Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 484 > Act 32 of 1986 > Chapter III

• Agricultural commodity: means all agricultural, aquacultural, silvicultural, horticultural, floricultural, or viticultural products, livestock or livestock products, Christmas trees, bees, maple syrup, honey, commercial fish or fish products, and seeds produced in this state, either in their natural state or as processed by the producer of the commodity. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• Agricultural commodity input: means an item used in the production, processing, or packaging of an agricultural commodity that is assessed by a specific marketing agreement. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• ALI: means a 9-1-1 service feature provided by the service supplier that automatically provides the name and service address or, for a CMRS service supplier, the location associated with the calling party's telephone number as identified by automatic number identification to a 9-1-1 public safety answering point. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• ANI: means a 9-1-1 service feature provided by the service supplier that automatically provides the calling party's telephone number to a 9-1-1 public safety answering point. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• 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 D-6751, as approved by the department. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Biodiesel blend: means a fuel comprised of a blend of biodiesel fuel with petroleum-based diesel fuel, suitable for use as a fuel in a compression-ignition internal combustion diesel engine. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Blender: means a person who as an individual or through his or her agent adds an oxygenate to a gasoline. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Bulk purchaser-end user: means a person who is an ultimate consumer of gasoline and receives delivery of gasoline into a storage tank of at least 550-gallon capacity substantially under his or her control. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• CMRS: means commercial mobile radio service regulated under section 3 of title I and section 332 of title III of the communications act of 1934, chapter 652, 48 Stat 1064, 47 USC 153 and 332, and the rules of the Federal Communications Commission or provided under the wireless emergency service order. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Committee: means the commodity committee or advisory board established under a marketing program. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• 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.
• Consolidated dispatch: means a countywide or regional emergency dispatch service that provides dispatch service for 75% or more of the law enforcement, fire fighting, emergency medical service, and other emergency service agencies within the geographical area of a 9-1-1 service district or serves 75% or more of the population within a 9-1-1 service district. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Database service provider: means a service supplier who maintains and supplies or contracts to maintain and supply an ALI database or an MSAG. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Delivery vessel: means a tank truck, tank equipped trailer, or a similar vessel used for the delivery of gasoline to a dispensing facility. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Department: means the department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• Diesel fuel: means any liquid other than gasoline that is suitable for use as a fuel or a component of a fuel in a compression-ignition internal combustion diesel engine. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Director: means the director of the department of agriculture or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• Dispensing facility: means a site used for gasoline refueling. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Dispensing unit: means a device designed for the delivery of gasoline in which 1 nozzle equates to 1 dispensing unit. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Distributor: means a person who purchases, transports, or stores or causes the transportation or storage of gasoline at any point between a gasoline refinery and a retail outlet or bulk purchaser-end user facility. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Distributor: means a person engaged in selling, offering for sale, marketing, or distributing an agricultural commodity or agricultural commodity input that he or she has purchased or acquired from a producer or that the person is marketing on behalf of a producer, whether as owner, agent, employee, broker, or otherwise. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gasoline: means a volatile mixture of liquid hydrocarbons generally containing small amounts of additives suitable for use in spark-ignition internal combustion engines, and commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Hydrogen fuel: means a substance containing the chemical formula H2 that exists as a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas except at low cryogenic temperatures or when highly compressed that is gaseous or liquefied and suitable for use in a fuel cell or hydrogen fuel vehicle. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• 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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Livestock: means that term as defined in section 3 of the animal industry act, 1988 PA 466, MCL 287. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• Marketing agreement: means an agreement entered into, with the director, by producers, distributors, processors, or handlers under this act and binding only on those signing the agreement. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• Marketing program: means a program established by order of the director under this act prescribing rules and regulations governing the marketing for processing, distributing, selling, or handling an agricultural commodity produced in this state or agricultural commodity input during a specified period and that the director determines would be in the public interest. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• Modification: means any change, removal, or addition, other than an identical replacement, of any component contained within a stage I vapor-recovery system. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• 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
• Operator: means a person who owns, leases, operates, manages, supervises, or controls, directly or indirectly, a gasoline-dispensing facility. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• 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, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• primary PSAP: means a communications facility operated or answered on a 24-hour basis assigned responsibility by a public agency or county to receive 9-1-1 calls and to dispatch public safety response services, as appropriate, by the direct dispatch method, relay method, or transfer method. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Producer: means a person engaged in the business of producing, or causing to be produced for any market, an agricultural commodity or agricultural commodity input in quantity beyond that person's own family use, and having a value at first point of sale of more than $800. See Michigan Laws 290.652
• Public agency: means a village, township, charter township, or city within the state and any special purpose district located in whole or in part within the state. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Public safety agency: means a functional division of a public agency, county, or the state that provides fire fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. See Michigan Laws 484.1102
• Refiner: means a person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a refinery. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Retail dealer: means a person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a retail outlet. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Retail outlet: means an establishment at which motor fuel is sold or offered for sale to the public. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 290.642
• seal: shall be construed to include any of the following: