Michigan Laws > Chapter 450 > Act 284 of 1972 – Business Corporation Act


Chapter 1	General Provisions
Chapter 2	Formation; Purposes and Powers
Chapter 2A	Professional Corporations
Chapter 3	Capital Structure and Corporate Finance
Chapter 4	Shareholders
Chapter 5	Directors and Officers
Chapter 6	Amendments to Articles of Incorporation
Chapter 7	Corporate Combinations and Dispositions
Chapter 7A
Chapter 8	Dissolution
Chapter 9	Reports
Chapter 10	Foreign Corporations

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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 450 > Act 284 of 1972 - Business Corporation Act

Acknowledgment form: means a scale weight ticket, a load slip, or any other evidence of deposit issued by a grain dealer or his or her authorized representative to a depositor that identifies the farm produce being transferred from the possession of the depositor to the possession of the grain dealer. See Michigan Laws 285.62
Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
Administrative expenses: means the costs described in section 9(2). See Michigan Laws 285.313
Administrative premium: means the amount of money charged to and collected from a producer under section 10. See Michigan Laws 285.313
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.
Advisory committee: means the seed potato advisory committee created in section 6. See Michigan Laws 286.682
Affected area: means the area defined in the petition. See Michigan Laws 286.401
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.
Affiliate: means a person, other than an individual or governmental entity, to which any of the following apply:

(i) A credit union directly or indirectly owns or controls a majority of the person's voting shares or other voting ownership interests. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Affiliate: means a corporation, business trust, limited liability company, partnership, association, or similar organization to which any of the following apply:

(i) A person, directly or indirectly, owns or controls either more than 25% of its voting shares or a majority of the shares voted at the most recent election for the election of its directors, trustees, or other individuals who exercise similar functions, or controls in any manner the election of a majority of its directors, trustees, or other individuals who exercise similar functions. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

agencies: shall be deemed to include those officers, boards, commissions and other bodies created by public corporations or by the federal government, which are authorized to act in their own names. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Agent: means a person that solicits, takes orders, or sells nursery stock in this state for a grower or dealer of nursery stock, but not on the premises or place of business of the grower or dealer of nursery stock. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Agricultural improvements: means any improvements, buildings, structures, or fixtures suitable for use in farming which are located on agricultural land. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Agricultural land: means land suitable for use in farming. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Agricultural processing: means the enhancement or improvement of the overall value of an agricultural commodity or of an animal or plant product into a product of higher value, including, but not limited to, marketing, agricultural processing, transforming, or packaging. See Michigan Laws 286.432

Agricultural processing facility: means 1 or more facilities or operations that transform, package, sort, or grade livestock or livestock products, agricultural commodities, or plants or plant products, excluding forest products, into goods that are used for intermediate or final consumption including goods for nonfood use, and surrounding property. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Alien credit union: means a credit union that is organized under the laws of a country other than the United States. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Allegation: something that someone says happened.

Alternative energy technology: means that term as defined in section 2(d) of the Michigan next energy authority act, 2002 PA 593, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Alternative fuel: means a fuel composed of biomass or another fuel that does not have petroleum as a base or a blend of a nonpetroleum-based fuel and a petroleum-based fuel. See Michigan Laws 285.341

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.

Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.

annual meeting: when applied to townships, mean the annual meeting required by law to be held on the Saturday immediately preceding the first Monday in April. See Michigan Laws 8.3d

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.

Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.

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.

Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.

Apples: means all varieties of apples. See Michigan Laws 286.371

Applicant: means a person that submits an application under this act. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Appraisal: A determination of property value.

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

Area median income: means the median income for the area as determined under section 8 of the United States housing act of 1937, 42 USC 1437f, adjusted for family size. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.

Articles: means articles of incorporation, all amendments to articles of incorporation, and agreements of consolidation and merger. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.

Associate board member: means an individual appointed by a credit union board to the position described in section 342(10). See Michigan Laws 490.102

Association: means a federal savings association organized under section 5 of the home owners' loan act, 12 USC 1464, or a savings and loan association, building and loan association, or homestead association that is organized under the laws of a state, the District of Columbia, or a territory or protectorate of the United States, and whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.

Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.

Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.

Authority: means a resort district authority created pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2202

Authority: means a brownfield redevelopment authority created under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Authority: means the state exposition and fairgrounds authority created in section 9. See Michigan Laws 285.162

Authority: means the Michigan family farm development authority established in section 3. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Authority: means the farm produce insurance authority created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Authority board: means the board for the authority appointed under section 9. See Michigan Laws 285.162

Bank: means a bank that is organized under the laws of this state, any other state, the District of Columbia, or a territory or protectorate of the United States, or a national banking association chartered by the federal government under the national bank act, 12 USC 21 to 216d, and whose deposits are insured by an agency of the federal government. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Bank: means a state banking corporation that is organized or reorganized under this act or organized under any law of this state enacted before March 1, 2000, including a state banking corporation that voluntarily limits its activities. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.

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.

Baseline environmental assessment: means that term as defined in part 201 or 213. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Beginning farmer: means an individual with a low or moderate net worth who engages in farming or wishes to engage in farming. See Michigan Laws 285.252

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}

benefits: shall be deemed to mean advantages resulting from a project to public corporations, the inhabitants of public corporations, and property within public corporations. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Bequest: Property gifted by will.

Biodiesel: means a fuel composed of mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats and, in accordance with standards specified by the American society for testing and materials, designated B100, and meeting the requirements of D6751, as approved by the department. See Michigan Laws 285.341

Blighted: means property that meets any of the following criteria as determined by the governing body:

(i) Has been declared a public nuisance in accordance with a local housing, building, plumbing, fire, or other related code or ordinance. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Board: means the governing body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 125.2202

Board: means the Michigan early stage venture investment corporation board of directors. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Board: means the board of directors of an empowerment zone development corporation. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Board: means the board of directors of an enterprise community development corporation. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

Board: means the board that supervises and controls an authority under section 5. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Board: means the state administrative board created in 1921 PA 2, MCL 17. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Board: means the board of directors of the authority described in section 7. See Michigan Laws 285.313

board: shall be deemed to mean the water management board of a water management district. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Board member: means a member of a board of directors, board of trustees, or similar governing body of an organization. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Bonds: means bonds issued by the authority pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Border crossing facility: means a business that is 1 or more of the following as determined by the board of the Michigan strategic fund:

(i) That was located in a qualified border local governmental unit as defined in section 8g and was displaced or otherwise negatively affected by the development of the international border crossing and is unable to recover from the displacement or negative effect without the establishment of a renaissance zone. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Borrower: means a member who obtains a loan from a credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Branch: means , except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, an office or other place of business at which a credit union receives deposits, pays checks, or lends money. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Branch: means , except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, a branch bank, branch office, branch agency, additional office, or a branch place of business at which deposits are received, checks paid, or money lent. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Breeder seed: means seed or plant propagating material directly controlled by the originating or, in certain cases, the sponsoring plant breeder or institution, and which provides the source of foundation seed. See Michigan Laws 286.71

Brownfield plan: means a plan that meets the requirements of section 13 and 13b and is adopted under section 14. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Campground: means a campground as defined in section 12501 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

capital stock: means the stated par value of issued and outstanding unimpaired common stock and the stated par value of issued and outstanding unimpaired preferred stock. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Captured taxable value: means the amount in 1 year by which the current taxable value of an eligible property subject to a brownfield plan, including the taxable value or assessed value, as appropriate, of the property for which specific taxes are paid in lieu of property taxes, exceeds the initial taxable value of that eligible property. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Cash sale: means a sale in which the title to farm produce is transferred only after a price is decided upon before or at the time of delivery and payment for the farm produce meets 1 of the following:

(i) Payment of the price is made to the depositor in cash or by check, money order, wire transfer, or draft within 10 days of delivery. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Certified seed: means the progeny of foundation, registered or certified seed if designated foundation and plant propagating materials that are so handled as to maintain satisfactory genetic identity and purity and have met certification standards required by this act and have been approved and certified by the director upon the advice of official seed certifying agencies. See Michigan Laws 286.71

Certified seed: means a class of seed that meets the requirements of 1959 PA 221, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Certifying authority: means the official seed-certifying agency of this state or the authorized seed potato certifying agency of another state, territory, or country. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Chief executive officer: means the mayor or city manager of a city, the president of a village, the supervisor of a township, or the county executive of a county or, if a county does not have a county executive, the chairperson of the county board of commissioners. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Chief executive officer: means the mayor of a city, the village manager of a village, the township supervisor of a township, or the county executive of a county or, if the county does not have an elected county executive, the chairperson of the county board of commissioners. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Child-support order: means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Claimant: means a person to whom a grain dealer owes a financial obligation for farm produce or who is entitled to the farm produce delivered to the grain dealer or the proceeds of the farm produce. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Claimant: means a producer who makes a claim for reimbursement from the fund under section 15. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Code: means all or a part of the mobile home code promulgated under section 5. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Combined brownfield plan: means a brownfield plan that also includes the information necessary to submit the plan to the department, Michigan state housing development authority, or Michigan strategic fund under section 15(20). See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Commission: means the manufactured housing commission. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Commission: means the commission of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 285.362

commission: shall be deemed to mean the water management commission of a water management district. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.

Community Reinvestment Act: The Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977. ^{Source: OCC}

Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.

Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.

Conflict of interest: means a situation in which the private interest of a director, employee, or agent of the board may influence the judgment of the director, employee, or agent in the performance of his or her duties or responsibilities under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Consolidated bank: means a bank that results from a consolidation between a bank and 1 or more banks, out-of-state banks, national banks, associations, or savings banks. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

consolidation: include , respectively, consolidate or merge, consolidated or merged, consolidating or merging, and consolidation or merger. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Construction period tax capture revenues: means funds equal to the amount of income tax levied and imposed in a calendar year on wages paid to individuals physically present and working within the eligible property for the construction, renovation, or other improvement of eligible property that is an eligible activity within a transformational brownfield plan. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.

Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

Controlled atmosphere storage: means the storage of fruits or vegetables in an approved sealed storage room or in an approved sealed storage building, or in a sealed storage space within the room or building, under controlled conditions of time in days, oxygen content, carbon dioxide content, and temperature as established by this act or rules adopted under this act. See Michigan Laws 286.371

Convention: means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.

Cooperative association: means that term as defined in 12 USC 1141j. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Corporate credit union: means a credit union whose field of membership consists primarily of other credit unions. See Michigan Laws 490.102

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.

Corporation: means an empowerment zone development corporation organized under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Corporation: means an enterprise community development corporation organized under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

Corrective action: means that term as defined in part 111 or part 213. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.

County drain: means any drain, irrespective of size, carrying drainage water or sewage or both originating in 1 county, and includes drains located, established and constructed by a county drain commissioner or drainage board, by a city, village or township. See Michigan Laws 280.461

county drain commissioner: means the elected county drain commissioner or the person or persons designated to perform the duties of the elected county drain commissioner as provided in section 21 and 21a. See Michigan Laws 280.4

Credit union: means a domestic or foreign credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Credit union board: means a board of directors, board of trustees, or other governing body of a credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Credit union service organization: means a corporation or other legal entity that is engaged primarily in providing 1 or more of the products or services described in section 407 to credit unions or their members, that a domestic credit union may organize, invest in, or lend to under section 401(2)(gg), and that may or may not be controlled by 1 or more credit unions. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Cultivar: means unique variety. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.

Debt management: means that term as defined in section 2 of the debt management act, 1975 PA 148, MCL 451. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Decedent: A deceased person.

Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.

Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.

Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs, except as follows:

(i) Department means the department of state in all of the following circumstances:

(A) As used in section 5(1) with respect to rules promulgated under section 5(1)(h). See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Department: means the department of labor. See Michigan Laws 125.2502

Department: means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Department: means the department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Department: means the department of management and budget. See Michigan Laws 285.162

Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Department: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 285.341

Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 285.362

Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 490.102

department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Department specific activities: means baseline environmental assessments, due care activities, response activities, and other environmentally related actions that are eligible activities and are identified as a part of a brownfield plan that are in addition to the minimum due care activities required by part 201, including, but not limited to:

(i) Response activities that are more protective of the public health, safety, and welfare and the environment than required by section 20107a, 20114, or 21304c of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.

Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.

Depositor: means either of the following:

(i) A person who delivers farm produce to a licensed grain dealer for storage, processing, shipment, or sale and has title to the farm produce at the time of delivery. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Depositor: means that term as defined in section 2 of the grain dealers act, MCL 285. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Depository institution: means a bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, foreign bank branch, association, savings bank, or credit union organized under the laws of this state, another state, the District of Columbia, the United States, or a territory or protectorate of the United States. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Depreciable agricultural property: means personal property suitable for use in farming for which an income tax deduction for depreciation is allowable in computing federal income tax under the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Development: means natural and normal growth before harvest. See Michigan Laws 286.401

Development plan: means a written plan that addresses the criteria in section 7 and includes all of the following:

(i) A map of the proposed renaissance zone that indicates the geographic boundaries, the total area, and the present use and conditions generally of the land and structures within those boundaries. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Devise: To gift property by will.

Director: means the director of labor or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 125.2502

Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 285.162

Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Director: means the director of the department or an employee of the department authorized by the director. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Director: means the director of the Michigan department of agriculture or his or her designated agents. See Michigan Laws 286.371

Director: means the director of the state department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 286.401

Director: means the director of labor or any person authorized to act in his behalf. See Michigan Laws 286.651

Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 490.102

director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Director of agriculture: means the director of the state department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 280.511

director of agriculture: shall be deemed to mean the director of agriculture of the state of Michigan. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.

Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:

disposition: means a cash sale or other transfer of farm produce or placement of farm produce on a warehouse receipt or price later agreement. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Dissolution: means the process by which a solvent bank voluntarily ends its corporate existence by liquidating its assets and winding up its affairs. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, barter, deliver, supply, furnish, or otherwise provide seed potatoes. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Dividend reinvestment plan: means a plan that is offered solely to existing shareholders of the bank and that allows the shareholders to reinvest dividends received under section 3806 in stock of the bank and that may allow additional cash amounts to be contributed by the shareholders participating in the reinvestment plan. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Domestic credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit entity organized under this act for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its members, providing a variety of financial services to its members, and providing an opportunity for its members to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and social condition. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Donor: The person who makes a gift.

drain: whenever used in this act , shall include the main stream or trunk and all tributaries or branches of any creek or river, any watercourse or ditch, either open or closed, any covered drain, any sanitary or any combined sanitary and storm sewer or storm sewer or conduit composed of tile, brick, concrete, or other material, any structures or mechanical devices, that will properly purify the flow of such drains, any pumping equipment necessary to assist or relieve the flow of such drains and any levee, dike, barrier, or a combination of any or all of same constructed, or proposed to be constructed, for the purpose of drainage or for the purification of the flow of such drains, but shall not include any dam and flowage rights used in connection therewith which is used for the generation of power by a public utility subject to regulation by the public service commission. See Michigan Laws 280.3

Due care activities: means those response activities identified as part of a brownfield plan that are necessary to allow the owner or operator of an eligible property in the plan to comply with the requirements of section 20107a or 21304c of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Duty of support: means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Economic opportunity zone: means 1 or more parcels of property that meet all of the following:

(i) That together are 40 or more acres in size. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Elected county executive: means the elected county executive in a county organized under 1966 PA 293, MCL 45. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}

Eligibility record date: means a record date that is 1 year or more before the adoption of a plan of conversion by a credit union board and is set forth in a plan of conversion for determining eligible members of a converting credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102

eligible activity: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) For all eligible properties, eligible activities include all of the following:

(A) Department specific activities. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Eligible property: means either of the following:

(i) Except as otherwise provided in sub-subparagraph (G), property for which eligible activities are identified under a brownfield plan that was used or is currently used for commercial, industrial, public, or residential purposes, including personal property located on the property, or former dumps, landfills, and other areas filled with nonnative material, to the extent included in the brownfield plan, and that meets 1 or more of the following conditions listed in sub-subparagraphs (A) to (F):

(A) Is in a qualified local governmental unit and is a facility or a site or property as those terms are defined in part 213, historic resource, functionally obsolete, or blighted and includes parcels that are adjacent or contiguous to that property if the development of the adjacent and contiguous parcels is estimated to increase the captured taxable value of that property. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}

Emigrant agent: means a person engaged in recruiting, hiring, soliciting or enticing laborers by any means whatsoever in this state to be employed beyond the limits of this state in farm labor. See Michigan Laws 286.651

employer: means that term as defined in section 8 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Employer: means a person employing or seeking to employ an employee for farm labor. See Michigan Laws 286.651

Empowerment zone: means an area designated as an empowerment zone by the United States department of housing and urban development. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Empowerment zone coordinating council: means a community-based partnership initiated by the chief executive officer of a municipality with a population of 900,000 or more to do all of the following:

(i) Develop a strategic plan in accordance with 24 C. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Enterprise community: means an area designated as an enterprise community by the United States department of housing and urban development or the United States department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.

Environmental insurance: means liability insurance for environmental contamination and cleanup that is not otherwise required by state or federal law. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

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}

Equity capital: means capital invested in common or preferred stock, royalty rights, limited partnership interests, limited liability company interests, or any other security or rights that evidence ownership in a private business. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.

Ethanol: means a substance that meets the American society for testing and materials standard in effect on the effective date of this act as the D4806 specification for denatured fuel grade ethanol for blending with gasoline. See Michigan Laws 285.341

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

existing structures: includes any structure designed to be used as a dwelling. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Facility: means that term as defined in part 201. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Facility: means an edifice, silo, tank, bin, crib, interstice, or protected enclosed structure, or more than 1 edifice, silo, tank, bin, crib, interstice, or protected enclosed structure located contiguous to each other, used to receive, deposit, or store farm produce in bulk. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Facility: means a plant designed for receiving or storing farm produce, a plant designed for value-added agricultural processing, or a retail sales establishment of a business engaged in making retail sales directly to farmers with 75% or more of its gross retail sales volume exempted from sales tax under section 4a(1)(e), (f), (g), and (h) of the general sales tax act, 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 286.432

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.

Farm: means that term as it is defined in section 2 of the Michigan right to farm act, 1981 PA 93, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 286.432

Farm: means the land, plants, animals, buildings, structures, including ponds used for agricultural or aquacultural activities, machinery, equipment, and other appurtenances used in the commercial production of farm products. See Michigan Laws 286.472

Farm labor: means cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodity, the raising of livestock, bees, furbearing animals or poultry, any practices performed on the farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market or any forestry or lumbering operations, and first processing of any agricultural or horticultural commodity during seasonal operations. See Michigan Laws 286.651

Farm operation: means the operation and management of a farm or a condition or activity that occurs at any time as necessary on a farm in connection with the commercial production, harvesting, and storage of farm products, and includes, but is not limited to:

(i) Marketing produce at roadside stands or farm markets. See Michigan Laws 286.472

Farm produce: means 1 or more of dry edible beans, soybeans, small grains, cereal grains, or corn. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Farm produce: means that term as defined in section 2 of the grain dealers act, MCL 285. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Farm produce handled: means the number of bushels or hundredweight of farm produce that a licensee receives or is otherwise obligated for in a fiscal period. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Farm produce handling: means any of the following:

(i) Engaging or participating in the business of purchasing farm produce. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Farm produce trucker: means a person engaged in the business of hauling farm produce that issues price later agreements or acknowledgment forms, transfers warehouse receipts, or is responsible for payment to a depositor, but that does not own a facility. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Farming: means the cultivation of land for the production of agricultural crops and includes the production of poultry and poultry products, the production of livestock including breeding and grazing, the production of grains and feeds, the production of forages and sod, the production of dairy products, the production of fruits and vegetables, the production of timber and timber products, the production of seeds and grasses, and the production of equine. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Federal agency: means a foreign bank agency established and operating under the international banking act of 1978. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Federal branch: means a foreign bank branch established and operating under the international banking act of 1978. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Federal credit union: means a credit union that is organized under the laws of the United States. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Federal deposit insurance act: means the federal deposit insurance act, 12 USC 1811 to 1835a. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Federal home loan bank act: means the federal home loan bank act, 12 USC 1421 to 1449. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Federal reserve act: means the federal reserve act, 12 USC 221 to 522. See Michigan Laws 487.11201

Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}

Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.

Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.

Field of membership: means that term as established under section 352. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Field year: means the number of years a particular seed lot has been grown in the field after greenhouse propagation. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Financial institution: means a state or nationally chartered bank or a state or federally chartered savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union whose deposits are insured by an agency of the United States government and that maintains a principal office or branch office located in this state, or a national bank for cooperatives subject to the farm credit act of 1971, Public Law 92-181, 85 Stat. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Financial institution: means that term as defined in section 2 of the grain dealers act, MCL 285. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Financial institution: means a state or national bank, a state or federally chartered savings and loan association, a state or federally chartered savings bank, a state or federally chartered credit union, or other regulated lending institution that maintains a principal office or branch office in this state under the laws of this state or the United States, including, but not limited to, an entity of the federally chartered farm credit system. See Michigan Laws 286.432

Financial institution: means a credit union, bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Financial institution: means an organization that is licensed, chartered, or regulated by the department under the laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

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.

Fiscal year: means the fiscal year of the authority. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}

Foreign bank: means an entity that is organized and recognized as a bank under the laws of a foreign country that lawfully engages in the business of banking and is not directly or indirectly owned or controlled by United States citizens or by a corporation organized under the laws of the United States. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Foreign bank branch: means a place of business of a foreign bank, located in any state, the District of Columbia, or a territory, or protectorate of the United States, that is not a foreign bank agency, bank, or out-of-state bank, at which deposits are received and that is established and operating as a branch of a foreign bank under this act, the international banking act of 1978, or the laws of another state. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Foreign country: means a country other than the United States and includes a colony, dependency, or possession of a country other than the United States. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Foreign country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and 1 or more of the following:

(i) That has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Foreign credit union: means a credit union organized under the laws of another state or territory of the United States or a federal credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Foreign tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country that is authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Forest products processing facility: means 1 or more facilities or operations that transform, package, sort, recycle, or grade forest or paper products into goods that are used for intermediate or final use or consumption or for the creation of biomass or alternative fuels through the utilization of forest products or forest residue, and surrounding property. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Former mill: means a former mill that has not been used for industrial purposes for the immediately preceding 2 years, that is not located in a qualified local governmental unit, that is a facility or is a site or a property as those terms are defined in part 213, functionally obsolete, or blighted, and that is located within 15 miles of a river that is a federal superfund site listed under the comprehensive environmental response, compensation and liability act of 1980, 42 USC 9601 to 9675, and that is located in a municipality with a population of less than 10,000. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Foundation seed: means seed stocks or plant propagating materials that are increased from breeder or designated foundation seed and are so handled as to most nearly maintain specific genetic identity and purity. See Michigan Laws 286.71

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}

Functionally obsolete: means that the property is unable to be used to adequately perform the function for which it was intended due to a substantial loss in value resulting from factors such as overcapacity, changes in technology, deficiencies or superadequacies in design, or other similar factors that affect the property itself or the property's relationship with other surrounding property. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Fund: means the state exposition and fairgrounds fund created in section 14a. See Michigan Laws 285.162

Fund: means the farm produce insurance fund created in section 9. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Fund: means the agriculture licensing and inspection fees fund created in section 9 of the insect pest and plant disease act, 1931 PA 189, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Generally accepted agricultural and management practices: means those practices as defined by the Michigan commission of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 286.472

Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.

Governing body: means the body in which the legislative powers of a municipality are vested. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Governing body: means the body in which the legislative powers of a municipality are vested. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

Governing body: means the elected body having legislative powers of a municipality creating an authority under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Grain dealer: means a person engaged in the business of receiving, buying, exchanging, selling, or storing farm produce in this state. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Grain dealer: means that term as defined in section 2 of the grain dealers act, MCL 285. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Grain dealers act: means the grain dealers act, 1939 PA 141, MCL 285. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Grain merchandiser: means a person engaged in the business of receiving, buying, exchanging, selling, or taking title to farm produce and who is responsible for payment to a depositor but does not operate a truck or a facility. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Grantor: 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

Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}

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.

Guideline: means that term as defined in section 3 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Heating cable: means cable designed to be secured to pipes and vessels to reduce their likelihood of freezing or to facilitate the flow of viscous liquids. See Michigan Laws 125.2502

High-technology activity: means that term as defined in section 3(g) of the Michigan economic growth authority act, 1995 PA 24, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Historic resource: means that term as defined in section 90a of the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Holder: means a person that has a tax voucher certificate or the right to be issued a tax voucher certificate from the Michigan early stage venture investment corporation. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Home state: means the state or foreign country in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as parent for at least 6 consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is less than 6 months old, the state or foreign country in which the child lived from birth with any of them. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Household income: means all income received by all individuals who are not less than 24 years of age when the household income is determined and who reside in a household while members of the household. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Housing development activities: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) Reimbursement provided to owners of rental housing units for qualified rehabilitation. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Housing property: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) A property on which 1 or more units of residential housing are proposed to be constructed, rehabilitated, or otherwise designed to be used as a dwelling. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

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

Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Income qualified household: means a person, a family, or unrelated persons living together, whose annual household income is not more than 120% of the area median income. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Income qualified purchaser household: means a purchaser who is, or who is a member of, an income qualified household. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Income qualified renting household: means a renter who is, or who is a member of, an income qualified household. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Income tax: means the tax levied and imposed under part 1 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Income tax capture revenues: means , with respect to each eligible property subject to a transformational brownfield plan, funds equal to the amount for each tax year by which the aggregate income tax from individuals residing within the eligible property subject to a transformational brownfield plan exceeds the initial income tax value. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}

Industrial cleaning: means cleaning or removal of contaminants from within a structure necessary to achieve the intended use of the property. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Infrastructure improvements: means a street, road, sidewalk, parking facility, pedestrian mall, alley, bridge, sewer, sewage treatment plant, property designed to reduce, eliminate, or prevent the spread of identified soil or groundwater contamination, drainage system, waterway, waterline, water storage facility, rail line, utility line or pipeline, transit-oriented development, transit-oriented property, or other similar or related structure or improvement, together with necessary easements for the structure or improvement, owned or used by a public agency or functionally connected to similar or supporting property owned or used by a public agency, or designed and dedicated to use by, for the benefit of, or for the protection of the health, welfare, or safety of the public generally, whether or not used by a single business entity, if any road, street, or bridge is continuously open to public access and other property is located in public easements or rights-of-way and sized to accommodate reasonably foreseeable development of eligible property in adjoining areas. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Initial income tax value: means , with respect to each eligible property subject to a transformational brownfield plan, the aggregate amount of income tax less credits under sections 255, 265, 266, and chapter 9 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Initial sales and use tax value: means , with respect to each eligible property subject to a transformational brownfield plan, the aggregate amount of sales tax and use tax collected from persons located within the eligible property for the tax year in which the resolution adding that eligible property in the transformational brownfield plan is adopted. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Initial taxable value: means the taxable value of an eligible property identified in and subject to a brownfield plan at the time the resolution adding that eligible property in the brownfield plan is adopted, as shown either by the most recent assessment roll for which equalization has been completed at the time the resolution is adopted or, if provided by the brownfield plan, by the next assessment roll for which equalization will be completed following the date the resolution adding that eligible property in the brownfield plan is adopted. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Initial withholding tax value: means , with respect to each eligible property subject to a transformational brownfield plan, the amount of income tax withheld under chapter 17 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Initiating tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country from which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded or in which a petition or comparable pleading is filed for forwarding to another state or foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.

Insect pests: means insects or other invertebrates injurious to plants or plant products. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Insolvent: means a credit union that meets either of the following:

(i) It is not able to pay its debts and other obligations, including those related to member shares, as they become due. See Michigan Laws 490.102

Installer and repairer: means a person, including a mobile home dealer, that for compensation installs or repairs mobile homes. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Institution: means a bank, state agency, or state foreign bank branch operating or organized or reorganized under this act or operating or organized under any law of this state enacted before August 20, 1969. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.

Intercounty drain: means any drain, irrespective of size, carrying drainage water or sewage originating in more than 1 county, and includes drains located, established and constructed by a county drain commissioner or drainage board, by a city, village or township. See Michigan Laws 280.511

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}

Investment security: means a marketable obligation in the form of a bond, note, or debenture, commonly regarded as an investment security and that is salable under ordinary circumstances with reasonable promptness at a fair value. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Investor: means an individual, firm, bank, financial institution, limited partnership, co-partnership, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, receiver, estate, trust, or any other entity that invests in the fund. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Issuing state: means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Issuing tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

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.

Land bank fast track authority: means an authority created under the land bank fast track act, 2003 PA 258, MCL 124. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

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}

Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.

License: means a license issued by the department to a grain dealer in the manner provided under this act. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Licensed person: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise legally authorized to practice a professional service by a court, department, board, commission, or agency of this state or another jurisdiction. See Michigan Laws 450.1282

Licensee: means a grain dealer licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Licensee: means that term as defined in section 2 of the grain dealers act, MCL 285. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.

Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.

Livestock: means that term as it is defined in section 3 of the animal industry act, 1988 PA 466, MCL 287. See Michigan Laws 285.362

loan or extension of credit: includes all direct or indirect advances of funds to a person made on the basis of any obligation of that person to repay the funds or repayable from specific property pledged by or on behalf of the person, and any credit exposure arising from a derivative transaction. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Local government: means a county or municipality. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Local governmental unit: means a county, city, village, township, or, for taxes levied after 2009, any other taxing jurisdiction that levies an ad valorem property tax. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Local taxes: means all taxes levied other than taxes levied for school operating purposes. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Low or moderate net worth: means an aggregate net worth of an individual and the individual's spouse and children, if any, of less than $250,000. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Major source of agricultural income: means that the producers of grapes within the affected area obtain at least 10% of their gross income as a group in any 5-year period from the production of grapes. See Michigan Laws 286.401

Majority leader: see Floor Leaders

Manager: means the manager of the authority appointed under section 4. See Michigan Laws 285.162

Member: means a person with an ownership interest under the Michigan limited liability company act, 1993 PA 23, MCL 450. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Membership share: means a share of a domestic credit union equal in amount to the par value of the credit union's shares that is credited to an account of a member by the credit union, is required as a condition of membership in the credit union, and is subject to any withdrawal restriction or other standards established by the domestic credit union for membership shares. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Messenger service: means a service such as a courier service or an armored car service that picks up from or delivers to customers of 1 or more depository institutions, or 1 or more affiliates of a depository institution, cash, currency, checks, drafts, securities, or other items relating to transactions between or involving a depository institution or affiliate of a depository institution and those customers, or that transfers cash, currency, checks, drafts, securities, or other items or documents between depository institutions or affiliates of depository institutions. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Michigan early stage venture investment fund: means the fund created in section 19. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Michigan economic development corporation: means the public body corporate created under section 28 of article VII of the state constitution of 1963 and the urban cooperation act of 1967, 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 7, MCL 124. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Michigan state housing development authority: means the Michigan state housing development authority created in section 21 of the state housing development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Michigan strategic fund: means the Michigan strategic fund as described in the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Michigan strategic fund: means the Michigan strategic fund created under the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Mixed-use: means a real estate project with planned integration of some combination of retail, office, residential, or hotel uses. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Mobile home: means a structure that is transportable in 1 or more sections, built on a chassis, and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained in the structure. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Mobile home dealer: means a person other than a manufacturer engaged in the business of buying mobile homes for resale, exchange, lease, or rent or offering mobile homes for sale, lease, rent, or exchange to customers. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Mobile home park: means a parcel or tract of land under the control of a person upon which 3 or more mobile homes are located on a continual, nonrecreational basis and which is offered to the public for that purpose regardless of whether a charge is made for the parcel or tract of land, together with any building, structure, enclosure, street, equipment, or facility used or intended for use incident to the occupancy of a mobile home. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

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.

Mortgage: means a mortgage, mortgage deed, deed of trust, or other instrument creating a first lien, subject only to title exceptions and encumbrances acceptable to the authority, including any other mortgage liens of equal standing with or subordinate to the mortgage loan retained by a seller or conveyed to a mortgage lender, on a fee interest in agricultural land and agricultural improvements. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Mortgage lender: means a state or national bank, trust company, mortgage company, national banking association, savings and loan association, life insurance company, any state or federal governmental agency or instrumentality, including the federal land bank or any of its local associations, or any other financial institution or entity authorized to make mortgage loans in this state. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}

Mortgage loan: means a financial obligation secured by a mortgage. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.

Multimodal commerce: means the movement of products or services via 2 or more of the following:

(i) Air. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

Municipality: means all of the following:

(i) A city. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Mutual savings bank: means a savings bank that is not authorized by its articles of incorporation to issue capital stock. See Michigan Laws 490.103

National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}

National bank: means a national banking association chartered by the federal government under the national bank act. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

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}

Negotiated return on qualified investment: means the rate of return agreed upon for investments made by investors in the fund. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Net proceeds: means the sale price of farm produce, less usual and customary charges and costs of sale of the farm produce. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Net worth: means total assets minus total liabilities as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles with appropriate exceptions and exemptions reasonably related to an equitable determination of the family's net worth. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Net worth: means the sum of a credit union's undivided earnings and reserves. See Michigan Laws 490.103

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.

Note: means a note issued by the authority pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Nursery: means any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown, or cultivated for the purpose of distributing or selling nursery stock as a business. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Nursery dealer: means a person that is not a grower or an original producer of nursery stock in this state, that buys nursery stock for the purpose of reselling or reshipping independently of the control of any nursery grower or nursery dealer, or that is engaged with a nursery grower or nursery dealer in handling nursery stock on a consignment basis. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Nursery stock: means all domesticated or wild botanically classified hardy perennial or biennial trees, shrubs, vines, and other plants; cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, bulbs, rhizomes, or roots of any of these; and fruit pits. See Michigan Laws 286.202

nurseryman: means a person owning, leasing, managing, or in charge of a nursery. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Oath: A promise to tell the truth.

oath: shall be construed to include the word "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in like cases the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed". See Michigan Laws 8.3k

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.

Obligee: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Obligor: means an individual about whom 1 of the following is true, or the estate of a decedent about whom 1 of the following was true before the individual's death:

(i) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Office of financial and insurance services: means the department. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Officer: means the chairperson of the board, the vice-chairperson of the board, the secretary, the treasurer, the general manager, an individual whose title is "president" an assistant treasurer, or an assistant secretary of a credit union, or any other individual who is specifically designated as an officer of a credit union by the credit union board. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Official: means a member of a credit union board or an officer, member of a credit committee or supervisory committee, or member of any other committee performing functions similar to a credit committee or supervisory committee, of a credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Open storage: means the storage of farm produce for 30 days or less under an acknowledgment form that does not contain a designation of a specific transaction type. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Open-end credit: A credit agreement (typically a credit card) that allows a customer to borrow against a preapproved credit line when purchasing goods and services. The borrower is only billed for the amount that is actually borrowed plus any interest due. (Also called a charge account or revolving credit.) ^{Source: OCC}

Operation: means office maintenance, including salaries and expenses of employees, office supplies, consultation fees, design costs, and other expenses incurred in the daily management of the authority and planning of its activities. See Michigan Laws 125.2202

Out-of-state bank: means a banking corporation that is organized under the laws of another state, the District of Columbia, or a territory or a protectorate of the United States whose principal office is located in a state other than this state, in the District of Columbia, or in a territory or a protectorate of the United States, and whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Outside this state: means a location in another state or a country other than the United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.

Owned by or under the control of: means that a land bank fast track authority, a municipality, or a qualified local governmental unit has 1 or more of the following:

(i) An ownership interest in the property. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

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, association, trust, or corporation, or any other legal entity or combination of legal entities. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 125.2502

Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, limited liability company, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, cooperative organization, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, cooperative association or other cooperative organization, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.432

Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.472

Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy or receiver. See Michigan Laws 286.651

Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

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.

Places: means vessels, cars and other vehicles, buildings, docks, nurseries, orchards, and other premises where plants or plant products are grown, kept, or handled. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.

Plant diseases: means fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and viruses, injurious to plants or plant products, and the pathological condition in plants or plant products caused by fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and viruses. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Plants or plant products: means trees, shrubs, vines, fruit, forage and cereal plants, and all other plants, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, and all other parts of plants; including fruit, vegetables, roots, bulbs, pips, seeds, wood, lumber, and all other plant products. See Michigan Laws 286.202

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.

Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.

Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}

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.

Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}

Previously developed property: means property that was part of an existing developed residential, commercial, or industrial zone and contained a structure serviced by utilities, or former dumps, landfills, and other areas filled with nonnative material. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Price later agreement: means a written or electronically transmitted agreement between a depositor and a grain dealer where the grain dealer receives title to farm produce and the depositor retains the option to price the farm produce after delivery based on conditions in the agreement. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Principal place of business: means the place where a domestic credit union keeps its principal records. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.

Probate: Proving a will

Processing: means drying, cleaning, packaging, or otherwise changing the physical characteristics of farm produce. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Processor: means a person engaged in processing farm produce and storing the farm produce for a period of 24 hours or more. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Producer: means a person that owns, rents, leases, or operates a farm on land and who has an interest in and receives all or any part of the proceeds from the sale and delivery in Michigan of farm produce produced from the land to a grain dealer licensed under the grain dealers act. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Producer premium: means the amount of money charged to and collected from a producer under section 11. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Producer security activities: means any action by the director under section 22 of the grain dealers act, MCL 285. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Production of agricultural goods: means commercial farming, including, but not limited to, cultivation of the soil; growing and harvesting of an agricultural, horticultural, or floricultural commodity; dairying; raising of livestock, bees, fish, fur-bearing animals, or poultry; or turf or tree farming. See Michigan Laws 286.432

Professional investor: means an accredited investor as defined in 15 USC 77b. See Michigan Laws 487.11202

Professional service: means a type of personal service to the public that requires that the provider obtain a license or other legal authorization as a condition precedent to providing that service. See Michigan Laws 450.1282

program: means the program for reimbursement of claims described in this act. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Program: means the qualified agricultural loan origination program established under this act. See Michigan Laws 286.432

project: shall be deemed to mean any flood control or drainage project petitioned for or undertaken under the provisions of this chapter in any water management district or subdistrict. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Property: means real estate, personal property, and any thing or substance connected with real estate or personal property whether or not it has value. See Michigan Laws 286.202

Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.

