer at an agency or organization that serves victims of domestic violence, stalking, human trafficking, or sexual assault who has received training and certification from the department of the attorney general to help individuals complete applications to become program participants. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • 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
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Confidential address: means the address of a program participant's residence, as specified on an application to be a program participant or on a notice of change of information as provided under section 5 that is classified confidential by the department of the attorney general. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Designated address: means the mailing address at which the department of technology, management, and budget receives mail to forward to program participants. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Domestic violence: means the occurrence of any of the following acts by a person that is not an act of self-defense:
    (i) Causing or attempting to cause physical or mental harm to a family or household member. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Family or household member: means that term as defined in section 1 of 1978 PA 389, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • 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
  • Governmental entity: means this state, a local unit of government, or any department, agency, board, commission, or other instrumentality of this state or a local unit of government. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • 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.
  • Guardian of a ward: means a person who has qualified as a guardian of a legally incapacitated individual under a court appointment. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Human trafficking: means a violation of chapter LXVIIA of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • 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.
  • Law enforcement agency: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Local unit of government: means a city, village, township, or county in this state. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Minor: means an individual under the age of 18 who is not emancipated under 1968 PA 293, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Municipally owned utility: means electric, gas, or water services provided by a municipality. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Program: means the address confidentiality program created under this act. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Program participant: means an individual who is certified by the department of the attorney general as a program participant under section 5. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Sexual assault: means a violation, attempted violation, or solicitation or conspiracy to commit a violation of section 520b, 520c, 520d, 520e, or 520g of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Stalking: means that term as defined in section 411h or 411i of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • 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
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Victim: means an individual who suffers direct or threatened physical, financial, or emotional harm as the result of a commission of a crime. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
  • Victim advocate: means an employee of the department of the attorney general, the department of state, or the department of technology, management, and budget, or an employee of a county prosecutor's office, who has received training and certification from the department of the attorney general to help individuals complete applications to become program participants, and who is available to help individuals complete the applications and is responsible for assisting program participants in navigating through and accessing all aspects of the program. See Michigan Laws 780.853
  • Ward: means that term as defined in section 1108 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 780.853