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- Administrator: means a local governmental unit or a nonprofit community organization under contract with a local governmental unit to administer a homestead program under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2762
- advertisement: means a representation disseminated in any manner or by any means, other than by labeling, for the purpose of inducing, or is likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of milk or milk products. See Michigan Laws 288.472
- Approved laboratory: means a laboratory that is listed in the national conference of interstate milk shipments list of sanitation compliance and enforcement ratings distributed by the United States food and drug administration and as approved by the director. See Michigan Laws 288.472
- Approved sample container: means a presterilized, suitable nontoxic single service container of adequate size that complies with the requirements of standard methods. See Michigan Laws 288.472
- Bulk milk pickup tanker: means a vehicle, including truck, tank, and those appurtenances necessary for its use, used by a bulk milk hauler/sampler to transport bulk raw milk for pasteurization from a dairy farm to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. See Michigan Laws 288.473
- casino: means a casino or a parking lot, hotel, motel, or retail store owned or operated by a casino, an affiliate, or an affiliated company, regulated by this state pursuant to the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, the Initiated Law of 1996, MCL 432. See Michigan Laws 125.2782
- certificate: means the certificate issued pursuant to section 6. See Michigan Laws 125.2782
- Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
- Child-support order: means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
- Commercial housing property: means that portion of real property not occupied by an owner of that real property that is classified as residential real property under section 34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.2782
- Commercial property: means land improvements classified by law for general ad valorem tax purposes as real property including buildings and improvements assessable as real property pursuant to sections 8(d) and 14(6) of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.2782
- Commission: means the state tax commission created by 1927 PA 360, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 125.2782
- Convention: means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
- Dairy farm: means any place or premises where 1 or more dairy animals are kept for milking purposes, and from which a part or all of the milk is provided, sold, or offered for sale. See Michigan Laws 288.473
- dairy plant: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or milk products are collected, handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, aseptically processed, packaged, or prepared for distribution. See Michigan Laws 288.474
- Department: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 288.473
- Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 125.2782
- Director: means the director of the Michigan department of agriculture or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 288.473
- Duty of support: means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
- Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
- Facility: except as otherwise provided in this act, means a building or group of contiguous buildings. See Michigan Laws 125.2782
- Farm tank: means the farm bulk milk tank, milk tank truck, or silo used for the storage or cooling, or both, of milk prior to pickup and transport from the farm. See Michigan Laws 288.473
- Foreign country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and 1 or more of the following:
(i) That has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102Foreign tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country that is authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Functionally obsolete: means that term as defined in section 2 of the brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2782 Housing commission: means a housing commission or housing authority as defined under section 3 of the housing cooperation law, 1937 PA 293, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2762 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 Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Local governmental unit: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.2762 Michigan state housing development authority: means the Michigan state housing development authority created under section 21 of the state housing development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2762 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 288.474 Milk buyer: means any producer, milk producer marketing organization, milk plant, receiving station, transfer station, or bulk milk hauler that either takes delivery of raw milk or raw milk product or manages the sale of the raw milk or raw milk product, or both. See Michigan Laws 288.474 Milk tank truck: means both a bulk milk pickup tanker and a milk transport tank. See Michigan Laws 288.475 Milk tank truck cleaning facility: means any place, premises, or establishment, separate from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station where a milk tank truck is cleaned and sanitized. See Michigan Laws 288.475 Milk transport tank: means a vehicle, including the truck and tank, used by a bulk milk hauler/sampler to transport bulk shipments of milk from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station to another milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. See Michigan Laws 288.475 Milk transportation company: means the company that is the person responsible for a milk tank truck. See Michigan Laws 288.475 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 Nonprofit community organization: means an organization exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 with experience in housing issues and that contracts with a housing commission to administer an urban homesteading program for single-family public housing under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2762 Obligee: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued. See Michigan Laws 552.2102Obsolete property: means commercial property or commercial housing property, that is 1 or more of the following:
(i) Blighted, as that term is defined in section 2 of the brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2782Obsolete property rehabilitation district: means an area of a qualified local governmental unit established as provided in section 3. See Michigan Laws 125.2782 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 552.2102 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 288.476 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Processor: means the owner or operator of a milk plant. See Michigan Laws 288.476 Producer: means a person that owns or operates a dairy farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm including a person that markets milk on behalf of a producer under a marketing agreement. See Michigan Laws 288.476 Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Qualified buyer: means an applicant who meets the criteria in section 4. See Michigan Laws 125.2762 Qualified local governmental unit: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) A city with a median family income of 150% or less of the statewide median family income as reported in the 1990 federal decennial census that meets 1 or more of the following criteria:
(A) Contains or has within its borders an eligible distressed area as that term is defined in section 11(u)(ii) and (iii) of the state housing development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2782Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Receiving station: means a place, premises, or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored, or cooled and is prepared for further transporting. See Michigan Laws 288.476 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 552.2102 Register: means to record in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or a foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Rehabilitated facility: means a commercial property or commercial housing property that has undergone rehabilitation or is in the process of being rehabilitated, including rehabilitation that changes the intended use of the building. See Michigan Laws 125.2782 Rehabilitation: means changes to obsolete property other than replacement that are required to restore or modify the property, together with all appurtenances, to an economically efficient condition. See Michigan Laws 125.2782 Sample transfer instrument: means any of the following:
(i) Individually wrapped, sterile, single-service sampling tubes. See Michigan Laws 288.476Sanitary standards: means the dairy equipment construction standards or accepted dairy system operating practices formulated by 1 of the following:
(i) 3-A sanitary standards committees representing the International Association for Food Protection, the United States Public Health Service, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the dairy industry committee as approved by the director. See Michigan Laws 288.476Sell-by date: means the recommended last date of sale. See Michigan Laws 288.476 Standard methods: means the seventeenth edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products" published by the American Public Health Association, incorporated by reference. See Michigan Laws 288.476 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 552.2102 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 Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, that provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 Taxable value: means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.2782 Transfer station: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or milk products are transferred directly from 1 milk tank truck to another. See Michigan Laws 288.477 Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102 United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o