Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 333 > Act 220 of 2020 > Chapter VI - Violations and Penalties

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Corrective action plan: means a plan created under section 601. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
• Culpable mental state greater than negligence: means to act intentionally, knowingly, willfully, or recklessly. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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
• Dispose: means an activity that transitions industrial hemp into a nonretrievable or noningestible form of industrial hemp under section 407. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
• 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
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• Fund: means the industrial hemp fund created in section 107. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
• Grower: means a person that is required to be registered under section 201. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
• 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
• 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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• 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.
• Program: means the industrial hemp program established by this act. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
• Registration: means a grower registration granted under this act. See Michigan Laws 333.29103
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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
• 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
• Taxpayer: means a person subject to a tax 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
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• 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