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- 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.
- Aircraft detection lighting system: means a sensor-based system designed to detect aircraft as they approach a wind energy facility and that automatically activates obstruction lights until they are no longer needed. See Michigan Laws 460.1221
- 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.
- Applicant: means an applicant for a certificate. See Michigan Laws 460.1221
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
- Certificate: means a certificate issued for an energy facility under section 226(5). See Michigan Laws 460.1221
- Clean energy: means electricity or steam generated using a clean energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.1003
- Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 460.1003
- Commission: means the potato industry commission. See Michigan Laws 290.421
- Compatible renewable energy ordinance: means an ordinance that provides for the development of energy facilities within the local unit of government, the requirements of which are no more restrictive than the provisions included in section 226(8). See Michigan Laws 460.1221
- Construction: means any substantial action taken constituting the placement, erection, expansion, or repowering of an energy facility. See Michigan Laws 460.1221
- 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.
- Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 290.421
- Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 290.421
- Electric provider: means any of the following:
(i) Any person or entity that is regulated by the commission for the purpose of selling electricity to retail customers in this state. See Michigan Laws 460.1005Energy facility: means an energy storage facility, solar energy facility, or wind energy facility. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 Energy project: means the installation or modification of an energy waste reduction improvement or the acquisition, installation, or improvement of a renewable energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.1201 Energy storage facility: means a system that absorbs, stores, and discharges electricity. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 Energy waste reduction improvement: means equipment, devices, or materials intended to decrease energy consumption, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(i) Insulation in walls, roofs, floors, foundations, or heating and cooling distribution systems. See Michigan Laws 460.1201Evidence: 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. 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 Grower: means any business unit, including a family operation, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, company, association, trust, or other business organization engaged in the business of growing potatoes for market. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Home energy audit: means an evaluation of the energy performance of a residential structure that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is performed by a qualified person using building-performance diagnostic equipment. See Michigan Laws 460.1201Hundredweight: means a 100-pound unit or a combination of packages making a 100-pound unit, or the equivalent in metric units, of any shipment of potatoes. See Michigan Laws 290.421 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 IPP: means a person that is not an electric provider but owns or operates facilities to generate electric power for sale to electric providers, this state, or local units of government. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 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. Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Light intensity dimming solution technology: means obstruction lighting that provides a means of tailoring the intensity level of lights according to surrounding visibility. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 local unit: means a county, township, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 Maximum blade tip height: means the nominal hub height plus the nominal blade length of a wind turbine, as listed in the wind turbine specifications provided by the wind turbine manufacturer. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 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 Nameplate capacity: means the designed full-load sustained generating output of an energy facility. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 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. Participating property: means real property that either is owned by an applicant or that is the subject of an agreement that provides for the payment by an applicant to a landowner of monetary compensation related to an energy facility regardless of whether any part of that energy facility is constructed on the property. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 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, corporation, association, cooperative, or any other business unit. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Person: means an individual, governmental entity authorized by this state, political subdivision of this state, business, proprietorship, firm, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, co-partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, labor organization, company, corporation, association, subchapter S corporation, limited liability company, committee, receiver, estate, trust, or any other legal entity or combination or group of persons acting jointly as a unit. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l plan: means a plan approved under section 22 or former section 21 or 23 or found to comply with this act under former section 25, with any amendments adopted under this act. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 Processor: means a person engaged in canning, freezing, dehydrating, chipping, fermenting, distilling, extracting, preserving, or changing the form of potatoes for the purpose of consumption or for any other commercial use. See Michigan Laws 290.421 program: means a program as described in section 203(2). See Michigan Laws 460.1201 Project labor agreement: means a prehire collective bargaining agreement with 1 or more labor organizations that establishes the terms and conditions of employment for a specific construction project and does all of the following:
(i) Binds all contractors and subcontractors on the construction project through the inclusion of appropriate specifications in all relevant solicitation provisions and contract documents. See Michigan Laws 460.1221Property: means privately owned residential real property. See Michigan Laws 460.1201 Provider: means an electric provider or a natural gas provider. See Michigan Laws 460.1009 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Record owner: means the person or persons possessed of the most recent fee title or land contract vendee's interest in property as shown by the records of the county register of deeds. See Michigan Laws 460.1201 Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Renewable energy: means electricity or steam generated using a renewable energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Shipment of potatoes: means , and a shipment of potatoes shall be considered to take place, when potatoes are loaded within this state in a rail car, truck, or other conveyance in which the potatoes are to be transported for sale or otherwise put into the channel of trade and commerce. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Shipper: means a person engaged in the shipment of potatoes, whether as owner, agent, or otherwise; or engaged in the processing of potatoes for human or animal consumption in any form or for any other commercial use. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Site: means , except as used in part 8, a contiguous site, regardless of the number of meters at that site. See Michigan Laws 460.1013 Solar energy facility: means a system that captures and converts solar energy into electricity, for the purpose of sale or for use in locations other than solely the solar energy facility property. See Michigan Laws 460.1221 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 Wind energy facility: means a system that captures and converts wind into electricity, for the purpose of sale or for use in locations other than solely the wind energy facility property. See Michigan Laws 460.1221