Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 247 > Act 231 of 1987 - Transportation Economic Development Fund

• Administrator: means the person appointed by the department, in accordance with the policies of the commission and civil service rules, to serve as director of the office of economic development. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• Advanced traffic management systems: means the application of new technology designed to monitor, control, and manage the flow of traffic in real-time on a transportation network through traffic detection, communications, traffic control, and information processing technologies. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• 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
• Commercial forest land: means land defined as commercial forest in Michigan's fourth forest inventory completed in May 1981 and reported by the United States Department of Agriculture in the resource bulletin NC-68 available from the United States Forest Service's north central experiment station. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• Commission: means the state transportation commission. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County road agency: means the board of county road commissioners, or if a board does not exist in a county, the agency designated by county charter. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• Department: means the state transportation department. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• 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.
• 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.
• Fund: means the economic development fund created in section 2. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• hospitalization: means medical, surgical, or obstetrical care in the university hospital or in a hospital licensed under article 17 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 400.66a
• 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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Medical care: as used in this act means medical care rendered under the supervision of a licensed physician in an organized out-patient department of a hospital licensed by the department of community health under article 17 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 400.55
• National lakeshore: means land conveyed by this state to the United States that the United States has designated as national lakeshore. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• National park: means land set aside and designated as a national park by the United States. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Project: means a transportation road construction or improvement. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• Qualified county: means a county in which a national lakeshore or a national park is located, or a county in which 34% or more of all the land is commercial forest land. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• Rural county: means any county in this state with a population of 400,000 or less. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
• 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
• Transit-oriented facility: means a facility that houses a transit station in a manner that promotes transit ridership or passenger rail use and other infrastructure improvements that facilitate transit ridership or passenger rail use. See Michigan Laws 247.901
• United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o