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- Abortion: means a medical treatment that is intended to terminate a diagnosable intrauterine pregnancy for a purpose other than to produce a live birth. See Michigan Laws 333.1071
- Actual notice: includes the physical presentation of an order, a revocation of an order, or another written document authorized under this act from or on behalf of a declarant. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
- Advanced illness: means a medical or surgical condition with significant functional impairment that is not reversible by curative therapies and that is anticipated to progress toward death despite attempts at curative therapies or modulation. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
- 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.
- Affiliate: means any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another company. See Michigan Laws 500.503
- Agent orange: means the chemical herbicide made from chemicals known as 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and its esters, or 2,4-D, and Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and its esters, or 2,4,5-T. See Michigan Laws 333.5701
- 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.
- Annual claim cost: means the net annual cost per unit of benefit before the addition of expenses, including claim settlement expenses, and a margin for profit or contingencies. See Michigan Laws 500.701
- Annual notice: means the privacy notice required in section 513. See Michigan Laws 500.503
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- 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
- Asian Pacific American: means a person who has origins in any of the original peoples of the far east, southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific islands; is identified by an employer in an EEO-1 report as Asian or Pacific islander; or is regarded in the community as having origins in any of the original peoples of the far east, southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific islands. See Michigan Laws 37.123
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Attending physician: means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of a declarant. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
- Authority: means the low-level radioactive waste authority established in section 3. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- 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.
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Candidate site: means a site designated by the authority as a possible host site pursuant to section 11. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Carrier: means a person authorized pursuant to part 137 who is engaged in the transportation of waste by air, rail, highway, or water. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Chemical agent: means a chemical herbicide or defoliant other than agent orange, or a chemical weapon, which chemical herbicide, defoliant, or weapon is of the type used by the armed forces of the United States. See Michigan Laws 333.5701
- Clear and conspicuous: means that a notice is reasonably understandable and designed to call attention to the nature and significance of the information in the notice. See Michigan Laws 500.503
- Commission: means the Asian Pacific American affairs commission created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 37.123
- Commission: means the agent orange commission created in section 5731. See Michigan Laws 333.5701
- Commissioner: means the head of the authority. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
- Compact: means a contractual, cooperative agreement among 2 or more states to provide for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste that is reflected by the passage of statutes by the participating states. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Consumer: includes , but is not limited to, all of the following:
(A) An individual who provides nonpublic personal information to a licensee in connection with obtaining or seeking to obtain financial, investment, or economic advisory services relating to an insurance product or service. See Michigan Laws 500.503Consumer: means an individual, including, but not limited to, an applicant, a policyholder, an insured, a beneficiary, a claimant, and a certificate holder, who is a resident of this state and whose nonpublic information is in a licensee's possession, custody, or control. See Michigan Laws 500.553 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. court: is a n open unoccupied space on the same lot with a dwelling and bounded on 2 or more sides with the walls of the dwelling. See Michigan Laws 125.402 Customer: means a consumer who has a customer relationship with a licensee. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Customer relationship: means a continuing relationship between a consumer and a licensee under which the licensee provides 1 or more insurance products or services to the consumer that are to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Cybersecurity event: means an event that results in unauthorized access to and acquisition of, or disruption or misuse of, an information system or nonpublic information stored on an information system. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Date of disablement: means the earliest date the insured is considered as being disabled under the definition of disability in the health insurance policy or certificate based on a doctor's evaluation or other evidence. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Date of incurral: means the date a claim is determined to be a liability of the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Declarant: means an individual who has executed a do-not-resuscitate order on his or her own behalf or on whose behalf a do-not-resuscitate order has been executed as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Delegatee: means an individual to whom a physician has delegated the authority to perform 1 or more selected acts, tasks, or functions under section 16215 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Department: means the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 37.123 Department: means the department of public health. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.26232 Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 500.102 Department: means the department of health and human services in cooperation with the veterans' service offices. See Michigan Laws 333.5701 Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Dioxin: means the chemicals known as 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, or 2,3,7,8-TCDD. See Michigan Laws 333.5701 Director: means the director of the office of Asian Pacific American affairs. See Michigan Laws 37.123 Director: means the director of public health. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102 Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Disposal: means the isolation of waste from the biosphere by emplacement in the disposal site or as otherwise authorized in section 13709(3) of part 137. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Disposal site: means a geographic location in this state upon which the disposal unit and any other structures and appurtenances are located, the property upon which any monitoring equipment is located, and the isolation distance from the disposal unit to adjacent property lines. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Disposal unit: means the portion of the disposal site into which waste is placed for disposal. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Donor: The person who makes a gift. dwelling: is a ny house, building, structure, tent, shelter, trailer or vehicle, or portion thereof, (except railroad cars, on tracks or rights-of-way) which is occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence, living or sleeping place of 1 or more human beings, either permanently or transiently. See Michigan Laws 125.402 Elimination period: means a specified number of days, weeks, or months starting at the beginning of each period of loss, during which benefits under a health insurance policy or certificate are not payable. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Emergency medical technician: means that term as defined in section 20904 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Emergency medical technician specialist: means that term as defined in section 20904 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Encrypted: means the transformation of data into a form that results in a low probability of assigning meaning without the use of a protective process or key. See Michigan Laws 500.553 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 Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. 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. Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office. Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. Source: OCC Fetal viability: means that term as defined in section 28 of article I of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 333.26101 Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. 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. Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. 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 fund: means the fund created in section 20. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Fund: means the Amanda's fund for breast cancer prevention and treatment created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 333.26232 Generator: means any person licensed as a generator by the nuclear regulatory commission and authorized pursuant to part 137 whose act or process results in the production of waste or whose act first causes waste to become subject to regulation under part 137 or federal law. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Governmental entity: means any of the following:
(i) This state and its agencies, departments, commissions, courts, boards, councils, and statutorily created task forces. See Michigan Laws 333.26101Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it. grantor: may be construed as including every person from or by whom any estate in lands passes in or by any deed. See Michigan Laws 8.3e Gross premium: means the amount of premium charged by the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Groundwater: means water below the land surface in a zone of saturation. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 group disability insurance: means voluntary disability insurance that covers 2 or more employees or members, with or without their eligible dependents, written under a master policy issued to a governmental corporation, unit, agency, or department of a governmental entity, to a corporation, copartnership, or individual employer, or, on application of an executive officer or trustee of the association, to an association that has a constitution or bylaws and that is formed in good faith for purposes other than that of obtaining insurance, and under which officers, members, employees, or classes or departments of the association may be insured for their individual benefit. See Michigan Laws 500.607 Group insurance: means blanket insurance and franchise insurance and any other forms of group insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs. Guardian: means that term as defined in section 1104 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Health insurance policy: means an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy, certificate, or contract. See Michigan Laws 500.608 Hospital: means that term as defined in section 20106 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Host site: means the candidate site that is designated by the commissioner as the location for the disposal site in this state. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Host site community: means the municipality that is designated by the commissioner as the host site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 identification bracelet: means a wrist bracelet that meets the requirements of section 7 and that is worn by a declarant while a do-not-resuscitate order is in effect. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 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 Information resource center: means the agent orange information resource center created in section 5745. See Michigan Laws 333.5701 Information security program: means the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards that a licensee uses to access, collect, distribute, process, protect, store, use, transmit, dispose of, or otherwise handle nonpublic information. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Information system: means a discrete set of electronic information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of electronic nonpublic information, as well as any specialized system such as an industrial or process controls system, a telephone switching and private branch exchange system, or an environmental control system. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Initial notice: means the privacy notice required in section 507. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Institute: means the international low-level radioactive waste research and education institute. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Institutional control: means the continued surveillance, monitoring, and care of the disposal site after site closure and stabilization to insure the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare, and the environment until the contents of the disposal site no longer have a radioactive content that is greater than the natural background radiation of the host site as determined during its site characterization. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 insurance contract: means a contract of insurance, indemnity, suretyship, or annuity issued or proposed or intended for issuance by a person engaged in the business of insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Insurance producer: means that term as defined in section 1201. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Insurance product or service: means any product or service that is offered by a licensee pursuant to the insurance laws of this state or pursuant to a federal insurance program. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106 Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC 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. 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 Level premium: means a premium on a health insurance policy or certificate calculated to remain unchanged throughout either the lifetime of the policy or certificate or for some shorter projected period of years. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Licensee: means a licensed insurer or producer, and other persons licensed or required to be licensed, authorized or required to be authorized, registered or required to be registered, or holding or required to hold a certificate of authority under this act. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Licensee: means a licensed insurer or producer, and other persons licensed or required to be licensed, authorized, or registered, or holding or required to hold a certificate of authority under this act. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Live birth: means the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, regardless of the duration of the pregnancy, that after expulsion or extraction, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached, shows any evidence of life, including, but not limited to, 1 or more of the following:
(i) Breathing. See Michigan Laws 333.1071Local monitoring committee: means a committee established pursuant to section 14 to represent a candidate site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Long-term care insurance: means any insurance policy, certificate, or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than 12 consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis, for 1 or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Majority leader: see Floor Leaders Manifest: means a form provided or approved by the department that is used for identifying the quantity; composition, including the class, curie count, and radioactive nuclides; origin; routing; and destination of waste from the point of generation to the point of processing, collection, or disposal. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Medical first responder: means that term as defined in section 20906 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Minor child: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age, has been diagnosed by an attending physician as having an advanced illness, and is not emancipated by operation of law as provided in section 4 of 1968 PA 293, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Modal premium: means the premium paid on a health insurance policy or certificate based on a premium term that could be annual, semiannual, quarterly, monthly, or weekly. See Michigan Laws 500.701 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 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Multi-factor authentication: means authentication through verification of at least 2 of the following types of authentication factors:
(i) Knowledge factors, such as a password. See Michigan Laws 500.553multiple dwelling: is a dwelling occupied otherwise than as a private dwelling or 2 family dwelling. See Michigan Laws 125.402 Municipality: means a city, village, township, or Indian tribe. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC Nonaffiliated third party: means any person except a licensee's affiliate or a person employed jointly by a licensee and any company that is not the licensee's affiliate. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Nonpublic information: means electronic information that is not publicly available information and is any of the following:
(i) Business-related information of a licensee, the tampering with which, or unauthorized disclosure, access, or use of which, would cause a material adverse impact to the business, operations, or security of the licensee. See Michigan Laws 500.553Nonpublic personal financial information: means personally identifiable financial information and any list, description, or other grouping of consumers and publicly available information pertaining to them that is derived using any personally identifiable financial information that is not publicly available. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Nurse: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of nursing or practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse under part 172 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 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. Office: means the office of Asian Pacific American affairs created in section 13. See Michigan Laws 37.123 Operation: means the control, supervision, or implementation of the actual physical activities involved in the acceptance, storage, disposal, and monitoring of waste at the disposal site, the maintenance of the disposal site, and any other responsibility pertaining to the disposal unit and the disposal site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Opt out: means a direction by the consumer that the licensee not disclose nonpublic personal financial information about that consumer to a nonaffiliated third party, other than as permitted by sections 535, 537, and 539. See Michigan Laws 500.503 order: means a document executed under this act directing that, if an individual suffers cessation of both spontaneous respiration and circulation in a setting outside of a hospital, resuscitation will not be initiated. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Organization: means a company, corporation, firm, partnership, association, trust, or other business entity or a governmental agency. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Paramedic: means that term as defined in section 20908 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Parent: means the natural or adoptive parent of a minor child who possesses legal decision-making authority as to the important decisions affecting the welfare of the minor child. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 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. Patient advocate: means an individual who is designated to make medical treatment decisions for a patient under section 5506 to 5515 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Performance assessment: means an analysis of the potential pathways for release of waste to the environment and the potential impacts of a release during the transportation of radioactive waste to the disposal site and during the handling and disposal of waste at the disposal site, including, but not limited to:
(i) A description of the potential pathways for radioactive nuclide migration beyond the boundaries of the disposal site during the operation of the site and if there is a release. See Michigan Laws 333.26202Person: means an individual, partnership, cooperative, association, corporation, receiver, trustee, or assignee. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l Personal property: All property that is not real property. Physician: means a person licensed as a physician under part 170 or part 175 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 333.1032 Physician: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of medicine or the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery under article 15 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. Postclosure observation and maintenance: means the surveillance, monitoring, and maintenance of the disposal site after it has been closed and continuing through site closure and stabilization and institutional control. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Probate: Proving a will Producer: means a person required to be licensed under this act to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.503 program: means the comprehensive program implemented in 1991 by the department pursuant to a grant from the federal centers for disease control and prevention to provide certain women with access to life-saving cancer screening services and follow-up care, including cancer treatment if necessary. See Michigan Laws 333.26232 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Public health code: means the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Publicly available information: means any information that a licensee has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public from federal, state, or local government records, by widely distributed media, or by disclosures to the general public that are required to be made by federal, state, or local law. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Rate: means the cost of insurance per payroll before adjustment for an individual insured's size, exposure, or loss experience. See Michigan Laws 500.2402 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Registered nurse: means a person licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 333.1032 Release: means any intentional or unintentional spilling, leaking, pumping, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, disposing, or placing of waste into the environment, except in compliance with all of the following:
(i) Part 137. See Michigan Laws 333.26202Reserve: means all items of benefit liability, whether in the nature of incurred claim liability or in the nature of contract liability relating to future periods of coverage, and whether the liability is accrued or unaccrued. See Michigan Laws 500.701 resuscitate: means perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a component of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(i) Cardiac compression. See Michigan Laws 333.1052Revised notice: means the privacy notice required in section 525. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Risk assessment: means the risk assessment that each licensee is required to conduct under section 555(3). See Michigan Laws 500.553 School: means a nonpublic school or a public school as those terms are defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 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: is a lways mandatory and not directory, and denotes that the dwelling shall be maintained in all respects according to the mandate as long as it continues to be a dwelling. See Michigan Laws 125.402 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 Site characterization: means the site specific investigation of a candidate site undertaken pursuant to section 12. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Site closure and stabilization: means the actions taken at the disposal site during the time period after the closure of the disposal unit during which on-site low-level radioactive waste is disposed in accordance with part 137, equipment is dismantled, decontaminated, removed for reuse or disposed of, and radioactive residues are removed from, or properly isolated on, the disposal site in preparation for transfer of ownership of the disposal site to the federal government. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 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: A law passed by a legislature. Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Testify: Answer questions in court. Third-party service provider: means a person that is not a licensee and that contracts with a licensee to maintain, process, or store, or otherwise is permitted access to nonpublic information, through its provision of services to the licensee. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident. Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. Unearned premium reserve: means that portion of the premium on a health insurance policy or certificate paid or due to the insurer that is applicable to the period of coverage extending beyond the valuation date. See Michigan Laws 500.701 United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o Valuation net modal premium: means the modal fraction of the valuation net annual premium that corresponds to the gross modal premium in effect on any contract to which contract reserves apply. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate. Veteran: means that term as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 333.5701 Vietnam-era veteran: means a veteran who served in the armed forces of the United States between 12:01 a. See Michigan Laws 333.5701 Ward: means that term as defined in section 1108 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 waste: means radioactive material that consists of or contains class A, B, or C radioactive waste as defined by 10 C. See Michigan Laws 333.26202