§ 450.4201 Limited liability company; purpose
§ 450.4202 Limited liability company; formation; filing as evidence that all conditions performed; exception; duration
§ 450.4203 Articles of organization; contents
§ 450.4204 Limited liability company; low-profit limited liability company; name; requirements; rights
§ 450.4204a Limited liability company licensed as nursing home; use of terms
§ 450.4205 Reserving right to use of name; application; transfer of right
§ 450.4206 Transacting business under assumed name; certificate; effective period; extension; notice of expiration; rights not created; same name assumed in partnership or joint venture; transfer of assumed
§ 450.4207 Maintaining registered office and resident agent; service of process, notice, or demand; appointment of agent; annual statement; service of process by mail
§ 450.4207a Certificate of good standing
§ 450.4208 Resident agent; resignation; notice; appointment of successor; termination of appointment
§ 450.4209 Changing registered office or resident agent; statement; filing; contents; changing business or residence address of resident agent
§ 450.4210 Limited liability company; powers
§ 450.4211 Validity of action or transfer of property; asserting lack of capacity or power
§ 450.4212 Interest rate; agreement
§ 450.4213 Registered office or principal place of business; documents required to be kept
§ 450.4214 Conflict between articles of organization and operating agreement
§ 450.4215 Operating agreement unenforceable
§ 450.4216 Limited liability company; powers
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 450 > Act 23 of 1993 > Article 2

  • Accredited veterinarian: means a veterinarian approved by the administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in accordance with 9 C. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Administrator: means the director of the department or his or her designated representative. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Animal: means mollusks, crustaceans, and vertebrates other than human beings including, but not limited to, livestock, exotic animals, aquaculture species, and domestic animals. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Approved laboratory: means a state, federal, or private veterinary diagnostic laboratory approved by the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, veterinary services, to conduct approved official laboratory tests for a specific reportable animal disease. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Articles of organization: means the original documents filed to organize a limited liability company, as amended or restated by certificates of correction, amendment, or merger, by restated articles, or by other instruments filed or issued under any statute. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Autogenous veterinary biological: means all bacteria, viruses, serums, toxins, or analogous products from a specific herd that are custom-made with herd-specific antigens. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Cattle: means all bovine (genus bos) animals, bovinelike animals (genus bison) also commonly referred to as American buffalo or bison, and any cross of these species unless otherwise specifically provided. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Commingling: means concurrently or subsequently sharing or subsequent use by livestock or other domestic animals of the same pen or same section in a facility or same section in a transportation unit where there is physical contact or contact with bodily excrements, aerosols, or fluids from other livestock or domestic animals. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • 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.
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Direct movement: means transfer of animals to a destination without unloading the animals en route. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Director: means the director of the department or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Disease: means any animal health condition with potential for economic impact, public or animal health concerns, or food safety concerns. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a veterinary biological. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • domestic limited liability company: means an entity that is an unincorporated membership organization formed under this act. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • 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.
  • Exhibition facility: means a facility used or intended to be used for public view, show, display, swap, exchange, entertainment, advertisement, educational event, or competition involving animals. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Exhibition or exposition: means a congregation, gathering, or collection of animals that are presented or exposed to public view for show, display, swap, exchange, entertainment, educational event, instruction, advertising, or competition. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Exhibitor: means a person that presents an animal for public display, exhibition, or competition or enters an animal in a fair, show, exhibition, or exposition. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Exotic animal: means a species of animal that is not native to the United States. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Fair: means a competition and educational exhibition of agricultural commodities and manufactured products for which premiums may be paid. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Feral swine: means swine that have lived their life or any part of their life as free roaming. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Flock: means all of the poultry on 1 premises or, in the discretion of the department, a group of poultry that is segregated from all other poultry on the same premises. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Foreign limited liability company: means a limited liability company formed under laws other than the laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Herd: means an isolated group of livestock maintained on common ground for any purpose, or 2 or more groups of livestock under common ownership or supervision that are geographically separated but that have an interchange or movement of livestock without regard to health status as determined by the director. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • 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
  • interest: means a member's rights in the limited liability company, including, but not limited to, any right to receive distributions of the limited liability company's assets and any right to vote or participate in management. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Isolated: means the physical separation of animals by a physical barrier or geographical distance in such a manner that other animals do not have access to the isolated animals' bodies, excrement, aerosols, or discharges, as approved by the director. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Livestock: means those species of animals used for human food or for fiber or those species of animals used for service to humans. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Low-profit limited liability company: means a limited liability company that has included in its articles of organization a purpose that meets, and that at all times conducts its activities to meet, all of the following requirements:
    (i) The limited liability company significantly furthers the accomplishment of 1 or more charitable or educational purposes described in section 170(c)(2)(B) of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 170, and would not have been formed except to accomplish those charitable or educational purposes. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • managers: means a person or persons designated to manage the limited liability company pursuant to a provision in the articles of organization stating that the business is to be managed by or under the authority of managers. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Member: means a person that has been admitted to a limited liability company as provided in section 501, or, in the case of a foreign limited liability company, a person that is a member of the foreign limited liability company in accordance with the laws under which the foreign limited liability company is organized. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • 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
  • Official identification: means an identification ear tag, tattoo, electronic identification, or other identification approved by the United States Department of Agriculture or the department. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Official test: means a sample of specific material collected from an animal with official identification by an accredited veterinarian, state or federal veterinary medical officer, or other person authorized by the director and analyzed by a laboratory certified by the United States Department of Agriculture or the department to conduct the test, or a diagnostic injection administered and analyzed by an accredited veterinarian or a state or federal veterinary medical officer. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Official vaccination: means a vaccination that the director has designated for a reportable animal disease, administered by an accredited veterinarian or a state or federal veterinary medical officer, and documented on a form supplied by the department. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Operating agreement: means a written agreement by the member of a limited liability company that has 1 member, or between all of the members of a limited liability company that has more than 1 member, pertaining to the affairs of the limited liability company and the conduct of its business. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Originate: means the direct movement of animals from a herd or flock of origin. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • 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: means an individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative, association, joint venture, or other legal entity including, but not limited to, contractual relationships. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, trust, custodian, estate, association, corporation, nonprofit corporation, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Poultry: means , but is not limited to, chickens, guinea fowl, turkeys, waterfowl, pigeons, doves, peafowl, and game birds that are propagated and maintained under the husbandry of humans. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • 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.
  • Prior entry permit: means a code that is obtained from the department for specific species of animals imported into this state that is recorded on the official interstate health certificate, official interstate certificate of veterinary inspection, or fish disease inspection report before entry into this state. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Pullorum-typhoid: means a disease of poultry caused by Salmonella pullorum or Salmonella gallinarum. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Quarantine: means enforced isolation of an animal or group of animals or restriction of movement of an animal or group of animals, equipment, feed and food products, or vehicles to or from any structure, premises, or area of this state, including the entirety of this state, determined by the director. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Services in a learned profession: means services rendered by a dentist, an osteopathic physician, a physician, a surgeon, a doctor of divinity or other clergy, or an attorney-at-law. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Sow: means a female swine that has farrowed or given birth to or aborted 1 litter or more. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • 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.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • survivor: means the constituent that survives a merger, as identified in the certificate of merger. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Swine: means any of the ungulate mammals of the family suidae. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Toxicological disease: means any condition caused by or related to a toxic substance. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • 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
  • Veterinarian: means a person licensed to practice veterinary medicine under article 15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Veterinary biological: means all bacteria, viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products of natural or synthetic origin, or products prepared from any type of genetic engineering, such as diagnostics, antitoxins, vaccines, live microorganisms, killed microorganisms, or the antigenic or immunizing components of microorganisms intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of diseases in animals. See Michigan Laws 287.703
  • Vote: means an affirmative vote, approval, or consent. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
  • Wild animal: means that term as defined in section 43508 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 287.703