Proximity: means a radial distance of 2 miles from the site of damage. See Michigan Laws 286.401

Public corporation: includes this state, counties, cities, villages, townships, metropolitan districts and authorities created by or pursuant to state statutes. See Michigan Laws 280.461

Public corporation: includes this state, counties, cities, villages, townships, metropolitan districts and authorities created by or pursuant to state statutes. See Michigan Laws 280.511

public corporation: shall be deemed to include the state of Michigan, counties, cities, villages, townships, metropolitan districts and authorities created by or pursuant to state statutes. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.

Qualified agricultural loan: means a loan that is issued under the program and that meets all of the following conditions:

(i) The loan is made to 1 of the following:

(A) A person that is engaged in and intending to remain engaged in this state as an owner or operator of a farm in the production of agricultural goods that suffered a qualified loss of 25% or more in major enterprises or a qualified loss of 50% or more in production of any 1 crop on a farm located within this state. See Michigan Laws 286.432

Qualified facility: means a landfill facility area of 15 or more contiguous acres that is located in a city and that contains, contained, or is adjacent to a landfill, a material recycling facility, or an asphalt plant that is no longer in operation. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Qualified financial institution: means a financial institution that has a physical location in this state or whose principal office is located in this state, or both. See Michigan Laws 286.432

Qualified local governmental unit: means that term as defined in the obsolete property rehabilitation act, 2000 PA 146, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Qualified local governmental unit: means either of the following:

(i) A county. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Qualified loss: means a reduction of gross revenue from any agricultural commodity after receipt of any insurance proceeds and other reimbursements as a result of the same crop loss. See Michigan Laws 286.432

Qualified rehabilitation: means rehabilitation of existing structures that is necessary to make a housing unit suitable for sale to an income qualified purchaser household or rent to an income qualified renting household. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Qualified taxpayer: means that term as defined in section 38d and 38g of former 1975 PA 228, or section 437 of the Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

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.

Receiving point: means a facility where farm produce is received, weighed, and stored and an acknowledgment form is issued. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}

Recovery zone: means a tool and die renaissance recovery zone created in section 8d. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Registered seed: means the progeny of foundation or registered seed or plant propagating material that is so handled as to maintain satisfactory genetic identity and purity and that has been approved and certified by the director of agriculture upon the advice of the official certifying agencies. See Michigan Laws 286.71

Rehabilitation: means construction, reconstruction, repair, or maintenance of a road, street lighting, a sanitary sewer, a storm sewer, storm water drainage facilities, or a flood control project within a resort district, or establishment and operation of a system of garbage collection within the resort district. See Michigan Laws 125.2202

Rehabilitation plan: means a plan as described in section 15. See Michigan Laws 125.2202

Release: means that term as defined in part 201 or part 213. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

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.

Renaissance zone: means a geographic area designated under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Renewable energy facility: means a facility that creates energy, fuels, or chemicals directly from the wind, the sun, trees, grasses, biosolids, algae, agricultural commodities, processed products from agricultural commodities, or residues from agricultural processes, wood or forest processes, food production and processing, or the paper products industry. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).

Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.

Residential rental property: means that term as defined in section 7ff of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Resort district: means an area that encompasses a natural geographic feature used for recreation, such as an inland lake or the Great Lakes shoreline, that is specifically designated by resolution and approved as provided in this act, and a portion of which is land that is or was a part of a resort association incorporated under 1 of the following:

(i) 1897 PA 230, MCL 455. See Michigan Laws 125.2202

Responding state: means a state in which a petition or comparable pleading for support or to determine parentage of a child is filed or to which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded for filing from another state or a foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Responding tribunal: means the authorized tribunal in a responding state or foreign country. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Response activity: means either of the following:

(i) Response activity as that term is defined in part 201. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.

Review board: means the renaissance zone review board created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

reviewed: means performing inquiry and analytical procedures that provide an accountant with a reasonable basis for expressing limited assurance that there are no material modifications that should be made to the statement for it to conform with generally accepted accounting principles. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).

Revocation: means the removal of a grain dealer's license under this act in accordance with the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). ^{Source: OCC}

Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Rural area: means an area that lies outside of the boundaries of an urban area. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Sale: means transfer of title. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Sales and use tax capture revenues: means , with respect to each eligible property subject to a transformational brownfield plan, the amount for each calendar year by which the sales tax and use tax collected from persons within the eligible property exceeds the initial sales and use tax value. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Sales tax: means the tax levied under the general sales tax act, 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Savings and loan association: means a savings association that is organized under the laws of this state, a savings and loan association, building and loan association, or homestead association that is organized under the laws of any other state, the District of Columbia, or a territory or protectorate of the United States, or a federal savings association organized under the home owners' loan act, 12 USC 1461 to 1470, and whose deposits are insured by an agency of the federal government. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Savings bank: means a savings bank that is organized under the laws of this state, any other state, the District of Columbia, a territory or protectorate of the United States, or of the United States, and whose deposits are insured by an agency of the federal government. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Savings bank: means a savings bank that is organized under the savings bank act, 1996 PA 354, MCL 487. See Michigan Laws 487.11203

seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:

(a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n

sealed storage building: means sealed storage spaces in which controlled atmosphere is maintained, inferred, advertised, or represented as having a controlled atmosphere. See Michigan Laws 286.371

Seasonal mobile home park: means a parcel or tract of land under the control of a person upon which 3 or more mobile homes are located on a continual or temporary basis but occupied on a temporary basis only, and which is offered to the public for that purpose regardless of whether a charge is made for the parcel or tract of land, together with any building, enclosure, street, equipment, or facility used or intended for use incident to the occupancy of a mobile home. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Secured loan: means a financial obligation secured by a lien on an interest in depreciable agricultural property. See Michigan Laws 285.252

Secured party: means that term as defined in section 9102 of the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Security interest: means that term as defined in section 1201 of the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Seed: means the seed or propagating materials of cereals, grain crops, vegetable crops, oil crops, fiber crops, forage crops, grasses, legumes, turf species, tuberous crops, and other crops used in agricultural products which are produced or processed for the purpose of being sold, offered or exposed for sale, for planting, sowing or seeding processes within this state. See Michigan Laws 286.71

Seed lot: means all the seed potatoes of the same variety that are of a single class and specific seed source and are harvested from a field or stored together in a specific storage facility. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Seed or early stage business: means a business that is either of the following:

(i) A business that has not fully established commercial operations and may also be engaged in continued research and product development. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Seed potato: means the tuber that is used for the reproduction of the potato. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Senior management employee: means any individual who is designated as a senior policy-making employee of a credit union by the board of the credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Service center: means a place of business of a credit union, other than the principal place of business or a branch, where the credit union may transact business authorized by the credit union board. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Service entity: means a corporation, mutual company, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or limited partnership in which a bank has invested under section 4310(1). See Michigan Laws 487.11203

Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.

Service provider: means a person that provides any of the following to an institution:

(i) Data processing services. See Michigan Laws 487.11203

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 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

Shareholder: means the registered owner of any share or shares of capital stock of an institution. See Michigan Laws 487.11203

Shortage: means that a grain dealer does not have a sufficient amount of farm produce by class and quality to cover the grain dealer's outstanding warehouse receipt obligations for that farm produce. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Specific taxes: means all of the following:

(i) A tax levied under any of the following:

(A) 1974 PA 198, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Spousal-support order: means a support order for a spouse or former spouse of the obligor. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

State: means this state. See Michigan Laws 280.461

State: means this state. See Michigan Laws 280.511

state: shall be deemed to mean the state of Michigan. See Michigan Laws 280.551

State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

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

State agency: means a foreign bank agency that is established and operating under this act. See Michigan Laws 487.11203

State brownfield redevelopment fund: means the state brownfield redevelopment fund created in section 8a. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

State foreign bank branch: means a foreign bank branch that is established and operating under this act. See Michigan Laws 487.11203

State national harmonization program: means the state national harmonization program for seed potatoes developed by the plant protection and quarantine program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in the United States Department of Agriculture. See Michigan Laws 286.682

Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

Stock savings and loan association: means a savings and loan association that is authorized by its articles of incorporation to issue capital stock. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Stock savings bank: means a savings bank that is authorized by its articles of incorporation to issue capital stock. See Michigan Laws 490.103

Storage: means the deposit of farm produce in trust with a grain dealer by a depositor. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Strategic plan: means a plan agreed to by this state and a municipality concerning an empowerment zone that includes both of the following:

(i) Certification of the authority to adopt a strategic plan in an application for nomination as an empowerment zone under applicable federal regulations. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Strategic plan: means a plan agreed to by this state and a municipality concerning an enterprise community that includes both of the following:

(i) Certification of the authority to adopt a strategic plan in an application for nomination as an enterprise community under applicable federal regulations. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

subdistrict: shall be deemed to mean the area comprising that portion of a water management district in which a project is petitioned for under the provisions of this chapter, which project benefits only 1 or more public corporations within the water management district. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.

Subsidiary: means a corporation, mutual company, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or limited partnership, the controlling interests of which are more than 50% owned by 1 or more depository institutions, and in which a bank has an ownership interest, membership interest, or other legally enforceable interest that is the indicia of ownership. See Michigan Laws 487.11203

Substantial interest: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) Owning real property or a business located in the empowerment zone. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Substantial interest: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) Owning real property or a business located in the enterprise community. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.

Support enforcement agency: means a public official or governmental entity or private agency authorized to do 1 or more of the following:

(i) Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, that provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Surplus: means the amount paid for issued and outstanding common and preferred stock of a bank in excess of the stated par value, plus any amount of transferred undivided profits and any additional amounts paid in or contributed to increase total capital. See Michigan Laws 487.11203

Targeted redevelopment area: means not fewer than 40 and not more than 500 contiguous parcels of real property located in a qualified local governmental unit and designated as a targeted redevelopment area by resolution of the governing body and approved by the Michigan strategic fund. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Tax increment revenues: means the amount of ad valorem property taxes and specific taxes attributable to the application of the levy of all taxing jurisdictions on the captured taxable value of each parcel of eligible property subject to a brownfield plan and personal property located on that property, regardless of whether those taxes began to be levied after the brownfield plan was adopted. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Taxable value: means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Taxes levied for school operating purposes: means all of the following:

(i) The taxes levied by a local school district for operating purposes. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Temporary facility: means a facility that does not have a receiving point and is used by a licensee to store farm produce. See Michigan Laws 285.62

Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.

Termination statement: means that term as defined in section 9102 of the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440. See Michigan Laws 125.2302

Testify: Answer questions in court.

Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.

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.

Townships: means government survey townships, and need not be in the same county. See Michigan Laws 286.401

Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.

Transformational brownfield plan: means a brownfield plan that meets the requirements of section 13c and is adopted under section 14a and, as designated by resolution of the governing body and approved by the Michigan strategic fund, will have a transformational impact on local economic development and community revitalization based on the extent of brownfield redevelopment and growth in population, commercial activity, and employment that will result from the plan. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Transit-oriented development: means infrastructure improvements that are located within 1/2 mile of a transit station or transit-oriented property that promotes transit ridership or passenger rail use as determined by the board and approved by the municipality in which it is located. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Transit-oriented property: means property that houses a transit station in a manner that promotes transit ridership or passenger rail use. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.

Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102

Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}

United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o

Urban area: means an urbanized area as determined by the economics and statistics administration, United States bureau of the census according to the 1990 census. See Michigan Laws 125.2683

Use tax: means the tax levied under the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. ^{Source: OCC}

Valid claim: means a claim arising from a failure of a licensee that occurs after the effective date of this act, is found valid by the department, and is approved by the board, less all credits and offsets associated with farm produce delivered and sold in this state by a producer to the licensee or to a location in this state designated in advance of the delivery. See Michigan Laws 285.313

Venture capital: means equity financing that is provided for starting up or expanding a company, or related purposes such as financing for seed capital, research and development, introduction of a product or process into the marketplace, or similar needs requiring risk capital. See Michigan Laws 487.11203

Venture capital company: means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other legal entity the primary business activity of which is the investment of equity capital in businesses that focus on areas, including, but not limited to, alternative energy technology, high-technology activity, or health care. See Michigan Laws 125.2233

Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.

Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.

wages: means that term as defined in section 3401 of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 3401. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Warehouse receipt: means a written or electronically transmitted receipt issued by a grain dealer to a depositor at the time the grain dealer accepts farm produce for storage. See Michigan Laws 285.62

water management district: shall be deemed to mean the area comprising all or part of 3 or more contiguous counties within a single drainage basin in which a project is petitioned for or undertaken under the provisions of this chapter, and shall include such counties and all public corporations within such area as shall be subject to assessment for the cost of such project. See Michigan Laws 280.551

Withholding tax capture revenues: means , with respect to each eligible property subject to a transformational brownfield plan, the amount for each calendar year by which the income tax withheld under chapter 17 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Work plan: means a plan that describes each individual activity to be conducted to complete eligible activities and the associated costs of each individual activity. See Michigan Laws 125.2652

Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

Zone: means , for an authority established before June 6, 2000, a brownfield redevelopment zone designated under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2652