§ 333.29101 Short title
§ 333.29103 Definitions
§ 333.29105 Industrial hemp program; USDA approval
§ 333.29107 Industrial hemp fund

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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 333 > Act 220 of 2020 > Chapter I - General Provisions

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Business: includes an activity engaged in by a person or caused to be engaged in by that person with the object of gain, benefit, or advantage, either direct or indirect. See Michigan Laws 205.51
  • Cannabis: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Compliance monitoring testing facility: means a laboratory that meets both of the following requirements:
    (i) Is registered with the DEA to conduct chemical analysis of controlled substances under 21 C. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Computer: means an electronic device that accepts information in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence of instructions. See Michigan Laws 205.51a
  • Computer software: means a set of coded instructions designed to cause a computer or automatic data processing equipment to perform a task. See Michigan Laws 205.51a
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Controlled substance felony: means a felony violation of the laws of any state having to do with controlled substances or a felony violation of federal law having to do with controlled substances. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • 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.
  • Criminal history record information: means that term as defined in section 1a of 1925 PA 289, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • DEA: means the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.51
  • Designated sampling agent: means a federal, state, or local law enforcement agent authorized by the department to collect official samples under section 401. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dry weight basis: means the ratio of the amount of moisture in cannabis to the amount of solid in cannabis. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Michigan Laws 205.51a
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • 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 industrial hemp fund created in section 107. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Gross proceeds: means sales price. See Michigan Laws 205.51
  • Grower: means a person that is required to be registered under section 201. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Industrial hemp: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Industrial hemp plan: means the plan created under section 105. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Key participant: means a person that has a direct or indirect financial interest in the person or business producing hemp or a person in a corporate entity at an executive level that is regularly responsible for decision making impacting the growing of industrial hemp. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. Source: U.S. Mint
  • Lot: means either of the following:
  •     (i) A contiguous area in a field, greenhouse, or other indoor growing area that contains the same variety or strain of cannabis throughout. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Marihuana: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Measurement of uncertainty: means the parameter associated with the result of a measurement that characterizes the dispersion of the values that could reasonably be attributed to the particular quantity subject to the measurement. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Noncompliant industrial hemp: means industrial hemp that is not in compliance with this act or the rules promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • 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, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, municipal or private corporation whether organized for profit or not, company, limited liability company, estate, trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, the United States, this state, county, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and includes the plural as well as the singular number, unless the intention to give a more limited meaning is disclosed by the context. See Michigan Laws 205.51
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, college or university, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Program: means the industrial hemp program established by this act. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Registration: means a grower registration granted under this act. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Regulatory testing facility: means a laboratory that meets all of the following requirements:
  •     (i) Is registered with the DEA. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • 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
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Tangible personal property: means personal property that can be seen, weighed, measured, felt, or touched or that is in any other manner perceptible to the senses and includes electricity, water, gas, steam, and prewritten computer software. See Michigan Laws 205.51a
  • Tax: includes a tax, interest, or penalty levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.51
  • THC: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • USDA: means the United States Department of Agriculture. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Utility: means either of the following:
  •     (i) A person regulated by the Michigan public service commission as a utility. See Michigan Laws 205.51
  • Variety: means a subdivision of a species that has the following characteristics:
  •     (i) The subdivision is uniform, in the sense that variations between the subdivision and other subdivisions in essential and distinctive characteristics are describable. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
  • Viable seed: means seed that has a germination rate of greater than 0. See Michigan Laws 333.29103