Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 450 > Act 23 of 1993 > Article 9

• Administrator: means the director of the department or his or her designated representative. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
• Articles of organization: means the original documents filed to organize a limited liability company, as amended or restated by certificates of correction, amendment, or merger, by restated articles, or by other instruments filed or issued under any statute. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Cervidae livestock facility: means a privately owned cervidae livestock operation on privately controlled lands capable of holding cervidae species. See Michigan Laws 287.952
• Cervidae species: means members of the cervidae family including, but not limited to, deer, elk, moose, reindeer, and caribou. See Michigan Laws 287.952
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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 Michigan department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 287.952
• Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
• Director: means the director of the Michigan department of natural resources or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 287.952
• 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.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• interest: means a member's rights in the limited liability company, including, but not limited to, any right to receive distributions of the limited liability company's assets and any right to vote or participate in management. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
• 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.
• Licensed person: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise legally authorized to practice a professional service by a court, department, board, commission, or an agency of this state or another jurisdiction, any corporation or professional services corporation all of whose shareholders are licensed persons, any partnership all of whose partners are licensed persons, or any limited liability company all of whose members and managers are licensed persons. See Michigan Laws 450.4902
• managers: means a person or persons designated to manage the limited liability company pursuant to a provision in the articles of organization stating that the business is to be managed by or under the authority of managers. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
• Member: means a person that has been admitted to a limited liability company as provided in section 501, or, in the case of a foreign limited liability company, a person that is a member of the foreign limited liability company in accordance with the laws under which the foreign limited liability company is organized. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
• Operating agreement: means a written agreement by the member of a limited liability company that has 1 member, or between all of the members of a limited liability company that has more than 1 member, pertaining to the affairs of the limited liability company and the conduct of its business. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
• Owner: means the person who owns or is responsible for a cervidae livestock operation. See Michigan Laws 287.952
• 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, corporation, limited liability corporation, partnership, association, joint venture, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 287.952
• Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, trust, custodian, estate, association, corporation, nonprofit corporation, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 450.4102
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Professional service: means a type of personal service to the public that requires as a condition precedent to the rendering of the service the obtaining of a license or other legal authorization. See Michigan Laws 450.4902
• Professional services corporation: means a corporation formed under former 1962 PA 192 or a corporation incorporated under and governed by chapter 2A of the business corporation act, 1972 PA 284, MCL 450. See Michigan Laws 450.4902
• Release: means to cause or allow an animal to become located outside the perimeter fence of a cervidae livestock facility not under the direct control of the owner. See Michigan Laws 287.952
• 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