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- Agent: means an individual who meets 1 or more of the following requirements:
(i) Is authorized to make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care. See Michigan Laws 333.10102Amendment: 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. Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Body part: means an organ, eye, or tissue of a human being. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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. Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Document of gift: means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Donor: The person who makes a gift. Donor: means an individual whose body or body part is the subject of an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Donor registry: means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts as provided for in section 10120. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 economic development fund: means that fund to which the fund succeeded in ownership pursuant to section 22. See Michigan Laws 125.2081 Eye: means a human eye or any portion of a human eye. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Fund: means the Michigan strategic fund created under section 5, except where the context clearly requires a different definition. See Michigan Laws 125.2004 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Identification card: means an official state personal identification card issued by the secretary of state under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Judge: means a judge of the district court, the circuit court, or the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, who has converted a portion of his or her state salary standardization payment as an addition to his or her state base salary under section 14a or 14c of Act No. See Michigan Laws 38.841 Local unit of government: means a county, city, township, or other political subdivision of this state which offers its employees a retirement plan in which a judge may be a member. See Michigan Laws 38.841 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. Organ: means a human kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, or intestine or multivisceral organs when transplanted at the same time as an intestine. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Organ procurement organization: means a person certified or recertified by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as a qualified organ procurement organization under 42 USC 273(b). See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l Physician: means an individual authorized to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery under the law of any state. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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 Probate: Proving a will Procurement organization: means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Prospective donor: means an individual who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a body part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Reasonably available: means able to be contacted by a procurement organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Refusal: means a record created under section 10107 that expressly refuses to make an anatomical gift of an individual's body or body part. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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 Tissue: means a portion of the human body other than an organ or an eye. See Michigan Laws 333.10102