Michigan Laws 29.5g – Fire, explosion, spill, leak, accident, or related occurrence; notice of details
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 29.5g
- Bureau: means the bureau of fire services created in section 1b. See Michigan Laws 29.1
- Department: means the department of labor and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 29.1
- Firm: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, association, or corporation. See Michigan Laws 29.1
- Hazardous material: means explosives, pyrotechnics, flammable gas, flammable compressed gas, nonflammable compressed gas, flammable liquid, combustible liquid, oxidizing material, poisonous gas, poisonous liquid, irritating material, etiologic material, radioactive material, corrosive material, or liquefied petroleum gas. See Michigan Laws 29.1
- Organized fire department: means a department, authority, or other governmental entity that safeguards life and property from damage from explosion, fire, or disaster and that provides fire suppression and other related services in this state. See Michigan Laws 29.1
- Owner: means a person with an ownership interest in property, and includes a trustee, a board of trustees of property, and a person with a freehold interest in property. See Michigan Laws 29.1
- Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, or voluntary association. See Michigan Laws 29.1
- Vehicle: means a tank vehicle or bulk transportation vehicle, excluding the tractor of a tank vehicle or bulk transportation vehicle. See Michigan Laws 29.1
Immediately following a fire, explosion, spill, leak, accident, or related occurrence that involves the transportation, storage, handling, sale, use, or processing of hazardous material by a firm, person, or vehicle, the owner of the firm or vehicle or the person and the chief of the first police department or organized fire department upon the scene of the incident shall notify the bureau and the organized fire department of the area in which the incident occurred of the known details regarding the incident.