Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 125 > Act 110 of 2006 - Michigan Zoning Enabling Act

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Agricultural land: means substantially undeveloped land devoted to the production of plants and animals useful to humans, including, but not limited to, forage and sod crops, grains, feed crops, field crops, dairy products, poultry and poultry products, livestock, herbs, flowers, seeds, grasses, nursery stock, fruits, vegetables, Christmas trees, and other similar uses and activities. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Airport: means an airport licensed under section 86 of the aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, 1945 PA 327, MCL 259. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Airport manager: means that term as defined in section 2 of the aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, 1945 PA 327, MCL 259. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Airport zoning regulations: means airport zoning regulations under the airport zoning act, 1950 (Ex Sess) PA 23, MCL 259. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• 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
• Approved laboratory: means a laboratory that has been evaluated by the department and is approved to perform tests on manufacturing milk and milk products. See Michigan Laws 288.570
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Audited financial statement: means a fiscal year end financial statement prepared by a certified public accountant according to generally accepted accounting principles. See Michigan Laws 288.570
• 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.
• Casino: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1, MCL 432. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Cigar: means any roll of tobacco weighing 3 or more pounds per 1,000, which roll has a wrapper or cover consisting only of tobacco. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Cigar bar: means an establishment or area within an establishment that is open to the public and is designated for the smoking of cigars, purchased on the premises or elsewhere. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conservation easement: means that term as defined in section 2140 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Coordinating zoning committee: means a coordinating zoning committee as described under section 307. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• 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 medical care facility: means that term as defined in section 20104. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 288.572
• Development rights: means the rights to develop land to the maximum intensity of development authorized by law. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Development rights ordinance: means an ordinance, which may comprise part of a zoning ordinance, adopted under section 507. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Director: means the director of the Michigan department of agriculture or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 288.572
• Educational facility: means a building owned, leased, or under the control of a public or private school system, college, or university. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• 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}
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• 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.
• Food service establishment: means a food service establishment as defined in section 12905. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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}
• Greenway: means a contiguous or linear open space, including habitats, wildlife corridors, and trails, that links parks, nature reserves, cultural features, or historic sites with each other, for recreation and conservation purposes. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Health facility: means a health facility or agency licensed under article 17, except a home for the aged, nursing home, county medical care facility, hospice, or hospital long-term care unit. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Home for the aged: means that term as defined in section 20106. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Hospice: means that term as defined in section 20106. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Hospital long-term care unit: means that term as defined in section 20106. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Improvements: means those features and actions associated with a project that are considered necessary by the body or official granting zoning approval to protect natural resources or the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of a local unit of government and future users or inhabitants of the proposed project or project area, including roadways, lighting, utilities, sidewalks, screening, and drainage. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intensity of development: means the height, bulk, area, density, setback, use, and other similar characteristics of development. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• 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}
• Legislative body: means the county board of commissioners of a county, the board of trustees of a township, or the council or other similar elected governing body of a city or village. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• 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.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local unit of government: means a county, township, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Meeting: means a meeting as defined in section 2 of the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Milk: means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of 1 or more healthy cows, goats, sheep, or other dairy animals. See Michigan Laws 288.574
• Milk buyer: means any milk producer, milk producer marketing organization, dairy plant, receiving station, transfer station, or bulk milk hauler that either takes delivery of raw milk or a raw milk product or manages the sale of the raw milk or raw milk product, or both. See Michigan Laws 288.574
• Milk tank truck: means both a bulk milk pickup tanker and a milk transport tank. See Michigan Laws 288.574
• 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
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Motor vehicle: means that term as defined in section 33 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Nursing home: means that term as defined in section 20109. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: shall be construed to include the word "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in like cases the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed". See Michigan Laws 8.3k
• 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.
• Offering for sale: means selling, offering to sell, holding for sale, preparing for sale, trading, bartering, offering as a gift as an inducement for sale of, and advertising for sale in any media. See Michigan Laws 288.576
• Other eligible land: means land that has a common property line with agricultural land from which development rights have been purchased and is not divided from that agricultural land by a state or federal limited access highway. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• 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, company, limited liability company, cooperative, association, firm, trustee, educational institution, state or local government unit, or corporation. See Michigan Laws 288.576
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Place of employment: means an enclosed indoor area that contains 1 or more work areas for 1 or more persons employed by a public or private employer. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Population: means the population according to the most recent federal decennial census or according to a special census conducted under section 7 of the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 125.3102
• Producer: means a person who owns or operates a dairy farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm including a person who markets milk on behalf of a producer pursuant to a marketing agreement. See Michigan Laws 288.576
• Public body: means a public body as defined in section 2 of the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15. See Michigan Laws 333.12601
• Public place: except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), means any of the following: