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- Abandoned property: means tax delinquent property containing a structure that is vacant or dilapidated, is open to entrance or trespass, and has been determined to be abandoned under section 4. See Michigan Laws 211.962
- Ability to pay: means the ability of a responsible party to pay for the cost of services, as determined by the department under section 818 and 819. See Michigan Laws 330.1800
- ABLE: means achieving a better life experience. See Michigan Laws 206.982
- Abortion: means a medical treatment that is intended to terminate a diagnosable intrauterine pregnancy for a purpose other than to produce a live birth. See Michigan Laws 333.1071
- Academic credential: means a degree or a diploma, transcript, educational or completion certificate, or similar document that indicates completion of a program of study or instruction or completion of 1 or more courses at an institution of higher education or the grant of an associate, bachelor, master, or doctoral degree. See Michigan Laws 390.1602
- Academic year: means the period from September 1 of a calendar year to August 31 of the next calendar year. See Michigan Laws 390.1242
- Academic year: means the period from August 1 of a calendar year to July 31 of the next calendar year. See Michigan Laws 390.1342
- Academic year: means the period from September 1 of a calendar year to August 31 of the next calendar year. See Michigan Laws 390.1622
- ACBM: means asbestos-containing building material. See Michigan Laws 338.3402
- Accommodations: means the room or other space provided to transient guests for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping, including furnishings and other accessories, in a facility that is not a campground, hospital, nursing home, emergency shelter, or community mental health or community substance abuse treatment facility. See Michigan Laws 207.623
- Accommodations: means the room or other space provided for sleeping, including furnishings and other accessories in the room but not including the provision of food, beverages, telephone services, television or movie services, or other similar services, in a facility that is not a hospital, nursing home, emergency shelter, community mental health or community substance abuse treatment facility, or campground. See Michigan Laws 207.751
- account: means an account established under section 4. See Michigan Laws 206.902
- account: means an account established under this act. See Michigan Laws 206.982
- Account: means either of the 2 accounts created under section 7706. See Michigan Laws 500.7705
- Account holder: means a person who is the owner of an individual or family development account or the family if the account is a family account. See Michigan Laws 206.902
- Account owner: means an individual who is a resident of this state, or a resident of a contracting state, and who enters into a Michigan ABLE savings program agreement and establishes an ABLE savings account. See Michigan Laws 206.982
- Account owner: means any of the following:
(i) The individual who enters into a Michigan education savings program agreement and establishes an education savings account. See Michigan Laws 390.1472Accredited: means approved by an accrediting body recognized by the United States Department of Education. See Michigan Laws 390.1692 acquired by: means the year the property is first reported on the combined form as prescribed in section 7(8) in the report of the fair market value and year of acquisition by the first owner of qualified new personal property or qualified previously existing personal property. See Michigan Laws 211.1053 Acquiring insurer: means a domestic stock insurer, domestic mutual insurer, or reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange organized pursuant to this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.5100 acquisition cost: means that term as defined in subparagraph (i), as follows:
(i) "Acquisition cost" means the fair market value of personal property at the time of acquisition by the first owner, including the cost of freight, sales tax, and installation, and other capitalized costs, except capitalized interest. See Michigan Laws 211.1053acquisition cost: means that term as defined in subparagraph (i), as follows:
(i) "Acquisition cost" means the fair market value of personal property at the time of acquisition by the first owner, including the cost of freight, sales tax, and installation, and other capitalized costs, except capitalized interest. See Michigan Laws 211.1073Actual cash value: means the cost of replacing damaged or destroyed property with comparable new property, minus depreciation and obsolescence. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Actual notice: includes the physical presentation of an order, a revocation of an order, or another written document authorized under this act from or on behalf of a declarant. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Actuarial certification: means a written statement by a member of the American Academy of Actuaries or another individual acceptable to the director that a small employer carrier is in compliance with section 3705, based on the individual's examination, including a review of the appropriate records and the actuarial assumptions and methods used by the carrier in establishing premiums for applicable health benefit plans. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Actuary: means a person who is a member in good standing of the American academy of actuaries, the society of actuaries, or the casualty actuarial society. See Michigan Laws 500.1151 Actuary: means a person who is a member in good standing of the American academy of actuaries. See Michigan Laws 500.1401 Acute condition: means that the individual is medically unstable, requiring frequent monitoring by medical professionals in order to maintain his or her health status. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Addition: shall mean added space which results in additional cubic contents to existing building. See Michigan Laws 388.851a Adjacent: includes any highway, or portion of a highway, lying within 5 rods of the shore of any lake or the general course of any stream. See Michigan Laws 247.46 Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session. Adjusted household income: means that term as defined in R 125. See Michigan Laws 207.902 Administrator: means that term as defined in section 105 of the nonprofit act, MCL 450. See Michigan Laws 390.1572 Advance tuition payment contract: means a contract entered into by the trust and a purchaser pursuant to section 6 to provide for the higher education of a qualified beneficiary. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 Advanced illness: means a medical or surgical condition with significant functional impairment that is not reversible by curative therapies and that is anticipated to progress toward death despite attempts at curative therapies or modulation. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Adverse action: means an increase in any charge for, or a reduction or other adverse or unfavorable change in the terms of coverage or amount of, any personal insurance, existing or applied for. See Michigan Laws 500.2151 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 board: means the Michigan iron industry museum advisory board created by section 3. See Michigan Laws 399.72 Advisory board: means each of the following:
(i) The building officials advisory board described in section 1005. See Michigan Laws 339.6001AED: means automated external defibrillator. See Michigan Laws 333.26311 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 any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another company. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Affiliate: means any person that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with; is in a partnership or joint venture relationship with; or is a co-shareholder of a corporation, a co-member of a limited liability company, or a co-partner in a limited liability partnership with a licensee or applicant. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Affiliated business: means a business that is at least 50% owned and controlled, directly or indirectly, by an associated business. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Affiliated company: means a company in the same corporate system as a parent, an industrial insured, or a member organization by virtue of common ownership, control, operation, or management. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Affiliated company: means a company in the same corporate system as a parent, by virtue of common ownership, control, operation, or management. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Affiliated provider: means a health professional, licensed hospital, licensed pharmacy, or other person that has entered into a participating provider contract, directly or indirectly, with a health maintenance organization to render 1 or more health services to an enrollee. See Michigan Laws 500.3400 Affiliated provider: means a health professional, licensed hospital, licensed pharmacy, or any other institution, organization, or person that has entered into a participating provider contract, directly or indirectly, with a health maintenance organization to render 1 or more health services to an enrollee. See Michigan Laws 500.3501 Affiliation period: means a period of time required by a small employer carrier that must expire before health coverage becomes effective. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court. Affordable care act: means the patient protection and affordable care act, Public Law 111-148, as amended by the health care and education reconciliation act of 2010, Public Law 111-152. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 After-care assistance: means assistance provided by a lay caregiver to a patient following the patient's discharge from a hospital that is related to the patient's condition at the time of discharge. See Michigan Laws 333.26283 Agency: means the Michigan state housing development authority of the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 206.902 Agency: means a public agency or private agency. See Michigan Laws 213.51 Agent: includes , but is not limited to, an attorney-in-fact under a durable or nondurable power of attorney and an individual authorized to make decisions as a patient advocate concerning another's health care. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Agent of the insured: means an insurance producer who is not an appointed insurance producer of the insurer with which the insurance policy is placed. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Agent of the insurer: means an insurance producer who sells, solicits, or negotiates an application for insurance as a representative of the insurer and not the insured or the insured's beneficiary. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Agglomerated ore: means underground ore which has been pelletized, sintered, nodulized, briquetted, extruded or otherwise aggregated in accordance with good engineering and metallurgical practice. See Michigan Laws 207.271 Agglomerating facility: means the lands, plants, stockpiles of underground, beneficiated or agglomerated ores, buildings, facilities, equipment, tools and supplies used in connection with the agglomeration and transportation of the ores. See Michigan Laws 207.271 Aggregate assessable premiums: means the assessable premiums for basic property insurance plus the assessable premiums for home insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.2901 Aggregator site: means a website that provides access to information regarding insurance products from more than 1 insurer, including product and insurer information, for use in comparison shopping. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 Agreement: means a district library agreement required by section 3 or the agreement governing a district library established under former 1955 PA 164. See Michigan Laws 397.172 Agreement: means the streamlined sales and use tax agreement. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Air conditioning: means the process of treating air to meet the requirements of a conditioned space by controlling, either simultaneously or individually, the air's temperature, humidity, cleanness, and distribution. See Michigan Laws 339.5801 Aircraft: means that term as defined in section 2 of the aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, 1945 PA 327, MCL 259. See Michigan Laws 777.1 Airport parking facility: means an area, space, garage, parking structure, or other facility upon or in which motor vehicles are parked, stored, or housed for a consideration and that is located within the boundaries or within 5 miles of the boundaries of a regional airport facility. See Michigan Laws 207.372 Alarm system: means any mechanical or electrical device, including an electronic access control system, a video monitoring system, a burglar alarm system, smoke detectors, or any other electronic system that is designed to emit an audible alarm or transmit a signal or message to a central monitoring station if it is activated and that is used to detect an unauthorized entry into a protected premises or alert other persons of the occurrence of a fire or medical emergency or the commission of an unlawful act against a person or in a protected premises. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Alcohol: means fuel grade ethanol or a mixture of fuel grade ethanol and another product. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Alien captive insurance company: means an insurer formed to write insurance business for its parents and affiliates and licensed pursuant to the laws of a country other than the United States or a state, district, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Allegation: means an assertion of fact made by an individual that has not yet been proved or supported with evidence. See Michigan Laws 330.1772 Allegation: something that someone says happened. Allied health degree: means an earned baccalaureate or master degree in nursing, medical technology, medical records administration, dietetics, physician's assistant, emergency medical technology, respiratory therapy, anesthesia, nuclear medicine technology, and other allied health programs which are determined by the state board of education to qualify for reimbursement. See Michigan Laws 390.1021 ALS: means amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. See Michigan Laws 206.932 Alteration: means work that changes the detail of a resource but does not change its basic size or shape. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Alternate valuation date: The earlier of the date six months after the decedent Alternative energy marine propulsion system: means an onboard propulsion system or detachable outboard propulsion system for a watercraft that is powered by an alternative energy system and that is the singular propulsion system for the watercraft. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Alternative energy system: means the small-scale generation or release of energy from 1 or any combination of the following types of energy systems:
(i) A fuel cell energy system. See Michigan Laws 207.822Alternative energy technology: means equipment, component parts, materials, electronic devices, testing equipment, and related systems that are specifically designed, specifically fabricated, and used primarily for 1 or more of the following:
(i) The storage, generation, reformation, or distribution of clean fuels integrated within an alternative energy system or alternative energy vehicle, not including an anaerobic digester energy system or a hydroelectric energy system, for use within the alternative energy system or alternative energy vehicle. See Michigan Laws 207.822Alternative energy technology business: means a business engaged solely in the research, development, or manufacturing of alternative energy technology. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Alternative energy vehicle: means a motor vehicle manufactured by an original equipment manufacturer that fully warrants and certifies that the motor vehicle meets federal motor vehicle safety standards for its class of vehicles as defined by the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Alternative energy zone: means a renaissance zone designated as an alternative energy zone by the board of the Michigan strategic fund under section 8a of the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Alternative fuel: means that term as defined in section 151 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Alternative fuel: means that term as defined in section 151 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 207.211 alternative fueled vehicle: means a motor vehicle that can only be powered by a clean fuel energy system and can only be fueled by a clean fuel. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Amateur: means any of following:
(i) An individual who is not competing and has never competed for a prize or who is not competing and has not competed with or against a professional for a prize. See Michigan Laws 338.3610Amendment: 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. Anaerobic digester energy system: means a device or system of devices for optimizing the anaerobic digestion of biomass for the purpose of recovering biofuel for energy production. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Annual claim cost: means the net annual cost per unit of benefit before the addition of expenses, including claim settlement expenses, and a margin for profit or contingencies. See Michigan Laws 500.701 annual 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 Annual notice: means the privacy notice required in section 513. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Annuity: means an annuity that is an insurance product under state law that is individually solicited, whether the product is classified as an individual or group annuity. See Michigan Laws 500.4151 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. Antique steam boiler: means a boiler that is no longer used in production applications and is used to demonstrate the historical significance of steam boilers in American history. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 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. Appeals committee: means a committee appointed by the director or by the board of a community mental health services program or licensed hospital under section 774. See Michigan Laws 330.1772 Appellant: means the recipient, complainant, parent, or guardian who appeals a recipient rights finding or a respondent's action to an appeals committee. See Michigan Laws 330.1772 Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal. Applicant: means an owner or lessee of a qualified facility. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Applicant: means a person for which a registration statement is filed under section 3. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Applicant: means :
(i) For an individual Medicare supplement policy, the person who seeks to contract for benefits. See Michigan Laws 500.3801Applicant: means :
(i) For an individual long-term care insurance policy, the person who seeks to contract for long-term care benefits. See Michigan Laws 500.3901Applicant: means that term as defined in section 3901. See Michigan Laws 500.3957 Applicant: means a person who applies for a state operating license. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Applicant: means a person that submits an application for a registration. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Application: means a request for the placement of an official Michigan historical marker at the location of a historic resource or site and for the resource's or site's listing in the state register of historic sites. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Application: means a written request to the probate register for an order of informal probate or informal appointment under part 3 of article III. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Appointing authority: means a court or a department, board, commission, agency, or licensing authority of this state or a political subdivision of this state or an entity that is required to provide a qualified interpreter in circumstances described under section 3a. See Michigan Laws 393.502 Appraisal: means an opinion, conclusion, or analysis relating to the value of real property but does not include any of the following:
(i) A market analysis performed by a person that is licensed under article 25 solely for the purpose of assisting a customer or potential customer in determining the potential sale, purchase, or listing price of real property or the rental rate of real property as long as a fee or any other valuable consideration is not charged for that analysis. See Michigan Laws 339.2601Appraisal: means that term as defined in section 2601. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Appraisal: A determination of property value. Appraisal: means an expert opinion of the value of property taken or damaged, or other expert opinion pertaining to the amount of just compensation. See Michigan Laws 213.51 Appraisal management company: means a person that provides appraisal management services. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Appraisal management services: means to perform any of the following functions for a client or clients:
(i) Recruiting, selecting, and retaining appraisers. See Michigan Laws 339.2661Appraiser: means an individual who is engaged in or offering to engage in the development and communication of an appraisal. See Michigan Laws 339.2601 Appraiser: means that term as defined in section 2601. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Appraiser panel: means a network, list, or roster of licensed or certified appraisers approved by an appraisal management company to perform appraisals as independent contractors for the appraisal management company. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Apprentice: means an individual who is engaged in learning cosmetology in a cosmetology establishment. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Apprentice electrician: means an individual other than an electrical contractor, master electrician, or electrical journeyman, who is engaged in learning about and assisting in the installation or alteration of electrical wiring and equipment under the direct personal supervision of an electrical journeyman or master electrician. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Apprentice plumber: means an individual who is registered under this article as an apprentice. See Michigan Laws 339.6101 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 Approved: means reviewed and found acceptable by the commission. See Michigan Laws 339.6001 Approved apprenticeship program: means a training program for boiler operators or stationary engineers that is certified by or meets the standards of the Office of Apprenticeship in the United States Department of Labor and is approved by the board. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 Approved postsecondary educational institution: means any of the following:
(i) A public or private college or university, junior college, or community college that grants degrees or certificates and is located in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1622AQB criteria: means all of the following, if applicable:
(i) The criteria established by the appraiser qualifications board of the appraisal foundation and in effect on the effective date of the amendatory act that added subparagraph (ii). See Michigan Laws 339.2601Aquaculture: means the commercial husbandry of aquaculture species, including, but not limited to, culturing, producing, growing, propagating, and harvesting aquaculture products under any applicable permits or registration. See Michigan Laws 211.982 Architect: means a person who, by reason of knowledge of mathematics, the physical sciences, and the principles of architectural design, acquired by professional education and practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of architecture. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Armed forces: means the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard or other military force designated by Congress as a part of the Armed Forces of the United States, including the reserve components. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty. Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority. Asbestos: means a group of naturally occurring minerals that separate into fibers, including chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite. See Michigan Laws 338.3353 Asbestos: means a group of naturally occurring minerals that separate into fibers, including chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite asbestos, tremolite asbestos, and actinolite asbestos. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Asbestos: means a group of naturally occurring minerals that separate into fibers, including chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, asbestiform anthophyllite, asbestiform tremolite, and asbestiform actinolite. See Michigan Laws 388.861 Asbestos: means a group of naturally occurring minerals that separate into fibers, including chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Asbestos abatement contractor: means a business entity that is licensed under this act and that carries on the business of asbestos abatement on the premises of another business entity and not on the asbestos abatement contractor's premises. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Asbestos abatement contractor: means a business entity that is licensed under the asbestos abatement contractors licensing act, 1986 PA 135, MCL 338. See Michigan Laws 338.3353 Asbestos abatement project: means any activity involving persons working directly with the demolition, renovation, or encapsulation of friable asbestos materials. See Michigan Laws 338.3353 Asbestos abatement project: means any activity involving persons working directly with the demolition, renovation, or encapsulation of friable asbestos materials. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Asbestos model accreditation plan: means the asbestos model accreditation plan issued by the environmental protection agency, appendix C to subpart E of part 763 of title 40 of the code of federal regulations. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Asbestos-containing material: means any material or product containing more than 1% asbestos. See Michigan Laws 388.861 Asbestos-related work: means an activity or task performed by a person working with asbestos in buildings, including, but not limited to, inspection, management plan development, the design or conduct of response actions, and remedial work. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Ascertainable standard: means a standard relating to an individual's health, education, support, or maintenance within the meaning of section 2041(b)(1)(A) or 2514(c)(1) of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 2041 and 2514. See Michigan Laws 700.7103 Assessment: means the amount levied against an owner of a transient facility within an assessment district, computed by application of the applicable percentage against aggregate room charges with respect to that transient facility during the applicable assessment period. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Assessment: means the amount levied against an owner of a transient facility within an assessment district computed by application of the applicable percentage against aggregate room charges with respect to that transient facility during the applicable assessment period. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Assessment: means the amount levied against an owner under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Assessment: means the amount levied against an owner of a transient facility within an assessment district computed by application of the applicable percentage against aggregate room charges with respect to that transient facility during the applicable assessment period. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Assessment: means the amount levied against an owner of a transient facility within an assessment district computed by application of the applicable percentage against aggregate room charges with respect to that transient facility during the applicable assessment period. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Assessment: means the amount levied against an owner of a transient facility within an assessment district computed by application of the applicable percentage against aggregate room charges with respect to that transient facility during the applicable assessment period. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Assessment: means the state essential services assessment levied under section 5. See Michigan Laws 211.1053 Assessment: means the alternative state essential services assessment levied under section 5. See Michigan Laws 211.1073 Assessment district: means a municipality or combination of municipalities as described in a marketing program. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Assessment district: means a county having a population of more than 1,500,000 and, if so designated by the bureau in the marketing program notice, any county or counties contiguous with it. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Assessment district: means a municipality or a combination of municipalities as described in a marketing program. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Assessment district: means a combination of 2 or more adjoining municipalities as described in a marketing program. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Assessment district: means a municipality or a combination of municipalities as described in an event center financing program. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Assessment revenues: means the money derived from the assessment, including any interest and penalties on the assessment, imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Assessment revenues: means the money derived from the assessment, including any interest and penalties on the assessment, imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Assessment revenues: means the money collected by a regional marketing organization from the assessment, including any interest and penalties on the assessment, imposed under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Assessment revenues: means the money derived from the assessment, including any interest and penalties on the assessment, imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Assessment revenues: means the money derived from the assessment, including any interest and penalties on the assessment, imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Assessment year: means the year in which the state essential services assessment levied under section 5 is due. See Michigan Laws 211.1053 Assessment year: means the year in which the alternative state essential services assessment levied under section 5 is due. See Michigan Laws 211.1073 Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account. Assets: means all or part of the following that are associated with the institute and are subject to conveyance under this act:
(i) Real property, including all rights to coal, oil, gas, and other materials, and all rights to sand, gravel, clay, and other nonmetallic minerals, found on, within, or under real property conveyed under this act, except that the agreement for the conveyance of the assets and liabilities of the institute entered into under this act shall specify that the state shall receive not less than 1/2 of the net royalties from the development, if any, of coal, oil, gas, or other minerals on or under the real estate. See Michigan Laws 333.26333Assets: means property, whether real, personal, mixed, tangible, or intangible, and any right or interest in the property, including all rights under contracts and other agreements. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Assistance: means that term as it is defined in part 54 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1452 associate real estate broker: means an individual who meets the requirements for licensure as a real estate broker under this article and who is licensed as an associate real estate broker under section 2505 to provide real estate brokerage services as an employee or independent contractor of a real estate broker. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Associated auxiliaries: means equipment that is required in the operation of a boiler that includes, but is not limited to, pumps, regulators, feedwater heaters, superheaters, de-superheaters, economizers, air preheaters, draft fans, combustion and pollution control equipment, and prime movers. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 Associated business: means a business that owns at least 50% of and controls, directly or indirectly, an authorized business. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Association: means an association registered under section 1930. See Michigan Laws 500.1903 Association: means a legal group of individuals, corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, political subdivisions, or groups that has been in continuous existence for at least 1 year and the member organizations of which collectively, or that does itself, own, control, or hold, with power to vote, all of the outstanding voting securities of an association captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer or organized as a limited liability company; or has complete voting control over an association captive insurance company organized as a mutual insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Association: means the Michigan life and health insurance guaranty association created under section 7706. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Association captive insurance company: means a company that insures risks of the member organizations of the association and their affiliated companies. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court. Attainable housing property: means that portion of real property not occupied by an owner of that real property of not more than 4 units that is classified as residential real property under section 34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 207.902 Attending physician: means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of a declarant. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Attending physician: means that term as defined in section 20102 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26283 Attest: means providing any of the following services, but does not include providing a compilation:
(i) An audit or other engagement to be performed in accordance with the statements on auditing standards. See Michigan Laws 339.720Attorney: means , if appointed to represent a child under the provisions referenced in section 5213, an attorney serving as the child's legal advocate in the manner defined and described in section 13a of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 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. Audit committee: means a committee or equivalent body established by the board of directors of an entity to oversee the accounting and financial reporting processes of an insurer or group of insurers, the internal audit function of an insurer or group of insurers, if applicable, and the external audits of the financial statements of an insurer or group of insurers. See Michigan Laws 500.1001 Audited financial report: means the report required in section 1005 and furnished under section 1007. See Michigan Laws 500.1001 Authority: means the Michigan higher education facilities authority created by this act. See Michigan Laws 390.922 Authority: means the Michigan higher education student loan authority created by section 3. See Michigan Laws 390.1152 Authority: means the Michigan higher education assistance authority created by 1960 PA 77, MCL 390. See Michigan Laws 390.1182 authority: means the Michigan higher education assistance authority created by Act No. See Michigan Laws 390.1271 Authority: means the Michigan higher education assistance authority created by Act No. See Michigan Laws 390.1281 Authority: means the Michigan higher education assistance authority created by Act No. See Michigan Laws 390.1321 Authority: means the Michigan higher education assistance authority created by 1960 PA 77, MCL 390. See Michigan Laws 390.1342 Authority: means the Michigan higher education assistance authority created by Act No. See Michigan Laws 390.1371 Authority: means the Michigan higher education assistance authority created by Act No. See Michigan Laws 390.1401 Authority: means a promise zone authority created under this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Authority: means the automobile theft prevention authority. See Michigan Laws 500.6101 Authority: means the Michigan finance authority created by Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Authority: means a regional convention facility authority created under section 7. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Authority: means a convention facility authority created under section 4. See Michigan Laws 141.1403 Authority: means the Michigan settlement administration authority created under section 4. See Michigan Laws 141.1603 Authority: means the Michigan economic growth authority created under section 4. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Authority: means the Michigan next energy authority created under section 3. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Authority: means a land bank fast track authority created under the land bank fast track act. See Michigan Laws 211.1022 Authority: means the low-level radioactive waste authority established in section 3. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Authorization: means either of the following:
(i) An authorization from the department under section 4(1) to participate in a reciprocal agreement. See Michigan Laws 390.1692authorized: when used in the context of assessments means a resolution or motion passed by the association's board of directors that directs that an assessment be called immediately or in the future from member insurers for a specific amount. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Authorized agency: means the department of state police; a city, village, or township police department; a county sheriff's department; a United States criminal investigative department or agency; the prosecuting authority of a city, village, township, county, or state or of the United States; the office of financial and insurance regulation; or the department of state. See Michigan Laws 500.4501 Authorized business: means 1 of the following:
(i) A single eligible business with a unique federal employer identification number that has met the requirements of section 8 and with which the authority has entered into a written agreement for a tax credit under section 9. See Michigan Laws 207.803Authorized representative: means any of the following:
(i) A person empowered by the patient by explicit written authorization to act on the patient's behalf to access, disclose, or consent to the disclosure of the patient's medical record, in accordance with this act. See Michigan Laws 333.26263Automobile insurance: means that term as defined in section 2102. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Automobile insurance: means insurance for automobiles which provides any of the following:
(i) Security required pursuant to section 3101. See Michigan Laws 500.3303Background check: means a criminal history check administered by a public or private entity that examines federal and state government records in a manner that allows for the successful identification of the criminal offenses listed in section 4(3)(c). See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed. Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays. 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. Bankruptcy: means , with respect to a Medicare advantage organization that is not an insurer, that the organization has filed, or has had filed against it, a petition for declaration of bankruptcy and has ceased doing business in this state. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Barber: means a person who shaves or trims the beard of a person; cuts, trims, shampoos, relaxes, curls, permanently waves, dresses, tints, bleaches, colors, arranges, or styles the hair of a person; massages the face and head of a person; or renders personal services of a similar nature customarily done by a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Barber college: means an establishment which renders for compensation the services of a barber, but having for its primary purpose the teaching for compensation of the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Barbershop: means a place, establishment, or premises or part of a premises where a person performs as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Base premium: means the lowest premium charged for a rating period under a rating system by a small employer carrier to small employers for a health benefit plan in a geographic area. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 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. Basic health services: means medically necessary health services that health maintenance organizations must offer to large employers in at least 1 health maintenance contract. See Michigan Laws 500.3501 Basic property insurance: means :
(i) Insurance against direct loss to any property caused by perils as defined and limited in a fire policy as provided in chapter 28 and an extended coverage indorsement and a vandalism and malicious mischief indorsement or combination thereof as approved by the commissioner. See Michigan Laws 500.2901Battery cell: means a closed electrochemical system that converts chemical energy from oxidation and reduction reactions directly into electric energy without combustion and without external fuel and consists of an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Battery cell energy system: means 1 or more battery cells and an inverter or other power conditioning unit used to perform 1 or more of the following functions:
(i) Propel a motor vehicle or an alternative energy marine propulsion system. See Michigan Laws 207.822Beneficiary: 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 Beneficiary: includes , but is not limited to, the following:
(i) In relation to a trust, a person that is a trust beneficiary as defined in section 7103. See Michigan Laws 700.1103Beneficiary form: means a registration of a security that indicates the present owner of the security and the owner's intention regarding the person who will become the security's owner upon the owner's death. See Michigan Laws 700.6301 Beneficiated ore: means underground ore which has been treated, but not agglomerated, in accordance with good engineering and metallurgical practice by any process, other than by simple crushing or simple sizing, which is intended to improve the quality of the underground ore; including but not limited to, drying with the use of fuel, washing, jigging, using heavy media separation, flotation, cyclones or spirals or any combination. See Michigan Laws 207.271 Beneficiating facility: means the lands, plants, stockpiles of underground or beneficiated ores, buildings, facilities, equipment, tools and supplies used in connection with the beneficiation and transportation of the ores. See Michigan Laws 207.271 Benefit contract: means the agreement for provision of benefits authorized by section 8179, as that agreement is described in section 8182(1). See Michigan Laws 500.8161 Benefit member: means an adult member designated by the laws or rules of the society to be a benefit member under a benefit contract. See Michigan Laws 500.8161 Benefit plan: means a specific employee, union, or association of natural persons benefit plan. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Benefit received on that property: means the sum of the number of mills levied in the local tax collecting unit on the qualified forest property in each year of the benefit period, multiplied by the difference in each year of the benefit period between the true cash taxable value of the property and the property's taxable value as determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1032 Bequest: Property gifted by will. biodiesel: means a diesel fuel substitute consisting of methyl or ethyl esters produced from the transesterification of animal or vegetable fats with methanol or ethanol. See Michigan Laws 207.822 biomass: means wood and paper products industries, food production and processing, trees and grasses grown specifically to be used as energy crops, and gaseous fuels produced from solid biomass, animal waste, municipal wastes, or landfills. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Biomass energy system: means a system that generates energy from a process using residues from wood and paper products industries, food production and processing, trees and grasses grown specifically to be used as energy crops, and gaseous fuels produced from solid biomass, animal waste, municipal wastes, or landfills. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Blanket insurance: means insurance that provides coverage on collateral as defined in a policy issued to a creditor, without specifically listing the collateral covered. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Blanket travel insurance: means a policy of travel insurance issued to any eligible group providing coverage for specific classes of persons defined in the policy with coverage provided to all members of the eligible group without a separate charge to individual members of the eligible group. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 Blended motor fuel: means a mixture of motor fuel and another liquid, other than a de minimis amount of a product including, but not limited to, carburetor detergent or oxidation inhibitor, that can be used as motor fuel in a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 blending: means the mixing of 1 or more petroleum products, with or without another product, regardless of the original character of the product blended, if the product obtained by the blending is capable of use in the generation of power for the propulsion of a motor vehicle, an airplane, or a marine vessel. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Blendstock: means and includes any petroleum product component of motor fuel, such as naphtha, reformate, or toluene; or any oxygenate that can be blended for use in a motor fuel. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Blind person: means an individual who has a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correction, or has a limitation of his or her field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angular distance not greater than 20 degrees, as determined by the commission. See Michigan Laws 393.351 board: means the board of control of Lake Superior state university. See Michigan Laws 390.391 board: means the board of control of Saginaw valley state university. See Michigan Laws 390.711 Board: means the body corporate controlling an institution of higher education which is named in sections 4, 5, or 6 of article 8 of the state constitution of 1963 or established by law, as therein provided. See Michigan Laws 390.1351 Board: means the board of directors of the Michigan education trust described in section 10. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 Board: means the board of directors of the Michigan education trust described in section 10 of the Michigan education trust act, 1986 PA 316, MCL 390. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Board: means the governing body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Board: means the board of trustees of the library created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 397.12 Board: means a district library board. See Michigan Laws 397.172 Board: means that term as defined in section 2 of the district library establishment act. See Michigan Laws 397.282 Board: means the board of directors of the automobile theft prevention authority. See Michigan Laws 500.6101 Board: means the board of trustees of the multiple employer welfare arrangement security fund. See Michigan Laws 500.7001 Board: means the electrical administrative board described in section 705. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Board: means the board of mechanical rules described in section 805. See Michigan Laws 339.5801 Board: means the board of boiler rules described in section 905. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 Board: means the state plumbing board described in section 1105. See Michigan Laws 339.6101 Board: means the marijuana regulatory agency. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Board: means the asbestos abatement contractors licensing board created in section 201. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Board: means , in each article of this act that is related to a specific occupation or occupations, the board that is created in that article and composed principally of members of the regulated occupation or occupations, or the commission or other agency that is defined in or designated as the board for purposes of that article. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Board: means the board of directors elected by the members of a bureau. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Board: means the board of directors of a bureau. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Board: means the board of directors elected by the members of a regional marketing organization. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Board: means the local emergency financial assistance loan board created under section 2. See Michigan Laws 141.931 Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Board: means the board of directors of a bureau. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Board: means the board of directors of an authority. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Board: means the board of directors of an authority. See Michigan Laws 141.1403 Board: means the board of directors of a bureau. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Michigan Laws 141.1603 Board: means the governing board under the agreement. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Board: means the governing body of an authority under section 4. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Board: means the county tax allocation board created by section 5. See Michigan Laws 211.202 Board: means the state board of forensic polygraph examiners. See Michigan Laws 338.1703 Board files: means the records, memoranda, opinions, minutes, and similar written materials that were formerly in the physical possession and control of a board abolished by this act and the records, memoranda, opinions, minutes, and similar written materials of a board created under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Board of trustees: means the board of trustees of Albion college created in section 1. See Michigan Laws 390.701a Board of trustees: means the board of trustees of a corporation created under or governed by this act. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Boiler: means a closed vessel in which water is heated, steam is generated, or steam is superheated, or a combination of those actions occurs, under pressure or vacuum by the application of heat from combustible fuels, electricity, or nuclear energy. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 Bona fide physician-patient relationship: means a treatment or counseling relationship between a physician and patient in which all of the following are present:
(1) The physician has reviewed the patient's relevant medical records and completed a full assessment of the patient's medical history and current medical condition, including a relevant medical evaluation of the patient. See Michigan Laws 333.26423Bonds: means bonds of the authority issued under this act with a maturity greater than 3 years. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Bonds: means the bonds authorized to be issued by the authority under this act, which may consist of bonds, notes, term loans, commercial paper, or other debt obligations evidencing an obligation to repay borrowed money and payable solely from revenues and other money pledged by the authority. See Michigan Laws 390.1152 borrower obligations: means loan notes and other debt obligations evidencing loans to students or parents of students that the authority may take, acquire, buy, sell, or indorse under this act and may include a direct or indirect interest in whole or part of the notes or obligations. See Michigan Laws 390.1152 Boxing: means the sport of attack and defense with fists, using padded gloves, in a square ring. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Braiding: means providing or offering to the general public for compensation any of the following services solely for development or improvement of physical qualities of the natural hair structure:
(i) Intertwining in a systematic motion to create patterns in a 3-dimensional form. See Michigan Laws 339.1201Branch business: means any insurance business transacted by a branch captive insurance company in this state. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Branch captive insurance company: means an alien captive insurance company authorized by the director to transact the business of insurance in this state through a business unit with a principal place of business in this state. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Branch operations: means any business operations of a branch captive insurance company in this state. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Building official: means a construction code enforcement person working as an inspector, or plan reviewer, or actively engaged in the administration and enforcement of adopted building, electrical, mechanical, or plumbing codes, or any combination of these codes. See Michigan Laws 339.6001 Building sewer: means that part of the drainage system that extends from the end of the building drain and conveys its discharge to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system, or other point of disposal. See Michigan Laws 339.6101 Bulk end user: means a person who receives into the person's own storage facilities by transport truck or tank wagon motor fuel for the person's own consumption. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Bulk plant: means a motor fuel storage and distribution facility that is not a terminal and from which motor fuel may be withdrawn by a tank wagon, a transport truck, or a marine vessel. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Bulk transfer: means a transfer of motor fuel from 1 location to another by pipeline tender or marine delivery within the bulk transfer/terminal system, including, but not limited to, all of the following transfers:
(i) A marine vessel movement of motor fuel from a refinery or terminal to a terminal. See Michigan Laws 207.1002Bureau: means a nonprofit corporation existing to promote convention business or tourism within this state or a portion of this state. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Bureau: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of this state existing solely to promote convention business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state, and which complies with all of the following:
(i) Has not less than 400 dues paying members, of which not less than 50 are owners of transient facilities. See Michigan Laws 141.882Bureau: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of this state existing solely to promote convention business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state and that complies with all of the following:
(i) Has not less than 200 dues-paying members, of which not fewer than 25 are owners of transient facilities. See Michigan Laws 141.1322Bureau: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of this state existing solely to promote convention business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state and that complies with all of the following:
(i) Has been actively engaged in promoting convention business and tourism for not less than 5 years. See Michigan Laws 141.1432Business: includes an activity engaged in by a person or caused to be engaged in by that person with the object of gain, benefit, or advantage, either direct or indirect. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Business: means proprietorship, joint venture, partnership, limited liability partnership, trust, business trust, syndicate, association, joint stock company, corporation, cooperative, limited liability company, or any other organization. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Business entity: means a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Business entity: means a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Business entity: means a person described in section 105(5)(b) or (c), except a sole proprietorship or general partnership. See Michigan Laws 339.1801 Business entity: means a person described in section 105(5)(b) or (c), except a sole proprietorship. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Business entity: means a person, partnership, firm, association, corporation, sole proprietorship, public or private agency, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Business relationship: means a relationship with any of the following:
(i) An individual who serves as a designated school official or principal designated school official as defined by the United States citizenship and immigration services, but only when acting within the scope of authority in that capacity on behalf of the designated educational institution. See Michigan Laws 338.3453called: when used in the context of assessments means that a notice has been issued by the association to member insurers requiring that an authorized assessment be paid within the time frame set forth within the notice. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Cancellation fee waiver: means a contractual agreement between a supplier of travel services and its customer to waive some or all of the nonrefundable cancellation fee provisions of the supplier's underlying travel contract with or without regard to the reason for the cancellation or form of reimbursement. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 Candidate: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Candidate for office: means a candidate for any of the following offices who is subject to the Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Candidate site: means a site designated by the authority as a possible host site pursuant to section 11. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Cannabis: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Cannabis regulatory agency: means the marijuana regulatory agency created under Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Capital: means the capital stock component of statutory surplus, as defined in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual, version effective January 1, 2001, and subsequent revisions. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Capitalization grant: means the federal grant made to this state by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for either of the following purposes:
(i) For the purpose of establishing a state water pollution control revolving fund, as provided in title VI of the federal water pollution control act, 33 USC 1381 to 1389. See Michigan Laws 141.1053Captive insurance company: means a pure captive insurance company, association captive insurance company, sponsored captive insurance company, special purpose captive insurance company, or industrial insured captive insurance company authorized under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 carbon dioxide secondary or enhanced recovery project: means operations designed to increase the amount of oil or gas recoverable from a reservoir by injection of carbon dioxide, either alone or as a primary component of a mixture with other substances, provided the project has been approved as a secondary or enhanced recovery project by order of the supervisor of wells under the authority of part 615 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 205.311a Career and technical preparation program: means a program that teaches a trade, occupation, or vocation and that is operated by an eligible postsecondary educational institution located in this state. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 caregiver: means a person who is at least 21 years old and who has agreed to assist with a patient's medical use of marihuana and who has not been convicted of any felony within the past 10 years and has never been convicted of a felony involving illegal drugs or a felony that is an assaultive crime as defined in section 9a of chapter X of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 770. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Carrier: means an operator of a pipeline or marine vessel engaged in the business of transporting motor fuel above the terminal rack. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Carrier: means a person authorized pursuant to part 137 who is engaged in the transportation of waste by air, rail, highway, or water. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Carrier: means a person that provides health benefits, coverage, or insurance in this state. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts. Cash compensation: means any discount, concession, fee, service fee, commission, sales charge, loan, override, or cash benefit received by a producer in connection with the recommendation or sale of an annuity from an insurer or intermediary, or directly from the consumer. See Michigan Laws 500.4151 Cash reserves: means federally guaranteed obligations that have a fixed recoverable principal amount or an irrevocable and unconditional letter of credit. See Michigan Laws 500.7001 Cash surrender value: means the net cash surrender value plus any amounts outstanding as policy loans. See Michigan Laws 500.4001 casino: means a casino or a parking lot, hotel, motel, or retail store owned or operated by a casino, an affiliate, or an affiliated company, regulated by this state pursuant to the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1, MCL 432. See Michigan Laws 207.662 casino: means a casino or a parking lot, hotel, motel, or retail store owned or operated by a casino, an affiliate, or an affiliated company, regulated by this state pursuant to the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1, MCL 432. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses. Censure: means an expression of disapproval of a licensee's or registrant's professional conduct, whether or not the conduct is a violation of this act or a rule promulgated or an order issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Center: means the center for educational performance and information created in section 94a of the school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388. See Michigan Laws 390.1703 Center: means the Michigan history center established in the Michigan history center act, 2016 PA 470, MCL 399. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Center: means the center for educational performance and information created in section 94a. See Michigan Laws 388.1802a Center: means the center for educational performance and information created in section 94a. See Michigan Laws 388.1837b Certificate: means a document issued by the director authorizing a person to act as a navigator or certified application counselor for the qualifications specified in the document. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Certificate: means any certificate delivered or issued for delivery in this state under a group Medicare supplement policy. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Certificate: means the document issued as written evidence of a benefit contract. See Michigan Laws 500.8161 certificate: means a certificate issued pursuant to sections 4, 5, and 6. See Michigan Laws 207.772 certificate: means the certificate issued under section 6. See Michigan Laws 207.842 certificate: means the certificate issued under section 6. See Michigan Laws 207.902 certificate: means the certificate issued under section 6. See Michigan Laws 207.952 certificate: means a certificate issued under section 6. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Certificate form: means the form on which a certificate is delivered or issued for delivery by an insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Certificate holder: means a person issued a certificate under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Certificate inspection: means an inspection that is conducted for purposes of preparing a report described in section 945. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 Certificate of appropriateness: means the written approval of a permit application for work that is appropriate and that does not adversely affect a resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Certificate of insurance: means a document, regardless of how titled or described, that is prepared by an insurer or insurance producer that is a statement or summary of an insured's property or casualty insurance coverage. See Michigan Laws 500.2270 certificate of reaccreditation: means a numbered document issued by the director as provided in section 13 to a person who possesses the necessary qualifications and who successfully completes the initial training and examination or refresher training required by this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Certified application counselor: means an individual who is certified as a certified application counselor under this chapter and is authorized by the United States department of health and human services to perform the duties described in 45 C. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Certified appraiser: means a certified general real estate appraiser, as that term is defined in section 2601, or a certified residential real estate appraiser, as that term is defined in section 2601. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Certified automated system: means computer software certified under the agreement to calculate the tax imposed by each jurisdiction on a transaction, determine the amount of tax to remit to the appropriate state, and maintain a record of the transaction. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Certified general real estate appraiser: means an individual who is licensed under section 2610 to appraise all types of real property, including nonresidential real property involving federally related transactions and real estate related financial transactions. See Michigan Laws 339.2601 Certified navigator: means a person that is certified as a navigator under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Certified public accountant: means an individual who is either of the following:
(i) Qualified by education, examination, and experience to engage or offer to engage in the practice of public accounting as evidenced by the issuance of a certificate as a certified public accountant under section 725 or 726 and a license or registration issued under section 727. See Michigan Laws 339.720Certified public accountant: means a person licensed as a certified public accountant under article 7 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339. See Michigan Laws 338.822 Certified residential real estate appraiser: means an individual who is licensed under section 2610 to appraise all types of residential real property involving real estate related financial transactions and federally related transactions as authorized by the regulations of a federal financial institution regulatory agency and resolution trust corporation as well as any nonresidential, nonfederally related transaction for which the individual is qualified. See Michigan Laws 339.2601 Certified service provider: means an agent certified under the agreement to perform all of the seller's sales and use tax functions, other than the seller's obligation to remit tax on its own purchases. See Michigan Laws 205.803 CGAD: means a confidential report filed by the insurer or insurance group made in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.1755 Chair: means the chair of the commission. See Michigan Laws 333.26333 Chambers: A judge's office. Charitable organization: means a not-for-profit tax-exempt religious, educational, or humane organization. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Charitable trust: means a trust, or portion of a trust, created for a charitable purpose described in section 7405(1) if the charitable purpose is a material purpose of the trust. See Michigan Laws 700.7103 Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes. Chartered: means a risk retention group licensed and authorized to engage in business as a liability insurance company in a state. See Michigan Laws 500.1801 Chemical dependency: means that term as defined in section 16106a of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Chief administrative officer: means any of the following:
(i) The manager of a village or, if a village does not employ a manager, the president of the village. See Michigan Laws 141.1542Chief executive officer: means for a county 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 and for a city, the mayor. See Michigan Laws 207.751 Child: means an individual who is a natural or adopted child of a deceased Michigan police officer or deceased Michigan fire fighter and who was under the age of 21 at the time of the Michigan police officer's or Michigan fire fighter's death. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Child: means an individual who is a natural or adopted child of a deceased Michigan corrections officer and who was under the age of 21 at the time of the Michigan corrections officer's death. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 Child: includes , but is not limited to, an individual entitled to take as a child under this act by intestate succession from the parent whose relationship is involved. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Child care center: means that term as defined in section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 380.1903 Child development course work: means child development course work, early childhood course work, child psychology course work, or any combination thereof. See Michigan Laws 388.1021 Chlorofluorocarbon compound: means trichloromonofluoromethane (CFCl3) (propellant 11), dichlorodifluoromethane (CF2Cl2) (propellant 12), or tetrafluorodichloroethane (C2F4Cl2) (propellant 14). See Michigan Laws 336.101 CHP energy system: means an integrated unit that generates power and either cools, heats, or controls humidity in a building or provides heating, drying, or chilling for an industrial process that includes and is limited to both of the following:
(i) An absorption chiller, a desiccant dehumidifier, or heat recovery equipment. See Michigan Laws 207.822Cigar: means any roll of tobacco wrapped in leaf tobacco or in any substance containing tobacco. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Cigarette: means a roll for smoking or heating that is made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, which roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper or any other material. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Cigarette making machine: means any machine or other mechanical device that meets all of the following criteria:
(i) Is capable of being loaded with loose tobacco, cigarette tubes or cigarette papers, and any other components related to the production of cigarettes, including, but not limited to, cigarette filters. See Michigan Laws 205.422Citation: means that term as described in section 537. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 City: means a city establishing a corporation incorporated under, or governed by, this act. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 City public hospital: means a health care facility that is owned or operated by a city. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity. Claim: includes , but is not limited to, in respect to a decedent's or protected individual's estate, a liability of the decedent or protected individual, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise, and a liability of the estate that arises at or after the decedent's death or after a conservator's appointment, including funeral and burial expenses and costs and expenses of administration. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Classroom course: means an educational course of instruction that is provided at either of the following:
(i) A physical location where instruction is offered and students and an instructor are present. See Michigan Laws 339.2501Clean fuel: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) Methane. See Michigan Laws 207.822Clean fuel energy system: means a device that is designed and used solely for the purpose of generating power from a clean fuel. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Clear and conspicuous: means that a notice is reasonably understandable and designed to call attention to the nature and significance of the information in the notice. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Clerk: means the clerk of the municipality. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Client: means any person who enters into a professional employer agreement with a PEO. See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Client: means an individual or entity that engages a licensee or licensee's employer to receive any service in the practice of public accounting. See Michigan Laws 339.720 Client: means a person who engages the services of a personnel agency. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Client: means a person that contracts with, or otherwise enters into an agreement with, an appraisal management company for the performance of real estate appraisal services. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Clock hour: means either of the following:
(i) For a classroom course at a location described in subdivision (c)(i), a period of 50 to 60 minutes of actual classroom instruction, not including outside assignments and reading. See Michigan Laws 339.2501COBRA: means the consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1985, Public Law 99-272. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Coemployment relationship: means a relationship that is intended to be an ongoing relationship rather than a temporary or project-specific one, wherein the rights, duties, and obligations of an employer arising out of an employment relationship have been allocated between coemployers pursuant to a professional employer agreement. See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Collateral: means personal property that is pledged as security for the satisfaction of a debt. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Collection agency: means a person that is directly engaged in collecting or attempting to collect a claim owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another, or, subject to subsection (2), repossessing or attempting to repossess a thing of value owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another arising out of an expressed or implied agreement. See Michigan Laws 339.901 Collection agency manager: means the individual responsible for the operation of a collection agency. See Michigan Laws 339.901 College: means Albion college, created in section 1. See Michigan Laws 390.701a College: means a public institution of higher education in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1231 College level equivalent credit examination: means an examination that is administered by an independent testing service and that is used by colleges and universities generally to award postsecondary credit for achievement of a particular score, and includes, but is not limited to, advanced placement examinations, the DANTES Subject Standardized Test (DSST), and college-level examination program (CLEP) examinations. See Michigan Laws 388.1802a College level equivalent credit examination: means an examination that is administered by an independent testing service and that is used by colleges and universities generally to award postsecondary credit for achievement of a particular score, and includes, but is not limited to, advanced placement examinations, the DANTES Subject Standardized Test (DSST), and college-level examination program (CLEP) examinations. See Michigan Laws 388.1837b College or university: means a degree or certificate granting public or private college or university, junior college, or community college located in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1542 College or university: means a degree or certificate granting public or private college or university, junior college, or community college. See Michigan Laws 390.1692 Commercial carrier: means a small employer carrier other than a health maintenance organization. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Commercial housing facilities exemption certificate: means a certificate issued pursuant to sections 3, 4, and 5. See Michigan Laws 207.601 Commercial information: means information regarding the purchase and sale of goods and services, including, but not limited to, information regarding marketing strategy, production data, assessments of goods and services, mineral exploration records, and compilations of data regarding commercial activity. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Commercial motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle licensed as a qualified commercial motor vehicle under the motor carrier fuel tax act, 1980 PA 119, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Commercial property: means land improvements classified by law for general ad valorem tax purposes as real property including real property assessable as personal property pursuant to sections 8(d) and 14(6) of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Commercial quadricycle: means a vehicle to which all of the following apply:
(i) The vehicle has fully operative pedals for propulsion entirely by human power. See Michigan Laws 500.3101Commercial rehabilitation tax: means the specific tax levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 207.842 commission: means a financial review commission created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 141.1633 Commission: means the state tax commission created by Act No. See Michigan Laws 207.601 Commission: means the state tax commission created by 1927 PA 360, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 207.772 Commission: means the state tax commission created by 1927 PA 360, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Commission: means the state tax commission created by 1927 PA 360, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 207.902 Commission: means the state tax commission created by 1927 PA 360, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 207.952 Commission: means the state tax commission created by 1927 PA 360, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 211.1022 Commission: means the state tax commission created by 1927 PA 360, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 commission: means the state transportation commission established in section 28 of article V of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 247.660c Commission: means the suicide prevention commission created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 330.3001 Commission: means the Michigan biologic products commission established by Executive Order 1995-25, pursuant to section 4 of article V of the state constitution of 1963, and by section 3b. See Michigan Laws 333.26333 Commission: means the commission on law enforcement standards created under section 3 of the commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Commission: means the commission for the blind. See Michigan Laws 393.351 commission: means the Michigan freedom trail commission created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 399.82 Commission: means the Michigan historical commission created in section 3 of the Michigan historical commission act, 2016 PA 469, MCL 399. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Commission: means a historic district commission created by the legislative body of a local unit under section 4. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Commission: means the Ronald Wilson Reagan memorial monument fund commission created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 399.262 Commission: means the Ronald Wilson Reagan memorial monument fund commission created in the Ronald Wilson Reagan memorial monument fund commission act. See Michigan Laws 399.272 Commission: means the state construction code commission created in section 3a of the Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act, 1972 PA 230, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 339.6001 Commission: means the Michigan unarmed combat commission created in section 20. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102 Commissioner: means the state commissioner of revenue. See Michigan Laws 207.211 Commissioner: means the state commissioner of revenue. See Michigan Laws 207.372 Commissioner: means the head of the authority. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Committee: means a historic district study committee appointed by the legislative body of a local unit under section 3 or 14. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process. 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 college: means a community college established under the community college act of 1966, 1966 PA 331, MCL 389. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Community college: means a community college established under the community college act of 1966, 1966 PA 331, MCL 389. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Community college: means a community college organized under the community college act of 1966, 1966 PA 331, MCL 389. See Michigan Laws 390.1572 Community overdose review: means performing a series of individual overdose reviews to identify systematic barriers to innovative overdose prevention and intervention strategies for that community. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Community water supply: means a community water supply as defined in part 54 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Community water supply: means that term as it is defined in part 54 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1452 Compact: means a contractual, cooperative agreement among 2 or more states to provide for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste that is reflected by the passage of statutes by the participating states. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Company: means any corporation, limited liability company, business trust, general or limited partnership, association, sole proprietorship, or similar organization. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Compensation: means money, donations, property, promise of payment, or anything else of value required in exchange for a person's services. See Michigan Laws 338.3453 Competence: means a degree of expertise that enables an individual to engage in an occupation at a level that meets or exceeds minimal standards of acceptable practice for the occupation. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Compilation: means providing a service to be performed in accordance with statements on standards for accounting and review services that are presenting, in the form of financial statements, information that is the representation of management or owners without undertaking to express any assurance on the statements. See Michigan Laws 339.720 Complainant: means an individual who files a rights complaint. See Michigan Laws 330.1772 Complainant: means a person who has filed a complaint with the department alleging that a person has violated this act or a rule promulgated or an order issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.501a Complainant: means a person that files a complaint with the department alleging that a person has violated this act or a rule promulgated or an order issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Complaint: means an oral or written grievance. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Complaint: means a written accusation, under oath or upon affirmation, that a felony, misdemeanor, or ordinance violation has been committed and that the person named or described in the accusation is guilty of the offense. See Michigan Laws 761.1 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Completed application: means an application that is complete on its face and submitted with any applicable licensing or permit fees and any other information, records, approval, security, or similar item required by law or rule from a local unit of government, a federal agency, or a private entity but not from another department or agency of this state. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Compliance monitoring testing facility: means a laboratory that meets both of the following requirements:
(i) Is registered with the DEA to conduct chemical analysis of controlled substances under 21 C. See Michigan Laws 333.29103Computed millage: means the number of mills in any year, not less than 7 mills and not more than 13 mills, determined on the date of issuance of the order qualifying the bonds or on a later date if requested by the school district and approved by the state treasurer, that, if levied by the school district, will generate sufficient annual proceeds to pay principal and interest on all the school district's qualified bonds plus principal and interest on all qualified loans related to those qualified bonds no later than the final mandatory repayment date. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 Computer: means an electronic device that accepts information in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence of instructions. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Computer: means any connected, directly interoperable or interactive device, equipment, or facility that uses a computer program or other instructions to perform specific operations, including logical, arithmetic, or memory functions with or on computer data or a computer program, and that can store, retrieve, alter, or communicate the results of the operations to a person, computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Computer forensics: means the collection, investigation, analysis, and scientific examination of data held on, or retrieved from, computers, computer networks, computer storage media, electronic devices, electronic storage media, or electronic networks, or any combination thereof. See Michigan Laws 338.822 Computer network: means the interconnection of hardwire or wireless communication lines with a computer through remote terminals, or a complex consisting of 2 or more interconnected computers. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Computer program: means a series of internal or external instructions communicated in a form acceptable to a computer that directs the functioning of a computer, computer system, or computer network in a manner designed to provide or produce products or results from the computer, computer system, or computer network. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Computer software: means a set of coded instructions designed to cause a computer or automatic data processing equipment to perform a task. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Computer system: means a set of related, connected or unconnected, computer equipment, devices, software, or hardware. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Concession: means equipment or location which is being used, or may be used to sell retail confections, tobaccos, papers, periodicals, and other like merchandise, coffee, milk, soft drinks, wrapped ice cream, wrapped sandwiches, wrapped baked goods, packaged salads and other similar food items. See Michigan Laws 393.351 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. Condominium unit: means that portion of a structure intended for separate ownership, intended for residential use, and established under the condominium act, 1978 PA 59, MCL 559. See Michigan Laws 207.772 Conservation district: means that term as defined in section 7jj of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1092 Conservator: means a person appointed by a court to manage a protected individual's estate. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Construction contractor: means a business entity that, pursuant to a contract with the owner or lessee of real property, provides an improvement to that property. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Construction in progress: means a facility not yet placed in service but for which on-site delivery of any component described in subdivision (f) has been delivered to the site as of December 31 of that year. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Consulting agent: means the individual designated by a type B personnel agency who is responsible for the general management of that type B personnel agency. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Consumer: includes , but is not limited to, all of the following:
(A) An individual who provides nonpublic personal information to a licensee in connection with obtaining or seeking to obtain financial, investment, or economic advisory services relating to an insurance product or service. See Michigan Laws 500.503Consumer: means an individual, including, but not limited to, an applicant, a policyholder, an insured, a beneficiary, a claimant, and a certificate holder, who is a resident of this state and whose nonpublic information is in a licensee's possession, custody, or control. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Consumer: means an individual who utilizes or seeks to utilize the services of an immigration clerical assistant. See Michigan Laws 338.3453 Consumer price index: means United States consumer price index for all urban consumers as defined and reported by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Consumer profile information: means information that is reasonably appropriate to determine whether a recommendation addresses the consumer's financial situation, insurance needs, and financial objectives, including, at a minimum, the following:
(i) Age. See Michigan Laws 500.4151Consumer reporting agency: means any person that, for monetary fees or dues or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer credit information or other information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties. See Michigan Laws 500.2151 Contemplation of death: The expectation of death that provides the primary motive to make a gift. Contest: means an individual bout between 2 boxers, 2 mixed martial artists, or 2 individuals engaged in other unarmed combat that is subject to this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Contestant: means an individual who competes in an unarmed combat contest or event. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Contested case: means a proceeding in which the legal rights, duties, obligations, or privileges of a party are required by law to be determined by the circuit court after an opportunity for hearing. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Contested case hearing: means a hearing under chapter 4 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Contingent beneficiary: Receiver of property or benefits if the first named beneficiary fails to receive any or all of the property or benefits in question before his (her) death. Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time. Continuing education: means instructional courses designed to bring participants up to date on a particular area of knowledge or skills. See Michigan Laws 338.3702 Continuous period of creditable coverage: means the period during which an individual was covered by creditable coverage, if during the period of the coverage the individual had no breaks in coverage greater than 63 days. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Contract: means an agreement between a college and a foreign entity for the acquisition, by purchase, lease, or barter, of property or services for the direct benefit or use of either of the parties. See Michigan Laws 390.1231 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Contracting state: means a state without a qualified ABLE program that has entered into a contract with this state to provide its residents access to the Michigan ABLE program. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Contribution agreement: means the contribution agreement in substantially the form included with the city of Detroit's plan for adjustment. See Michigan Laws 141.1603 Control person: means an individual who is a sole proprietor, is a partner in a partnership or limited partnership, is an officer, director, or shareholder in a corporation, is a member or manager in a limited liability company, or holds a responsible position in any other form of business entity authorized under the laws of this state or the state in which the entity is organized or formed. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Controlled substance felony: means a felony violation of the laws of any state having to do with controlled substances or a felony violation of federal law having to do with controlled substances. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Controlled unaffiliated business: means a company to which all of the following apply:
(i) The company is not in the corporate system of a parent and affiliated companies. See Michigan Laws 500.4601Controlling interest: means more than 80% of the total value of all classes of stock of a corporation; more than 80% of the total interest in capital and profits of a partnership, association, limited liability company, or other unincorporated form of doing business; or more than 80% of the beneficial interest in a trust. See Michigan Laws 207.522 Controlling person: means any of the following:
(i) An owner, officer, or director of a corporation, partnership, or other business entity that offers or applies to offer appraisal management services in this state. See Michigan Laws 339.2661Convention and entertainment facilities: means all, any part, or any combination of convention halls, auditoriums, stadiums, music halls, arenas, sports complexes, aquariums, meeting rooms, exhibit areas, and related public areas. See Michigan Laws 141.861 Convention facility: means all or any part of, or any combination of, a convention hall, auditorium, arena, meeting rooms, exhibition area, and related adjacent public areas that are generally available to the public for lease on a short-term basis for holding conventions, meetings, exhibits, and similar events, together with real or personal property, and easements above, on, or under the surface of real or personal property, used or intended to be used for holding conventions, meetings, exhibits, and similar events, together with appurtenant property, including walkways, bicycle paths, plazas, green space, parking lots or structures, and roads necessary or convenient for use in connection with the convention facility. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Convention facility: means all or any part of, or any combination of, a convention hall, auditorium, arena, sports facility, market, or other facility meeting rooms, exhibition area, and related adjacent public areas that are generally available to the public for lease or use, together with appurtenant property, including parking lots or structures, necessary and convenient for use in connection with the convention facility. See Michigan Laws 141.1403 Convention facility: means 1 or more facilities owned or leased by a local governmental unit or metropolitan authority created under the regional convention facility authority act, 2008 PA 554, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 207.623 Convention facility: means a convention exhibition facility, including meeting rooms and necessary sites, related parking lots or structures, and appurtenant properties and facilities, if the facility itself contains not less than 50,000 square feet of exhibition space and if the eligible municipality is a county, the facility is located within the boundaries of the most populous city in the county. See Michigan Laws 207.751 Convention hotel: means a facility used in the business of providing accommodations that has more than 80 rooms for providing accommodations to transient guests and that complies with all of the following:
(i) Is located within a county having a population according to the most recent decennial census of 700,000 or more. See Michigan Laws 207.623Converted by a change in use: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) That due to a change in use the property is no longer qualified agricultural property as determined by the assessor of the local tax collecting unit. See Michigan Laws 211.1002Converted by a change in use: means that due to a change in use the property is no longer eligible for an exemption as qualified forest property under section 7jj of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1032 Converted company: means a Michigan domiciled stock insurance company that results from the reorganization of a mutual company under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.6001 Converted stock company: means a Michigan domiciled stock insurance company that converted from a Michigan domiciled mutual company or a stock business corporation resulting from conversion of a mutual holding company pursuant to this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.5901 Conveyance: means sale, transfer, assignment, or other disposition. See Michigan Laws 333.26333 Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant. Conviction: includes any of the following:
(i) Assignment to youthful trainee status under section 11 to 15 of chapter II. See Michigan Laws 777.50Cooling: means air conditioning as defined in subdivision (a). See Michigan Laws 339.5801 Cooperative board: means the governing board of a cooperative library. See Michigan Laws 397.552 Cooperative library: means the library or service center designated by a cooperative board to execute services established by a cooperative plan and provided to libraries participating in a cooperative. See Michigan Laws 397.552 Corporation: means a municipal health facilities corporation incorporated under this act or created under 1913 PA 350, MCL 331. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 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 obligation: means a bond, note, or any other legal instrument issued by a corporation or subsidiary corporation under chapter 4 that evidences indebtedness of a corporation or a subsidiary corporation, including principal, interest, and premiums, if any, on that indebtedness. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Corrective action plan: means a plan created under section 601. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Cosmetologist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Cosmetology: means performing 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Cosmetology establishment: means a place of business at which 1 or more cosmetology services are offered or provided. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Cosmetology services: means any of the following:
(i) Hair care services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201Cosmetology suite: means a room or suite located inside a licensed cosmetology establishment that is leased or rented from the owner of the cosmetology establishment for the purposes of offering or providing 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Cost of services: means the total operating and capital costs incurred by the department or a community mental health services program with respect to, or on behalf of, an individual. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 Council: means the Michigan council for arts and cultural affairs established by Executive Order No. See Michigan Laws 399.702 Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff. Countercyclical budget and economic stabilization fund: means the countercyclical budget and economic stabilization fund created in section 351 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18. See Michigan Laws 141.1603 Counterfeit cigarette: means a cigarette in an individual package of cigarettes or other container with a false manufacturing label or a cigarette in an individual package of cigarettes or other container with a counterfeit stamp. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Counterfeit stamp: means any stamp, label, or print, indicium, or character, that evidences, or purports to evidence, the payment of any tax levied under this act and that has not been printed, manufactured, or made by authority of the department as provided in this act and has not been issued, sold, or circulated by the department. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Counterparty: means an SPFC's parent or affiliated company, or, subject to the prior approval of the director, a nonaffiliated company as ceding insurer to the SPFC contract. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 County: means a county establishing a corporation incorporated under, or governed by, this act. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 County health officer: means a local health officer as that term is defined in section 1105 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 County payment program: means the program authorized under chapter 192, 35 Stat. See Michigan Laws 141.1301 County public hospital: means a public corporation organized and existing or purportedly organized and existing under1913 PA 350, MCL 331. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 County road commission: means the board of county road commissioners elected or appointed pursuant to section 6 of chapter IV of 1909 PA 283, MCL 224. See Michigan Laws 247.660c Court: means the probate court or, when applicable, the family division of circuit court. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Court: means the probate court or the court with responsibility with regard to mental health services for the county in which a minor who has requested hospitalization, for whom a request for hospitalization has been made, or who has been hospitalized pursuant to this chapter either resides or was found. See Michigan Laws 330.1498b Court: means the probate court or the court with responsibility with regard to mental health services for the county of residence of an individual with developmental disability, or for the county in which the individual was found if a county of residence cannot be determined. See Michigan Laws 330.1600 Covered claim: means an obligation of an insolvent MEWA to pay a claim that is covered by the MEWA to a covered employee or dependent who is a resident of this state. See Michigan Laws 500.7001 Covered employee: means an individual having a coemployment relationship with a PEO and a client who has received written notice of coemployment with the PEO and the individual has created a coemployment relationship pursuant to a professional employer agreement. See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Covered information: means personally identifiable information or material in any media or format that is any of the following:
(i) Created by or provided to an operator by a student, or the student's parent or legal guardian, in the course of the student's, parent's, or legal guardian's use of the operator's site, service, or application for K-12 school purposes. See Michigan Laws 388.1293Covered policy: means a policy, contract, or certificate under a group policy or contract, or portion of a group policy or contract, for which coverage is provided under section 7704. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Crashworthy: means that term as defined in the Michigan manual on uniform traffic control devices. See Michigan Laws 247.291b Credentialing verification: means the process of obtaining and verifying information about a health professional and evaluating the health professional when the health professional applies to become a participating provider with a health maintenance organization. See Michigan Laws 500.3501 Credit agreement: means the written document that sets forth the terms of the credit transaction and includes the security agreement. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) Source: OCC Credit information: means any credit-related information derived from a credit report, found on a credit report itself, or provided on an application for personal insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.2151 Credit report: means any written, oral, or other communication of information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity that is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in the rating of personal insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.2151 Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC Credit transaction: means a transaction by the terms of which the repayment of money loaned or credit commitment made, or payment of goods, services, or properties sold or leased, is to be made at a future date or dates. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Creditable coverage: means , with respect to an individual, health benefits, coverage, or insurance provided under any of the following:
(i) A group health plan. See Michigan Laws 500.3701Creditable coverage: means coverage of an individual provided under any of the following:
(i) A group health plan. See Michigan Laws 500.3801Creditor: means the lender of money or vendor or lessor of goods, services, property, rights, or privileges for which payment is arranged through a credit transaction, or any successor to the right, title, or interest of a lender, vendor, or lessor. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Creditor: is a person having a claim against the insurer, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, absolute, fixed, or contingent. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Creditor: means either of the following:
(i) An entity that has a noncontingent claim against a local government that arose at the time of or before the commencement of the neutral evaluation process and whose claim represents at least $5,000,000. See Michigan Laws 141.1542Creditor-placed insurance: means insurance that is purchased unilaterally by the creditor, who is the named insured, subsequent to the date of the credit transaction, providing coverage against loss, expense, or damage to collateralized personal property as a result of fire, theft, collision, or other risks of loss that would either impair a creditor's interest or adversely affect the value of collateral covered by limited dual interest insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Crime: means that term as defined in section 5 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Criminal abuse: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) An assault that is a violation or an attempt or conspiracy to commit a violation of section 81 to 90 of the Michigan penal code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 330.1700Criminal history record information: means that term as defined in section 1a of 1925 PA 289, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Criminal history report: means a report that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is prepared by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation or another authority approved by the department. See Michigan Laws 333.29103Critical health problems education program: means a systematic and integrated program designed to provide appropriate learning experiences based on scientific knowledge of the human organism as it functions within its environment and designed to favorably influence the health, understanding, attitudes and practices of the individual child which will enable him to adapt to changing health problems of our society. See Michigan Laws 388.382 Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side. Culpable mental state greater than negligence: means to act intentionally, knowingly, willfully, or recklessly. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Cultivate: means to propagate, breed, grow, harvest, dry, cure, or separate parts of a marihuana plant by manual or mechanical means. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Cumulative grade point average: means the weighted mean value of the courses considered by an approved postsecondary educational institution in determining whether to award a student an associate's degree or a 2-year certificate of completion in a vocational training program, whether the student has completed a comparable vocational education program, or whether the student has completed 50% or more of the academic requirements for the award of a bachelor's degree, including any courses completed at another approved postsecondary educational institution if the student transfers the credits for those courses to the approved postsecondary educational institution making that determination. See Michigan Laws 390.1622 Customer: means a consumer who has a customer relationship with a licensee. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Customer relationship: means a continuing relationship between a consumer and a licensee under which the licensee provides 1 or more insurance products or services to the consumer that are to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Cutting: means a section of a lead stem or root stock that is used for vegetative asexual propagation. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Cybersecurity event: means an event that results in unauthorized access to and acquisition of, or disruption or misuse of, an information system or nonpublic information stored on an information system. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Data collection agency: means an agency established for the purpose of effectuating the worker's compensation data requirements of this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.2402 Date of disablement: means the earliest date the insured is considered as being disabled under the definition of disability in the health insurance policy or certificate based on a doctor's evaluation or other evidence. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Date of incurral: means the date a claim is determined to be a liability of the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.701 DEA: means the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 deaf interpreter: means any person, including any deaf or deaf-blind person, who is able to assist in providing an accurate interpretation between spoken English and sign language or between variants of sign language by acting as an intermediary between a deaf or deaf-blind person and a qualified interpreter. See Michigan Laws 393.502 Deaf-blind person: means a person who has a combination of hearing loss and vision loss, such that the combination necessitates specialized interpretation of spoken and written information in a manner appropriate to that person's dual sensory loss. See Michigan Laws 393.502 Dealer: means that term as defined in section 11 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Debilitating medical condition: means 1 or more of the following:
(1) Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, agitation of Alzheimer's disease, nail patella, or the treatment of these conditions. See Michigan Laws 333.26423debt: means an obligation or alleged obligation for the payment of money or thing of value arising out of an expressed or implied agreement or contract for a purchase made primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Michigan Laws 339.901 Debtor: means the borrower of money or a purchaser or lessee of goods, services, property, rights, or privileges, for which payment is arranged through a credit transaction. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 debtor: means an individual who is obligated or allegedly obligated to pay a debt. See Michigan Laws 339.901 Debtor: means a local government that is authorized to proceed under chapter 9 by this act and that meets the requirements of chapter 9. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Decedent: A deceased person. Decedent: means a deceased person and includes, but is not limited to, a testator, grantor, bargainor, vendor, donor, or person who dies intestate. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Declarant: means an individual who has executed a do-not-resuscitate order on his or her own behalf or on whose behalf a do-not-resuscitate order has been executed as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 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. Delegatee: means an individual to whom a physician has delegated the authority to perform 1 or more selected acts, tasks, or functions under section 16215 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Delinquency proceeding: means a proceeding instituted against an insurer for the purpose of liquidating, rehabilitating, reorganizing, or conserving such insurer, and a summary proceeding under section 8109 or 8110. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Delivery charges: means charges by the seller for preparation and delivery to a location designated by the purchaser of tangible personal property or services. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Demolition: means the razing or destruction, whether entirely or in part, of a resource and includes, but is not limited to, demolition by neglect. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Demolition: means the razing or taking out of any load-supporting structural member and any related removing or stripping of friable asbestos materials. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Demolition by neglect: means neglect in maintaining, repairing, or securing a resource that results in deterioration of an exterior feature of the resource or the loss of structural integrity of the resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Demonstration: means a show, seminar, or contest in which barber services are rendered for the purpose of educating barbers. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Demonstrator: means a person who performs a service of a barber at a demonstration. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Denial: means the written rejection of a permit application for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects a resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Dental prosthesis: means a bridge, crown, denture, or other similar artificial device used to repair or replace intraoral defects such as missing teeth, missing parts of teeth, and missing soft or hard structures of the jaw or palate. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 141.1301 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 141.1452 Department: means the department of state. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.1 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Department: means the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 206.902 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.922 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.932 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.943 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.963 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1013 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1033 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1043 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1063 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 206.1083 Department: means the revenue division of the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 207.211 Department: means the department of management and budget. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 207.902 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 207.952 Department: means the department of treasury or its designee. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 211.371 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 211.761 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 211.782 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 211.1053 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 211.1073 Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 211.1092 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 211.1123 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Department: means the state transportation department. See Michigan Laws 247.401 Department: means the department of health and human services. See Michigan Laws 330.3001 Department: means the department of public health. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.26232 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.26242 Department: means the department of public health. See Michigan Laws 333.26301 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.26311 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.26522 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.26563 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 333.27902 Department: means the cannabis regulatory agency. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Department: means the department of public health. See Michigan Laws 336.101 Department: means the department of licensing and regulation. See Michigan Laws 338.21 Department: means the Michigan department of labor and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 338.822 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs, except that in reference to the regulation of private security police and private college security forces, department means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Department: means department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 338.2202 Department: means the department of consumer and industry services. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Department: means the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Department: means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy or its authorized agent or representative. See Michigan Laws 380.1903 Department: means the department of education. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Department: means the department of education. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Department: means the department of education. See Michigan Laws 388.1951 Department: means the department of management and budget. See Michigan Laws 390.1231 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Department: means the department of corrections. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Department: means the department of education. See Michigan Laws 390.1501 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 390.1592 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 390.1622 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 390.1692 Department: means the department of labor and economic opportunity. See Michigan Laws 390.1703 Department: means the department of labor and economic opportunity. See Michigan Laws 390.1713 Department: means the department of labor. See Michigan Laws 393.351 Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 397.12 Department: means the department of education. See Michigan Laws 397.172 Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 397.552 Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 399.82 Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Department: means the department of state. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 399.702 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.26543 Department: means the bureau of revenue of the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 333.26532 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Department: means the department of consumer and industry services. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 500.102 department of transportation: means the state transportation department, the principal department of state government created under section 350 of the executive organization act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16. See Michigan Laws 247.660c Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Dependent: means a spouse, surviving spouse, child under 26 years of age, or surviving child under 26 years of age. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 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. Descendant: means , in relation to an individual, all of his or her descendants of all generations, with the relationship of parent and child at each generation being determined by the definitions of child and parent contained in this act. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Designated advisory organization: means the advisory organization designated by the data collection agency pursuant to section 2407(2). See Michigan Laws 500.2402 Designated beneficiary: means the individual designated as the individual whose higher education expenses are expected to be paid from the account. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Designated beneficiary: means an eligible individual designated as the individual whose qualified disability expenses are expected to be paid from the account. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Designated recipient: means an individual who is enrolled in, and in good standing at, as determined by the program, a graduate-level mental health professional program maintained by an institution of higher education located in this state or out-of-state, which includes a department-approved school counselor education or preparation program maintained by an institution of higher education located in this state or out-of-state, school social worker education or preparation program maintained by an institution of higher education located in this state or out-of-state, or school psychology education or preparation program maintained by an institution of higher education located in this state or out-of-state that offers designations, a focus, or special certifications in the provision of school mental health services, and who is working toward obtaining any of the following:
(i) A preliminary school psychologist certificate issued by the department under R 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1951Designated representative: means an individual who is authorized to act on behalf of the designated beneficiary if the designated beneficiary is a minor or has a guardian, conservator, or other fiduciary who has been appointed for purposes of managing that designated beneficiary's financial affairs. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Designated sampling agent: means a federal, state, or local law enforcement agent authorized by the department to collect official samples under section 401. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Destination state: means a state, Canadian province or territory, or foreign country to which motor fuel is directed for export. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Detroit consumer price index: means the most comprehensive index of consumer prices available for the Detroit area from the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Develop: means to plan, acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, maintain, renew, renovate, repair, replace, lease, equip, or furnish. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Developer: means a person who is the owner of a new facility at the time of construction or of a rehabilitated facility at the time of rehabilitation for which a neighborhood enterprise zone certificate is applied for or issued. See Michigan Laws 207.772 Device: includes , but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, electrochemical, biochemical, hydraulic, optical, or organic object that performs input, output, or storage functions by the manipulation of electronic, magnetic, or other impulses. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Devise: To gift property by will. Devisee: means a person designated in a will to receive a devise. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Diesel fuel: means that term as defined in section 2 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Diesel fuel: means any liquid other than gasoline that is capable of use as a fuel or a component of a fuel in a motor vehicle that is propelled by a diesel-powered engine or in a diesel-powered train. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Dietary supplement: means any product, other than tobacco, intended to supplement the diet that is all of the following:
(i) Required to be labeled as a dietary supplement identifiable by the "supplement facts" box found on the label as required by 21 C. See Michigan Laws 205.51aDirect mail: means printed material delivered or distributed by United States mail or other delivery service to a mass audience or to addressees on a mailing list provided by the purchaser or at the direction of the purchaser if the cost of the items are not billed directly to the recipients, including tangible personal property supplied directly or indirectly by the purchaser to the direct mail seller for inclusion in the package containing the printed material, but not including multiple items of printed material delivered to a single address. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Direct response solicitation: means solicitation in which an insurer representative does not contact the applicant in person and explain the coverage available, such as, but not limited to, solicitation through direct mail or through advertisements in periodicals and other media. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Director: means the director of the department of career development or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 390.1572 Director: means the director of the commission. See Michigan Laws 393.351 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 399.702 Director: means the director of the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 500.2270 Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Director: means the director of the department of licensing and regulatory affairs or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 339.5103 Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102 Director: means the president of the Michigan strategic fund or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Director: means the president of the Michigan strategic fund or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Director: means the president of the Michigan strategic fund or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Director: means the director of the department of management and budget. See Michigan Laws 141.951 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 141.1301 Director: means the chief executive officer of the Michigan economic development corporation or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Director: means the chief executive officer of the Michigan economic development corporation or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Director: means the director of public health. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 333.26522 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 338.21 Director: means the director of consumer and industry services or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Disability: means cause for a protective order as described in section 5401. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Disability insurance policy: includes an insurance policy or insurance contract that insures against loss resulting from sickness or from bodily injury or death by accident, or both, including also the granting of specific hospital benefits and medical, surgical, and sick-care benefits to an individual, family, or group, subject to the exclusions provided in this section. See Michigan Laws 500.3400 Disabled individual: means any person, other than a person who is blind, who has a vocational disability. See Michigan Laws 395.82 Discharge: means a patient's exit or release from a hospital to the patient's residence following any medical care or treatment rendered to the patient following an inpatient admission. See Michigan Laws 333.26283 Discharge date: means the date an individual is discharged from the jurisdiction of the court or the department of corrections after being convicted of or adjudicated responsible for a crime or an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult. See Michigan Laws 777.50 Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Discretionary trust provision: means a provision in a trust, regardless of whether the terms of the trust provide a standard for the exercise of the trustee's discretion and regardless of whether the trust contains a spendthrift provision, that provides that the trustee has discretion, or words of similar import, to determine 1 or more of the following:
(i) Whether to distribute to or for the benefit of an individual or a class of beneficiaries the income or principal or both of the trust. See Michigan Laws 700.7103Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source: Disposal: means the isolation of waste from the biosphere by emplacement in the disposal site or as otherwise authorized in section 13709(3) of part 137. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Disposal site: means a geographic location in this state upon which the disposal unit and any other structures and appurtenances are located, the property upon which any monitoring equipment is located, and the isolation distance from the disposal unit to adjacent property lines. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Disposal unit: means the portion of the disposal site into which waste is placed for disposal. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Dispose: means an activity that transitions industrial hemp into a nonretrievable or noningestible form of industrial hemp under section 407. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Distance education: means education that uses 1 or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor, and to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor, either synchronously or asynchronously. See Michigan Laws 390.1692 Distance learning: means the technology and educational process used to provide instruction to a student when the student and the instructor are not necessarily physically present at the same time or place. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Distressed business: means a business that meets all of the following as verified by the Michigan economic growth authority:
(i) Four years immediately preceding the application to the authority under this act, the business had 150 or more full-time jobs in this state. See Michigan Laws 207.803Distributee: means a person that receives a decedent's property from the decedent's personal representative or trust property from the trustee other than as a creditor or purchaser. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 District: means the territory of the participating municipalities that is served by a district library established under this act. See Michigan Laws 397.172 District: means that term as defined in section 2 of the district library establishment act. See Michigan Laws 397.282 district: means an area not less than 3 acres in size of a qualified local governmental unit established as provided in section 3. See Michigan Laws 207.842 district: means an area in a qualified local governmental unit established as provided in section 3 in which attainable housing property is or will be located. See Michigan Laws 207.902 district: means an area not less than 1 acre in size of a qualified local governmental unit established as provided in section 3. See Michigan Laws 207.952 district: means an area in a qualified local governmental unit established as provided in section 3(1). See Michigan Laws 211.1152 District library: means a library established pursuant to the district library establishment act or a library considered to be established pursuant to the district library establishment act under section 6 of that act. See Michigan Laws 397.282 Dividing insurer: means a domestic stock insurer that approves a plan of division pursuant to section 5505. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Division: means the division on deaf and hard of hearing of the department of labor and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 393.502 division: means the act by operation of law by which a domestic stock insurer divides into 2 or more resulting insurers in accordance with a plan of division and this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Do-not-resuscitate order: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan do-not-resuscitate procedure act, 1996 PA 193, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 700.1103 Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings. Domestic insurer: means an insurer domiciled in this state. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 Domestic stock insurer: means a domestic stock insurer organized or created under the laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Domestic water treatment and filtering equipment: means residential water treatment and filtering equipment used in 1-family and 2-family dwellings. See Michigan Laws 339.6101 Domiciliary state: means the state in which an insurer is incorporated or organized, or, in the case of an alien insurer, its state of entry. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Donee: The recipient of a gift. Donor: The person who makes a gift. Drinking fountain: means a plumbing fixture that is connected to the potable water distribution system and drainage system that allows a user to obtain a drink directly from a stream of flowing water without the use of any accessory. See Michigan Laws 380.1903 Driveway: means a driveway, lane, road or any other way providing vehicular access to or from the highway from or to property adjoining the highway but does not mean a city or village street or other highway covered by the provisions of Act No. See Michigan Laws 247.321 Drug: means a compound, substance, or preparation, or any component of a compound, substance, or preparation, other than food or food ingredients, dietary supplements, or alcoholic beverages, intended for human use that is 1 or more of the following:
(i) Recognized in the official United States pharmacopoeia, official homeopathic pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official national formulary, or in any of their supplements. See Michigan Laws 205.51aDrug: means that term as defined in section 7105 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Drug overdose: means that term as defined in section 7403 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Dry weight basis: means the ratio of the amount of moisture in cannabis to the amount of solid in cannabis. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Ductwork: means the air distribution arrangement for supply, return, and exhaust in air conditioning systems and in nonair conditioning systems, the materials and methods of which are specified in the Michigan mechanical code, or an equivalent nationally recognized model mechanical code. See Michigan Laws 339.5801 Durable medical equipment: means equipment for home use, other than mobility enhancing equipment, dispensed pursuant to a prescription, including durable medical equipment repair or replacement parts, that does all of the following:
(i) Can withstand repeated use. See Michigan Laws 205.51aDurable medical equipment repair or replacement parts: includes all components or attachments used in conjunction with durable medical equipment. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Durand: means the city of Durand, a home rule city situated in Shiawassee county. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Dwelling: means a house, building, tent, trailer, vehicle, or other shelter that is occupied in whole or in part as a home, residence, living place, or sleeping place for 1 or more individuals either permanently or transiently, or any portion thereof. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Dyed diesel fuel: means diesel fuel that is dyed in accordance with internal revenue service rules or pursuant to any other internal revenue service requirements, including any invisible marker requirements. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Earned income: means salaries, wages, tips, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation or earnings from employment earned during the reporting period. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Economic automobile theft: means automobile theft perpetrated for financial gain. See Michigan Laws 500.6101 education savings account: means an account established under this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Educational athletic facility: means a facility that is owned or operated by an educational institution and that is used or intended to be used for 1 or more of the following:
(i) Maintaining or enhancing the aerobic condition or physical strength of 1 or more individuals. See Michigan Laws 333.26301Educational facility: means a structure available for use as a dormitory or other housing facility, including housing facilities for students, a dining hall, student union, administration building, academic building, library, laboratory, research facility, classroom, athletic facility, health care facility, and maintenance, storage, or utility facility, and other structures or facilities related thereto or required or useful for the instruction of students or the conducting of research or the operation of an institution for higher education, including parking and other facilities or structures essential or convenient for the orderly conduct of the institution for higher education, and shall include lands and interests in lands and landscaping, site preparation, furniture, equipment, machinery, and other similar items necessary or convenient for the operation of a particular facility or structure in the manner for which its use is intended, and any improvements necessary to a particular facility to make the facility more energy efficient. See Michigan Laws 390.922 Educational institution: means a public or private secondary school, trade school, vocational school, community or junior college, college, or university. See Michigan Laws 333.26301 Educational loan: means a loan made by the authority to an institution. See Michigan Laws 390.922 Effective date of the transfer: means the date upon which a transfer occurs. See Michigan Laws 500.5100 Electric bicycle: means that term as defined in section 13e of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Electric sign: means fixed, stationary, or portable self-contained, electrically illuminated equipment that has words or symbols designed to convey information or attract attention. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 electric vehicle: means a motor vehicle powered solely by a battery cell energy system. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Electrical contractor: means a person that is engaged in the business of erecting, installing, altering, repairing, servicing, or maintaining electrical wiring. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Electrical journeyman: means an individual other than an electrical contractor who, as his or her principal occupation, is engaged in the practical installation or alteration of electrical wiring. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Electrical wiring: means all wiring, generating equipment, fixtures, appliances, devices, and appurtenances in connection with the generation, distribution, and utilization of electrical energy, in or on a building, residence, structure, or properties, regardless of whether or not the electrical wiring is energized at the time of installation. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Electricity storage device: means a device, including a capacitor, that directly stores electrical energy without conversion to an intermediary medium. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Electricity storage system: means 1 or more electricity storage devices and inverters or other power conditioning equipment. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Electrologist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform electrology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Electrology: means the permanent removal of hair from the body of an individual by the use of electricity. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Michigan Laws 205.51a 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 Elevator journeyman: means a person who is qualified and licensed by this state to perform, or to provide supervision in the performance of, the work of installation, alteration, maintenance, repair, servicing, adjusting, inspecting, or testing of elevators. See Michigan Laws 338.2151 Eligible attraction: means a tourist-oriented activity that is all of the following:
(i) Within 10 miles of the rural road for which a tourist-oriented directional sign is sought, unless otherwise restricted or permitted by the department. See Michigan Laws 247.401Eligible business: means a distressed business or business that proposes to maintain retained jobs after December 31, 1999 or to create qualified new jobs in this state after April 18, 1995 in manufacturing, mining, research and development, wholesale and trade, film and digital media production, or office operations or a business that is a qualified high-technology business or a business that is a tourism attraction facility or a qualified lodging facility. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Eligible charges: means tuition and mandatory course fees, material fees, and registration fees required by an eligible institution for enrollment in an eligible course. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Eligible charges: means tuition and mandatory course fees, material fees, and registration fees required by a career and technical preparation program for enrollment in an eligible course. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Eligible claimant: means a person that claims an exemption for eligible personal property. See Michigan Laws 211.1053 Eligible claimant: means a person that owns, leases, or is in the possession of eligible personal property. See Michigan Laws 211.1073 Eligible costs: means tuition and fees charged by an eligible institution; related costs for room, board, books, supplies, transportation, or day care; and other costs determined by the authority. See Michigan Laws 390.1182 Eligible county: means a county with a population of 1,500,000 or more persons that adopts or has adopted a charter under 1966 PA 293, MCL 45. See Michigan Laws 207.751 Eligible course: means a course offered by an eligible postsecondary institution that is offered for postsecondary credit; that is not offered by the school district or state approved nonpublic school in which the eligible student is enrolled, or that is offered by the school district or state approved nonpublic school but is determined by its governing board to not be available to the eligible student because of a scheduling conflict beyond the eligible student's control; that is an academic course not ordinarily taken as an activity course; that is a course that the postsecondary institution normally applies toward satisfaction of degree requirements; that is offered in whole or in part when the school district or state approved nonpublic school is in session or, if approved by the school district or state approved nonpublic school, that is offered in whole when the school district or state approved nonpublic school is not in session; that is not a hobby, craft, or recreational course; and that is in a subject area other than physical education, theology, divinity, or religious education. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Eligible course: means a course offered by a career and technical preparation program that is offered for postsecondary credit or is part of a noncredit occupational training program leading to an industry-recognized credential; that is not offered through the school district, intermediate school district, area vocational-technical education program, or state approved nonpublic school in which the eligible student is enrolled, or that is offered through the school district, intermediate school district, area vocational-technical education program, or state approved nonpublic school but is determined by its governing board to not be available to the eligible student because of a scheduling conflict beyond the eligible student's control; that is a career and technical preparation course not ordinarily taken as an activity course; that is a course that the career and technical preparation program normally applies toward satisfaction of certificate, degree, or program completion requirements; that is offered in whole or in part when the school district or state approved nonpublic school is in session or, if approved by the school district or state approved nonpublic school, that is offered in whole when the school district or state approved nonpublic school is not in session; and that is not a hobby, craft, or recreational course. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Eligible educational institution: means that term as defined in section 529 of the internal revenue code or a college, university, community college, or junior college described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963 or established under section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Eligible employee: means an employee who works on a full-time basis with a normal workweek of 30 or more hours. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Eligible employment: means either of the following:
(i) Teaching in a nursing program. See Michigan Laws 390.1182Eligible entity: means a city, township, county, local school district, or intermediate school district, in which the percentage of families with children under age 18 that are living at or below the federal poverty level is greater than or equal to the state average of families with children under age 18 living at or below the federal poverty level, as determined by the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Eligible group: means 2 or more persons that are engaged in a common enterprise, or have an economic, educational, or social affinity or relationship, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(i) Persons engaged in the business of providing travel or travel services, including, but not limited to, tour operators, lodging providers, vacation property owners, hotels and resorts, travel clubs, travel agencies, property managers, cultural exchange programs, and common carriers or the operators, owners, or lessors of a means of transportation of passengers, including, but not limited to, airlines, cruise lines, railroads, steamship companies, and public bus carriers, in which, with regard to any particular travel or type of travel or travelers, all members or customers of the group must have a common exposure to risk attendant to the travel. See Michigan Laws 500.1283Eligible individual: means that term as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Eligible institution: means an institution of higher education; a vocational school; or, with respect to students or their parents who are citizens or nationals of the United States, an institution outside the United States comparable to an institution of higher education or to a vocational school that is approved by the state board of education and by the United States secretary of education for purposes of the guaranteed loan program. See Michigan Laws 390.1152 Eligible institution: means a degree or certificate granting public or independent nonprofit college or university, junior college, or community college in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1182 Eligible institution: means a degree or certificate granting public or independent nonprofit college or university, junior college, or community college in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1342 Eligible institution: means a postsecondary educational institution that meets all of the following:
(i) Is an accredited public community college in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1703Eligible institution: means that term as defined in the Michigan reconnect grant act, 2020 PA 84, MCL 390. See Michigan Laws 390.1713 Eligible member: except as otherwise provided in section 5915, means a member whose policy is in force on the date the mutual company's board of directors adopts a plan of conversion. See Michigan Laws 500.5901 Eligible member: means a member whose policy is in force on the date the mutual company's board of directors adopts a plan of reorganization under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.6001 Eligible municipality: means any of the following:
(i) An eligible county that intends to impose a tax under this act for purposes related to a stadium as defined under subdivision (i)(i). See Michigan Laws 207.751Eligible patient: means an individual who meets all of the following conditions:
(i) Has an advanced illness, attested to by the patient's treating physician. See Michigan Laws 333.26451Eligible personal property: means all of the following:
(i) Personal property exempt under section 9m or 9n of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1053Eligible personal property: means personal property exempt from the tax levied under the state essential services assessment act, 2014 PA 92, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1073 Eligible personal property: means personal property exempt under section 9p of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1123 Eligible postsecondary educational institution: means a state university, community college, or independent nonprofit degree-granting college or university that is located in this state and that chooses to comply with this act. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Eligible postsecondary institution: means a state university, community college, or independent nonprofit degree-granting college or university that is located in this state and that chooses to comply with this act. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Eligible student: means , except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, a student enrolled in at least 1 high school class in a school district or state approved nonpublic school in this state, except a foreign exchange pupil enrolled under a cultural exchange program or a student who does not have at least 1 parent or legal guardian who is a resident of this state. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Eligible student: means a student enrolled in a high school in a school district or state approved nonpublic school in this state, except a foreign exchange pupil enrolled under a cultural exchange program or a student who does not have at least 1 parent or legal guardian who is a resident of this state. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Eligible student: means a child or surviving spouse of a Michigan police officer or Michigan fire fighter who was or is killed in the line of duty. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Eligible tax reverted property: means property that is exempt under section 7gg of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1022 Eligible tax reverted property specific tax: means the specific tax levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 211.1022 Eligible tuition: means the tuition charged by a state institution of higher education for an undergraduate class. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Eligible tuition: means the tuition charged by an eligible institution for an undergraduate class. See Michigan Laws 390.1342 Eligible unauthorized insurer: means an insurer not authorized to transact insurance in this state but eligible to write insurance business under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.1903 Elimination period: means a specified number of days, weeks, or months starting at the beginning of each period of loss, during which benefits under a health insurance policy or certificate are not payable. See Michigan Laws 500.701 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 Emergency manager: means an emergency manager appointed under section 9. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Emergency medical technician: means that term as defined in section 20904 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Emergency medical technician specialist: means that term as defined in section 20904 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Employee: means a person performing work or service for compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Employee of the department: means an individual who is employed by the department, or a person that is under contract to the department, whose duty it is to enforce the provisions of this act or rules promulgated or orders issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Employee welfare benefit plan: means a plan, fund, or program of employee benefits as defined in 29 USC 1002. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Employee welfare benefit plan: means that term as defined in section 3 of the employee retirement income security act of 1974, Public Law 93-406, 88 Stat. See Michigan Laws 500.7001 Employer: means a person employing or seeking to employ a person for compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Employer: means a person who employs 1 or more persons or who accepts applications for employment of persons; or an agent of an employer. See Michigan Laws 338.1703 employment: means the relationship between a real estate broker and an associate real estate broker or a real estate salesperson which may include an independent contractor relationship. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Employment agent: means the individual designated by a type A personnel agency who is responsible for the general management of that type A personnel agency. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Encrypted: means the transformation of data into a form that results in a low probability of assigning meaning without the use of a protective process or key. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Enforcing agency: means that term as defined in section 2a of the Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 Enrollee: means an individual who is entitled to receive health services under a health insurance contract, unless the context requires otherwise. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Enterprise risk: means an activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving 1 or more affiliates of an insurer that, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer or its insurance holding company system as a whole, including, but not limited to, anything that would cause the insurer to be hazardous to policyholders, creditors, and the public. See Michigan Laws 500.1301 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. Entity: means a partnership, nonprofit or business corporation, limited liability company, labor organization, or any other association, corporation, trust, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Entry: means a patient's admission into a hospital for the purposes of receiving inpatient medical care. See Michigan Laws 333.26283 Environmental law: means a federal, state, or local law, rule, regulation, or ordinance that relates to the protection of the environment or human health. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 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 Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. Estate: includes the property of the decedent, trust, or other person whose affairs are subject to this act as the property is originally constituted and as it exists throughout administration. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 Esthetician: means an individual who performs or offers to perform skin care services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Estimated equalized value: means 50% of the final estimated value of a state facility as determined by the director. See Michigan Laws 141.951 Event: means a program of unarmed combat that is planned for a specific date and time by a promoter and is subject to the approval of the department under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Event center: means all or any part, or any combination of convention halls, auditoriums, stadiums, music halls, arenas, meeting rooms, exhibit areas, and related public areas owned by a municipality or related event center authority. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Event center financing program: means a program established by a municipality to plan, develop, design, and construct an event center. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Event center financing program notice: means the notice described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 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. Examinee: means an individual who is being examined, tested, or questioned by an examiner or intern for the purpose of detecting deception or verifying truthfulness. See Michigan Laws 338.1703 Examiner: means any person, other than an intern, who does any of the following:
(i) Purports to detect deception, verify truthfulness, or provide a diagnostic opinion of these matters through instrumentation or the use of a mechanical device. See Michigan Laws 338.1703Exchange: means an American health benefits exchange established or operating under the affordable care act. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Excluded liquid: means that term as defined in 26 C. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Executive committee: means the executive committee described in section 5. See Michigan Laws 330.3001 Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent Exempt property: means property of a decedent's estate that is described in section 2404. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 experience: includes any relevant experience acquired while serving in the armed forces by an individual who was separated from that service if all of the following are met:
(a) The applicant provides to the department a form DD214, a form DD215, or any other form that is satisfactory to the department that demonstrates that he or she was separated from that service, with an honorable character of service or under honorable conditions (general) character of service. See Michigan Laws 339.5903Expiration date: means the date prescribed in rules promulgated by the department in accordance with section 202(2). See Michigan Laws 339.402 Export: means to obtain motor fuel in this state for sale or other distribution outside of this state. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 Exporter: means a person who exports motor fuel. See Michigan Laws 207.1002 External inspection: means an inspection that does not involve examination of the internal surfaces of the pressure parts of the boiler. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 Facility: means all of the following that regularly admit individuals with developmental disability and provide residential and other services:
(i) A facility as defined in section 100b. See Michigan Laws 330.1600Facility: means the Michigan worker's compensation placement facility created under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.2303 Facility: means the automobile insurance placement facility created pursuant to this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.3303 Facility: means a homestead facility, a new facility, or a rehabilitated facility. See Michigan Laws 207.772 Facility: means a site or sites within this state in which an authorized business or subsidiary business maintains retained jobs or creates qualified new jobs. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Facility: means a building, structure, room, place, or area. See Michigan Laws 333.26301 Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. Source: OCC 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. Fair value: means the following:
(i) For cash, the amount of the cash. See Michigan Laws 500.4701Fair value: means the following:
(i) For cash, the amount of the cash. See Michigan Laws 500.4801Family allowance: means the allowance prescribed in section 2403. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 feasibility study: means an analysis which presents the expected activities and results of a risk retention group including all of the following:
(i) Information sufficient to verify that a risk retention group's members are engaged in businesses or activities similar or related with respect to the liability to which the members are exposed by virtue of a related, similar, or common business, trade, product, service, premises, or operation. See Michigan Laws 500.1801federal act: means Public Law 725 of the 79th Congress, approved August 13, 1946, known as the hospital survey and construction act. See Michigan Laws 331.502 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC Federal financial institution regulatory agency: means the board of governors of the federal reserve system, the federal deposit insurance corporation, the office of the comptroller of the currency, the office of thrift supervision, or the national credit union administration. See Michigan Laws 339.2601 Federal poverty level: means the poverty guidelines published annually in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under its authority to revise the poverty line under 42 USC 9902. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 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 Federal safe drinking water act: means 42 USC 300f to 300j-25. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Federal water pollution control act: means 33 USC 1251 to 1389. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Federally regulated appraisal management company: means an appraisal management company that is owned and controlled by an insured depository institution, as that term is defined in 12 USC 1813, and is regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Federally related transaction: means any real estate related financial transaction that a federal financial institution regulatory agency engages in, contracts for, or regulates and that requires the services of an appraiser under any of the following:
(i) 12 C. See Michigan Laws 339.2601Fee: means any direct or indirect compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it. Felony: means a violation of a penal law of this state for which the offender may be punished by imprisonment for more than 1 year or an offense expressly designated by law as a felony. See Michigan Laws 338.41 Felony: means a violation of a penal law of this state for which the offender, upon conviction, may be punished by imprisonment for more than 1 year or an offense expressly designated by law to be a felony. See Michigan Laws 761.1 Fetal viability: means that term as defined in section 28 of article I of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 333.26101 Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. Fiduciary: includes , but is not limited to, a personal representative, funeral representative, guardian, conservator, trustee, plenary guardian, partial guardian, and successor fiduciary. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 Film and digital media production: means the development, preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution of single media or multimedia entertainment content for distribution or exhibition to the general public in 2 or more states by any means and media in any digital media format, film, or video tape, including, but not limited to, a motion picture, a documentary, a television series, a television miniseries, a television special, interstitial television programming, long-form television, interactive television, music videos, interactive games, video games, internet programming, an internet video, a sound recording, a video, digital animation, or an interactive website. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Filtered faucet: means a faucet that at the point of use includes a filter that is certified to meet NSF/ANSI standard 53 for lead reduction and NSF/ANSI standard 42 for particulate removal. See Michigan Laws 380.1903 Final mandatory repayment date: means the final mandatory repayment date determined by the state treasurer under section 9. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. Source: OCC Financial and operating plan: means a written financial and operating plan for a local government under section 11, including an educational plan for a school district. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Financial information: means information regarding finances, including, but not limited to, assets, income, liabilities, net worth, bank balances, financial history or activities, or creditworthiness. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Financial institution: means a state chartered bank, state chartered savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or trust company; or a national banking association or federal savings and loan association or credit union. See Michigan Laws 206.902 Financial institution: means that term as defined in section 201 of the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27902 Financial institution: means an organization authorized to do business under state or federal laws relating to a financial institution and includes, but is not limited to, a bank, trust company, savings bank, building and loan association, savings and loan company or association, credit union, insurance company, and entity that offers mutual fund, securities brokerage, money market, or retail investment accounts. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 Financial literacy: means personal financial planning and education. See Michigan Laws 206.902 Financial need: means need as determined by the institution based upon a need analysis standard established by the authority. See Michigan Laws 390.1281 Fire alarm contractor: means a person that is engaged in the business of erecting, installing, altering, repairing, servicing, or maintaining wiring, devices, appliances, or equipment of a fire alarm system. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Fire alarm specialty apprentice technician: means an individual other than a fire alarm contractor or a fire alarm specialty technician who is engaged in learning about and assisting in the installation or alteration of fire alarm system wiring and equipment under the direct personal supervision of a fire alarm specialty technician. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Fire alarm specialty licensure: means licensure as a fire alarm contractor or a fire alarm specialty or apprentice technician. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Fire alarm specialty technician: means an individual other than a fire alarm contractor who, as his or her principal occupation, is engaged in the design and practical installation or alteration of fire alarm systems. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Fire alarm system: means a system designed to detect and annunciate the presence of fire or by-products of fire. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Fire alarm system: means a system that is designed to detect and annunciate the presence of fire, or by-products of fire, installed in a building or structure. See Michigan Laws 339.5701 Fire protection system: means that term as defined in the Michigan building code. See Michigan Laws 339.6001 Fire protection system inspector: means an individual who meets the qualifications established under this article and is responsible for the inspection of fire protection systems in accordance with the design and installation standards referenced by the Michigan building code. See Michigan Laws 339.6001 Fire protection system plan reviewer: means an individual who meets the qualifications established under this article and is responsible for the review of fire protection system plans in accordance with the design and installation standards referenced by the Michigan building code. See Michigan Laws 339.6001 firearm: except as otherwise specifically defined in statute, includes any weapon which will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of an explosive. See Michigan Laws 8.3t Firm: means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, unincorporated association, sole proprietorship operating under an assumed name, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 339.720 Firm: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or limited liability company through which a person licensed under this article offers or provides a service to the public. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Fiscal quarter: means a 3-month period ending on January 31, April 30, July 31, or October 31. See Michigan Laws 390.1231 Fiscal year: means a fiscal year of this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1622 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 , unless otherwise provided in this act, the fiscal year of the municipality applying for a loan under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.931 Fiscal year: means an annual period that begins on October 1 and ends on September 30 or the fiscal year for an authority established by the board of the authority. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances: Flexible premium universal life insurance policy: means a universal life insurance policy that permits the policyowner to vary, independently of each other, the amount or timing of 1 or more premium payments or the amount of insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.4001 Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A 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 captive: means a captive insurer formed under the laws of the District of Columbia or a state, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States other than this state. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Foreign country: means any other jurisdiction not in any state. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Foreign entity: means a nonresident alien, a corporation, foundation, or association whose principal place of business is outside of the United States, a foreign government, an agency or subdivision of a foreign government, or an agent registered under the foreign agent's registration act, 22 U. See Michigan Laws 390.1231 Foreign guaranty association: means any similar entities now in existence or hereafter created by the legislature of any other state. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Forest management plan: means that term as defined in section 7jj of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1092 Forest products: means that term as defined in section 7jj of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1032 Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC Form: means the financial disclosure form created by the department in accordance with section 11. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Formal complaint: means a document that states the charges of each alleged violation and is prepared by the department or the department of attorney general after a complaint is received by the department. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 Formal delinquency proceeding: means any liquidation or rehabilitation proceeding. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Former act: means former 1956 PA 217; former 1984 PA 192; former 1986 PA 54; former 2002 PA 733; or former 1965 PA 290, as applicable. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 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 Freeway: means that term as defined in section 18a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 247.291b Fuel cell: means an electrochemical device that uses an external fuel and continuously converts the energy released from the oxidation of fuel by oxygen directly into electricity without combustion and consists of an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Fuel cell energy system: means 1 or more fuel cells or fuel cell stacks and an inverter or other power conditioning unit. See Michigan Laws 207.822 fuel cell vehicle: means a motor vehicle powered solely by a fuel cell energy system. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Fuel feedstock user: means a person who receives motor fuel for the person's own use in the manufacture or production of any substance other than motor fuel. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Fuel grade ethanol: means the American Society for Testing and Materials standard in effect on April 1, 2001 as the D-4806 specification for denatured fuel grade ethanol for blending with gasoline. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Fuel processor: means a device that converts a fuel, including, but not limited to, methanol, natural gas, or gasoline, into a hydrogen rich gas, without combustion for use in a fuel cell. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Fuel transportation vehicle: means a vehicle designed or used to transport motor fuel on the public roads or highways. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Fulfillment materials: means documentation sent to the purchaser of a travel protection plan confirming the purchase and providing the travel protection plan's coverage and assistance details. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 Full-time employees: means the term as calculated in 26 USC 4890h(c)(4), including application of the special rules for determining group size as defined in 26 USC 4980h(c)(2) and the specification that full-time equivalents are treated as full-time employees for purposes of determining group size, as described in 26 USC 4980h(c)(2)(e). See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Full-time job: means a job performed by an individual for 35 hours or more each week and whose income and Social Security taxes are withheld by 1 or more of the following:
- You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
- The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
- The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
(i) An authorized business. See Michigan Laws 207.803Full-time student: means a student enrolled in at least 12 credit hours in an academic semester or its equivalent number of credit hours in a term or quarter, as determined by the authority. See Michigan Laws 390.1342 Fully funded: means that, with respect to any exposure attributed to a protected cell, the fair value of the protected cell assets, on the date on which the insurance securitization is effected, equals or exceeds the maximum possible exposure attributable to the protected cell with respect to such exposures. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 Fully marketable form: means a municipal obligation duly executed and accompanied by all of the following:
(i) An approving legal opinion of a bond counsel approved by the authority and of nationally recognized standing in the field of municipal law. See Michigan Laws 141.1053Fund: means the convention facility authority fund created for each authority as provided in section 10. See Michigan Laws 141.1403 fund: means the settlement administration fund created in section 7. See Michigan Laws 141.1603 Fund: means the girl scouts of Michigan fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 206.922 Fund: means the ALS of Michigan ("Lou Gehrig's disease") fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 206.932 Fund: means the special Olympics Michigan fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.943 Fund: means the Michigan Alzheimer's association fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.963 Fund: means the Michigan junior achievement fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1013 Fund: means the American Red Cross Michigan fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1033 Fund: means the Lions of Michigan Foundation fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1043 Fund: means the Kiwanis fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1063 Fund: means the Michigan World War II Legacy Memorial fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 206.1083 Fund: means the airport parking fund created in section 6. See Michigan Laws 207.372 Fund: means the qualified heavy equipment rental personal property exemption reimbursement fund created in section 9(1). See Michigan Laws 211.1123 fund: means the fund created in section 20. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Fund: means the Amanda's fund for breast cancer prevention and treatment created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 333.26232 Fund: means the prostate cancer research fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 333.26242 Fund: means the children's miracle network fund created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 333.26563 Fund: means the school and child care center clean drinking water fund created in section 11. See Michigan Laws 380.1903 Fund: means the advance tuition payment fund created in section 9. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 Fund: means the pregnant and parenting student services fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 390.1592 Fund: means the Michigan history center operations fund created in section 8 of the Michigan history center act, 2016 PA 470, MCL 399. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Fund: means the Michigan council for the arts fund created in section 9. See Michigan Laws 399.702 Fund: means the multiple employer welfare arrangement security fund. See Michigan Laws 500.7001 Fund: means the children's hospital of Michigan fund created in section 15. See Michigan Laws 333.26543 Fund: means the united way fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 333.26532 Fund: means the industrial hemp fund created in section 107. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Fund: means the Michigan unarmed combat fund created in section 22. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Fund board: means the board of directors of the Michigan strategic fund created under the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 211.1053 Funeral establishment: means a place of business used in the care and preparation for burial or transportation of a dead human body or a place where an individual represents that he or she is engaged in the profession of undertaking or the practice of mortuary science. See Michigan Laws 339.1801 GAAP: means generally accepted accounting principles. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Gallon: means a unit of liquid measure as customarily used in the United States containing 231 cubic inches, or 4 quarts, or its metric equivalent expressed in liters. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Gallon equivalent: means that term as defined in section 151 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor Gas: as used in this act does not include methane gas extracted from a landfill. See Michigan Laws 205.311 Gasohol: means a blended motor fuel composed of gasoline and fuel grade ethanol. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Gasoline: means that term as defined in section 3 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Gasoline: means gasoline, alcohol, gasohol, casing head or natural gasoline, benzol, benzine, naphtha, and any blendstock additive, or other product including methanol that is sold for blending with gasoline or for use on the road other than products typically sold in containers of less than 5 gallons. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 General account: means the assets and liabilities of a protected cell company other than protected cell assets and protected cell liabilities. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 general assets: includes all property or its proceeds in excess of the amount necessary to discharge the sum or sums secured by the property. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 General election: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168. See Michigan Laws 397.172 General property tax act: means the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.962 General public: means each individual who resides in this state and is 18 years of age or older, other than an individual or the spouse of an individual who is licensed or registered in the occupation or who has a material financial interest in the occupation that is regulated by the specific article in which the term is used. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 General sales tax act: means 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Generator: means any person licensed as a generator by the nuclear regulatory commission and authorized pursuant to part 137 whose act or process results in the production of waste or whose act first causes waste to become subject to regulation under part 137 or federal law. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Geographic area: means an area in this state that includes not less than 1 entire county, is established by a carrier under section 3705, and is used for adjusting premiums for a health benefit plan subject to this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance. Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Gift aid: means formal scholarships or grants from sources that do not require repayment. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Golf cart: means a vehicle designed for transportation while playing the game of golf. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Good faith: means participation by an interested party or a local government representative in the neutral evaluation process with the intent to negotiate a resolution of the issues that are the subject of the neutral evaluation process, including the timely provision of complete and accurate information to provide the relevant participants through the neutral evaluation process with sufficient information, in a confidential manner, to negotiate the readjustment of the local government's debt. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 good moral character: when used as a requirement for an occupational or professional license or when used as a requirement to establish or operate an organization or facility regulated by this state in a statute of this state or administrative rules promulgated under a statute of this state, means the propensity on the part of an individual to serve the public in the licensed area in a fair, honest, and open manner. See Michigan Laws 338.41 good moral character: means good moral character as defined and determined under Act No. See Michigan Laws 500.1200 Good moral character: means good moral character as determined and defined under 1974 PA 381, MCL 338. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Good moral character: means that term as defined in, and determined under, 1974 PA 381, MCL 338. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 Good standing: means all fees or fines owed under this act are paid and there are no outstanding fees or fines owed to the department. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Governing board: means a board of regents, board of trustees, board of governors, board of control, or other governing body of an institution of higher education. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Governing body: means the elected body of an eligible entity that has legislative powers. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Governing body: means the board charged with the governing of the incorporating unit. See Michigan Laws 331.33 Governing instrument: means a deed; will; trust; funeral representative designation; insurance or annuity policy; account with POD designation; security registered in beneficiary form (TOD); pension, profit-sharing, retirement, or similar benefit plan; instrument creating or exercising a power of appointment or a power of attorney; or dispositive, appointive, or nominative instrument of any similar type. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 Governmental entity: means any of the following:
(i) This state and its agencies, departments, commissions, courts, boards, councils, and statutorily created task forces. See Michigan Laws 333.26101Governmental subdivision: means that term as defined in section 2a of the Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 Governmental unit: means this state, a county, city, township, village, school district, intermediate school district, community college, public university, authority, district, any other body corporate and politic or other political subdivision, any agency or instrumentality of the foregoing, or any group self-insurance pool formed pursuant to 1951 PA 35, MCL 124. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Governmental unit: means a governmental unit as defined in section 3 of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 141.1452 GPS coordinates: means latitude and longitude coordinates derived from a global positioning system that are taken from a central point within a growing area or structure and that include decimal degrees to 6 places after the decimal. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage, Grant: means a gift or donation of money or property, or any combination of these, which in any 1 year exceeds $100,000. See Michigan Laws 390.1231 grant program: means the student mental health apprenticeship retention and training (SMART) internship grant program created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 388.1951 grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e 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 Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it. Gray market cigarette: means any cigarette the package of which bears any statement, label, stamp, sticker, or notice indicating that the manufacturer did not intend the cigarettes to be sold, distributed, or used in the United States, including, but not limited to, a label stating "For Export Only" "U. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration. Gross gallons: means the total measured product, exclusive of any temperature or pressure adjustments, considerations, or deductions, in gallons. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Gross premium: means the amount of premium charged by the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Gross proceeds: means sales price. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Gross receipts: means that term as defined in former section 7 of 1975 PA 228, or section 111 of the Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208. See Michigan Laws 207.751 Groundwater: means water below the land surface in a zone of saturation. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 group disability insurance: means voluntary disability insurance that covers 2 or more employees or members, with or without their eligible dependents, written under a master policy issued to a governmental corporation, unit, agency, or department of a governmental entity, to a corporation, copartnership, or individual employer, or, on application of an executive officer or trustee of the association, to an association that has a constitution or bylaws and that is formed in good faith for purposes other than that of obtaining insurance, and under which officers, members, employees, or classes or departments of the association may be insured for their individual benefit. See Michigan Laws 500.607 Group health plan: means an employee welfare benefit plan as defined in section 3(1) of subtitle A of title I of the employee retirement income security act of 1974, Public Law 93-406, 29 USC 1002, to the extent that the plan provides medical care, including items and services paid for as medical care to employees or their dependents as defined under the terms of the plan directly or through insurance, reimbursement, or otherwise. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Group insurance: means blanket insurance and franchise insurance and any other forms of group insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Group long-term care insurance: means a long-term care insurance certificate that is delivered or issued for delivery in this state and issued to any of the following:
(i) One or more employers or labor organizations, or to a trust or the trustees of a fund established by 1 or more employers or labor organizations for employees or former employees or members or former members of the labor organization. See Michigan Laws 500.3901Group of insurers: means those licensed insurers included in the reporting requirements of chapter 13, or a set of insurers as identified by management, for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. See Michigan Laws 500.1001 Group travel insurance: means travel insurance issued to any eligible group. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 Group-wide supervisor: means the regulatory official authorized to engage in conducting and coordinating group-wide supervision activities who is determined or acknowledged by the director under section 1359 to have sufficient contacts with the internationally active insurance group. See Michigan Laws 500.1301 Grower: means a licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that cultivates, dries, trims, or cures and packages marihuana for sale to a processor, provisioning center, or another grower. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Grower: means a person that is required to be registered under section 201. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Guaranteed renewable: means the insured has the right to continue the long-term care insurance in force by the timely payment of premiums and the insurer does not have a unilateral right to make any change in any provision of the policy or rider while the insurance is in force and cannot decline to renew, except that rates may be revised by the insurer on a class basis. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC Guaranty association: means the property and casualty guaranty association created in chapter 79 and the life and health insurance guaranty association created in chapter 77. See Michigan Laws 500.1401 Guaranty association: means the Michigan property and casualty guaranty association, the worker's compensation self-insurance security fund, the Michigan life and health insurance guaranty association, and any other similar entity now or hereafter created by the legislature of this state for the payment of claims of insolvent insurers. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs. Guardian: means that term as defined in section 1104 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Guardian: means an individual who is appointed under section 5306 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Guardian: means a person who has qualified as a guardian of a minor or a legally incapacitated individual under a parental or spousal nomination or a court appointment and includes a limited guardian as described in sections 5205, 5206, and 5306. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 Hair care services: means arranging, cutting, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, coloring, tinting, trimming, styling, relaxing, perming, straightening, or similar work upon the hair of the head or a wig that an individual is wearing. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Harmful to minors: means that term as defined in section 4 of 1978 PA 33, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Harvest: means that term as defined in section 7jj of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1092 Hazardous financial condition: means that, based on its present or reasonably anticipated financial condition, a risk retention group, although not yet financially impaired or insolvent, is unlikely to be able to meet obligations to policyholders with respect to known claims and reasonably anticipated claims or to pay other obligations in the normal course of business. See Michigan Laws 500.1801 Hazardous substance: means a substance defined as hazardous or toxic or otherwise regulated by an environmental law. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 Health care: means any care, service, or procedure provided by a health care provider or health facility to diagnose, treat, or maintain a patient's physical condition, or that affects the structure or a function of the human body. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Health care corporation: means a nonprofit health care corporation operating under the nonprofit health care corporation reform act, Act No. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Health care facilities: means buildings, structures, or equipment suitable and intended for, or incidental or ancillary to, use in providing health services, including, but not limited to, hospitals; hospital long-term care units; infirmaries; sanatoria; nursing homes; medical care facilities; outpatient clinics; ambulatory care facilities; surgical and diagnostic facilities; hospices; clinical laboratories; shared service facilities; laundries; meeting rooms; classrooms and other educational facilities; students', nurses', interns', or physicians' residences; administration buildings; facilities for use as or by health maintenance organizations; facilities for ambulance operations, advanced mobile emergency care services, and limited advanced mobile emergency care services; research facilities; facilities for the care of dependent children; maintenance, storage, and utility facilities; parking lots and structures; garages; office facilities not less than 80% of the net leasable space of which is intended for lease to or other use by direct providers of health care; facilities for the temporary lodging of outpatients or families of patients; residential facilities for use by the aged or disabled; and all necessary, useful, or related equipment, furnishings, and appurtenances and all lands necessary or convenient as sites for the health care facilities described in this subdivision. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Health care insurer: means an insurer authorized to provide health insurance in this state or a legal entity that is self-insured and provides health care benefits to its employees. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Health care provider: means a person who is licensed or registered or otherwise authorized under article 15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Health club: means an establishment that provides, as its primary purpose, services or facilities that are purported to assist patrons in physical exercise, in weight control, or in figure development, including, but not limited to, a fitness center, studio, salon, or club. See Michigan Laws 333.26311 Health facility: means a health facility or agency licensed under article 17 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Health insurance: means disability insurance as described in section 606. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Health insurance policy: means an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy, certificate, or contract. See Michigan Laws 500.608 Health maintenance contract: means a contract between a health maintenance organization and a subscriber or group of subscribers to provide or arrange for the provision of health services within the health maintenance organization's service area. See Michigan Laws 500.3501 Health maintenance organization: means an organization licensed under part 210 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Health maintenance organization: means a person that, among other things, does the following:
(i) Delivers health services that are medically necessary to enrollees under the terms of its health maintenance contract, directly or through contracts with affiliated providers, in exchange for a fixed prepaid sum or per capita prepayment, without regard to the frequency, extent, or kind of health services. See Michigan Laws 500.3501Health maintenance organization: means that term as defined in section 3501. See Michigan Laws 500.106 Health professional: means an individual licensed, certified, or authorized in accordance with state law to practice a health profession in his or her respective state. See Michigan Laws 500.3501 Health services: means services provided to enrollees of a health maintenance organization under their health maintenance contract. See Michigan Laws 500.3501 Health services: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) Diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment by direct providers of health care of persons suffering from illness, injury, and disability, including persons suffering from tuberculosis and other contagious and infectious diseases, and persons requiring maternity care, rehabilitation, psychiatric care, or substance abuse services; dentistry and related services; podiatric medicine and surgery; optometric services; psychological services; skilled, basic, and visiting nursing services and home health services; ambulance operations; advanced mobile emergency care services and limited advanced emergency services; physical, respiratory, and occupational therapy; health maintenance services; services for the prevention of illness, injury, and disability and for the promotion, maintenance, and improvement of public health and welfare; food services and care for dependent children, the disabled, and the elderly; and social work and chaplaincy services provided in conjunction with other health services described in this subparagraph. See Michigan Laws 331.1103Health-related services: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) Nursing services. See Michigan Laws 333.26502Hearing aid: means an instrument or device designed for regular and constant use in or proximate to the human ear and represented as aiding or improving defective human hearing. See Michigan Laws 339.1301 Hearing aid dealer: means an individual who engages in the sale or offering for sale at retail of a hearing aid. See Michigan Laws 339.1301 Hearing aid salesperson: means an individual who engages in the sale or offering for sale at retail of a hearing aid and who is an employee of a hearing aid dealer. See Michigan Laws 339.1301 Heating surface: means the heating surface determined by the boiler manufacturer and recorded in the manufacturer's data report or by rules established by the board for a boiler if the manufacturer's data report is not available or the boiler is not stamped with its heating surface. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 Heir: means , except as controlled by section 2720, a person, including the surviving spouse or the state, that is entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to a decedent's property. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 High school graduate: means an individual who has received a high school diploma from a high school or passed the general educational development (GED) diploma test or any other high school graduate equivalency examination approved by the state board of education. See Michigan Laws 390.1622 High-occupancy vehicle: means that term as defined in section 20b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 247.651 High-technology activity: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) Advanced computing, which is any technology used in the design and development of any of the following:
(A) Computer hardware and software. See Michigan Laws 207.803Highway: includes , where applicable, local roads or streets. See Michigan Laws 247.46 Highway: includes roads and streets. See Michigan Laws 247.291b Highway: means a state trunk line highway or a county road including the entire right of way. See Michigan Laws 247.321 Highway: means every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel in this state. See Michigan Laws 247.331 Highway: means highway or street as that term is defined in section 20 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Highway authority: means the department of state highways in the case of state trunk line highways, and the board of county road commissioners in the case of county roads. See Michigan Laws 247.321 Historic district: means an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that contains 1 resource or a group of resources that are related by history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Historic preservation: means the identification, evaluation, establishment, and protection of resources significant in history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Historic resource: means a publicly or privately owned building, structure, site, object, or open space of historic significance to this state, including places associated with a significant individual, group, or event in this state. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Historic resource: means a publicly or privately owned building, structure, site, object, feature, or open space that is significant in the history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture of this state or a community within this state, or of the United States. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Historic significance: means value in relation to historical, architectural, archaeological, engineering, technological, or cultural disciplines. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Holder of a license for the practice of mortuary science: means an individual who satisfactorily completes a course in mortuary science, passes an examination required under this article, serves the required resident training, and is issued a license for the practice of mortuary science. See Michigan Laws 339.1801 Home care services: means 1 or more of the following prescribed services or assessment team recommended services for the long-term care and treatment of an insured that are to be provided in a noninstitutional setting according to a written diagnosis and plan of care or individual assessment and plan of care:
(i) Nursing services under the direction of a registered nurse, including the service of a home health aide. See Michigan Laws 500.3901Home insurance: means a homeowners multiple peril insurance policy for qualified property containing all of the following, but does not include insurance intended to insure commercial, industrial, professional, or business property, obligations, or liabilities:
(i) Fire insurance for an insured's dwelling of a type described in section 2103(2). See Michigan Laws 500.2901Homestead: means a dwelling or a unit in a multiple-unit dwelling, owned and occupied as a home by the owner thereof, including all contiguous unoccupied real property owned by the person. See Michigan Laws 211.761 Homestead allowance: means the allowance prescribed in section 2402. See Michigan Laws 700.1104 Homestead facility: means 1 of the following:
(i) An existing structure, purchased by or transferred to an owner after December 31, 1996, that has as its primary purpose residential housing consisting of 1 or 2 units, 1 of which is occupied by an owner as his or her principal residence and that is located within a subdivision platted pursuant to state law before January 1, 1968 other than an existing structure for which a certificate will or has been issued after December 31, 2006 in a city with a population of 750,000 or more, is located within a subdivision platted pursuant to state law before January 1, 1968. See Michigan Laws 207.772Homicide: means any crime in which the death of a human being is an element of that crime. See Michigan Laws 777.1 Hookah: means a device, including a waterpipe, used for smoking hookah tobacco that consists of a tube connected to a chamber where the smoke is cooled passing through water. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Hookah tobacco: means tobacco that is designed, manufactured, or otherwise intended for consumption by smoking in a hookah and that is flavored with honey, molasses, fruit, or other natural or artificial flavors. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Hospital: means that term as defined in section 20106 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Hospital: means that term as defined in section 20106 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Hospital: means that term as defined in section 20106 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26283 hospital: means a public or nonpublic corporation, association, institution, or establishment located within this state for the care of the sick or wounded or of those who require medical treatment or nursing care or home for the aged or which provides retirement housing facilities described in subdivision (f)(iii) operated without profit to an individual, corporation, or association. See Michigan Laws 331.33 Hospital: includes public health centers and general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, and other types of hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, out-patient departments, nurses' home and training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care. See Michigan Laws 331.502 Hospital facilities: means any of the following:
(i) A building or structure suitable and intended for, or incidental or ancillary to, use by a hospital and includes nursing homes, homes for the aged, outpatient clinics, laboratories, laundries, nurses', doctors', or interns' residences, administration buildings, facilities for research directly involved with hospital care, maintenance, storage, or utility facilities, parking lots, and garages and all necessary, useful, or related equipment, furnishings, and appurtenances and all lands necessary or convenient as a site for these facilities. See Michigan Laws 331.33Hospital loan: means a loan made by the state authority or a local authority to a hospital. See Michigan Laws 331.33 hospitals: as used in this act shall include hospitals, sanatoria and other institutions operated for the purposes mentioned in section 2 of this act. See Michigan Laws 331.201 Host site: means the candidate site that is designated by the commissioner as the location for the disposal site in this state. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Host site community: means the municipality that is designated by the commissioner as the host site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Hotel: means that term as defined in section 1 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 333.26301 Housing-with-services establishment: means an establishment regularly providing or offering to provide leased private unit residences accommodating 1 or more adults, and providing or offering to provide for a fee either 1 or more regularly scheduled health-related services or 2 or more regularly scheduled supportive services, whether offered directly by the establishment or by another person by arrangement of the establishment. See Michigan Laws 333.26502 human cloning: means that term as defined in section 16274 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26402 HVAC: means the application of equipment and systems to provide air conditioning for occupants of buildings and structures. See Michigan Laws 339.5801 hybrid electric vehicle: means a motor vehicle powered by an integrated propulsion system consisting of an electric motor and combustion engine. See Michigan Laws 207.822 hybrid vehicle: means a motor vehicle that can only be powered by an internal combustion engine and 1 or more alternative energy systems. See Michigan Laws 207.822 hydraulic hybrid vehicle: means a motor vehicle powered by a regenerative hydraulic drive system or powered by an internal combustion engine assisted by a regenerative hydraulic drive system. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Hydroelectric energy system: means a system related to the process of generating or putting into usable form the energy produced solely from flowing or falling water. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Hydroponics: means a system in which water-soluble nutrients are placed in intimate contact with a plant's root system, being grown in an inert supportive medium, which inert supportive medium itself does all of the following:
(i) Supplies physical support for the roots. See Michigan Laws 211.982identification bracelet: means a wrist bracelet that meets the requirements of section 7 and that is worn by a declarant while a do-not-resuscitate order is in effect. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Identifying information: means any representation of information that permits the identity of an individual to whom the information applies to be reasonably inferred by either direct or indirect means. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Immediate family: means the student athlete's spouse, child, parent, stepparent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, parent-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle, first cousin, or the spouse or guardian of any of the persons described in this subdivision. See Michigan Laws 390.1501 Immediate family: means persons residing together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Immigration clerical assistant: means any individual who provides or offers to provide services, for compensation, relating to any immigration matter. See Michigan Laws 338.3453 Immigration matter: means any matter affecting the immigrant status, nonimmigrant status, or citizenship status of any individual and includes, but is not limited to, federal or state administrative or court proceedings or the filing of accompanying documents in those proceedings, or both. See Michigan Laws 338.3453 Impaired: means the inability or immediately impending inability of an individual to safely participate in a contest or event due to his or her substance abuse, chemical dependency, or use of drugs or alcohol that does not constitute substance abuse or chemical dependency. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Impaired insurer: means a member insurer considered by the director to be potentially unable to fulfill the insurer's contractual obligations or that is placed under an order of rehabilitation or conservation by a court of competent jurisdiction. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate. Implement of husbandry: means a farm tractor, a vehicle designed to be drawn or pulled by a farm tractor or animal, a vehicle that directly harvests farm products, or a vehicle that directly applies fertilizer, spray, or seeds to a farm field. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Import: means to bring motor fuel into this state by motor vehicle, marine vessel, pipeline, or any other means. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Import verification number: means the number assigned by the department to an individual delivery of motor fuel by a transport truck, tank wagon, marine vessel, or rail car in response to a request for a number from an importer or transporter carrying motor fuel into this state for the account of an importer. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Importer: means a person who imports motor fuel into this state. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 In the reasonable exercise of discretion: means that an order, decision, determination, finding, ruling, opinion, action, or inaction was based upon facts reasonably found to exist and was not inconsistent with generally acceptable standards and practices of those knowledgeable in the field in question. See Michigan Laws 500.116 In this state: means the area within the borders of this state, including all territories within the borders owned by, held in trust by, or added to the United States of America. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 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 Incapacitated individual: means an individual who is impaired by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, or other cause, not including minority, to the extent of lacking sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate informed decisions. See Michigan Laws 700.1105 Income tax collections: means the total collection of a municipality under the city income tax act, 1964 PA 284, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 141.931 Income tax revenue growth rate: means the quotient of the following:
(i) The numerator is the income tax collections of the municipality for the calendar year immediately preceding the municipality's application for a loan under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.931Income-qualified household: means an individual, couple, family, or group of unrelated individuals whose adjusted household income is 120% or less of the countywide area median income as posted annually by the Michigan state housing development authority on its website. See Michigan Laws 207.902 Incompetence: means a departure from, or a failure to conform to, minimal standards of acceptable practice for an occupation. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 Incorporating unit: means a county, city, village, or township or a combination of 1 or more counties, cities, villages, or townships incorporating a local authority pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 331.33 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 Independent contractor relationship: means a relationship between a real estate broker and an associate real estate broker or real estate salesperson that satisfies both of the following conditions:
(i) A written agreement exists in which the real estate broker does not consider the associate real estate broker or real estate salesperson as an employee for federal and state income tax purposes. See Michigan Laws 339.2501Independent public accountant: means an independent certified public accountant or accounting firm in good standing with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and in good standing in all states in which the accountant or accounting firm is licensed to practice. See Michigan Laws 500.1001 Independent student: means an independent student as defined in 34 C. See Michigan Laws 390.1281 Index rate: means the arithmetic average during a rating period of the base premium and the highest premium charged per employee for each health benefit plan offered by each small employer carrier to small employers and sole proprietors in a geographic area. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Indian lands: means any of the following:
(i) All lands within the limits of an Indian reservation. See Michigan Laws 333.27953Indian tribe: means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians which is recognized as eligible by the United States Secretary of the Interior for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians, and is recognized as possessing powers of self-government. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Individual: means the individual, minor or adult, who receives services from the department or a community mental health services program or from a provider under contract with the department or a community mental health services program. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 Individual overdose review: means the case review of an individual who has died as the result of a drug overdose, including, but not limited to, a review of both of the following:
(i) Consideration of the individual's points of contact, if any, with health care systems, social services, educational institutions, child and family services, the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, and any other system. See Michigan Laws 330.3023Individual package: means an individual packet or pack used to contain or to convey cigarettes to the consumer. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Industrial hemp: means any of the following:
(i) A plant of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not, with a THC concentration of 0. See Michigan Laws 333.27953Industrial hemp: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Industrial hemp: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Industrial hemp plan: means the plan created under section 105. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Industrial hemp research and development act: means the industrial hemp research and development act, 2014 PA 547, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Industrial insured: means an insured to which all of the following apply:
(i) The insured procures insurance by use of the services of a full-time employee acting as a risk manager or insurance manager or utilizing the services of a regularly and continuously qualified insurance consultant. See Michigan Laws 500.4601Industrial insured captive insurance company: means a company that insures risks of the industrial insureds that comprise the industrial insured group and their affiliated companies. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Industrial insured group: means a group that meets either of the following criteria:
(i) The group is a group of industrial insureds that collectively own, control, or hold, with power to vote, all of the outstanding voting securities of an industrial insured captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer or limited liability company or have complete voting control over an industrial insured captive insurance company incorporated as a mutual insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.4601Industry-recognized certificate or credential: means a certificate or credential that is portable and is sought or accepted by multiple employers within an industry for purposes of recruitment, hiring, or promotion. See Michigan Laws 390.1703 Industry-recognized certificate or credential: means that term as defined in the Michigan reconnect grant act, 2020 PA 84, MCL 390. See Michigan Laws 390.1713 Inflation rate: means the annual percentage change in the consumer price index, as determined by the department, comparing the 2 most recent October 1 through September 30 periods that are immediately preceding the effective date of the rate prescribed under section 8(1)(c), converted to decimals. See Michigan Laws 207.1003 Information security program: means the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards that a licensee uses to access, collect, distribute, process, protect, store, use, transmit, dispose of, or otherwise handle nonpublic information. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Information system: means a discrete set of electronic information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of electronic nonpublic information, as well as any specialized system such as an industrial or process controls system, a telephone switching and private branch exchange system, or an environmental control system. See Michigan Laws 500.553 inhabitant: means a resident of a city, township, village, district or county. See Michigan Laws 8.3f Initial notice: means the privacy notice required in section 507. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Inpatient services: means 24-hour care and treatment services provided by a state facility or a licensed hospital. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 Insolvency: means , with respect to an insurer licensed to transact the business of insurance in this state, that the insurer has had a final order of liquidation entered against it with a finding of insolvency by a court of competent jurisdiction in the insurer's state of domicile. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 insolvent: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) That the SPFC is unable to pay its obligations within 30 days after they are due, unless those obligations are the subject of a bona fide dispute. See Michigan Laws 500.4701insolvent: means :
(i) For an insurer issuing only assessable fire insurance policies:
(A) The inability to pay an obligation within 30 days after it becomes payable. See Michigan Laws 500.8103Insolvent insurer: means a member insurer that becomes insolvent and is placed under an order of liquidation by a court of competent jurisdiction with a finding of insolvency. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Insolvent insurer: means an insurer which has been a member insurer and against whom a final order of liquidation has been entered with a finding of insolvency by a court of competent jurisdiction in the insurer's state of domicile. See Michigan Laws 500.7921 Inspection: means an activity undertaken in a school building or public and commercial building to determine the presence or location or to assess the condition of friable or nonfriable ACBM or suspected ACBM, whether by visual or physical examination or by collecting samples of material. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Inspection bureau: means an organization designated by the commissioner to act as the inspection bureau. See Michigan Laws 500.2901 Inspector: means the individual who is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the construction of buildings, structures, or appurtenances under the state construction code. See Michigan Laws 339.6003 Institute: means the international low-level radioactive waste research and education institute. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Institute: means the Michigan biologic products institute established by Executive Order 1995-25, pursuant to section 4 of article V of the state constitution of 1963, and by section 3a. See Michigan Laws 333.26333 institution: means a private or nonpublic, nonprofit educational institution within the state authorized by law to provide a program of education beyond the high school level. See Michigan Laws 390.922 Institution of higher education: means a public or private college or university in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1501 Institution of higher education: means a degree or certificate granting public or private college or university, junior college, or community college in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1592 Institutional control: means the continued surveillance, monitoring, and care of the disposal site after site closure and stabilization to insure the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare, and the environment until the contents of the disposal site no longer have a radioactive content that is greater than the natural background radiation of the host site as determined during its site characterization. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Instructor: means a person who instructs another in the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Instructor: means an individual who teaches or offers to teach 1 or more cosmetology services in a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Insurance: means any of the lines of authority in chapter 6. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Insurance: means any of the kinds of insurance described in chapter 6. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Insurance: means any of the lines of authority in chapter 6. See Michigan Laws 500.2270 Insurance adjuster: means a person other than a professional investigator who, for a consideration, engages in the activities described in subdivision (e) in the course of adjusting or otherwise participating in the disposal of claims under or in connection with a policy of insurance. See Michigan Laws 338.822 Insurance benefits: means payments made in accordance with insurance coverage for the cost of health care services provided to an individual. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 insurance contract: means a contract of insurance, indemnity, suretyship, or annuity issued or proposed or intended for issuance by a person engaged in the business of insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Insurance coverage: means any policy, plan, program, or fund established or maintained for the purpose of providing for its participants or their dependents medical, surgical, or hospital benefits. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 Insurance group: means , for the purpose of conducting an ORSA, insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system. See Michigan Laws 500.1701 Insurance group: means insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system. See Michigan Laws 500.1755 Insurance holding company system: means 2 or more affiliated persons, 1 or more of which is an insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.115 Insurance premium finance agreement: means an agreement by which an insured or prospective insured promises to pay to a premium finance company the amount advanced or to be advanced under the agreement to an insurer or to an insurance agent in payment of premiums on an insurance contract together with a service charge as authorized and limited by this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.1502 Insurance premium finance company: means a person engaged in the business of entering into insurance premium finance agreements. See Michigan Laws 500.1502 Insurance producer: means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Insurance producer: means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Insurance producer: means that term as defined in section 1201. See Michigan Laws 500.2270 Insurance producer: means that term as defined in section 1201. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Insurance product or service: means any product or service that is offered by a licensee pursuant to the insurance laws of this state or pursuant to a federal insurance program. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Insurance score: means a number or rating that is derived from an algorithm, computer application, model, or other process that is based in whole or in part on credit information for the purposes of predicting the future insurance loss exposure of an individual applicant or insured. See Michigan Laws 500.2151 Insurance securitization: means a package of related risk transfer instruments, capital market offerings, and facilitating administrative agreements by which all of the following apply:
(i) The proceeds of the sale of SPFC securities are obtained, in a transaction that complies with applicable securities laws, by an SPFC directly through the issuance of the SPFC securities by the SPFC or indirectly through the issuance of preferred securities by the SPFC in exchange for some or all of the proceeds of the sale of SPFC securities by the SPFC's parent, an affiliated company of the SPFC, a counterparty, or a captive LLC. See Michigan Laws 500.4701Insurance tracking: means monitoring evidence of insurance on collateralized credit transactions to determine whether insurance required by the credit agreement has lapsed, and communicating with debtors concerning the status of insurance coverage. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 insured: as used in this chapter , shall not be construed as preventing a person other than the insured with a proper insurable interest from making application for and owning a policy covering the insured or from being entitled under such a policy to any indemnities, benefits and rights provided therein. See Michigan Laws 500.3462 Insurer: means that term as defined in section 106 and includes a nonprofit dental care corporation operating under 1963 PA 125, MCL 550. See Michigan Laws 500.1001 Insurer: means that term as defined in section 106 and includes a nonprofit dental care corporation operating under 1963 PA 125, MCL 550. See Michigan Laws 500.1301 Insurer: means that term as defined in section 106. See Michigan Laws 500.1701 Insurer: means that term as defined in section 1701. See Michigan Laws 500.1755 insurer: as used in this chapter , includes a person that files the security as provided in this section. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Insurer: includes any person that delivers or issues for delivery in this state Medicare supplement policies. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Insurer: means a property-casualty insurer, life insurer, third party administrator, self-funded plan, health insurer, health maintenance organization, nonprofit dental care corporation, health care corporation, reinsurer, or any other entity regulated by the insurance laws of this state and providing any form of insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.4501 Insurer: means a corporation engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106 Intangible personal property: means incorporeal personal property including, but not limited to, deposits in banks, negotiable instruments, mortgages, debts, receivables, shares of stock, bonds, notes, credits, evidences of an interest in property, evidences of debt, and choses in action generally. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes. Intellectual property: means all original data, findings, or other products of the mind or intellect commonly associated with claims, interests, and rights that are protected under trade secret, patent, trademark, copyright, or unfair competition law. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person. Interactive computer service: means that term as defined in 47 USC 230. See Michigan Laws 388.1293 Interest credits: means all interest that is credited to a deferred annuity contract. See Michigan Laws 500.4101 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 Interested party: means a trustee, a committee of creditors, an affected creditor, an indenture trustee, a pension fund, a bondholder, a union that under its collective bargaining agreements has standing to initiate contract negotiations with the local government, or a representative selected by an association of retired employees of the public entity who receive income or benefits from the public entity. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Interested person or entity: means an adult relative or friend of the respondent, an official or representative of a public or private agency, corporation, or association concerned with the individual's welfare, or any other person found suitable by the court. See Michigan Laws 330.1600 Interests of the trust beneficiaries: means the beneficial interests provided in the terms of the trust. See Michigan Laws 700.7103 Interior space: means an enclosed portion of a public and commercial building, including, but not limited to, an exterior hallway, connecting structure, portico, or mechanical system used to condition an enclosed space. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Intermediary: means an entity contracted directly with an insurer or with another entity contracted with an insurer to facilitate the sale of the insurer's annuities by producers. See Michigan Laws 500.4151 Intermediate care facility: means a facility, or distinct part of a facility, certified by the department of community health to provide intermediate care, custodial care, or basic care that is less than skilled nursing care but more than room and board. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Intermediate committee: means the committee for the reorganization of school districts created in this act. See Michigan Laws 388.681 Intermediate holding company: means a business corporation subsidiary of a mutual holding company domiciled in this state, any other state, or the District of Columbia that is authorized to issue 1 or more classes of capital stock, the corporate purposes of which include holding directly or indirectly the voting stock of a converted company. See Michigan Laws 500.6001 Intermediate school district: means that term as defined in section 4 of the revised school code, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 380.1895 Intermediate school district: means that term as defined in section 4 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Intern: means a person who is actively engaged in an approved training program pursuant to becoming an examiner. See Michigan Laws 338.1703 Internal audit function: means a person or persons that provide independent, objective, and reasonable assurance designed to add value and improve an organization's operations and accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes. See Michigan Laws 500.1001 Internal control over financial reporting: means a process effected by an entity's board of directors, management, and other personnel designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of the financial statements filed with the director, and includes the following:
(i) Policies and procedures pertaining to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of assets. See Michigan Laws 500.1001Internal revenue code: means the United States internal revenue code of 1986 in effect on January 1, 2002 or at the option of the taxpayer, in effect for the current year. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Internal revenue code: means the United States internal revenue code of 1986, in effect on January 1, 1998 or, at the option of the personal representative, in effect on the date of the decedent's death. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Internal revenue code: means the United States internal revenue code of 1986 in effect on January 1, 2015 or at the option of the taxpayer, in effect for the current year. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Internationally active insurance group: means an insurance holding company system to which both of the following apply:
(i) The insurance holding company system includes an insurer registered under section 1324. See Michigan Laws 500.1301Internet: means that term as defined in 47 USC 230. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit. Interstate motor carrier: means a person who operates or causes to be operated a qualified commercial motor vehicle on a public road or highway in this state and at least 1 other state or Canadian province. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Intestate: Dying without leaving a will. Investigation: means a detailed inquiry into and systematic examination of an allegation raised in a rights complaint. See Michigan Laws 330.1772 Investigation business: means a business that, for a fee, reward, or other consideration, engages in business or accepts employment to furnish, or subcontracts or agrees to make, or makes an investigation for the purpose of obtaining information with reference to any of the following:
(i) Crimes or wrongs done or threatened against the United States or a state or territory of the United States, or any other person or legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.822Investment: means the utilization of money or other assets in the expectation of future returns in the form of income or capital gain. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Investment fiduciary: means a person who exercises any discretionary authority or control over an investment of a public university or college or renders investment advice for a public university or college for a fee or other direct or indirect compensation. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Investment information: means information that has not been publicly disseminated or that is unavailable from other sources, the release of which might cause a portfolio company or an investment fiduciary significant competitive harm. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Irrevocable letter of credit: means a letter of credit that meets the description in section 1105(c). See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor. Issue: means an individual's descendant. See Michigan Laws 700.1105 Job order: means an oral or written notification by an employer to a personnel agency that a job opening exists for which the employer wishes to find an employee and includes all information regarding the job. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Jobsite: means the immediate work area within the property lines of a single construction project, alteration project, or maintenance project where electrical construction or alteration of electrical wiring is in progress. See Michigan Laws 339.5703 Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation. Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers. Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants. Journey plumber: means an individual, other than a plumbing contractor or master plumber, who is qualified to engage in the practical installation of plumbing and who is licensed as a journey plumber. See Michigan Laws 339.6101 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. Juror: A person who is on the jury. Juvenile: means a person within the jurisdiction of the circuit court under section 606 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600. See Michigan Laws 761.1 Juvenile adjudication: includes an adjudication set aside under section 18e of chapter XIIA of 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A. See Michigan Laws 777.50 Kerosene: means all grades of kerosene, including, but not limited to, the 2 grades of kerosene, No. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 Key participant: means a person that has a direct or indirect financial interest in the person or business producing hemp or a person in a corporate entity at an executive level that is regularly responsible for decision making impacting the growing of industrial hemp. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Killed: means that the Michigan police officer's or Michigan fire fighter's death is the direct and proximate result of a traumatic injury incurred in the line of duty. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Killed: means that the Michigan corrections officer's death is the direct and proximate result of a traumatic injury incurred in the line of duty. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 Landscape architect: means a person qualified to engage in the practice of landscape architecture as provided in this article. See Michigan Laws 339.2201 Large employer: means an employer that is not a small employer as defined in section 3701. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Largest: means , if used in reference to a participating school district, the participating school district having the most electors voting at the last regularly scheduled school board election in the participating school district. See Michigan Laws 397.172 Law enforcement officer: means an individual licensed under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Laws: means the society's articles of incorporation, constitution, and bylaws, however designated. See Michigan Laws 500.8161 Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff. Lawyer-guardian ad litem: means an attorney appointed under section 5213 or 5219 who has the powers and duties referenced by and provided in section 5213. See Michigan Laws 700.1105 lay caregiver: means an individual 18 years of age or older designated as a caregiver by a patient under this act who voluntarily provides after-care assistance to a patient in the patient's residence. See Michigan Laws 333.26283 Lead state commissioner: means the insurance commissioner of the state in which an insurer member of an insurance holding company system is domiciled and that is determined to be the lead state under the procedures in the Financial Analysis Handbook, as adopted by the director. See Michigan Laws 500.1301 Leaded racing fuel: is a fuel other than diesel fuel that is leaded and at least 100 octane and is used in vehicles on a racetrack. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 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 Lease: includes , but is not limited to, an oil, gas, or other mineral lease. See Michigan Laws 700.1105 Legacy: A gift of property made by will. Legal interest: means a person holding a title interest in the property or a mortgage holder as it appears on the records of the treasurer of the county in which the abandoned property is located or the records of the assessor of the local unit of government in which the abandoned property is located. See Michigan Laws 211.962 Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. Source: U.S. Mint Legally incapacitated individual: means an individual, other than a minor, for whom a guardian is appointed under this act or an individual, other than a minor, who has been adjudged by a court to be an incapacitated individual. See Michigan Laws 700.1105 Legislative body: means , if the municipality is a school district, the school board. See Michigan Laws 397.172 Legislative body: means the elected body of a local government possessing the legislative power of the local government. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto). Lender: means an institution of higher education, a vocational school, a state agency, or a financial or credit institution in this state which makes or has made loans for educational purposes. See Michigan Laws 390.1221 Lender: means a person whose name appears on the records of the museum as the person legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person the museum knows to be legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person who establishes his or her legal entitlement to that property. See Michigan Laws 399.602 Letter of credit: means a letter of credit that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is issued by a federally insured financial institution. See Michigan Laws 500.7001Letters: includes , but is not limited to, letters testamentary, letters of guardianship, letters of administration, and letters of conservatorship. See Michigan Laws 700.1105 Level premium: means a premium on a health insurance policy or certificate calculated to remain unchanged throughout either the lifetime of the policy or certificate or for some shorter projected period of years. See Michigan Laws 500.701 liabilities: shall include , but not be limited to, reserves required by statute or by rule or specific requirements imposed by the commissioner upon an insurer at the time of admission or subsequent to admission. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Liability: means legal liability for damages including costs of defense, legal costs and fees, and other claims expenses because of personal injuries, property damage, or other damage or loss, to another person resulting from or arising out of a profit or nonprofit business, trade, product, service, including professional service, a premises or operation, or an activity of a state or local government or an agency or political subdivision of a state or local government. See Michigan Laws 500.1801 Liability: means any liability or obligation of any kind, character, or description, whether known or unknown, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, disputed or undisputed, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, joint or several, due or to become due, determined, determinable, or otherwise. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Library: means the library of Michigan. See Michigan Laws 397.12 Library: means a library that is established by this state or by a county, city, township, village, school district, or other local unit of government or authority or combination of local units of governments and authorities, a community college district, or a college or university, or a private library open to the public. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Library record: means a document, record, or other method of storing information retained by a library that contains information that personally identifies a library patron, including the patron's name, address, or telephone number, or that identifies a person as having requested or obtained specific materials from a library. See Michigan Laws 397.602 License: means a document issued by the director authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the qualifications specified in the document. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 license: means a license that is issued under this act that allows the licensee to operate as 1 of the following, specified in the license:
(i) A grower. See Michigan Laws 333.27102License: means an authorization issued by the department upon recommendation by the board for demolition, renovation, encapsulation, or removal of asbestos. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 License: includes the whole or part of a governmental permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or similar form of permission required under a specific article of this act. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 License: includes a registration. See Michigan Laws 338.41 License: means a certificate, registration, or license issued by an occupational regulatory agency that allows an individual to engage in a regulated occupation or that allows an individual to use a specific title in the practice of an occupation, profession, or vocation. See Michigan Laws 338.3432 License: means a certificate, registration, accreditation, or license issued by an occupational regulatory agency that allows an individual to engage in a regulated occupation or that allows an individual to use a specific title or professional designation in the practice of an occupation, profession, or vocation. See Michigan Laws 338.3702 License cycle: means the term of a license issued under this article. See Michigan Laws 339.720 License cycle: means the term of a license issued under this article. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Licensed practical nurse: means an individual licensed to engage in the practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse as defined in section 17201 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 390.1182 Licensee: means a licensed insurer or producer, and other persons licensed or required to be licensed, authorized or required to be authorized, registered or required to be registered, or holding or required to hold a certificate of authority under this act. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Licensee: means a licensed insurer or producer, and other persons licensed or required to be licensed, authorized, or registered, or holding or required to hold a certificate of authority under this act. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Licensee: means a premium finance company holding a license issued by the commissioner under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.1502 Licensee: means a person licensed under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.1903 Licensee: means a person holding a state operating license. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Licensee: means a person that is issued a license under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 Licensee: means a person licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Licensee: means that term as defined in section 102 of the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27902 Licensee: means a person holding a state license. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Licensee: means a person licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.822 Licensee: means a person licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Licensee: means a PEO licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Licensing board or agency: means a principal department, or a board or agency within a principal department, that issues occupational or professional licenses. See Michigan Laws 338.41 Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Limitation: means a condition, stricture, constraint, restriction, or probation attached to a license that relates to the scope of practice of that occupation by the licensee. See Michigan Laws 339.5105 Limited dual interest insurance: means insurance purchased by the creditor to insure its interest in the collateral securing the debtor's credit transaction. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Limited heating service: means the servicing of gas-designed sectional boilers that have inputs of not more than 1 million British thermal units, utilizing a combustion safeguard designed to shut off the main gas supply 10 or more seconds after pilot flame failure, and all other gas-fired or solid-fuel equipment and systems limited to input ratings of less than 400,000 British thermal units per unit; or oil-fired equipment and systems designed for the use of number 1 or number 2 fuel oil, that has a maximum firing rate of less than 5 gallons per hour per unit; or electrical furnaces and electric boilers that use the same kilowatts that are equivalent to the fossil fuel British thermal units generated. See Michigan Laws 339.5803 Limited line credit insurance: includes credit life, credit disability, credit property, credit unemployment, involuntary unemployment, mortgage life, mortgage guaranty, mortgage disability, guaranteed automobile protection insurance, and any other form of insurance offered in connection with an extension of credit that is limited to partially or wholly extinguishing that credit obligation that the director determines should be designated a form of limited line credit insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Limited lines insurance: means any of the following:
(i) Marine insurance as defined in section 614. See Michigan Laws 500.1201Limited real estate appraiser: means an individual who meets the AQB criteria for appraiser trainee and is licensed under section 2610 to perform appraisals of those properties that the state certified supervisory appraiser is permitted and competent to appraise. See Michigan Laws 339.2601 Limited service agreement: means a written service provision agreement by which a real estate broker and client establish an agency relationship in which certain enumerated services, as set forth in section 2512d(3)(b), (c), and (d), are knowingly waived in whole or part by the client. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Line of duty: means an action that a Michigan police officer or Michigan fire fighter is obligated or authorized to perform by rule, regulation, condition of employment or service, or law, including, but not limited to, a social, ceremonial, or athletic function that the Michigan police officer or Michigan fire fighter is assigned to or compensated for by the public agency he or she serves. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Line of duty: means an action that a Michigan corrections officer is obligated or authorized to perform by rule, regulation, condition of employment or service, or law, including, but not limited to, a social, ceremonial, or athletic function that the Michigan corrections officer is assigned to or compensated for by the public agency he or she serves. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors. Liquid: means any substance that is liquid in excess of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and a pressure of 14. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Live birth: means the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, regardless of the duration of the pregnancy, that after expulsion or extraction, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached, shows any evidence of life, including, but not limited to, 1 or more of the following:
(i) Breathing. See Michigan Laws 333.1071Loan: means a loan of money for educational purposes to a person enrolled or accepted for enrollment at an institution of higher education or a vocational school in this state, which loan is insured, reinsured, subsidized, guaranteed, or made by the state or an agency thereof, or which is insured, reinsured, subsidized, or guaranteed by the United States government or an agency thereof. See Michigan Laws 390.1221 Loan: means a deposit of property that is not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property. See Michigan Laws 399.602 Local: when applied to beneficiation or agglomeration, or to a beneficiating facility or agglomerating facility, means within a radius of 100 miles of the point of extraction of the underground ore involved and within this state. See Michigan Laws 207.271 Local authority: means a public municipal corporation incorporated under this act. See Michigan Laws 331.33 Local board: means the board of trustees or directors that has as its primary purpose the supervision of a local public library, or that board contracting for library service, or, if such a board does not exist, the legislative body of the local government that maintains the public library. See Michigan Laws 397.552 Local chief executive officer: means the mayor or city manager of a city 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 141.1355 Local emergency financial assistance loan board: means the local emergency financial assistance loan board created under section 2 of the emergency municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Local government: means a county or city. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Local government: means a municipal government or a school district. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Local government representative: means the person or persons designated by the governing body of the local government with authority to make recommendations and to attend the neutral evaluation process on behalf of the governing body of the local government. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Local governmental unit: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 207.601 Local governmental unit: means a county, township, city, village, or a metropolitan authority formed under the regional convention facility authority act, 2008 PA 554, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 207.623 Local governmental unit: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 207.772 Local governmental unit: means a county, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Local inspector: means a certified forensic accountant, certified public accountant, attorney, or similarly credentialed person whose responsibility it is to determine the existence of proper internal and management controls, fraud, criminal activity, or any other accounting or management deficiencies. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Local monitoring committee: means a committee established pursuant to section 14 to represent a candidate site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Local support: means funds from tax sources, gifts, endowments, penal fines, or other funds received from local sources, excluding state and federal aid as stated in this act. See Michigan Laws 397.552 Local tax collecting unit: means a township or city that assesses and collects property taxes pursuant to the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1123 Local unit: means counties, townships, villages, cities, a first-class school district, community college districts, intermediate school districts, and all other divisions, districts, and organizations of government that are or may be established by law and that have the power to levy taxes against property located within their respective areas, except villages and cities for which there are provisions in their charters or general law fixing maximum limits on the power to levy taxes against property for purposes as authorized by law to be supported under the municipal budget and school districts. See Michigan Laws 211.202 Local unit: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Local unit of government: means a city or township. See Michigan Laws 141.861 Local unit of government: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 211.962 Local unit of government: means a city, county, village, or township, or a special district designated by law that exercises limited government powers or powers in respect to limited government subjects. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Lodge: means the subordinate member units of a society, including camps, courts, councils, branches, or other similar designation. See Michigan Laws 500.8161 Long-term care insurance: means any insurance policy, certificate, or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than 12 consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis, for 1 or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Long-term care insurance: means an individual or group insurance policy, certificate, or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for at least 12 consecutive months for each covered person on an expense-incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis for 1 or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, personal, or custodial care services provided in a setting, including an assisted living facility operating legally in this state, but not including an acute care unit of a hospital. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Loss ratio: means the ratio of incurred losses to earned premium. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Lot: means either of the following:
(i) A contiguous area in a field, greenhouse, or other indoor growing area that contains the same variety or strain of cannabis throughout. See Michigan Laws 333.29103Low grade iron ore: means iron-bearing rock, also known as iron formation, jasper, ferruginous chert, or ferruginous slate, that is not merchantable as ore in its natural state and from which a merchantable product can be produced only by beneficiation or treatment involving fine grinding. See Michigan Laws 211.621 Low grade iron ore mining property: means mineral bearing land from which low grade iron ore is mined, and includes the beneficiation or treatment plants, and other necessary land, buildings, facilities, equipment, tools, and supplies used in connection with the mining, transportation, and beneficiation or treatment of the low grade iron ore in producing merchantable iron ore pellets or other concentrated or agglomerated products. See Michigan Laws 211.621 Low pressure boiler: means a steam boiler operated at pressures that do not exceed 15 p. See Michigan Laws 339.5903 Maintenance: means routine maintenance or preventive maintenance, or both. See Michigan Laws 247.660c Majority leader: see Floor Leaders managed care option: means an optional coverage selected by an insured at the time a policy is issued that includes, but is not limited to, the monitoring and adjudication of an injured person's care, the use of a preferred provider program or other network, or other similar option. See Michigan Laws 500.3181 Management: means the board of directors, managing board, or other individual or individuals vested with overall responsibility for the management of the affairs of the SPFC, including the election and appointment of officers or other agents to act on behalf of the SPFC. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Management contract: means the contract executed between the treasurer and a program manager. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Management contract: means the contract executed between the treasurer and a program manager. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Manicuring services: means the cleansing, filing, shaping, buffing, polishing, or beautifying of the nails of the hands or feet, and the cleansing, massaging, stimulating, exercising, or beautifying of the skin of the hands, arms, and feet, manually or with the use of tools, appliances, or cosmetic preparations, including the repair of nails, or the creation or decoration of artificial nails. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Manicurist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform manicuring services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Manifest: means a form provided or approved by the department that is used for identifying the quantity; composition, including the class, curie count, and radioactive nuclides; origin; routing; and destination of waste from the point of generation to the point of processing, collection, or disposal. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Manufacturer: means , except as otherwise provided in subdivision (q), any of the following:
(i) A person who manufactures or produces a tobacco product. See Michigan Laws 205.422Marihuana: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Marihuana: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27902 Marihuana: means any of the following:
(i) A plant of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not. See Michigan Laws 333.27953Marihuana: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Marihuana: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Marihuana accessories: means any equipment, product, material, or combination of equipment, products, or materials, that is specifically designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marihuana into the human body. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana concentrate: means the resin extracted from any part of a plant of the genus Cannabis. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana establishment: means a marihuana grower, marihuana safety compliance facility, marihuana processor, marihuana microbusiness, marihuana retailer, marihuana secure transporter, or any other type of marihuana-related business licensed by the cannabis regulatory agency. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana facility: means a location at which a licensee is licensed to operate under this act. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Marihuana grower: means a person licensed to cultivate marihuana and sell or otherwise transfer marihuana to marihuana establishments. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana microbusiness: means a person licensed to cultivate not more than 150 marihuana plants; process and package marihuana; and sell or otherwise transfer marihuana to individuals who are 21 years of age or older or to a marihuana safety compliance facility, but not to other marihuana establishments. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana plant: means any plant of the species Cannabis sativa L. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Marihuana plant: means any plant of the species Cannabis sativa L. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Marihuana processor: means a person licensed to obtain marihuana from marihuana establishments; process and package marihuana; and sell or otherwise transfer marihuana to marihuana establishments. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana retailer: means a person licensed to obtain marihuana from marihuana establishments and to sell or otherwise transfer marihuana to marihuana establishments and to individuals who are 21 years of age or older. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana safety compliance facility: means a person licensed to test marihuana, including certification for potency and the presence of contaminants. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana secure transporter: means a person licensed to obtain marihuana from marihuana establishments in order to transport marihuana to marihuana establishments. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marihuana tracking act: means the marihuana tracking act, 2016 PA 282, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Marihuana-infused product: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Marihuana-infused product: means a topical formulation, tincture, beverage, edible substance, or similar product containing any usable marihuana that is intended for human consumption in a manner other than smoke inhalation. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Marihuana-infused product: means a topical formulation, tincture, beverage, edible substance, or similar product containing marihuana and other ingredients and that is intended for human consumption. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Marijuana regulatory agency: means the marijuana regulatory agency created under Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Marijuana regulatory agency: means the marijuana regulatory agency created under Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship. Maritime corporation: means the Lake Michigan maritime museum, inc. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Maritime museum: means the Michigan maritime museum situated in South Haven and operated under authority of this act. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Maritime museum advisory board: means the Michigan maritime museum advisory board created by section 106. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Maritime museum store: means the retail sales store located in the maritime museum, as authorized by section 108. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Maritime museum trust fund: means the Michigan maritime museum trust fund created by section 108. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Marketing program: means a program established by a bureau to develop, encourage, solicit, and promote convention business or tourism within this state or a portion of this state within which the bureau operates. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Marketing program: means a program established by a bureau to develop, encourage, solicit, and promote convention business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state within which the bureau operates. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Marketing program: means a program established by a bureau to develop, encourage, solicit, and promote convention business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state within which the bureau operates. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Marketing program: means a program established by a bureau to develop, encourage, solicit, and promote regional convention business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state within which the bureau operates. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Marketing program notice: means the notice described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Marketing program notice: means the notice described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Marketing program notice: means the notice described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Marketing program notice: means the notice described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation. Master electrician: means an individual who has the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to supervise the installation of electrical wiring and equipment in accordance with the standard rules and regulations governing that work. See Michigan Laws 339.5703 Master plan: means the comprehensive, long-range master plan developed by the Michigan travel commission and the travel bureau under section 2c of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Master plan: means the comprehensive, long-range master plan developed by the Michigan travel commission and the travel bureau under section 2c of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Master plan: means the comprehensive, long-range master plan developed by the Michigan travel commission and the travel bureau under section 2c of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Master plan: means the comprehensive, long-range master plan developed by the Michigan travel commission and the travel bureau under section 2c of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Master plan: means the comprehensive, long-range master plan developed by the Michigan travel commission and the travel bureau under section 2c of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Master plumber: means an individual who possesses the necessary skills and qualifications to plan and supervise the installation of plumbing and who is licensed as a master plumber. See Michigan Laws 339.6103 Matchmaker: means an individual who is responsible for arranging individual contests of unarmed combat. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Material conflict of interest: means a financial interest of the producer in the sale of an annuity that a reasonable person would expect to influence the impartiality of a recommendation. See Michigan Laws 500.4151 MDA: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 388.842 MDE: means the Michigan department of education. See Michigan Laws 388.842 Measurement of uncertainty: means the parameter associated with the result of a measurement that characterizes the dispersion of the values that could reasonably be attributed to the particular quantity subject to the measurement. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Medicaid: means subchapter XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396 to 1396w-5. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Medicaid: means that term as defined in section 2701 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Medical clearance: means a determination by a physician, made with reasonable medical certainty, that a contestant does not have a medical condition that would prevent him or her from being able to participate in an event or contest. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Medical first responder: means that term as defined in section 20906 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Medical marihuana facilities licensing act: means the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, 2016 PA 281, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27902 Medical record: means information oral or recorded in any form or medium that pertains to a patient's health care, medical history, diagnosis, prognosis, or medical condition and that is maintained by a health care provider or health facility in the process of caring for the patient's health. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Medical records company: means a person who stores, locates, or copies medical records for a health care provider or health facility under a contract or agreement with that health care provider or health facility and charges a fee for providing medical records to a patient or his or her authorized representative for that health care provider or health facility. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Medical use of marihuana: means the acquisition, possession, cultivation, manufacture, extraction, use, internal possession, delivery, transfer, or transportation of marihuana, marihuana-infused products, or paraphernalia relating to the administration of marihuana to treat or alleviate a registered qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition or symptoms associated with the debilitating medical condition. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Medically indigent individual: means that term as defined in section 106 of the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Medicare: means that term as defined in section 2701 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Medicare: means subchapter XVIII of the social security act, 42 USC 1395 to 1395lll. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Medicare: means title XVIII of the social security act, 42 USC 1395 to 1395ggg. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Medicare advantage: means a plan of coverage for health benefits under Medicare part C as described in 42 USC 1395w-28, and includes any of the following:
(i) Coordinated care plans that provide health care services, including, but not limited to, health maintenance organization plans with or without a point-of-service option, plans offered by provider-sponsored organizations, and preferred provider organization plans. See Michigan Laws 500.3801Medicare supplement policy: means an individual or group policy or certificate that is advertised, marketed, or designed primarily as a supplement to reimbursements under Medicare for the hospital, medical, or surgical expenses of persons eligible for Medicare and Medicare select policies and certificates under section 3817. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Member: means a person who, on the records of the mutual company and pursuant to its articles of incorporation or bylaws, is considered to be a holder of a membership interest in the mutual company. See Michigan Laws 500.6001 Member insurer: means a person authorized to transact a kind of insurance or annuity business in this state for which coverage is provided under section 7704 and includes an insurer whose certificate of authority in this state may have been suspended, revoked, not renewed, or voluntarily withdrawn. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Member insurer: means an insurer required to be a member of the association pursuant to section 7911. See Michigan Laws 500.7921 Member of the family: means a family member as defined in section 529 of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Member of the family: means a family member as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Member organization: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or association that belongs to an association. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Member state: means a state that has entered into the agreement. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Mental health professional: means an individual who is trained and experienced in the area of mental illness or developmental disabilities and who is 1 of the following:
(i) A physician who is licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state under article 15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 700.1106Mental health provider: means any of the following individuals:
(i) A psychologist as that term is defined in section 18201 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 330.3023MEOG: means a Michigan educational opportunity grant established under section 2. See Michigan Laws 390.1401 merger: as used in this chapter , include a transaction in which an authorized insurer that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a controlling corporation, which need not be an insurer, distributes shares of the capital stock of the controlling corporation in merging another insurer into the subsidiary or in merging the subsidiary into another insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.7604 Methamphetamine: means that substance as described in section 7214(c)(ii) of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26371 Methamphetamine laboratory: means the site where the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine has taken place, and includes all equipment and supplies used at that site for that purpose. See Michigan Laws 333.26371 MEWA: means that term as defined in section 3 of the employee retirement income security act of 1974, Public Law 93-406, 88 Stat. See Michigan Laws 500.7001 Michigan ABLE savings program agreement: means the agreement between the program and an account owner that establishes an ABLE savings account. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Michigan building code: means part 4 of the state construction code, R 408. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Michigan corrections officer: means a state correctional officer or local correctional officer, as those terms are defined in section 2 of the correctional officers' training act of 1982, 1982 PA 415, MCL 791. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 Michigan economic development corporation: means the Michigan economic development corporation, 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 211.1053 Michigan education savings program agreement: means the agreement between the program and an account owner that establishes an education savings account. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Michigan election law: means the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168. See Michigan Laws 389.105 Michigan electrical code: means part 8 of the state construction code, R 408. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Michigan finance authority: means the Michigan finance authority created under MCL 12. See Michigan Laws 388.981 Michigan finance authority: means the Michigan finance authority created under Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 Michigan fire fighter: means a member including volunteer members and members paid on call of a fire department, or other organization that provides fire suppression and other fire-related services, of a city, township, village, or county who is responsible for or is in a capacity that includes responsibility for the extinguishment of fires. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Michigan manual on uniform traffic control devices: means the manual on uniform traffic control devices adopted under section 608 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 247.291b Michigan mechanical code: means part 9A of the state construction code, R 408. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Michigan medical marihuana act: means the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Michigan merit examination: means that examination developed under section 1279g of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Michigan merit examination: means that examination developed under section 1279g of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Michigan plumbing code: means part 7 of the state construction code, R 408. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Michigan police officer: means a sheriff or sheriff's deputy of a sheriff's department in this state; village or township marshal of a village or township in this state; officer of the police department of any city, village, or township in this state; officer of the Michigan state police; or any other police officer or law enforcement officer trained and licensed or certified under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Michigan promise grant: means a grant awarded by the department under this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1622 Michigan prudent investor rule: means the fiduciary investment and management rule prescribed by part 5 of this article. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Michigan reconnect grant: means a grant awarded under the Michigan reconnect grant program. See Michigan Laws 390.1713 Michigan reconnect grant program: means the grant program created under section 5 of the Michigan reconnect grant act, 2020 PA 84, MCL 390. See Michigan Laws 390.1713 Michigan reconnect grant student: means a student admitted to and enrolled in an eligible institution, regardless of whether the student is receiving a Michigan reconnect grant under this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1703 Michigan reconnect grant student: means that term as defined in the Michigan reconnect grant act, 2020 PA 84, MCL 390. See Michigan Laws 390.1713 Michigan veteran: means an individual whose legal residence immediately before entering military service was in this state and who does not later reside outside of this state for a period of more than 2 years, or an individual who establishes legal residency in this state after entering military service. See Michigan Laws 390.1342 microgrid: means the lines, wires, fuel lines and fuel reformers, and controls to connect 2 or more alternative energy systems. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Microturbine energy system: means a system that generates electricity, composed of a compressor, combustor, turbine, and generator, fueled solely by a clean fuel with a capacity of not more than 250 kilowatts. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Mineral: means a naturally occurring solid substance that is extracted from the earth in this state primarily for its nonferrous metallic mineral content for commercial, industrial, or construction purposes. See Michigan Laws 211.782 Mineral-producing property: means real and personal property in this state that is part of a producing mine or utilized directly in association with a producing mine on a parcel on which the shaft, incline, or adit is located, or a parcel contiguous or appurtenant to a parcel on which the shaft, incline, or adit is located. See Michigan Laws 211.782 Miniturbine energy system: means a system that generates electricity, composed of a compressor, combustor, turbine, and generator, fueled solely by a clean fuel with a capacity of not more than 2 megawatts. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Minor: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age, but does not include an individual who is emancipated under section 4 of 1968 PA 293, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Minor: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Minor: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Minor child: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age, has been diagnosed by an attending physician as having an advanced illness, and is not emancipated by operation of law as provided in section 4 of 1968 PA 293, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Minor repair: means a repair that involves only the clearance of stoppages, repair, or replacement of a faucet or valve or reinstallation of that same plumbing fixture and does not involve making any modifications to the plumbing system, or residential domestic water treatment and filtering equipment. See Michigan Laws 339.6103 Minor repair work: means electrical wiring that has a value of $100. See Michigan Laws 339.5703 Minor requiring treatment: means either of the following:
(i) A minor with a substantial disorder of thought or mood that significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life. See Michigan Laws 330.1498bMinor ward: means a minor for whom a guardian is appointed solely because of minority. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Minority leader: See Floor Leaders Misdemeanor: means a violation of a penal law of this state that is not a felony or a violation of an order, rule, or regulation of a state agency that is punishable by imprisonment or a fine that is not a civil fine. See Michigan Laws 761.1 Mixed martial arts: means a form of combat, either amateur or professional, that involves the use of a combination of techniques from different disciplines of the martial arts, including grappling, kicking, and striking, subject to the limitations contained in this act and rules promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3610 Mobile salon: means either of the following:
(i) A self-contained vehicle or other device that is moved, towed, or transported from 1 location to another and in which equipment used to perform 1 or more cosmetology services is installed. See Michigan Laws 339.1201Mobility enhancing equipment: means equipment, other than durable medical equipment or a motor vehicle or equipment on a motor vehicle normally provided by a motor vehicle manufacturer, dispensed pursuant to a prescription, including repair or replacement parts for that equipment, that is all of the following:
(i) Primarily and customarily used to provide or increase the ability to move from 1 place to another and is appropriate for use at home or on a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 205.51aModal premium: means the premium paid on a health insurance policy or certificate based on a premium term that could be annual, semiannual, quarterly, monthly, or weekly. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Modified guaranteed annuity: means a deferred annuity contract, the underlying assets of which are held in a separate account, and the values of which are guaranteed if held for specified periods. See Michigan Laws 500.4101 Modified household income: means the gross annual income from all sources and before taxes or withholding of all individuals of a household living in a residential dwelling unit or housing unit after deducting all of the following:
(i) Unusual or temporary income of any member of the household. See Michigan Laws 207.902Money: means legal tender or a note, draft, certificate of deposit, stock, bond, check, or credit card. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Money: means any legal tender, note, draft, certificate of deposit, stock, bond, check, or credit card. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 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 Monument fund: means the Ronald Wilson Reagan memorial monument fund created in the Ronald Wilson Reagan memorial monument fund act. See Michigan Laws 399.262 Monument fund: means the Ronald Wilson Reagan memorial monument fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 399.272 Moped: means that term as defined in section 32b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Mortgage: means a conveyance, agreement, or arrangement in which property is encumbered or used as security. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money. Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money. Motor carrier: means :
(i) A person who operates or causes to be operated a qualified commercial motor vehicle on a public road or highway in this state and at least 1 other state or Canadian province. See Michigan Laws 207.211Motor fuel: means diesel fuel and gasoline. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Motor fuel: means diesel fuel as defined in section 2 of the motor fuel tax act, 2000 PA 403, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 207.211 Motor fuel: means gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, a mixture of gasoline, diesel fuel, or kerosene, or a mixture of gasoline, diesel fuel, or kerosene and any other substance. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 Motor vehicle: means that term as defined in section 33 of the Michigan vehicle code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 207.372 Motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle subject to registration and certificate of title under section 216 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 207.751 Motor vehicle: means a vehicle that is propelled by an internal combustion engine or motor and is designed to permit the vehicle's mobile use on the public roads or highways of this state. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 Motor vehicle: means a vehicle, including a trailer, that is operated or designed for operation on a public highway by power other than muscular power and has more than 2 wheels. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Motor vehicle accident: means a loss that involves the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle as a motor vehicle regardless of whether the accident also involves the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motorcycle as a motorcycle. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Motorcycle: means a vehicle that has a saddle or seat for the use of the rider, is designed to travel on not more than 3 wheels in contact with the ground, and is equipped with a motor that exceeds 50 cubic centimeters piston displacement. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Motorcycle accident: means a loss that involves the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motorcycle as a motorcycle, but does not involve the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle as a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Multi-factor authentication: means authentication through verification of at least 2 of the following types of authentication factors:
(i) Knowledge factors, such as a password. See Michigan Laws 500.553Multidisciplinary team: means a group of professionals from a variety of fields of study or sectors who work together toward a shared purpose. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Multifamily residential use: means multifamily housing consisting of 5 or more units. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Multimodal commerce: means the movement of products or services via 2 of the following:
(i) Air. See Michigan Laws 207.803Multiple-station alarm: means 2 or more single-station alarms that are capable of interconnection such that actuation of 1 alarm causes all integrated separate audible alarms to operate. See Michigan Laws 399.201a municipal corporation: shall mean a township, county, village or city;
(b) The term "commission" shall mean the county tax commission created by the property tax limitation act, being Act No. See Michigan Laws 211.251Municipal government: means a city, a village, a township, a charter township, a county, a department of county government if the county has an elected county executive under 1966 PA 293, MCL 45. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Municipal license: means a license issued by a municipality pursuant to section 16 that allows a person to operate a marihuana establishment in that municipality. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Municipal obligation: means a bond or note or evidence of debt issued by a governmental unit for a purpose authorized by law. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Municipality: means a county with a population of less than 650,000 or a city, village, or township within a county with a population of less than 650,000. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township in this state. See Michigan Laws 141.931 Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 141.951 Municipality: means a city, county, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Municipality: means a county with a population of more than 80,000 and less than 115,000 and that contains a city with a population of more than 35,000 and less than 45,000, at the time the marketing notice is filed with the director, and that shares a border with a county that levies a tax on accommodations under 1974 PA 263, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Municipality: means 1 of the following:
(i) A county having a population of greater than 250,000 and less than 300,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census and that levies an excise tax under 1974 PA 263, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 141.1442Municipality: means any city or incorporated village. See Michigan Laws 247.331 Municipality: means a city, village, township, or Indian tribe. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Municipality: means a city, village, school district, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 397.172 Municipality: means that term as defined in section 2 of the district library establishment act. See Michigan Laws 397.282 Municipality: means a city, township, or village. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Museum: means an institution generally known as a museum, archives, or library located in this state that is or does each of the following:
(i) Established primarily for artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or preservation purposes. See Michigan Laws 399.602Museum site: means certain state land and facilities in the county of Marquette constituting an historical commemoration of the first iron production area in the Lake Superior region. See Michigan Laws 399.72 Mutual company: means a domestic mutual insurance company organized under chapter 50, 54, or 58. See Michigan Laws 500.6001 MWS: means the Michigan work-study program established in section 2. See Michigan Laws 390.1371 NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Michigan Laws 500.1301 NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Michigan Laws 500.1701 NAIC: means that term as defined in section 1701. See Michigan Laws 500.1755 NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework: means a separate NAIC publication that includes all of the following components:
(i) A history of the NAIC's development of regulatory liquidity stress testing. See Michigan Laws 500.1301National 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 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 National forest: means federally owned land for which money is paid to the state under the county payment program, as that land is situated on June 30 of the fiscal year for which the money is paid. See Michigan Laws 141.1301 Natural hair cultivation: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking, or braiding of the hair by hand, if that work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals, or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl, or alter the structure of the hair. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Natural hair culturist: means an individual who is engaged in natural hair cultivation but does not include an individual who is engaged in natural hair cultivation if that activity is performed as part of the practice of a recognized religion. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Navigator: means a person that receives any funding from an exchange or the federal government and is designated or selected by an exchange or the federal government to perform any of the duties described in 42 USC 18031(i)(3). See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Negotiate: means the act of conferring directly with or offering advice directly to a purchaser or prospective purchaser of a particular contract of insurance concerning any of the substantive benefits, terms, or conditions of the contract, if the person engaged in that act either sells insurance or obtains insurance from insurers for purchasers. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Negotiate: means the act of conferring directly with or offering advice directly to a purchaser or prospective purchaser of a particular contract of insurance concerning any of the substantive benefits, terms, or conditions of the contract, provided that the person engaged in that act either sells insurance or obtains insurance from insurers for purchasers. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Negotiate the mortgage of real estate: means engaging in activity in connection with a mortgage that is not regulated under the mortgage brokers, lenders, and servicers licensing act, 1987 PA 173, MCL 445. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Net cash surrender value: means the maximum amount payable to the policyowner upon surrender. See Michigan Laws 500.4001 Net debt: means the amount necessary to liquidate the remaining debt in a single lump-sum payment, excluding all unearned interest and other unearned charges. See Michigan Laws 500.1605 Net gallons: means the remaining product, after all considerations and deductions have been made, measured in gallons, corrected to a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, 13 degrees Celsius, and a pressure of 14. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 net limitation tax rate: shall mean the net limitation tax rate as determined according to the provisions of the aforesaid property tax limitation act. See Michigan Laws 211.251 Neutral evaluation process: means a form of alternative dispute resolution or mediation between a local government and interested parties as provided for in section 25. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Neutral evaluator: means an impartial, unbiased person or entity, commonly known as a mediator, who assists local governments and interested parties in reaching their own settlement of issues under this act, who is not aligned with any party, and who has no authoritative decision-making power. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 New capital investment: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) New construction. See Michigan Laws 207.803New construction: means property not in existence on the date the authorized business enters into a written agreement with the authority and not replacement construction. See Michigan Laws 207.803 New facility: means a new structure which will have as its primary purpose multifamily housing consisting of 5 or more units and will be constructed in a downtown development district established pursuant to Act No. See Michigan Laws 207.601 New facility: means 1 or both of the following:
(i) A new structure or a portion of a new structure that has as its primary purpose residential housing consisting of 1 or 2 units, 1 of which is or will be occupied by an owner as his or her principal residence. See Michigan Laws 207.772New facility: means attainable housing property newly constructed on or after the effective date of this act. See Michigan Laws 207.902 New insurer: means a domestic stock insurer that is created by a division occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 New motor vehicle: means that term as defined in section 33a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 205.51 new personal property: means personal property that is not subject to or that is exempt from the collection of taxes under the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 207.803 New residential facility: means residential housing property newly constructed on or after the effective date of this act. See Michigan Laws 207.952 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. Nonaffiliated third party: means any person except a licensee's affiliate or a person employed jointly by a licensee and any company that is not the licensee's affiliate. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Noncash compensation: means a form of compensation that is not cash compensation, including, but not limited to, health insurance, office rent, office support, and retirement benefits. See Michigan Laws 500.4151 Noncigarette smoking tobacco: means tobacco sold in loose or bulk form that is intended for consumption by smoking and also includes roll-your-own cigarette tobacco, hookah tobacco, pipe tobacco, or a wrap. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Noncommunity water supply: means a noncommunity water supply as defined in part 54 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Noncommunity water supply: means that term as it is defined in part 54 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1452 Noncompliant industrial hemp: means industrial hemp that is not in compliance with this act or the rules promulgated under this act. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Nonguaranteed elements: means the premiums, credited interest rates, including any bonus, benefits, values, dividends, noninterest based credits, charges, or elements of formulas used to determine any of these, that are subject to company discretion and are not guaranteed at issue. See Michigan Laws 500.4151 Nonhydrogenated: means containing no hydrogen. See Michigan Laws 336.101 Nonprofit act: means the nonprofit corporation act, 1982 PA 162, MCL 450. See Michigan Laws 390.1572 Nonprofit dental care corporation: means a dental care corporation incorporated under Act No. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Nonprofit health care corporation: means a nonprofit health care corporation operating pursuant to the nonprofit health care corporation reform act, 1980 PA 350, MCL 550. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Nonprofit health care organization: means a public body organized and existing under the laws of this state and authorized to provide health services, a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the nonprofit corporation act, 1982 PA 162, MCL 450. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Nonpublic high school: means a high school operated by a nonpublic school that includes grades 9 to 12 or 10 to 12 and that awards a high school diploma. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Nonpublic information: means electronic information that is not publicly available information and is any of the following:
(i) Business-related information of a licensee, the tampering with which, or unauthorized disclosure, access, or use of which, would cause a material adverse impact to the business, operations, or security of the licensee. See Michigan Laws 500.553Nonpublic personal financial information: means personally identifiable financial information and any list, description, or other grouping of consumers and publicly available information pertaining to them that is derived using any personally identifiable financial information that is not publicly available. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Nonpublic school: means that term as defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Nonresident: means an individual who is not a resident. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Nonresident licensee: means an individual licensee whose principal place of business is not located in this state. See Michigan Laws 339.720 Nonresidential services: means care or treatment services that are not inpatient or residential services. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 Nontrustee volunteer: means an individual, other than a volunteer trustee, performing services for the college who does not receive compensation or any other type of consideration for the services other than reimbursement for expenses actually incurred. See Michigan Laws 390.701a Notes: means an obligation of the authority issued as provided in this act, including commercial paper, with a maturity of 3 years or less. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Notice to proceed: means the written permission to issue a permit for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects a resource, pursuant to a finding under section 5(6). See Michigan Laws 399.201a Nurse: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of nursing or practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse under part 172 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Nursing home: means that term as defined in section 20109 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 331.33 Nursing program: means either of the following:
(i) A program for the training of individuals to become registered nurses or licensed practical nurses operated in this state by an eligible institution and approved by the Michigan board of nursing. See Michigan Laws 390.1182Oath: 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. Obscene: means that term as defined in section 2 of 1984 PA 343, MCL 752. See Michigan Laws 397.602 Occupation: means a field of endeavor regulated under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Occupational code: means 1980 PA 299, MCL 339. See Michigan Laws 338.2202 Occupational disease: means a disease that routinely constitutes a special hazard in, or is commonly regarded as concomitant of, the Michigan police officer's or Michigan fire fighter's occupation. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Occupational disease: means a disease that routinely constitutes a special hazard in, or is commonly regarded as concomitant of, the Michigan corrections officer's occupation. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 Occupational regulatory agency: means a department, bureau, or agency of this state that has regulatory authority over a regulated occupation. See Michigan Laws 338.3432 Occupational regulatory agency: means a department, bureau, or agency of this state that has regulatory authority over a regulated occupation. See Michigan Laws 338.3702 Office: means a pregnant and parenting student services office established and operated by an institution of higher education and described in section 5. See Michigan Laws 390.1592 Office: means all of the following:
(i) With respect to a rights complaint involving services provided directly by or under contract with the department, unless the provider is a community mental health services program, the state office of recipient rights created under section 754. See Michigan Laws 330.1772Office: means the department. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Office: means the department. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Office: means a regular place of business where complete records are kept of collections and claims handled by a licensee. See Michigan Laws 339.901 Official hemp sample: means a sample of an industrial hemp lot that is collected by a designated sampling agent under section 401 in accordance with department sampling protocols and is tested by a regulatory testing facility. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 official Michigan historical marker: means Michigan historical marker signage as approved by the commission under this act. See Michigan Laws 399.152 oil: as used in this act means petroleum oil, mineral oil, or other oil taken from the earth. See Michigan Laws 205.311 Open mine: means a mine at which a shaft, incline, or adit has been started or overburden has been stripped. See Michigan Laws 211.782 Open space: means undeveloped land, a naturally landscaped area, or a formal or man-made landscaped area that provides a connective link or a buffer between other resources. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Operation: means the control, supervision, or implementation of the actual physical activities involved in the acceptance, storage, disposal, and monitoring of waste at the disposal site, the maintenance of the disposal site, and any other responsibility pertaining to the disposal unit and the disposal site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Operator: means a person engaged in the business of controlling or operating an airport parking facility. See Michigan Laws 207.372 Operator: means , to the extent that it is operating in this capacity, the operator of an Internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application with actual knowledge that the site, service, or application is used primarily for K-12 school purposes and was designed and marketed for K-12 school purposes. See Michigan Laws 388.1293 Opt out: means a direction by the consumer that the licensee not disclose nonpublic personal financial information about that consumer to a nonaffiliated third party, other than as permitted by sections 535, 537, and 539. See Michigan Laws 500.503 order: means a document executed under this act directing that, if an individual suffers cessation of both spontaneous respiration and circulation in a setting outside of a hospital, resuscitation will not be initiated. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Ordinance: means an ordinance enacted by a county or local unit of government under this act to levy, assess, and collect an excise tax. See Michigan Laws 141.861 Ordinary maintenance: means keeping a resource unimpaired and in good condition through ongoing minor intervention, undertaken from time to time, in its exterior condition. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Ore property: means the mineral bearing lands of a mine from which underground ore is mined, stockpiles of underground ore, buildings, plants, facilities, equipment, tools and supplies, but exclusive of any lands held primarily for timber purposes, used in connection with the mining and transportation of the underground ore. See Michigan Laws 207.271 organization: means a charitable organization exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code that is approved by the agency to manage a reserve fund. See Michigan Laws 206.902 Organization: means a company, corporation, firm, partnership, association, trust, or other business entity or a governmental agency. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Organization: means an organization or internal department of an insurer established to detect and prevent insurance fraud. See Michigan Laws 500.4501 Organization: means a corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or another legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Organizational document: means the articles of incorporation, articles of organization, bylaws, operating agreement, or other foundational documents that create a legal entity or prescribe its existence. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Organizational document: means the SPFC's articles of incorporation, articles of organization, bylaws, operating agreement, or other foundational documents that establish the SPFC as a legal entity or prescribes its existence. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 ORSA: means a confidential internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale, and complexity of an insurer or insurance group, conducted by the insurer or insurance group, of the material and relevant risks associated with the insurer or insurance group's current business plan, and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks. See Michigan Laws 500.1701 ORSA guidance manual: means the own risk and solvency assessment guidance manual as adopted and prescribed by the director. See Michigan Laws 500.1701 ORSA summary report: means a confidential high-level summary of an insurer or insurance group's ORSA. See Michigan Laws 500.1701 ORV: means a motor-driven recreation vehicle designed for off-road use and capable of cross-country travel without benefit of road or trail, on or immediately over land, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 ORV: means that term as defined in section 81101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 777.1 Out-of-state college: means a state university, community college, or independent nonprofit degree-granting college or university that is located in another state and that is legally established under the laws of that other state. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Outline lighting: means an arrangement of incandescent lamps or electric discharge tubing that is an integral part of an electrical sign that outlines certain features, such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window. See Michigan Laws 339.5703 Overdose fatality review team: means the multidisciplinary team established under this act by a county, a group of counties, or a tribe to conduct individual overdose reviews and overdose fatality reviews. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Owner: means the owner of a transient facility to be served by the bureau or, if the transient facility is operated or managed by a person other than the owner, then the operator or manager of that transient facility. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Owner: means the owner of a transient facility located within the assessment district or, if the transient facility is operated or managed by a person other than the owner, then the operator or manager of that transient facility. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Owner: means the owner of a transient facility that is located within the regional assessment district or, if the transient facility is operated or managed by a person other than the owner, then the operator or manager of that transient facility. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Owner: means the owner of a transient facility located within the assessment district or, if the transient facility is operated or managed by a person other than the owner, then the operator or manager of that transient facility. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Owner: means the owner of a transient facility located within the assessment district or, if the transient facility is operated or managed by a person other than the owner, then the operator or manager of that transient facility. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Owner: means the owner of a transient facility located within the assessment district or, if the transient facility is operated or managed by a person other than the owner, then the operator or manager of that transient facility. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Owner: means the record title holder of, or the vendee of the original land contract pertaining to, a new facility, a homestead facility, or a rehabilitated facility for which a neighborhood enterprise zone certificate is applied for or issued. See Michigan Laws 207.772 Owner: includes a person eligible for the exemption specified in this act, who is purchasing a homestead under a mortgage or land contract or who owns a dwelling situated on the leased lands of another or is a tenant-stockholder of a cooperative housing corporation. See Michigan Laws 211.761 Owner: means a person, fiduciary, partnership, association, corporation, or a governmental unit or agency having an estate, title, or interest, including beneficial, possessory, and security interest, in a property sought to be condemned. See Michigan Laws 213.51 Owner: means any of the following:
(i) A person renting a motor vehicle or having the use of a motor vehicle, under a lease or otherwise, for a period that is greater than 30 days. See Michigan Laws 500.3101Owner: means a person who owns and conducts a cosmetology establishment or a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Oxygenate: means an oxygen-containing, ashless, organic compound, such as an alcohol or ether, which may be used as a fuel or fuel supplement. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 Ozone: means an allotropic, triatomic form of oxygen, chemically described as O3. See Michigan Laws 336.101 PACE: means a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly as described in the social security act. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 panel: means the marijuana regulatory agency. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Paramedic: means that term as defined in section 20908 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Paraphernalia: means any equipment, product, or material of any kind that is designed for or used in growing, cultivating, producing, manufacturing, compounding, converting, storing, processing, preparing, transporting, injecting, smoking, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body, marihuana. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Parent: means a biological or adoptive parent or legal guardian. See Michigan Laws 390.1152 Parent: means a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or individual that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote more than 50% of the outstanding voting interests of a company. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Parent: means a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or individual that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of an SPFC. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Parent: means the natural or adoptive parent of a minor child who possesses legal decision-making authority as to the important decisions affecting the welfare of the minor child. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Parent: includes , but is not limited to, an individual entitled to take, or who would be entitled to take, as a parent under this act by intestate succession from a child who dies without a will and whose relationship is in question. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Parent cooperative preschool: means a nonprofit, nondiscriminatory institution, maintained as a community service and administered by parents of children currently enrolled in the preschool, which institution provides an educational and developmental program for children younger than compulsory school age and which provides an educational program for parents, including active parental participation with children in preschool activities. See Michigan Laws 388.1021 Parents: means the legal father and mother of an unmarried individual who is less than 18 years of age. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 Part-time: means not less than 3 semester hours and not more than 11 semester hours per semester, or the equivalent for a quarter or term. See Michigan Laws 390.1281 Part-time student: means a student who is not a full-time student, but is enrolled in at least the number of credit hours in a semester, term, or quarter that the authority defines as a 1/2-time course of study. See Michigan Laws 390.1342 Partial guardian: means a guardian who possesses fewer than all of the legal rights and powers of a plenary guardian, and whose rights, powers, and duties have been specifically enumerated by court order. See Michigan Laws 330.1600 Partial guardian: means that term as defined in section 600 of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Participant: means an entity as described in section 4667, and any affiliates of the entity, that are insured by a sponsored captive insurance company, if the recovery of the participant is limited through a participant contract to the assets of a protected cell. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Participant: means a referee, judge, matchmaker, timekeeper, contestant, or promoter. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Participant contract: means a contract by which a sponsored captive insurance company insures the risks of a participant and limits the recovery of the participant to the assets of a protected cell. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Participating: means , in reference to a municipality, that the municipality is a party to an agreement. See Michigan Laws 397.172 Participating: means that term as defined in section 2 of the district library establishment act. See Michigan Laws 397.282 Participating college: means a college or university that is located in this state; elects to participate in a reciprocal agreement under this act; and meets the requirements of section 4. See Michigan Laws 390.1692 Participating college: means a community college that is a reporting unit of the retirement system and that reports employees to the retirement system for the state fiscal year. See Michigan Laws 388.1802a Participating county: means a county that, by itself or with 1 or more other counties, establishes an overdose fatality review team under section 5(1). See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Participating member: means an insurer who is a member of the facility and who in any given calendar year has a participation ratio greater than zero in the facility for that year. See Michigan Laws 500.2303 Participating member: means any member of the pool which in any pertinent calendar period has aggregate assessable premiums greater than zero. See Michigan Laws 500.2901 Participating member: means an insurer who is required by this chapter to be a member of the facility and who in any given calendar year has a participation ratio greater than zero in the facility for that year. See Michigan Laws 500.3303 Participating provider: means a provider that, under contract with an insurer that issues policies of health insurance or with such an insurer's contractor or subcontractor, has agreed to provide health care services to covered individuals and to accept payment by the insurer, contractor, or subcontractor for covered services as payment in full, other than coinsurance, copayments, or deductibles. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Participation ratio: means the ratio of the participating member's voluntary Michigan worker's compensation premiums to the comparable statewide totals of all participating members. See Michigan Laws 500.2303 Participation ratio: means the ratio of the participating member's Michigan premiums or exposure units to the comparable statewide totals for all participating members, as follows:
(i) For private passenger nonfleet automobile insurance, for distribution of risk or distribution of loss, the ratio shall be based on voluntary net direct automobile insurance car years written in this state for the calendar year ending December 31 of the second prior year as reported to the statistical agent of each participating member as private passenger nonfleet exposure. See Michigan Laws 500.3303Partnership: 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. partnership policy: means a policy that meets all of the requirements for the long-term care partnership program under section 112c of the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 500.3957 Patient: means an individual who receives or has received health care from a health care provider or health facility. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 patient: means a person who has been diagnosed by a physician as having a debilitating medical condition. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Patient advocate: means an individual who is designated to make medical treatment decisions for a patient under section 5506 to 5515 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Patient advocate: means that term as described and used in section 5506 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.26283 Patient advocate: means an individual designated to exercise powers concerning another individual's care, custody, and medical or mental health treatment or authorized to make an anatomical gift on behalf of another individual, or both, as provided in section 5506. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Patient advocate designation: means the written document executed and with the effect as described in section 5506 to 5515. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Pell-eligible program: means a program eligible for grant funding under 20 USC 1070a. See Michigan Laws 390.1713 PEO group: means 2 or more PEOs that are majority owned or commonly controlled by the same entity, parent, or controlling person. See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Performance assessment: means an analysis of the potential pathways for release of waste to the environment and the potential impacts of a release during the transportation of radioactive waste to the disposal site and during the handling and disposal of waste at the disposal site, including, but not limited to:
(i) A description of the potential pathways for radioactive nuclide migration beyond the boundaries of the disposal site during the operation of the site and if there is a release. See Michigan Laws 333.26202Permissive supplier: means a person who may not be subject to the taxing jurisdiction of this state but who does meet both of the following requirements:
(i) Is a position holder in a federally registered terminal located outside of this state, or a person who acquires from a position holder motor fuel in an out-of-state terminal in a transaction that otherwise qualifies as a 2-party exchange under this act. See Michigan Laws 207.1004Permitted investments: means those investments that meet the qualifications in section 4727(1). See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other private legal entity. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 399.702 Person: means that term as defined in section 114, except that it does not include a securities broker that does not perform more than the usual and customary broker's function, so long as the securities broker holds less than 10% of the voting securities of an insurer or of any person that controls an insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.1301 Person: includes an individual, insurer, company, association, organization, Lloyds, society, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange, partnership, syndicate, business trust, corporation, and any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 500.4501 Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or voluntary organization. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Person: means a natural person notwithstanding section 105(5). See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, company, estate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability limited partnership, trust, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, college or university, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Person: means any of the following:
(i) An individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.3611Person: means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or common law trust or a combination of those legal entities. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 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 or an organization. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, municipal or private corporation whether organized for profit or not, company, limited liability company, estate, trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, the United States, this state, county, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and includes the plural as well as the singular number, unless the intention to give a more limited meaning is disclosed by the context. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club fraternal organization, municipal or private corporation whether or not organized for profit, company, limited liability company, estate, trust receiver, trustee, syndicate, the United States, this state, country, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number, unless the intention to give a more limited meaning is disclosed by the context. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Person: as used in this act shall include any person, firm, concern, receiver, receivers, trustee, executor, administrator, agent, institution, association, partnership, company, corporations, and persons acting under declarations of trust. See Michigan Laws 205.312 Person: means an individual, partnership, fiduciary, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Person: means an individual, trust, estate, fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, corporation, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Person: means a natural person, partnership, firm, association, joint stock company, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, syndicate, or corporation, and any receiver, trustee, conservator, or officer, other than a unit of government, having jurisdiction and control of property by virtue of law or by appointment of a court. See Michigan Laws 207.211 Person: means a natural person, partnership, fiduciary, association, corporation, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 207.372 Person: means every natural person, association or corporation. See Michigan Laws 207.501 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 207.522 Person: means a natural person, partnership, limited partnership, fiduciary, association, corporation, limited liability company, or other entity. See Michigan Laws 207.623 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 207.751 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Person: means and includes an individual, cooperative, partnership, firm, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, joint stock company, syndicate, and corporation, both private and municipal, and any receiver, trustee, conservator, or any other officer having jurisdiction and control of property by law or by appointment of a court other than units of government. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 Person: means an individual, firm, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, copartnership, partnership, joint venture, corporation, association, subchapter S corporation, limited liability company, receiver, estate, trust, or any other legal entity or combination of legal entities acting as a unit. See Michigan Laws 211.782 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 211.1002 Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 211.1123 Person: means an individual, partnership, cooperative, association, corporation, receiver, trustee, or assignee. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Person: means an individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 333.26311 Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership of any type, trust, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Person: means an individual, limited liability company, corporation, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Person: means any natural person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation. See Michigan Laws 338.1703 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, public or private agency, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Person in loco parentis: means a person who is not the parent or guardian of a minor, but who has either legal custody of a minor or physical custody of a minor and is providing support and care for the minor. See Michigan Laws 330.1498c Person in responsible charge: means a person licensed under this article who determines technical questions of design and policy; advises the client; supervises and is in responsible charge of the work of subordinates; is the person whose professional skill and judgment are embodied in the plans, designs, plats, surveys, and advice involved in the services; and who supervises the review of material and completed phases of construction. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Person-centered planning: means a process for planning and supporting the individual receiving services that builds upon the individual's capacity to engage in activities that promote community life and that honors the individual's preferences, choices, and abilities. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Personal insurance: means property/casualty insurance written for personal, family, or household use, including automobile, home, motorcycle, mobile home, noncommercial dwelling fire, boat, personal watercraft, snowmobile, and recreational vehicle, whether written on an individual, group, franchise, blanket policy, or similar basis. See Michigan Laws 500.2151 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Personal representative: means that term as defined in section 1106 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.26263 Personal representative: includes , but is not limited to, an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, and special personal representative, and any other person, other than a trustee of a trust subject to article VII, who performs substantially the same function under the law governing that person's status. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Personal risk liability: means liability for damages because of personal injury, property damage, or other loss or damage, to any person resulting from a personal, family, or household responsibility or activity, and not from responsibilities or activities described under subdivision (c). See Michigan Laws 500.1801 Personally identifiable financial information: means any of the following:
(i) Information a consumer provides to a licensee to obtain an insurance product or service from the licensee. See Michigan Laws 500.503Personnel agency: means a type A personnel agency or a type B personnel agency, or both. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Petition: means a written request to the court for an order after notice. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Pharmaceutical products fund: means the pharmaceutical products fund established under section 9112 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26333 Photovoltaic energy system: means a solar energy device composed of 1 or more photovoltaic cells or photovoltaic modules and an inverter or other power conditioning unit. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Physician: means a person licensed as a physician under part 170 or part 175 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 333.1032 Physician: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of medicine or the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery under article 15 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Physician: means an individual licensed as a physician under part 170 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Physician: means that term as defined in section 17001 or 17501 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Physician orders for scope of treatment form: means that term as defined in section 5674 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Pipe tobacco: means any tobacco that, because of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling, is suitable for use and likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as tobacco to smoke in a pipe. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Place of business: means a place where a tobacco product is sold or where a tobacco product is brought or kept for the purpose of sale or consumption, including a vessel, airplane, train, or vending machine. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Place of business: means a physical location that a real estate broker, by advertisement, signage, or otherwise, represents to the public is a place where clients and customers may consult or do business with a licensee. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. plan: means a plan that provides different investment strategies and allows account distributions for qualified disability expenses. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Plan: means a drinking water management plan created under section 5. See Michigan Laws 380.1903 plan: means an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy or certificate, or health maintenance organization contract. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 plan: means a plan adopted by a Michigan domestic mutual company's or mutual holding company's board of directors pursuant to this chapter to convert the mutual company into a Michigan domiciled stock company. See Michigan Laws 500.5901 plan: means a plan adopted pursuant to this chapter by the board of directors of a mutual company for the reorganization of the mutual company simultaneously into both a mutual holding company and a converted company existing as a direct or indirect stock subsidiary of the mutual holding company. See Michigan Laws 500.6001 Plan for adjustment: means the plan for the adjustment of debts of the city of Detroit approved and entered by the United States bankruptcy court for the eastern district of Michigan, southern division, In Re City of Detroit, Michigan, case no. See Michigan Laws 141.1603 Plan for adjustment: means the plan for the adjustment of debts of a qualified city approved and entered by a United States bankruptcy court under chapter 9 of title 11 of the United States Code, 11 USC 901 to 946. See Michigan Laws 141.1633 Plan of division: means a plan of division approved by a dividing insurer in accordance with section 5505. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Plan reviewer: means an individual who is engaged in the practice of examining construction documents for the purpose of determining compliance with applicable codes. See Michigan Laws 339.6003 Plan sponsor: means the following:
(i) For a benefit plan established or maintained by a single employer, the single employer. See Michigan Laws 500.7705plans: means a plan that provides different investment strategies and allows account distributions for qualified higher education expenses. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Plant: means any living organism that produces its own food through photosynthesis and has observable root formation or is in growth material. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Plant: means any living organism that produces its own food through photosynthesis and has observable root formation or is in growth material. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 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. Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. Source: 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. Plenary guardian: means that term as defined in section 600 of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Plenary guardian: means a guardian who possesses the legal rights and powers of a full guardian of the person, or of the estate, or both. See Michigan Laws 330.1600 Plumbing: means the practice, materials, and fixtures, in or adjacent to a building, structure, or premises, used in the installation, maintenance, extension, or alteration of all piping, fixtures, plumbing appliances, or plumbing appurtenances, as defined in the state construction code, in connection with the sanitary drainage or storm drainage facilities, plumbing venting systems, medical gas systems, backflow preventers, and public or private water supply systems. See Michigan Laws 339.6103 Plumbing contractor: means a licensed master plumber or a person who employs a licensed master plumber full-time to directly supervise the installation of plumbing as his or her representative engaged in the business of plumbing for a fixed sum, price, fee percentage, valuable consideration, or other compensation and who is licensed as a plumbing contractor. See Michigan Laws 339.6103 Pocket card: means the pocket card that contains information about the license that the department provides under section 2506 when it issues a license under this article. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Policy: means an insurance policy or certificate, rider, or endorsement delivered or issued for delivery in this state by an insurer or subsidiary of a nonprofit health care corporation. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Policy: means that term as defined in section 3901. See Michigan Laws 500.3957 policy: means an insurance policy, benefit contract of a self-funded plan, health maintenance organization contract, nonprofit dental care corporation certificate, or health care corporation certificate. See Michigan Laws 500.4501 Policy: means a group or individual insurance policy or contract issued by a mutual company. See Michigan Laws 500.6001 Policy form: means the form on which the policy or certificate is delivered or issued for delivery by the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Policy value: means the amount to which separately identified interest credits and mortality, expense, or other charges are made under a universal life insurance policy. See Michigan Laws 500.4001 Policyholder: means the holder of a policy other than a reinsurance contract. See Michigan Laws 500.6001 Portfolio company: means an entity in which an investment fiduciary has made or considered an investment on behalf of a public university or college. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Position holder: means a person who has a contract with a terminal operator for the use of storage facilities and other terminal services for motor fuel at the terminal, as reflected in the records of the terminal operator. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 Postclosure observation and maintenance: means the surveillance, monitoring, and maintenance of the disposal site after it has been closed and continuing through site closure and stabilization and institutional control. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Postdecarboxylation test: means a test of cannabis for delta-9-THC after a carboxyl group is eliminated from delta-9-THC acid. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 postsecondary educational institution: means a public or private institution in this state that offers a degree or course of study beyond the twelfth grade and receives state or federal funding of any kind. See Michigan Laws 390.1731 Power boiler: means a closed vessel in which steam or other vapor is generated at a pressure of more than 15 p. See Michigan Laws 339.5903 Power of appointment: means that term as defined in section 2 of the powers of appointment act of 1967, 1967 PA 224, MCL 556. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 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 Power of withdrawal: means a presently exercisable general power of appointment other than a power that is either of the following:
(i) Exercisable by a trustee and limited by an ascertainable standard. See Michigan Laws 700.7103Power-driven mobility device: means a wheelchair or other mobility device powered by a battery, fuel, or other engine and designed to be used by an individual with a mobility disability for the purpose of locomotion. See Michigan Laws 500.3101 Practice of architecture: means professional services, such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design, or review of material and completed phases of work in construction, alteration, or repair in connection with a public or private structure, building, equipment, works, or project if the professional service requires the application of a principle of architecture or architectural design. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Practice of embalming: means the disinfecting or preserving of a dead human body, entirely or in part, by the use of a chemical substance, fluid, or gas in the body or by the introduction of a chemical substance, fluid, or gas into the body by a vascular or hypodermic injection, or by direct application into an organ or cavity. See Michigan Laws 339.1801 Practice of funeral directing: means engaging in or representing oneself as engaging in the supervising of the burial and disposal of a dead human body, managing a funeral establishment for the preparation, disposition, and care of a dead human body, or using, in connection with the user's name or funeral establishment, the word "funeral director" "funeral service professional" "undertaker" or "mortician" or any other title embodying the words "mortuary science" or otherwise implying that the individual is engaged as a funeral director. See Michigan Laws 339.1801 Practice of landscape architecture: means all of the following:
(i) The performance of professional services such as consultation, investigation, research, planning, design, or responsible field observation in connection with the development of land areas where, and to the extent that the dominant purpose of the services is the preservation, enhancement, or determination of proper land uses, natural land resources, ground cover and planting, naturalistic and aesthetic values, the settings and approaches to structures or other improvements, natural drainage, and the consideration and determination of inherent problems of the land relating to erosion, use and stress, blight, or other hazards. See Michigan Laws 339.2201Practice of mortuary science: means the practice of embalming or the practice of funeral directing, or both. See Michigan Laws 339.1801 Practice of physical therapy: means that term as defined in section 17801 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 333.26301 Practice of professional engineering: means professional services, such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design, or review of material and completed phases of work in construction, alteration, or repair in connection with a public or private utility, structure, building, machine, equipment, process, work, or project, if the professional service requires the application of engineering principles or data. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Practice of professional surveying: means providing professional services such as consultation, investigation, testimony, evaluation, planning, mapping, assembling, and interpreting reliable scientific measurements and information relative to the location, size, shape, or physical features of the earth, improvements on the earth, the space above the earth, or any part of the earth, and the utilization and development of these facts and interpretations into an orderly survey map, plan, report, description, or project. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 practice of public accounting: means rendering or offering to render an opinion on or attesting to or offering to attest to the reliability of a representation or estimate, including, but not limited to, the giving of an opinion in substance that 1 or more of the following types of information concerning the entity that is the subject of the opinion present fairly the condition of the entity:
(i) Financial or other information about which the opinion is given. See Michigan Laws 339.720Practitioner: means a licensee of this state authorized to practice medicine and surgery, psychology, chiropractic, or law, any other licensee of the state, or an unlicensed health care provider whose services are compensated, directly or indirectly, by insurance proceeds, or a licensee similarly licensed in other states and nations, or the practitioner of any nonmedical treatment rendered in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing. See Michigan Laws 500.4501 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. Preexisting condition: means a condition for which medical advice or treatment was recommended by, or received from, a provider of health care services within the 6 months immediately before the effective date of coverage of an insured person. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Preferred securities: means securities, whether stock or debt, issued by an SPFC to the issuer of the SPFC securities in exchange for some or all of the proceeds of the issuance of the SPFC securities. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Prelicensure course: means a course that is represented to the public as fulfilling, in whole or in part, the requirements of section 2504. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial. premises: means 1 of the following, as applicable:
(i) For a mobile salon described in subdivision (o)(i), the vehicle or other device and the equipment installed in the vehicle or device. See Michigan Laws 339.1201Premium: means all money paid by a small employer, eligible employees, or eligible persons as a condition of receiving coverage from a small employer carrier, including any fees or other contributions associated with the health benefit plan. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Premiums: means amounts or considerations, by whatever name called, received on covered policies or contracts less returned premiums, considerations, and deposits and less dividends and experience credits. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Premiums: means rates, dues, or other required contributions payable under a certificate. See Michigan Laws 500.8161 Prescription: means an order, formula, or recipe, issued in any form of oral, written, electronic, or other means of transmission by a licensed physician or other health professional as defined in section 3501 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Preservation: means an activity undertaken to preserve the integrity of the existing roadway system. See Michigan Laws 247.660c Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents. Prewritten computer software: means computer software, including prewritten upgrades, that is delivered by any means and that is not designed and developed by the author or other creator to the specifications of a specific purchaser. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Primary certificate holder: means an individual who elects and purchases travel insurance under a group policy. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 Primary policyholder: means an individual who elects and purchases individual travel insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 principal: means a person that offers or extends credit creating a debt or a person to which a debt is owed or due or asserted to be owed or due. See Michigan Laws 339.901 Principal: means a sole proprietor, partner, the president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, or director of a corporation, or a member or manager of a limited liability company. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Principal department: means a department that has jurisdiction over a licensing board or agency. See Michigan Laws 338.41 Principal place of business: means the office location designated by the licensee for the purposes of substantial equivalency and reciprocity. See Michigan Laws 339.720 Principal residence: means that term as defined in section 7dd of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1022 Private college security force: means a security force authorized under section 37. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Private passenger nonfleet automobile: means a motorized vehicle designed for transporting passengers or goods, subject to specific contemporary definitions for insurance purposes as provided in the plan of operation. See Michigan Laws 500.3303 Private security guard: means an individual or an employee of an employer who offers, for hire, to provide protection of property on the premises of another, and includes an employee of a private college security force. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Private security police: means that part of a business organization or educational institution primarily responsible for the protection of property on the premises of the business organization, but does not include a private college security force. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Privileged communication: means a communication made to a psychiatrist or psychologist in connection with the examination, diagnosis, or treatment of a patient, or to another person while the other person is participating in the examination, diagnosis, or treatment or a communication made privileged under other applicable state or federal law. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Prize: means currency or any other valuable compensation or reward offered or given to a contestant. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. Probate: Proving a will Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. Proceeding: includes an application and a petition, and may be an action at law or a suit in equity. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Process boiler: means a boiler that is operated at a pressure or temperature from which more than 10% of the boiler's capacity is used for direct steam humidification or direct process work. See Michigan Laws 339.5903 Process piping: means any piping which is not part of a system designed to provide air conditioning or of a refrigeration system. See Michigan Laws 339.5803 processing: means to separate or otherwise prepare parts of a marihuana plant and to compound, blend, extract, infuse, or otherwise make or prepare marihuana concentrate or marihuana-infused products. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Processor: means a licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that purchases marihuana from a grower and that extracts resin from the marihuana or creates a marihuana-infused product for sale and transfer in packaged form to a provisioning center or another processor. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Producer: means a person required to be licensed under this act to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.503 producer: means an insurance agent or any other person, firm, association, or corporation, when, for any compensation, commission, or other thing of value, the person, firm, association, or corporation acts or aids in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring the making of an insurance contract on behalf of an insured other than the person, firm, association, or corporation. See Michigan Laws 500.1451 Producer: means a person who receives a commission for insurance placed or written or who, on behalf of an insurer or creditor, solicits, negotiates, effects, procures, delivers, renews, continues, or binds policies of insurance to which this chapter applies, but does not include the following:
(i) A regular salaried officer, employee, or other representative of an insurer who devotes substantially all working time to activities other than those specified in this subdivision and who receives no compensation that is directly dependent on the amount of insurance business written. See Michigan Laws 500.1605producer: means insurance producer as defined in section 1201 and includes a business entity described in section 1205(2) that is licensed as an insurance producer under this act. See Michigan Laws 500.4151 Producer: as used in this act means a person who owns, or is entitled to delivery of a share in kind or a share of the monetary proceeds from the sale of, gas or oil as of the time of its production or severance. See Michigan Laws 205.312 Producing mine: means a mineral mine in this state at which a taxpayer is producing 1 or more minerals. See Michigan Laws 211.782 Professional: means an individual who is competing or has competed in unarmed combat for a prize. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Professional conservator: means a person that provides conservatorship services for a fee. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Professional designation: means a certification from a real estate professional association that demonstrates that an individual has attained proven skills or education in a real estate occupational area and may include the right to use a title or letters after the licensee's name that represent the designation awarded by the certifying entity. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Professional employer agreement: means a written contract by and between a client and a PEO that provides for the following:
(i) Coemployment of covered employees. See Michigan Laws 338.3723professional employer organization: means any person engaged in the business of providing professional employer services regardless of its use of a descriptive term other than "professional employer organization" or "PEO". See Michigan Laws 338.3723 Professional engineer: means a person licensed under article 20 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339. See Michigan Laws 338.822 Professional engineer: means a person who, by reason of knowledge of mathematics, the physical sciences, and the principles of engineering, acquired by professional education and practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of professional engineering. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Professional guardian: means a person that provides guardianship services for a fee. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Professional investigator: means a person, other than an insurance adjuster who is on salary and employed by an insurance company, who for a fee, reward, or other consideration engages in the investigation business. See Michigan Laws 338.822 Professional services: means services that require a high degree of intellectual skill, an advanced degree, or professional licensing or certification. See Michigan Laws 141.1633 Professional surveyor: means a person who, by reason of knowledge of law, mathematics, physical sciences, and techniques of measuring acquired by professional education and practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of professional surveying. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Program: means the Michigan work-study program established in section 2. See Michigan Laws 390.1321 Program: means the Michigan education savings program established pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Program: means the industrial hemp program established by this act. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Program: means the individual or family development account program established in section 3. See Michigan Laws 206.902 Program: means the Michigan ABLE savings program established pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 206.982 program: means the comprehensive program implemented in 1991 by the department pursuant to a grant from the federal centers for disease control and prevention to provide certain women with access to life-saving cancer screening services and follow-up care, including cancer treatment if necessary. See Michigan Laws 333.26232 Program manager: means 1 or more entities selected by the treasurer to act as a manager of the program. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Program manager: means an entity selected by the treasurer to act as a manager of 1 or more of the savings plans offered under the program. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Program site: means a charitable organization exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(14) of the internal revenue code that is approved by the agency to implement the individual or family development account program. See Michigan Laws 206.902 Project: means a sewage treatment works project or a nonpoint source project, or both, as defined in part 53 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Project costs: means the total of the reasonable or necessary costs incurred for carrying out the works and undertakings for the acquisition or construction of hospital facilities under this act. See Michigan Laws 331.33 Project costs: means the total of the reasonable or necessary costs incurred for carrying out the acquisition, construction, repair, remodeling, equipping, or re-equipping of health care facilities. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Promise of financial assistance: means a commitment by an eligible entity to provide financial resources for public or private postsecondary education, including a vocational program, to eligible students living in a promise zone and who have graduated from a public high school or nonpublic high school located within that promise zone. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Promise zone: means that area created by a governing body under this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Promise zone development plan: means that plan developed by an authority under this act that will ensure that the financial resources are available to adequately fund the promise of financial assistance. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Promoter: means a person that produces or stages, in whole or in part, an unarmed combat contest or event. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Property: means an animate or inanimate object in a museum's possession or under a museum's care because of that object's artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or cultural value. See Michigan Laws 399.602 property: means the property or interest in property of the testator, intestate, grantor, bargainor, or vendor, passing or transferred to those not specifically exempted from this act, and not as the property or interest in property passing or transferred to the individual legatees, devisees, heirs, next of kin, grantees, donees, or vendees, and includes all property or interest in property whether situated within or without this state and including all property represented or evidenced by note, certificate, stock, land, contract, mortgage or other kind or character of evidence thereof, and regardless of whether that evidence of property is owned, kept or possessed within or without this state. See Michigan Laws 205.221 Property: includes any matter or thing upon or in respect to which an offense may be committed. See Michigan Laws 761.1 property: means 1 of the following:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), all property, real or personal, belonging to the persons, corporations, companies, copartnerships, and associations subject to taxation under this act, including rights-of-way, road beds, stations, cars, rolling stock, tracks, wagons, horses, office furniture, telegraph and telephone poles, wires, conduits, switchboards, all other property used in carrying on their business and owned by them respectively, all other real and personal property, and all franchises. See Michigan Laws 207.5Property: includes land, tenements, real estate, and real property and all rights to and interests in land, tenements, real estate, or real property. See Michigan Laws 207.522 Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, and includes both real and personal property or an interest in real or personal property. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 property having a situs in this state: includes all of the following:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the property, real and personal, of the persons, corporations, companies, copartnerships, and associations subject to taxation under this act, owned, used, and occupied by them within this state, and also the proportion of their rolling stock, cars, and other property used partly within and partly outside of this state as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 207.5Property management: means leasing or renting, or offering to lease or rent, real property of others for a fee, commission, compensation, or other valuable consideration pursuant to a property management employment contract. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Property management account: means an interest-bearing or noninterest-bearing account or instrument used in the operation of property management. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Property management employment contract: means a written agreement that is entered into between a real estate broker and client concerning the real estate broker's employment as a property manager for the client; that describes the real estate broker's duties, responsibilities, and activities as a property manager; and that describes the handling, management, safekeeping, investment, disbursement, and use of property management money, funds, and accounts. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Property title information report: means information regarding matters of public record affecting legal title to real property that satisfies both of the following:
(i) Is provided upon request to a real property owner, a financial institution, a person with a contractual interest in the real property, or to a person licensed under article 25 of the occupational code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 500.7301Proposed historic district: means an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that has delineated boundaries and that is under review by a committee or a standing committee for the purpose of making a recommendation as to whether it should be established as a historic district or added to an established historic district. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Prosthetic device: means , except as provided in section 4ff, a replacement, corrective, or supportive device, other than contact lenses and dental prosthesis, dispensed pursuant to a prescription, including repair or replacement parts for that device, worn on or in the body to do 1 or more of the following:
(i) Artificially replace a missing portion of the body. See Michigan Laws 205.51aProtected cell: means a segregated account established and maintained by a sponsored captive insurance company for 1 participant. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Protected cell: means a segregated account established and maintained by an SPFC for 1 or more SPFC contracts that are part of a single securitization transaction as further provided for in chapter 48. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Protected cell: means an identified pool of assets and liabilities of a protected cell company segregated and insulated by means of this chapter from the remainder of the protected cell company's assets and liabilities. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 Protected cell account: means a specifically identified bank or custodial account established by a protected cell company for the purpose of segregating the protected cell assets of 1 protected cell from the protected cell assets of other protected cells and from the assets of the protected cell company's general account. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 Protected cell assets: means all assets, contract rights, and general intangibles, identified with and attributable to a specific protected cell of a protected cell company. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 Protected cell company: means a domestic insurer or captive insurer that has 1 or more protected cells. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 Protected cell company insurance securitization: means the issuance of debt instruments, the proceeds from which support the exposures attributed to the protected cell, by a protected cell company where repayment of principal or interest, or both, to investors pursuant to the transaction terms is contingent upon the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an event with respect to which the protected cell company is exposed to loss under insurance or reinsurance contracts it has issued. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 Protected cell liabilities: means all liabilities and other obligations identified with and attributable to a specific protected cell of a protected cell company. See Michigan Laws 500.4801 Protected individual: means a minor or other individual for whom a conservator has been appointed or other protective order has been made as provided in part 4 of article V. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Protected premises: means a location at or in which a system user's security alarm system is installed and maintained. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Protective proceeding: means a proceeding under part 4 of article V. See Michigan Laws 700.1106 Provisional registration: means a building official, plan reviewer, or inspector who is registered subject to his or her completion of the amount of training, education, and experience required by the commission and the appropriate advisory board and described in section 1007(2). See Michigan Laws 339.6003 Provisioning center: means a licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that purchases marihuana from a grower or processor and sells, supplies, or provides marihuana to registered qualifying patients, directly or through the patients' registered primary caregivers. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Public access: means the right of a person to view and copy files under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Public and commercial building: means the interior space of a building that is not a school building, a residential apartment building of fewer than 10 units, or a detached single family home. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit. Public entity: means this state or an agency or authority of this state, school district, community college district, intermediate school district, city, village, township, county, land bank, public authority, or public airport authority. See Michigan Laws 338.3353 Public examiner: means an examiner who performs or purports to perform the service of detecting deception or verifying truthfulness exclusively in his or her official capacity as a salaried employee of some agency, county, city, or township of this state. See Michigan Laws 338.1703 Public health code: means the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 Public health code: means 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.26333 Public health plan: means a plan established or maintained by a state, county, or other political subdivision of a state that provides health insurance coverage to individuals enrolled in the plan. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Public high school: means a public school that includes grades 9 to 12 or 10 to 12 and that awards a high school diploma. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Public library: means a library, the whole interests of which belong to the general public, lawfully established for free public purposes by any 1 or more counties, cities, townships, villages, school districts or other local governments or any combination thereof, or by any general or local act, but shall not include a special library such as a professional or technical library or a school library. See Michigan Laws 397.31 Public library: means a library that is lawfully established for free public purposes by 1 or more counties, cities, townships, villages, school districts, or other local governments or a combination thereof, or by a public or local act, the entire interests of which belong to the general public. See Michigan Laws 397.552 Public roads or highways: means a road, street, or place maintained by this state or a political subdivision of this state and generally open to use by the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular travel, notwithstanding that they may be temporarily closed or travel restricted for the purpose of construction, maintenance, repair, or reconstruction. See Michigan Laws 207.211 Public roads or highways: means a road, street, or place maintained by this state or a political subdivision of this state and generally open to use by the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular travel, notwithstanding that they may be temporarily closed or travel is restricted for the purpose of construction, maintenance, repair, or reconstruction. See Michigan Laws 207.1004 Public school: means that term as defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1951 Public school: means a local school district, a local act school district, a public school academy, a university school, or an intermediate school district established under the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 390.1572 Public school: means that term as defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Public university or college: means a university, college, or community college established under section 5, 6, or 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Public-private arrangement: means an agreement between an authority and a private entity that relates to researching, planning, studying, designing, developing, financing, acquiring, constructing, renovating, operating, maintaining, or charging rent or other fees for a convention facility. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Public-private arrangement: means a public-private arrangement authorized under the regional convention facility authority act, 2008 PA 554, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 207.623 Publicly available information: means any information that a licensee has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public from federal, state, or local government records by wide distribution by the media or by disclosures to the general public that are required to be made by federal, state, or local law. See Michigan Laws 500.503 Publicly available information: means any information that a licensee has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public from federal, state, or local government records, by widely distributed media, or by disclosures to the general public that are required to be made by federal, state, or local law. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Purchaser: means a person who makes or is obligated to make advance tuition payments pursuant to an advance tuition payment contract. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 Purchaser: means a person to whom a sale of tangible personal property is made or to whom a service is furnished. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Purchasing group: means a group which meets all of the following:
(i) Has as 1 of its purposes the purchase of liability insurance on a group basis. See Michigan Laws 500.1801Pure captive insurance company: means a company that insures risks of its parent, affiliated companies, controlled unaffiliated businesses, or a combination of its parent, affiliated companies, and controlled unaffiliated businesses. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Purse: means a prize or any other remuneration offered to contestants to compete in a contest or event. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Qualified agricultural property: means that term as defined in section 7dd of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1002 Qualified assessing authority: means 1 of the following:
(i) For a facility other than a homestead facility, the commission. See Michigan Laws 207.772Qualified beneficiary: means any resident of this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 Qualified bond: means a bond that is qualified under this act for state loans as provided in section 16 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 Qualified city: means a city with a population of more than 550,000 according to the most recent decennial census that contains a qualified convention facility. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Qualified city: means a city with a population of more than 170,000 according to the most recent decennial census that is the most populous city in a qualified county. See Michigan Laws 141.1403 Qualified city: means a city with a population of more than 600,000 that is subject to a plan for adjustment. See Michigan Laws 141.1633 qualified city: means that term as defined in section 5 of the regional convention facility authority act, 2008 PA 554, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 207.629 Qualified commercial motor vehicle: means that term as defined in section 1 of the motor carrier fuel tax act, 1980 PA 119, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Qualified convention facility: means a publicly owned convention facility with not less than 600,000 square feet of usable exhibition area and that is located in a qualified city. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Qualified county: means a county that contains a qualified city. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Qualified county: means a county with a population of more than 500,000 according to the most recent decennial census that contains a qualified city, and that is not a charter county or a county with an optional unified form of government. See Michigan Laws 141.1403 Qualified county: means a county that provides public services to a regional airport facility. See Michigan Laws 207.372 Qualified disability expenses: means that term as defined in section 529A of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Qualified downtown revitalization district: means an area located within 1 or more of the following:
(i) The boundaries of a downtown district as defined in section 201 of the recodified tax increment financing act, 2018 PA 57, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 207.772Qualified educational expenses: means tuition and fees required for the enrollment or attendance of a student at an educational institution, and may also include, if provided for in an authority's promise zone development plan, expenses for fees, books, supplies, and equipment required for courses of instruction at that educational institution. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Qualified facility: means a qualified retail food establishment or a building or group of contiguous buildings of commercial property that is 15 years old or older or has been allocated for a new markets tax credit under section 45D of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 45D. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Qualified facility: means a new facility or a rehabilitated facility, located in an attainable housing district. See Michigan Laws 207.902 qualified facility: means a facility, whether owned or leased, that when constructed and placed in service is located in a solar energy district and that uses or will use solar energy as the sole source for the generation of at least 2 megawatts of nameplate capacity, alternating current, including any solar modules, inverter, racks, tracking, on-site battery storage systems if identified in the application pursuant to section 4(1)(a), controls, electric interface, and all components that are positioned up to, and including, the inversion of the current delivered from the facility. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Qualified forest property: means that term as defined in section 7jj of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1032 Qualified health plan: means that term as defined in section 1301 of the affordable care act. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Qualified high-technology business: means a business or facility whose primary business activity is high-technology activity or a qualified high-wage activity. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Qualified high-wage activity: means a business that has an average wage of 300% or more of the federal minimum wage. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Qualified higher education expenses: means qualified higher education expenses as defined in section 529 of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Qualified historic building: means a property within a neighborhood enterprise zone that has been designated a historic resource as defined under section 266 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 207.772 Qualified institution: means any of the following:
(i) An institution of higher education, as that term is defined in 20 USC 1001, located in the United States. See Michigan Laws 390.1602Qualified interpreter: means a person who is certified through the national registry of interpreters for the deaf or certified through the state by the division. See Michigan Laws 393.502 Qualified loan: means a loan made under this act or former 1961 PA 108 from this state to a school district to pay debt service on a qualified bond. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 qualified local governmental unit: means , except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a city, village, township, county, or authority that is located in, or includes within its territory or jurisdiction, a county in which convention hotels are located and that either is the owner or lessee of a convention facility with 350,000 square feet or more of total exhibit space on July 30, 1985 or, if such a convention facility does not exist, will be the owner or lessee of a convention facility with 350,000 square feet or more of total exhibit space through the application of distributions under this section to the purchase or lease of a convention facility. See Michigan Laws 207.629 Qualified local governmental unit: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Qualified local governmental unit: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 207.902 Qualified local governmental unit: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 207.952 Qualified local governmental unit: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Qualified lodging facility: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) Lodging facilities that constitute a portion of a tourism attraction facility and represent less than 50% of the total cost of the tourism attraction facility, or the lodging facilities are to be located on recreational property owned or leased by the municipal, state, or federal government. See Michigan Laws 207.803Qualified metropolitan area: means a geographic area of this state that includes a qualified city, a qualified county, and the 2 counties bordering the qualified county with the largest populations according to the most recent decennial census. See Michigan Laws 141.1355 Qualified new job: means 1 of the following:
(i) A full-time job created by an authorized business at a facility that is in excess of the number of full-time jobs the authorized business maintained in this state prior to the expansion or location, as determined by the authority. See Michigan Laws 207.803Qualified occupational training program: means a career training program approved by the department that meets all of the following:
(i) Provides not less than 150, and not more than 600, clock hours of instructional time over a period of not less than 8 weeks and not more than 15 weeks. See Michigan Laws 390.1713Qualified public library: means any public library which is open to and available to the public at least 10 hours per week or any library which has a contract with a public library board to furnish library services to the public. See Michigan Laws 397.31 Qualified residential facility: means a new residential facility or a rehabilitated residential facility, located in a residential housing district. See Michigan Laws 207.952 Qualified retail food establishment: means property that meets all of the following:
(i) The property will be used primarily as a retail supermarket, grocery store, produce market, or delicatessen that offers unprocessed USDA-inspected meat and poultry products or meat products that carry the USDA organic seal, fresh fruits and vegetables, and dairy products for sale to the public. See Michigan Laws 207.842Qualified school district: means a school district with the same boundaries as a city with a population of 600,000 or more. See Michigan Laws 141.1633 Qualified technical education program: means an educational program that is approved by the board and that has a minimum of 350 contact hours in classroom hands-on training, field training, or supervised plant visits for high pressure boiler operators. See Michigan Laws 339.5903 Qualified training program: means any of the following:
(i) An in-house training program approved by the board and offered to boiler operators and stationary engineers by an employer. See Michigan Laws 339.5903Qualified trust beneficiary: means either of the following:
(i) A trust beneficiary whom the settlor intends to benefit as a material purpose of the trust and to whom 1 or more of the following apply on the date the trust beneficiary's qualification is determined:
(A) The trust beneficiary is a distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal. See Michigan Laws 700.7103Qualified withdrawal: means a distribution that is not subject to a penalty or an excise tax under section 529 of the internal revenue code, a penalty under this act, or taxation under the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Qualifying score: means a score in a reading, writing, mathematics, science, or social studies component of a state assessment test that has been determined by the superintendent of public instruction to indicate readiness to enroll in a course in that subject area in an approved postsecondary educational institution. See Michigan Laws 390.1622 Qualifying score: means a score on a readiness assessment or the Michigan merit examination that has been determined by the superintendent of public instruction to indicate readiness to enroll in a postsecondary course in that subject area under this act. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Qualifying score: means a score on a readiness assessment or on a nationally or industry-recognized job skills assessment test that has been determined by the superintendent of public instruction to indicate readiness to enroll in a course under this act. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Rack: means a mechanism for delivering motor fuel from a refinery, a terminal, or a marine vessel into a railroad tank car, a transport truck, a tank wagon, the fuel supply tank of a marine vessel, or other means of transfer outside of the bulk transfer/terminal system. See Michigan Laws 207.1005 Railroad corporation: means the grand trunk western railroad company, a Michigan corporation. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Railroad history museum: means the Michigan railroad history museum situated in the Durand union station railroad depot and operated under authority of this act. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Railroad history museum advisory board: means the Michigan railroad history museum and information center advisory board created by section 206. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Railroad history museum store: means the retail sales store located in the railroad history museum, as authorized by section 208. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Railroad history museum trust fund: means the Michigan railroad history museum trust fund created by section 209. See Michigan Laws 399.302 Rate: means the cost of insurance per payroll before adjustment for an individual insured's size, exposure, or loss experience. See Michigan Laws 500.2402 Rating period: means the calendar period for which premiums established by a small employer carrier are assumed to be in effect, as determined by the small employer carrier. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Rating system: means every classification, rating plan, merit rating plan, rating values, and manual, containing the rules used by an insurer in the determination of premiums. See Michigan Laws 500.2402 Readiness assessment: means assessment instruments that are aligned with state learning standards; that are used nationally to provide high school students with an early indication of college readiness proficiency in English, mathematics, reading, social studies, and science and may contain a comprehensive career planning program; and that are approved by the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this act. See Michigan Laws 388.513 Readiness assessment: means assessment instruments that are aligned with state learning standards; that are used nationally to provide high school students with an early indication of college readiness proficiency in English, mathematics, reading, social studies, and science and may contain a comprehensive career planning program; and that are approved by the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this act. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 Real estate appraisal services: means the practice of developing an opinion of the value of real property in a manner that conforms with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Real estate broker: means an individual or business entity that, with intent to collect or receive a fee, compensation, or valuable consideration, sells or offers for sale, buys or offers to buy, provides or offers to provide market analyses of, lists or offers or attempts to list, or negotiates the purchase, sale, or exchange of real estate; that negotiates the mortgage of real estate; that negotiates for the construction of a building on real estate; that leases or offers or rents or offers for rent real estate or the improvements on the real estate for others, as a whole or partial vocation; that engages in property management as a whole or partial vocation; that sells or offers for sale, buys or offers to buy, leases or offers to lease, or negotiates the purchase or sale or exchange of a business, business opportunity, or the goodwill of an existing business for others; or that, as owner or otherwise, engages in the sale of real estate as a principal vocation. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Real estate related financial transaction: means any of the following:
(i) A sale, lease, purchase, investment in, or exchange of real property or the financing of real property. See Michigan Laws 339.2601Real estate salesperson: means an individual who for compensation or valuable consideration is employed either directly or indirectly by a licensed real estate broker to sell or offer to sell, buy or offer to buy, provide or offer to provide market analyses of, list or offer or attempt to list, or negotiate the purchase, sale, or exchange of real estate; to negotiate the mortgage of real estate; to negotiate for the construction of a building on real estate, or to lease or offer to lease, or rent or offer for rent, real estate; who is employed by a real estate broker to engage in property management; or who sells or offers for sale, buys or offers to buy, leases or offers to lease, or negotiates the purchase or sale or exchange of a business, business opportunity, or the goodwill of an existing business for others, as a whole or partial vocation. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Real property: means an identified tract or parcel of land, including improvements on that land, as well as any interests, benefits, or rights inherent in the land. See Michigan Laws 339.2601 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Real property: means all or a portion of the real property associated with the institute, more particularly described as follows:
(i) A parcel of land in the NE 1/4 of section 5, T4N, R2W, Ingham County, Michigan and more particularly described as commencing at the northeast corner of said section 5; thence N89°59'49"W 124. See Michigan Laws 333.26333Recapture tax: means the agricultural property recapture tax imposed under this act. See Michigan Laws 211.1002 Recapture tax: means the qualified forest property recapture tax imposed under this act. See Michigan Laws 211.1032 Receiver: means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator, or conservator as the context requires. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Receivership: means the process under this act by which a financial emergency is addressed through the appointment of an emergency manager. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Receivership court: means the court in the insolvent insurer's or impaired insurer's state having jurisdiction over the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business. reciprocal agreement: means a contractual arrangement permitting resident students of a designated state to be admitted to a public institution of higher education in another state at an agreed tuition rate less than normally charged nonresident students of that state. See Michigan Laws 390.501 Reciprocal agreement: means an agreement between this state and a higher education compact or 1 or more other states that allows participating colleges to provide distance education to residents of this state and other member states under this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1692 Reciprocal state: means a state other than this state in which all of the following occurs:
(i) In substance and effect sections 8118(1), 8152, 8153, 8155, 8156, and 8157 are in force. See Michigan Laws 500.8103Recommendation: means advice provided by a producer to an individual consumer that was intended to result or does result in a purchase, exchange, or replacement of an annuity in accordance with that advice. See Michigan Laws 500.4151 Record: means all or part of a writing, as that term is defined in section 2 of the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 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 coach: means a professional who provides assistance to support long-term recovery from a substance use disorder. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Recreational athletic facility: means a gymnasium, fitness center, or health spa that is used or intended to be used to maintain or enhance the physical strength of individuals through the use of free weights or weight lifting machinery. See Michigan Laws 333.26301 Recreational vehicle: means that term as defined in section 49a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Redlining: The alleged practice of certain lending institutions of not making mortgage, home improvement, and small business loans in certain neighborhoods-usually areas that are deteriorating or considered by the lender to be poor investments. Source: OCC Refiner: means a person who owns, operates, or otherwise controls a refinery within the United States. See Michigan Laws 207.1005 Refinery: means a facility used to produce motor fuel from crude oil, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, or other hydrocarbons and from which motor fuel may be removed by pipeline, by marine vessel, or at a rack. See Michigan Laws 207.1005 Refrigeration: means the use of equipment and systems, including, but not limited to, refrigeration piping, employing the refrigeration cycle to generate low temperatures for other than air conditioning equipment and systems. See Michigan Laws 339.5803 Regenerative hydraulic drive system: means a system that captures energy from nonparasitic vehicle sources or energy wasted by a vehicle's brakes or suspension to be released to directly assist vehicle propulsion or directly propel the vehicle. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Regional airport facility: means an airport that services 4,000,000 or more enplanements annually. See Michigan Laws 207.372 Regional assessment district: means a region of this state composed of a number of counties in which a regional marketing organization operates. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Regional marketing organization: means a nonprofit corporation that promotes tourism within a region of this state. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Regional transit authority: means an authority created under the regional transit authority act. See Michigan Laws 247.660c Registered: means a building official, plan reviewer, inspector, fire protection system inspector, or fire protection system plan reviewer who is registered under this article. See Michigan Laws 339.6003 Registered distance learning corporation: means a distance learning corporation incorporated under the nonprofit act and registered under this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1572 Registered nurse: means a person licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 333.1032 Registered primary caregiver: means that term as defined in section 102 of the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27902 Registered primary caregiver: means a primary caregiver who has been issued a current registry identification card under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Registered professional nurse: means that term as defined in section 17201 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 390.1182 Registered qualifying patient: means a qualifying patient who has been issued a current registry identification card under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act or a visiting qualifying patient as that term is defined in section 3 of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Registered qualifying patient: means that term as defined in section 102 of the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27902 Registering entity: means a person who originates or transfers a security title by registration, and includes a broker maintaining security accounts for customers and a transfer agent or other person acting for or as an issuer of securities. See Michigan Laws 700.6301 Registrant: means a person that is registered by the department as a system provider. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Registration: means a registration that is issued by the department. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Registration: means a grower registration granted under this act. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Registration fee: means a fee other than the fee specified in a contract, which a personnel agency requires or accepts from a client prior to execution of a contract. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 Registry identification card: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Registry identification card: means a document issued by the marijuana regulatory agency that identifies a person as a registered qualifying patient or registered primary caregiver. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Registry identification card: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.27902 Regulated occupation: means an occupation, profession, or vocation that requires a license as a predicate for the practice of the occupation, profession, or vocation or that provides for the use of a specific title in the practice of the occupation, profession, or vocation. See Michigan Laws 338.3432 Regulated occupation: means an occupation, profession, or vocation that requires a license as a predicate for the practice of the occupation, profession, or vocation or that provides for the use of a specific title or professional designation in the practice of the occupation, profession, or vocation. See Michigan Laws 338.3702 Regulatory testing facility: means a laboratory that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is registered with the DEA. See Michigan Laws 333.29103Rehabilitated facility: means , except as otherwise provided in section 2a, an existing structure or a portion of an existing structure with a current true cash value of $120,000. See Michigan Laws 207.772 Rehabilitated facility: means existing attainable housing property that has been renovated, with a renovation investment of not less than $5,000. See Michigan Laws 207.902 Rehabilitated residential facility: means existing residential housing property that has been renovated, with a renovation investment of not less than $50,000. See Michigan Laws 207.952 Rehabilitation: means changes to a qualified facility that are required to restore or modify the property, together with all appurtenances, to an economically efficient condition. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Reinstatement: means the granting of a license or registration, with or without limitations or conditions, to a person whose license or registration has been revoked. See Michigan Laws 339.402 Reinsurance intermediary: means a reinsurance intermediary-broker or a reinsurance intermediary-manager. See Michigan Laws 500.1151 Reinsurance intermediary-broker: means any person, other than an officer or employee of the ceding insurer, who solicits, negotiates, or places reinsurance cessions or retrocessions on behalf of a ceding insurer without the authority or power to bind reinsurance on behalf of that insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.1151 Reinsurance intermediary-manager: means any person who has authority to bind or manages all or part of the assumed reinsurance business of a reinsurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office, and acts as an agent for the reinsurer whether known as a reinsurance intermediary-manager, manager, or other similar term. See Michigan Laws 500.1151 Reinsurer: means any person duly authorized in this state pursuant to the applicable provisions of this act as an insurer with the authority to assume reinsurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1151 Related wiring: means any of the following:
(i) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraphs (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv), that portion of the electric sign wiring that originates at the load-side terminals of a disconnecting means located in the vicinity of the electric sign involved but does not include the installation of the disconnecting means, complete with line-side connections. See Michigan Laws 339.5703Release: means any intentional or unintentional spilling, leaking, pumping, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, disposing, or placing of waste into the environment, except in compliance with all of the following:
(i) Part 137. See Michigan Laws 333.26202Relicensure: means the granting of a license to a person whose license has lapsed for failure to renew the license within 60 days after the expiration date. See Michigan Laws 339.402 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. Remediate: means an activity that transitions noncompliant industrial hemp into industrial hemp that is in compliance with this act and the rules promulgated under this act under section 407. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Remodeling: shall mean the alteration, construction or remodeling of partitions, hallways, stairways and means of egress, the replacement, relocation or reconstruction of heating, ventilating and sanitary equipment. See Michigan Laws 388.851a Remote retail sale: means a sale of a tobacco product to a consumer in this state if either of the following applies:
(i) The consumer submits the order for the sale by means of a telephone or other method of voice transmission, the mail, or the internet or other online service, or the seller is otherwise not in the physical presence of the purchaser when the request for purchase or order is made. See Michigan Laws 205.422Removal: means the taking out or stripping of asbestos or asbestos-containing material from an existing structure. See Michigan Laws 388.861 Removal: means the taking out or stripping of asbestos from an existing structure. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 removed: means a physical transfer other than by evaporation, loss, or destruction of motor fuel from a terminal, manufacturing plant, customs custody, pipeline, marine vessel, or refinery that stores motor fuel. See Michigan Laws 207.1005 Renewable fuels: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) Biodiesel or biodiesel blends containing at least 20% biodiesel. See Michigan Laws 207.822Renovation: means the removal or stripping of friable asbestos materials used on any pipe, duct, boiler, tank, reactor, turbine, furnace, or structural member. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Rental price: means the total amount of the consideration for renting qualified heavy equipment rental personal property, excluding any separately stated charges, fees, and costs, such as delivery and pickup fees, damage waivers, environmental mitigation fees, sales or use taxes, or insurance. See Michigan Laws 211.1123 Reorganization of school districts: means the formation of new school districts, the alteration of boundaries of established school districts, and the dissolution or disorganization of established school districts through or by means of any one or combination of the methods as set forth in this act. See Michigan Laws 388.681 Repair: means to restore a decayed or damaged resource to a good or sound condition by any process. See Michigan Laws 399.201a replace: means a transaction in which a new annuity is to be purchased, and it is known or should be known to the proposing producer, or to the proposing insurer whether or not a producer is involved, that by reason of the transaction, an existing annuity or other insurance policy has been or is to be any of the following:
(i) Lapsed, forfeited, surrendered or partially surrendered, assigned to the replacing insurer, or otherwise terminated. See Michigan Laws 500.4151Replacement construction: means that term as defined in section 34d(1)(b)(v) of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Report: means the financial disclosure report required under section 10 of article IV of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Report: when used with reference to an attest or compilation service, means an opinion, report, or other form of language that states or implies assurance as to the reliability of attested information or compiled financial statements and that also includes, or is accompanied by, any statement or implication that the individual or firm issuing it has special knowledge or competence in accounting or auditing. See Michigan Laws 339.720 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). Reporting period: means the preceding calendar year. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Reporting periods: means the quarterly periods ending on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 for which a qualified renter must report and remit the tax collected under this act. See Michigan Laws 211.1123 Reregistration: means the granting of a registration to a person whose registration has lapsed for failure to renew the registration within 60 days after the expiration date. See Michigan Laws 339.402 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. Reserve: means all items of benefit liability, whether in the nature of incurred claim liability or in the nature of contract liability relating to future periods of coverage, and whether the liability is accrued or unaccrued. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Reserve fund: means a bond reserve fund or note reserve fund created and established under section 16. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Reserves: means that term as used in chapter 8. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Residence: means the dwelling that the patient considers to be his or her home. See Michigan Laws 333.26283 Resident: means an individual leasing and residing in a housing-with-services establishment. See Michigan Laws 333.26502 Resident: means a person who resides in this state at the time a member insurer is determined to be an impaired insurer or insolvent insurer and to whom contractual obligations are owed. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Resident: means that term as defined in section 18 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Resident trainee: means an individual who is engaged in learning the practice of embalming or funeral directing or the practice of mortuary science under the instruction and personal supervision of a holder of a license for the practice of mortuary science in this state. See Michigan Laws 339.1801 Residential builder: means any of the following:
(i) A person engaged in the construction of a residential structure that, for a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, valuable consideration, or other compensation, other than wages for personal labor only, undertakes with another or offers to undertake, or purports to have the capacity to undertake with another, for the erection, construction, replacement, repair, alteration, or addition to, subtraction from, improvement, wrecking of, or demolition of, a residential structure. See Michigan Laws 339.2401Residential housing property: means that portion of real property not occupied by an owner of that real property, that is used for residential purposes, is rented or leased to an income-qualified household at no more than 30% of the household's modified household income as determined by the qualified local governmental unit, and is either a multiple-unit dwelling of more than 4 units or a dwelling unit in a multiple-purpose structure of more than 4 dwelling units. See Michigan Laws 207.952 Residential maintenance and alteration contractor: means a person that, for a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, valuable consideration, or other compensation, other than wages for personal labor only, does any of the following:
(i) Undertakes with another for the repair, alteration, or addition to, subtraction from, improvement of, wrecking of, or demolition of a residential structure, or building of a garage, or laying of concrete on residential property. See Michigan Laws 339.2401Residential real property: means real property used as a residence containing a dwelling that has not more than 4 living units. See Michigan Laws 339.2601 Residential services: means 24-hour dependent care and treatment services provided by adult foster care facilities under contract to the department or a community mental health services program or provided directly by a community mental health services program. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 Residential structure: means 1 or both of the following:
(i) A detached 1- or 2-family dwelling and all related facilities appurtenant to that dwelling, used or intended to be used as an adjunct of residential occupancy. See Michigan Laws 339.2401resolution: when used in relation to the issuance of bonds, means either the resolution or trust agreement securing the bonds. See Michigan Laws 390.1152 Resource: means 1 or more publicly or privately owned historic or nonhistoric buildings, structures, sites, objects, features, or open spaces located within a historic district. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Respite care: means providing short-term relief to primary caregivers from the demands of ongoing care for an individual whose health and welfare would be jeopardized if left unattended. See Michigan Laws 333.26522 Respondent: means the individual who is the subject of a petition for guardianship filed under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 330.1600 Respondent: means the service provider that had responsibility at the time of an alleged rights violation for the services with respect to which a rights complaint has been filed. See Michigan Laws 330.1772 Respondent: means a person against whom a complaint has been filed who may be a person who is or is required to be licensed or registered under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.501a Respondent: means a licensee or other person against which a complaint is filed under this act. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Responsible party: means a person who is financially liable for services furnished to the individual. See Michigan Laws 330.1800 Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Restraint: means the use of a physical device to restrict an individual's movement. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Restricted use chlorofluorocarbon compound: means a chlorofluorocarbon compound and those related nonhydrogenated chlorofluorocarbons with similar physical and chemical properties, which the department finds is likely to contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer and by virtue of this depletion creates a present or future risk of harmful effects to human beings or other forms of life. See Michigan Laws 336.101 Restructured corporation: means a corporation that has completed the process described in section 305a. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Restructured subsidiary corporation: means a subsidiary corporation that has completed the process described in section 305a. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Resulting insurer: means a domestic stock insurer created by a division or a dividing insurer that survives a division. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Resume writing service: means a person who provides professional assistance to an applicant in compiling a resume by assembling relevant data, organizing it in writing, and providing copies to the applicant for a fee. See Michigan Laws 339.1001 resuscitate: means perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a component of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(i) Cardiac compression. See Michigan Laws 333.1052Retail diesel dealer: means a person who sells or distributes diesel fuel to an end user in this state. See Michigan Laws 207.1005 retail sale: means a sale, lease, or rental of tangible personal property for any purpose other than for resale, sublease, or subrent. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Retailer: means a person other than a transportation company who operates a place of business in this state, or who directs, manages, or has control over the day-to-day operations of a place of business in this state, for the purpose of making, or who does make, sales of a tobacco product at retail other than a remote retail sale. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Retained jobs: means the number of full-time jobs at a facility of an authorized business maintained in this state on a specific date as that date and number of jobs is determined by the authority. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Retirement system: means the Michigan public school employees' retirement system under the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38. See Michigan Laws 388.1802a Retirement systems: means the police and fire retirement system of the city of Detroit and the general retirement system of the city of Detroit. See Michigan Laws 141.1603 Revenues: means the income derived from the excise tax, plus interest and penalties imposed by this act, levied and assessed under an ordinance adopted pursuant to this act. See Michigan Laws 141.861 Revenues: means all fees, charges, money, profits, payments of principal of or interest on municipal obligations and other investments, gifts, grants, contributions, and all other income derived or to be derived by the authority under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 Review team: means a review team appointed under section 4. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Revised notice: means the privacy notice required in section 525. See Michigan Laws 500.503 revised school code: means the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 380.1895 Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust). Revolving 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 open-end credit.) Source: OCC Revolving loan fund: means the school loan revolving fund created under section 16c of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 Right of offset: Banks' legal right to seize funds that a guarantor or debtor may have on deposit to cover a loan in default. It is also known as the right of set-off. Source: OCC Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners. Rights complaint: means a written or oral statement that meets the requirements of section 776. See Michigan Laws 330.1772 Risk assessment: means the risk assessment that each licensee is required to conduct under section 555(3). See Michigan Laws 500.553 Risk retention group: means a corporation or other limited liability association which meets all of the following criteria:
(i) Is either of the following:
(A) Chartered in a state. See Michigan Laws 500.1801Roll-your-own cigarette tobacco: means any tobacco that, because of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling, is suitable for use and likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as tobacco for making cigarettes. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Room: means a room or other space provided for sleeping that can be rented independently, including the furnishings and other accessories in the room. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Room: means a room or other space provided for sleeping, including the furnishings and other accessories in the room. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Room: means a room or other space provided for sleeping that can be rented independently, including the furnishings and other accessories in the room. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Room: means a room or other space provided for sleeping, including the furnishings and other accessories in the room. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Room: means a room or other space provided for sleeping, including the furnishings and other accessories in the room. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Room: means a room or other space provided for sleeping, including the furnishings and other accessories in the room. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Room charge: means the charge imposed for the use or occupancy of a room, excluding charges for food, beverages, state use tax, telephone service, or like services paid in connection with the charge, and excluding reimbursement of the assessment imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Room charge: means the charge imposed for the use or occupancy of a room, excluding charges for food, beverages, state use tax, telephone service or like services paid in connection with the charge, and reimbursement of the assessment imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Room charge: means the charge imposed for the use or occupancy of a room, excluding charges for food, beverages, state use tax, telephone service, or like services paid in connection with the room charge, and reimbursement of the assessment as allowed in section 6. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Room charge: means the charge imposed for the use or occupancy of a room, excluding charges for food, beverages, state use tax, telephone service or like services paid in connection with the charge, and reimbursement of the assessment imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Room charge: means the charge imposed for the use or occupancy of a room, excluding charges for food, beverages, state use tax, telephone service or like services paid in connection with the charge, and reimbursement of the assessment imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Room charge: means the charge imposed for the use or occupancy of a room, excluding charges for food, beverages, state use tax, telephone service, or like services paid in connection with the charge, and reimbursement of the assessment imposed by this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Room charge: means the charge imposed for the use or occupancy of accommodations, excluding charges for food, beverages, telephone services, the use tax imposed under the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 207.623 Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 397.12 Rule: means a rule promulgated under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Rule: means a rule promulgated under the administrative procedures act of 1969. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Rules: means all rules, regulations, or resolutions adopted by a society's supreme governing body or board of directors that are intended to have general application to the members of the society. See Michigan Laws 500.8161 Rules: means rules promulgated under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Rural business: means an eligible business located in a county with a population of 90,000 or less. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Rural development fund: means the rural development fund created in section 5 of the rural development fund act. See Michigan Laws 211.782 Rural road: means a highway as that term is defined in section 20 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 247.401 Safety compliance facility: means a licensee that is a commercial entity that takes marihuana from a marihuana facility or receives marihuana from a registered primary caregiver, tests the marihuana for contaminants and for tetrahydrocannabinol and other cannabinoids, returns the test results, and may return the marihuana to the marihuana facility. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Sale: means a transaction by which the ownership of tangible personal property is transferred for consideration and applies also to use, gifts, exchanges, barter, and theft. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Sales price: means the total amount of consideration, including cash, credit, property, and services, for which tangible personal property or services are sold, leased, or rented, valued in money, whether received in money or otherwise, and applies to the measure subject to sales tax. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Sales tax: means the tax levied under the general sales tax act, 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Sales tax: means the tax levied under the general sales tax act. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Salesperson: means an employee or agent, other than a qualifying officer, of a licensed residential builder or residential maintenance and alteration contractor, who for a salary, wage, fee, percentage, commission, or other consideration, sells or attempts to sell, negotiates or attempts to negotiate, solicits for or attempts to solicit for, obtains or attempts to obtain a contract or commitment for, or furnishes or attempts or agrees to furnish, the goods and services of a residential builder or residential maintenance and alteration contractor, except an individual working for a licensed residential builder or residential maintenance and alteration contractor who makes sales that are occasional and incidental to the individual's principal employment. See Michigan Laws 339.2401 School: means a nonpublic school or a public school as those terms are defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 School: means a private or public elementary or secondary institution of learning including grades kindergarten through 12. See Michigan Laws 338.3402 School: means a public school or nonpublic school as those terms are defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 380.1903 School board: means the governing body of a school district. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 School building: means 1 or more of the following at a school:
(i) A structure suitable for use as a classroom, including a school laboratory, library, eating facility, or food preparation facility. See Michigan Laws 338.3402School buildings: shall include all buildings used for school purposes. See Michigan Laws 388.851a School code: means Act No. See Michigan Laws 388.681 School district: means a school district as that term is defined in section 6 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 School district: means that term as defined in section 6 of the revised school code, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 380.1895 School district: means that term as defined in section 6 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.513 School district: means a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy, as those terms are defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1293 School district: means that term as defined in section 6 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 School district: means a general powers school district organized under the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 School district: means that term as defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 School district: means 1 of the following but does not include a primary school district or a school district that holds meetings rather than elections:
(i) "Local act school district" as defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 397.172School fiscal year: means a fiscal year that commences July 1 and continues through June 30. See Michigan Laws 388.1951 School loan act: means an act to implement section 16 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, including, but not limited to, former 1961 PA 108, 1961 PA 112, MCL 388. See Michigan Laws 141.1053 School of cosmetology: means a school that teaches 1 or more cosmetology services at a premises designated in the license application. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Scope criteria: means , as detailed in the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework, the designated exposure bases and their minimum magnitudes for a specified data year that are used to establish a preliminary list of insurers considered scoped into the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework for that data year. See Michigan Laws 500.1301 seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
(a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3nSEC: means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. See Michigan Laws 500.1001 Seclusion: means the temporary placement of a recipient in a room, alone, where egress is prevented by any means. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Secondary wholesaler: means either of the following:
(i) A person, other than a manufacturer or a person licensed under this act as a vending machine operator, wholesaler, or unclassified acquirer, who engages in the sale of a tobacco product for resale. See Michigan Laws 205.422Secretary: means the secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Secure transporter: means a licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that stores marihuana and transports marihuana between marihuana facilities for a fee. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Secured claim: means a claim secured by mortgage, trust deed, pledge, deposit as security, escrow, or otherwise, but not including a special deposit claim or claim against general assets. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Securities: means those different types of debt obligations, equity, surplus certificates, surplus notes, funding agreements, derivatives, and other legal forms of financial instruments. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Securities commissioner: means the securities administrator in the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Security: means a share, participation, or other interest in property, in a business, or in an obligation of an enterprise or other issuer, and includes a certificated security, uncertificated security, and security account. See Michigan Laws 700.6301 Security: includes , but is not limited to, a note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under such a title or lease, collateral trust certificate, transferable share, voting trust certificate, or interest in a regulated investment company or other entity generally referred to as a mutual fund or, in general, an interest or instrument commonly known as a security, or a certificate of interest or participation for, a temporary or interim certificate, receipt, or certificate of deposit for, or any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the items listed in this subdivision. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 Security account: includes all of the following:
(i) A reinvestment account associated with a security. See Michigan Laws 700.6301Security alarm system: means a detection device or an assembly of equipment and devices that is arranged to signal the presence of a hazard that requires urgent attention and is remotely monitored by a central monitoring system. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Security alarm system: means a detection device or an assembly of equipment and devices that transmits signals to a central monitoring station and is arranged to signal the presence of a hazard that requires urgent attention or to which police are expected to respond. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 Security alarm system agent: means an individual employed by a security alarm system contractor whose duties include the altering, installing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing, monitoring, responding to, or causing others to respond to a security alarm system. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Security alarm system contractor: means a person engaged in the installation, maintenance, alteration, monitoring, or servicing of security alarm systems or who responds to a security alarm system. See Michigan Laws 338.1052 Security business: means a person engaged in offering, arranging, or providing 1 or more of the following services:
(i) Security alarm system installation, service, maintenance, alteration, or monitoring. See Michigan Laws 338.1052self-consumption: means production for personal consumption or use and not for sale, resale, or any other profit-making endeavor. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurance company. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurance company. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Seller: means any person who sells, leases, or rents tangible personal property or services to another person. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Sentencing guidelines: A set of rules and principles established by the United States Sentencing Commission that trial judges use to determine the sentence for a convicted defendant. Source: U.S. Courts Separate account: means a separate account established pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to the corresponding section of the insurance laws of the state of domicile of a foreign or alien insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.4101 Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations. Service academy: means the United States military academy, United States naval academy, United States air force academy, United States coast guard academy, or United States merchant marine academy. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Service academy: means the United States military academy, United States naval academy, United States air force academy, United States coast guard academy, or United States merchant marine academy. See Michigan Laws 390.1622 Service area: means a defined geographical area in which covered health services are generally available and readily accessible to enrollees and where health maintenance organizations may market their contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.3501 Service area: means that term as defined in section 3501, unless the context requires otherwise. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party. Service provider: means a person or entity that provides a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet or a computer network. See Michigan Laws 388.1293 Service provision agreement: means a buyer agency agreement or listing agreement that is executed by a real estate broker and a client and establishes an agency relationship. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Services: means professional service offered or provided by an architect in the practice of architecture, a professional engineer in the practice of professional engineering, or a professional surveyor in the practice of professional surveying. See Michigan Laws 339.2001 Services: means any action taken on behalf of any consumer for the benefit of that consumer or another individual regarding the immigrant status, nonimmigrant status, or citizenship status of any consumer or other individual, and includes, but is not limited to, the following:
(i) Transcribing responses onto government agency forms on behalf of a consumer relating to an immigration matter. See Michigan Laws 338.3453Servicing: means the maintenance, repair, and servicing of previously installed equipment and systems. See Michigan Laws 339.5803 Settlement: means an agreement, stipulation, consent order, waiver, default, or other method of settlement of a complaint that is agreed to by the parties and the department. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 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. Settlement: means , in reference to a decedent's estate, the full process of administration, distribution, and closing. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 Settlor: means a person, including a testator or a trustee, who creates a trust. See Michigan Laws 700.7103 severance tax: means the specific tax levied under section 4. See Michigan Laws 211.782 Sexually explicit matter: means that term as defined in section 3 of 1978 PA 33, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 397.602 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 person in whose name a share is registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of a share to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Shipments: means deliveries in gross tons of underground ore from an ore property to a beneficiating facility, to an agglomerating facility, or to market, unless otherwise expressly stated. See Michigan Laws 207.271 shipping case: means an individual receptacle within which a tobacco product or group of tobacco products is placed for shipment, storage, or distribution, such as a box, case, or tote. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Sign specialist: means an individual who, as his or her principal occupation, is engaged in the installation, alteration, or repair of electric signs. See Michigan Laws 339.5703 Sign specialty contractor: means a person that is engaged in the business of manufacturing, installing, maintaining, connecting, or repairing electric sign wiring or devices, including wiring that is directly related to electric signs and is electrically dedicated as a sign circuit. See Michigan Laws 339.5703 Sign specialty licensure: means licensure as a sign specialist or sign specialty contractor. See Michigan Laws 339.5703 signature: includes a manual, facsimile, conformed, or electronic signature. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Single interest insurance: means insurance purchased by the creditor to insure its interest in the collateral securing a debtor's credit transaction where the following 3 conditions must be met for payment of loss under the policy:
(i) The debtor has defaulted in payment. See Michigan Laws 500.1605Site characterization: means the site specific investigation of a candidate site undertaken pursuant to section 12. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Site closure and stabilization: means the actions taken at the disposal site during the time period after the closure of the disposal unit during which on-site low-level radioactive waste is disposed in accordance with part 137, equipment is dismantled, decontaminated, removed for reuse or disposed of, and radioactive residues are removed from, or properly isolated on, the disposal site in preparation for transfer of ownership of the disposal site to the federal government. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Skilled nursing facility: means a facility, or a distinct part of a facility, certified by the department of community health to provide skilled nursing care. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Skin care services: includes the following services or combination of services:
(i) Beautifying the skin of the body of an individual by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams, including body wrapping. See Michigan Laws 339.1201Small employer: means any person actively engaged in business that, on at least 50% of its working days during the preceding and current calendar years, employed not fewer than 2 and not more than 50 eligible employees. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Small employer carrier: means a carrier that offers health benefit plans covering the employees of a small employer. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Small-scale: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) A single energy system with a generating capacity of not more than 2 megawatts or an integrated energy system with a generating capacity of not more than 10 megawatts. See Michigan Laws 207.822Smoke alarm: means a single-station or multiple-station alarm responsive to smoke and not connected to a system. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Smokeless tobacco: means snuff, snus, chewing tobacco, moist snuff, and any other tobacco that is intended to be used or consumed, whether chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested, by any means other than smoking or combustion. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Snowmobile: means that term as defined in section 82101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 777.1 Social security act: means the social security act, 42 USC 301 to 1397mm. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 solar vehicle: means a motor vehicle powered solely by a photovoltaic energy system. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Sole ownership: The type of property ownership in which one individual holds legal title to the property and has full control of it. Solicit: means any contact with a specific consumer by an immigration clerical assistant or his or her agent, representative, or employee about providing services, for compensation, regarding an immigration matter. See Michigan Laws 338.3453 Solicit: means attempting to sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular company. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 Solicit: means attempting to sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular company. See Michigan Laws 500.1261 Source state: means the state, Canadian province or territory, or foreign country from which motor fuel is imported. See Michigan Laws 207.1005 South Haven: means the city of South Haven, a home rule city situated in Van Buren county. See Michigan Laws 399.302 SOX compliant entity: means an entity that either is required to be compliant with, or voluntarily is compliant with, all of the following provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002 and the regulations promulgated under that act:
(i) The preapproval requirements of section 201, section 10A(i) of the securities exchange act of 1934, 15 USC 78j-1. See Michigan Laws 500.1001Special assessment: means an assessment against real property calculated on a benefit or ad valorem basis for curb and gutter, sidewalk, sewer, water, or street paving; a drain; a connection fee or similar charge for a sewer or water system; or the land contract on a parcel of property acquired under the circumstances set forth in section 3(2). See Michigan Laws 211.761 Special deposit claim: means a claim secured by a deposit made pursuant to statute for the security or benefit of a limited class or classes of persons, but not including a claim secured by general assets. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Special purpose captive insurance company: means a captive insurance company that is authorized under this chapter and chapter 47 that does not meet the definition of any other type of captive insurance company defined in this section. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 specific tax: means the specific tax levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 207.902 specific tax: means the specific tax levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 207.952 specific tax: means the specific tax levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Spendthrift provision: means a term of a trust that restrains either the voluntary or involuntary transfer of a trust beneficiary's interest. See Michigan Laws 700.7103 SPFC contract: means a contract between the SPFC and the counterparty pursuant to which the SPFC agrees to provide insurance or reinsurance protection to the counterparty for risks associated with the counterparty's insurance or reinsurance business. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 SPFC securities: means the securities issued pursuant to an insurance securitization, the proceeds of which are used in the manner described in subdivision (i). See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Sponsor: means an entity that meets the requirements of section 4665 and is approved by the director to provide all or part of the capital and retained earnings required by applicable law and to organize and operate a sponsored captive insurance company. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Sponsor: means a person that represents to the public that the courses it conducts for purposes of this article fulfill the requirements of section 2504a for continuing education. See Michigan Laws 339.2501 Sponsored captive insurance company: means a captive insurance company in which the minimum capital and retained earnings required by applicable law is provided by 1 or more sponsors, that is authorized under this chapter, that insures the risks of separate participants through the participant contract, and that segregates each participant's liability through 1 or more protected cells. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Spouse: means an individual who is lawfully married to a candidate for office as described under 26 C. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Stadium: means a facility, including necessary sites, related parking lots or structures, and appurtenant properties and facilities, that is intended to provide space for any of the following:
(i) A professional baseball franchise, if the facility itself contains not less than 25,000 seats and is located in the downtown area of the most populous city in the eligible county. See Michigan Laws 207.751Stamp: means a distinctive character, indication, or mark, as determined by the department, attached or affixed to an individual package of cigarettes by mechanical device or other means authorized by the department to indicate that the tax imposed under this act has been paid. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Stamping agent: means a wholesaler or unclassified acquirer who is licensed and authorized by the department to affix stamps to individual packages of cigarettes on behalf of themselves and other wholesalers or unclassified acquirers. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Standing committee: means a permanent body established by the legislative body of a local unit under section 14 to conduct the activities of a historic district study committee on a continuing basis. See Michigan Laws 399.201a State: means any state of the United States or the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 500.1801 State: means a state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or a United States possession, territory, or protectorate. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 State: means a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 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: means any state of the United States or the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 205.803 State accident fund: means the state accident fund created pursuant to the worker's disability compensation act of 1969, Act No. See Michigan Laws 500.5100 State administrative board: means the state administrative board created under 1921 PA 2, MCL 17. See Michigan Laws 333.26333 State agency: means any department, agency or instrumentality of the state or of a political subdivision of the state; a combination thereof or a corporation within the state which has the power of eminent domain. See Michigan Laws 213.321 State approved nonpublic school: means that term as defined in section 6 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.513 State approved nonpublic school: means that term as defined in section 6 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 State assessment test: means any of the following:
(i) Subject to subparagraph (ii), the complete Michigan merit examination described in section 1279g of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 390.1622State authority: means the hospital finance authority created by this act. See Michigan Laws 331.33 State board: means the state board of education. See Michigan Laws 395.82 State committee: means the state committee for the reorganization of school districts created in this act. See Michigan Laws 388.681 State construction code: means the rules promulgated by the state construction code commission under section 4 of the Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 State education tax: means the tax levied under the state education tax act, 1993 PA 331, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 State equalized valuation of real and personal property of the municipality: means the valuation determined under 1911 PA 44, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 141.931 State facility: means state owned real property associated with buildings primarily used for office purposes, state prisons, or hospitals, institutions of higher education, and state owned real and inventory personal property associated with a state proprietary function, the inventory personal property of which shall be valued on the basis of the average monthly inventory for the preceding state fiscal year. See Michigan Laws 141.951 State financial authority: means the following:
(i) For a municipal government, the state treasurer. See Michigan Laws 141.1542State institution of higher education: means a public community or junior college established under section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963 or part 25 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 State institution of higher education: means a public community or junior college established under section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963 or part 25 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 State institution of higher education: means a college or university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963 or any 4-year degree-granting institution established by the state after the effective date of this act, which institution is designated by the state as a state institution of higher education for purposes of this act. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 State librarian: means the department. See Michigan Laws 397.172 State license: means a license issued by the cannabis regulatory agency that allows a person to operate a marihuana establishment. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 State licensed real estate appraiser: means an individual who is licensed under section 2610 to appraise real property, including, but not limited to, residential and nonresidential real property involving federally related transactions and real estate related financial transactions. See Michigan Laws 339.2601 State treasurer: means the state treasurer of this state or his or her designee who is designated by a written instrument signed by the state treasurer and maintained in a permanent file and whose signature has the same force and effect as the signature of the state treasurer for all purposes under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1603 State treasurer: means the treasurer of this state or his or her designee who shall be designated by a written instrument signed by the state treasurer and maintained in a permanent file and whose signature shall have the same force and effect as the signature of the state treasurer for all purposes under this act. See Michigan Laws 141.1633 state treasurer: means the state treasurer or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 388.981 State treasurer: means the state treasurer or his or her duly authorized designee. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 State university: means a state institution of higher education described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 388.513 State university: means a state institution of higher education described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 388.1903 State university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 388.1951 Statement: includes , but is not limited to, any notice statement, proof of loss, bill of lading, receipt for payment, invoice, account, estimate of property damages, bill for services, claim form, diagnosis, prescription, hospital or doctor record, X-rays, test result, or other evidence of loss, injury, or expense. See Michigan Laws 500.4501 Statewide tax base growth rate: means the total state equalized valuation for real and personal property for the most recent year for which data is available divided by the total state equalized valuation for the fifth year preceding the most recent year for which data is available. See Michigan Laws 141.931 station: means an apparatus that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is connected to customer site piping. See Michigan Laws 380.1903Stationary engine: means a temporary or permanently affixed engine designed and used to supply power primarily for agricultural or construction work. See Michigan Laws 207.1005 stationary engineer: means an individual who is engaged in the operation of boilers and associated auxiliaries. See Michigan Laws 339.5901 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights. steerer: means a person who receives a pecuniary or other benefit from a practitioner, whether directly or indirectly, for procuring or attempting to procure a client, patient, or customer at the direction or request of, or in cooperation with, a practitioner whose intent is to obtain benefits under a contract of insurance or to assert a claim against an insured or an insurer for providing services to the client, patient, or customer. See Michigan Laws 500.4501 Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act: means 1972 PA 230, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Stirling cycle energy system: means a closed-cycle, regenerative heat engine that is fueled solely by a clean fuel and uses an external combustion process, heat exchangers, pistons, a regenerator, and a confined working gas, such as hydrogen or helium, to convert heat into mechanical energy. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Strong mayor: means a mayor who has been granted veto power for any purpose under the charter of that local government. See Michigan Laws 141.1542 Strong mayor approval: means approval of a resolution under 1 of the following conditions:
(i) The strong mayor approves the resolution. See Michigan Laws 141.1542Structural member: means any load-supporting member, including, but not limited to, beams and load-supporting walls, or any nonsupporting member, including, but not limited to, ceilings and nonload-supporting walls. See Michigan Laws 338.3103 Structured settlement annuity: means an annuity purchased in order to fund periodic payments for a plaintiff or other claimant in payment for or with respect to personal injury suffered by the plaintiff or other claimant. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Student: means a person who is enrolled or accepted for enrollment at an eligible institution and who is making suitable progress in his or her education toward obtaining a degree or other appropriate certification in accordance with standards acceptable to the authority. See Michigan Laws 390.1152 Student: means a person learning the theory and practice of serving as a barber. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Student: means an individual who is engaged in learning cosmetology or 1 or more cosmetology services in a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201 Student athlete: means a person who engages in, is eligible to engage in, or may be eligible to engage in any intercollegiate sporting event, contest, exhibition, or program. See Michigan Laws 390.1501 Student instructor: means a person learning the theory and practice of teaching barbering. See Michigan Laws 339.1101 Student loan: means a loan of the type described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 390.1351 Student loan program: means the program for making loans to students described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 390.1351 Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. subscriber: means an individual who enters into an insurance contract for health insurance, or on whose behalf an insurance contract for health insurance is entered into, with an insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.116 Subsidiary board: means the board of trustees of a subsidiary corporation. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Subsidiary business: means a business that is directly or indirectly controlled or at least 80% owned by an authorized business. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Subsidiary corporation: means a subsidiary municipal health facilities corporation incorporated under this act. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Substance abuse: means that term as defined in section 16106a of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Substance use disorder: means a pattern of using alcohol or other drugs that leads to clinical or functional impairment. See Michigan Laws 330.3023 Successor: means a person, other than a creditor, who is entitled to property of a decedent under the decedent's will or this act. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 Suitable for hospitalization: means a determination concerning a minor that all of the following criteria are met:
(i) The minor is a minor requiring treatment. See Michigan Laws 330.1498cSummons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Superintendent: means the superintendent of public instruction of the state department of education. See Michigan Laws 388.382 Superintendent of public instruction: means the superintendent of public instruction described in section 3 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 388.1951 supervisor: means an individual who supervises an eligible designated recipient defined in section 3(2) and to whom the following apply, as applicable:
(i) For an individual who is supervising, as described in this subdivision, a designated recipient who is working toward obtaining a preliminary school psychologist certificate described in subdivision (c)(i) or (ii) or a school psychologist certificate described in subdivision (c)(iii), the individual providing supervision maintains a school psychologist certificate described in subdivision (c)(iii) during the supervision. See Michigan Laws 388.1951Support: means that term as defined in section 2 of the support and parenting time enforcement act, 1982 PA 295, MCL 552. See Michigan Laws 205.1 Support plan: means a written plan that specifies the personal support services or any other supports that are to be developed with and provided for a recipient. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Support provision: means a provision in a trust that provides the trustee shall distribute income or principal or both for the health, education, support, or maintenance of a trust beneficiary, or language of similar import. See Michigan Laws 700.7103 Supportive services: means helping with personal laundry, arranging for medical services, health-related services, social services, or transportation to medical or social services appointments, or providing for at least 1 individual awake and alert in the housing-with-services establishment to contact a service provider in an emergency. See Michigan Laws 333.26502 surgeon general: means the surgeon general of the public health service of the United States. See Michigan Laws 331.502 Surplus: means unassigned funds for an entity using statutory accounting principles, with capital and surplus including all capital stock, paid in capital and contributed surplus, and other surplus funds with corresponding items under GAAP consisting of retained earnings and accumulated other comprehensive income, with capital and retained earnings including all capital stock, additional paid in capital, and other equity funds. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Surplus: means total statutory surplus less capital, calculated in accordance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual, version effective January 1, 2001, and subsequent revisions. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Surplus lines insurance: means insurance in this state procured from or continued or renewed with an unauthorized insurer and includes all of the following, whether effected by mail or otherwise:
(i) Insurance for which applications are solicited from persons resident or located in this state. See Michigan Laws 500.1903Survive: means that an individual neither predeceases an event, including the death of another individual, nor is considered to predecease an event under section 2104 or 2702. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 system: means an internet-based, statewide database established, implemented, and maintained directly or indirectly by the department that is available to licensees, law enforcement agencies, and authorized state departments and agencies on a 24-hour basis for all of the following:
(i) Verifying registry identification cards. See Michigan Laws 333.27902system: means an internet-based, statewide database established, implemented, and maintained by the department under the marihuana tracking act, that is available to licensees, law enforcement agencies, and authorized state departments and agencies on a 24-hour basis for all of the following:
(i) Verifying registry identification cards. See Michigan Laws 333.27102System provider: means a person that engages in the business of selling, leasing, renting, maintaining, repairing, installing, or otherwise providing security alarm systems to the public at the protected premises or by remote monitoring. See Michigan Laws 338.2182 take: means to secure transfer of ownership of property to an agency by involuntary expropriation. See Michigan Laws 213.51 taking: means the transfer of ownership of property to an agency by involuntary expropriation. See Michigan Laws 213.51 Talent investment fund: means the talent investment fund as defined in section 8a. See Michigan Laws 390.1152 Tangible personal property: means corporeal personal property. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Tangible personal property: means personal property that can be seen, weighed, measured, felt, or touched or that is in any other manner perceptible to the senses and includes electricity, water, gas, steam, and prewritten computer software. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Tank wagon: means a straight truck having 1 or more compartments other than the fuel supply tank designed or used to carry motor fuel. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Tank wagon operator-importer: means a person who operates a tank wagon and imports motor fuel into this state from another state. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Targeted advertising: means presenting an advertisement to a student where the advertisement is selected based on information obtained or inferred from that student's online behavior, usage of applications, or covered information. See Michigan Laws 388.1293 Tax: includes a tax, interest, or penalty levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Tax: includes all taxes, interest, or penalties levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Tax: means the state real estate transfer tax imposed under this act. See Michigan Laws 207.522 Tax: means a tax, interest, or penalty levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Taxable value: means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Taxable value: means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 207.902 Taxable value: means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 207.952 Taxable value: means the taxable value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1022 Taxable value: means the taxable value as determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1092 Taxable value: means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Taxable value: means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 388.1923 Taxpayer: means a person subject to a tax under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.51 Taxpayer: means a person subject to tax under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Taxpayer: means a person subject to a specific tax levied under this act. See Michigan Laws 211.782 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. Tenancy by the entirety: A type of joint tenancy between husband and wife that is recognized in some States. Neither party can sever the joint tenancy relationship; when a spouse dies, the survivor acquires full title to the property. Terminal: means a motor fuel storage and distribution facility that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is registered as a qualified terminal by the internal revenue service. See Michigan Laws 207.1006Terminal operator: means a person who owns, operates, or otherwise controls a terminal. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Terminate: means the cancellation of the relationship between an insurance producer and the insurer or the termination of a producer's authority to transact insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1201 terms of the trust: means the manifestation of the settlor's intent regarding a trust's provisions as expressed in the trust instrument or as may be established by other evidence that would be admissible in a judicial proceeding. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 Testate: To die leaving a will. Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death. Testator: includes an individual of either gender. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 Testify: Answer questions in court. Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Textbook: includes a text published in electronic media that is used for instructional purposes. See Michigan Laws 390.1542 Textiles: means goods that are made of or incorporate woven or nonwoven fabric, including, but not limited to, clothing, shoes, hats, gloves, handkerchiefs, curtains, towels, sheets, pillows, pillow cases, tablecloths, napkins, aprons, linens, floor mops, floor mats, and thread. See Michigan Laws 205.51 THC: means any of the following:
(i) Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid. See Michigan Laws 333.27953THC: means that term as defined in section 3 of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Thermoelectric energy system: means a system that generates energy by converting thermal energy into electrical energy using direct heat from a clean fuel energy system or waste heat from any source. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Third party: means a person unrelated to an SPFC or its counterparty, or both, that has been aggrieved by a decision of a director regarding that SPFC or its activities. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 third party exam administrator: means a person outside of the department with which the department has entered into an agreement to administer an examination or test required under an article of the occupational code. See Michigan Laws 338.2205a Third party payer: means a public or private health care payment or benefits program including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(i) A health insurer. See Michigan Laws 333.26263Third-party service provider: means a person that is not a licensee and that contracts with a licensee to maintain, process, or store, or otherwise is permitted access to nonpublic information, through its provision of services to the licensee. See Michigan Laws 500.553 Tissue culture: means a marihuana plant cell, cutting, tissue, or organ, that is kept under a sterile condition on a nutrient culture medium of known composition and that does not have visible root formation. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 Title insurance: means the insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying of designated owners of real estate or any interest in real estate against loss or damage that may result because the title is vested in a manner otherwise than as stated in the title insurance policy, because the title is unmarketable, or because the title is subject to liens, encumbrances, or other matters adversely affecting the rights of use, enjoyment, or disposition of the real estate, and not excepted in the policy, all in accordance with the terms of a title insurance policy approved as to substance and form, or doing anything equivalent in substance to any of the foregoing in a manner designed to evade the provisions of this chapter. See Michigan Laws 500.7301 Title insurance policy: means any policy or contract insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying against loss or damage suffered by owners of real estate or by other persons interested in the real estate by reason of liens, encumbrances upon, defects in, or the unmarketability of the title to the real estate, or other matters affecting the title to real estate or the right to the use and enjoyment of the real estate, and insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying the condition of the title to real estate or the status of any lien on the real estate. See Michigan Laws 500.7301 Title insurer: means any domestic, foreign, or alien insurer issuing title insurance, either directly or indirectly, other than reinsurance or coinsurance or both as referred to in section 7308, with respect to any real estate located in this state. See Michigan Laws 500.7301 Tobacco: means cigarettes, cigars, chewing or pipe tobacco, or any other item that contains tobacco. See Michigan Laws 205.51a Tobacco product: means a product containing any amount of tobacco regardless of form including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, noncigarette smoking tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. See Michigan Laws 205.422 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. Totally and permanently disabled: means a person as defined in 42 U. See Michigan Laws 211.761 Tourism attraction facility: means a cultural or historical site, a recreation or entertainment facility, an area of natural phenomena or scenic beauty, or an entertainment destination center as determined by the Michigan economic growth authority as follows:
(i) In making a determination, the Michigan economic growth authority shall consider all of the following:
(A) Whether the facility will actually attract tourists. See Michigan Laws 207.803Tourism marketing program: means a program established by a regional marketing organization to develop, encourage, solicit, and promote tourism within a region of this state. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Tourism marketing program notice: means the notice described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Tourist-oriented activity: means a lawful cultural, historical, recreational, educational, or commercial activity that is annually attended by 2,000 or more people and for which a major portion of the activity's income or visitors are derived during the normal business season from motorists not residing in the immediate area of the activity. See Michigan Laws 247.401 Tourist-oriented directional sign: means a sign used to provide motorists with advanced notice of a tourist-oriented activity. See Michigan Laws 247.401 Trade secret: means information consisting of a valuable unpatented formula, pattern, device, or process, or other information that is used in a business and gives the possessor of the information a competitive advantage over those who do not know or use the information, and for which sufficient measures have been taken to guard the secrecy of the information and preserve its confidentiality, and that does not encompass information that is readily ascertainable by competitors or the general public without undue difficulty or hardship. See Michigan Laws 390.1552 Traffic control devices: means that term as defined in section 70 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 247.651 Traffic control order: means that term as defined in section 71 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 247.651 Training center: means an institution that is formed or operated principally to provide instruction in boxing, mixed martial arts, or other sports. See Michigan Laws 338.3611 Transaction: means the parking, storing, housing, or keeping of a motor vehicle for consideration. See Michigan Laws 207.372 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. Transfer: means the acquisition by an acquiring insurer of all or substantially all of the assets, and assumption by the acquiring insurer of all or substantially all of the liabilities of, the state accident fund pursuant to Act No. See Michigan Laws 500.5100 Transfer: includes an assignment, assumption, conveyance, sale, lease, encumbrance, including a mortgage or security interest, gift, or transfer by operation of law. See Michigan Laws 500.5500 Transfer: shall include the sale and every other and different mode, direct or indirect, of disposing of or of parting with property or with an interest in property or with the possession of property or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest in property, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily, by or without judicial proceedings. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Transfer: includes the passing of property or an interest in property in possession or enjoyment, present or future, by inheritance, descent, devise, bequest, grant, deed, bargain, sale, or gift in the manner prescribed in this act. See Michigan Laws 205.221 Transfer date: means the earlier of the following:
(i) The date 90 days after the creation of an authority under section 7 on which the right, title, interest, ownership, and control of a qualified convention facility are conveyed and transferred from a qualified city to an authority, only if the transfer is not disapproved as provided under section 19(1). See Michigan Laws 141.1355Transfer tax: includes an estate, generation-skipping, inheritance, legacy, or succession tax for residents and nonresidents, including aliens. See Michigan Laws 205.256 Transient facility: means a building or combination of buildings under common ownership, operation, or management that contains 10 or more rooms used in the business of providing dwelling, lodging, or sleeping to transient guests, whether or not membership is required for the use of the rooms. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Transient facility: means a building which contains 35 or more rooms used in the business of providing dwelling, lodging, or sleeping to transient guests, whether or not membership is required for the use of the rooms. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Transient facility: means a building or combination of buildings under common ownership, operation, or management that contains 10 or more rooms used in the business of providing dwelling, lodging, or sleeping to transient guests, whether or not membership is required for the use of the rooms. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Transient facility: means a building that contains 35 or more rooms used in the business of providing dwelling, lodging, or sleeping to transient guests, whether or not membership is required for the use of the rooms. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Transient facility: means a building that contains 2 or more rooms used in the business of providing dwelling, lodging, or sleeping to transient guests, whether or not membership is required for the use of the rooms. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Transient facility: means a building that contains 35 or more rooms used in the business of providing dwelling, lodging, or sleeping to transient guests, whether or not membership is required for the use of the rooms. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Transient guest: means a natural person who occupies a room in a transient facility for less than 30 consecutive days regardless of who pays the room charge. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Transient guest: means a natural person who occupies a room in a transient facility for less than 30 consecutive days regardless of who pays the room charge. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Transient guest: means a natural person who occupies a room in a transient facility for less than 30 consecutive days regardless of who pays the room charge. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Transient guest: means a natural person who occupies a room in a transient facility for less than 30 consecutive days regardless of who pays the room charge. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Transient guest: means a natural person who occupies a room in a transient facility for less than 30 consecutive days regardless of who pays the room charge for the room. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Transient guest: means a natural person who occupies a room in a transient facility for less than 30 consecutive days regardless of who pays the room charge. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Transitional qualified forest property: means forestland that meets all of the following:
(i) The forestland is classified as commercial forest under part 511 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 211.1092Transitional qualified forest property specific tax: means the specific tax levied under section 6. See Michigan Laws 211.1092 Transmix: means the mixed product that results from the buffer or interface of 2 different products in a pipeline shipment, or a mixture of 2 different products within a refinery or terminal that results in an off-grade mixture. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Transport truck: means a semitrailer combination rig designed or used for the purpose of transporting motor fuel over the public roads or highways. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Transportation company: means a person operating, or supplying to common carriers, cars, boats, or other vehicles for the transportation or accommodation of passengers and engaged in the sale of a tobacco product at retail. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Transporter: means a person importing or transporting into this state, or transporting in this state, a tobacco product obtained from a source located outside this state, or from any person not duly licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Transporter: means an operator of a railroad or rail car, tank wagon, transport truck, or other fuel transportation vehicle engaged in the business of transporting motor fuel below the terminal rack. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Traumatic injury: means a wound or the condition of the body caused by external force, including, but not limited to, an injury inflicted by bullet, explosive, sharp instrument, blunt object or other physical blow, fire, smoke, chemical, electricity, climatic condition, infectious disease, radiation, or bacteria, but excluding an injury resulting from stress, strain, or occupational disease. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Traumatic injury: means a wound or the condition of the body caused by external force, including, but not limited to, an injury inflicted by bullet, explosive, sharp instrument, blunt object or other physical blow, fire, smoke, chemical, electricity, climatic condition, infectious disease, radiation, or bacteria, but excluding an injury resulting from stress, strain, or occupational disease. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 Travel assistance services: means noninsurance services for which the consumer is not indemnified based on a fortuitous event, and as to which providing the service does not result in the transfer or shifting of risk that would constitute the business of insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 Travel bureau: means the Michigan travel bureau created under section 2a of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.872 Travel bureau: means the Michigan travel bureau created under section 2a of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.882 Travel bureau: means the Michigan travel bureau created under section 2a of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.892 Travel bureau: means the Michigan travel bureau created under section 2a of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Travel bureau: means the Michigan travel bureau created under section 2a of the Michigan tourism policy act, 1945 PA 106, MCL 2. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Travel insurance: means that term as defined in section 1202. See Michigan Laws 500.1283 Travel protection plans: means plans that provide 1 or more of the following:
(i) Travel insurance. See Michigan Laws 500.1283Treasurer: means the state treasurer. See Michigan Laws 390.1472 Treasurer: means the state treasurer. See Michigan Laws 206.982 Treasurer: means the county treasurer. See Michigan Laws 207.501 Treasurer: means the state treasurer. See Michigan Laws 207.522 Treasurer: means the state treasurer. See Michigan Laws 211.1002 Treasury rates: means the United States treasury strips asked yield as published in the Wall Street Journal as of a balance sheet date. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Treatment plan: means a written plan that specifies the goal-oriented treatment or training services, including rehabilitation or habilitation services, that are to be developed with and provided for a recipient. See Michigan Laws 330.1700 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. Tribal marihuana business: means a business that meets all of the following conditions:
(i) The business engages in the type of activities licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 333.27953Trust: means the Michigan education trust created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 Trust: includes , but is not limited to, an express trust, private or charitable, with additions to the trust, wherever and however created. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC Trust beneficiary: means a person to whom 1 or both of the following apply:
(i) The person has a present or future beneficial interest in a trust, vested or contingent. See Michigan Laws 700.7103Trust director: means that term as defined in section 7703a. See Michigan Laws 700.7103 Trust fund: means the Michigan merit award trust fund established in section 9 of the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12. See Michigan Laws 390.1622 Trust instrument: means a governing instrument that contains the terms of the trust, including any amendment to a term of the trust. See Michigan Laws 700.7103 Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by the court. See Michigan Laws 700.1107 Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. Trustee: means a member of the board of trustees. See Michigan Laws 390.701a Trustee: means a person serving on a board of trustees or a subsidiary board. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Trusteed assets: means the assets of an alien insurer and U. See Michigan Laws 500.8103 Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on Source: OCC Tuition: means tuition at the rate charged for residents of this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1262 Tuition: means the quarter or semester charges imposed to attend a state institution of higher education and all mandatory fees required as a condition of enrollment as determined by the board. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 Ultimate vendor: means the person who sells motor fuel to the end user of the fuel. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Unallocated annuity contract: means an annuity contract or group annuity certificate that is not issued to and owned by an individual, except to the extent of an annuity benefit guaranteed to an individual by an insurer under the contract or certificate. See Michigan Laws 500.7705 Unarmed combat: means any of the following:
(i) Professional boxing. See Michigan Laws 338.3611Unclassified acquirer: means a person, except a transportation company or a purchaser at retail from a retailer licensed under the general sales tax act, 1933 PA 167, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.422 under common control with: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person. See Michigan Laws 500.4701 Undergraduate class: means a class or course that provides a student with academic credit applicable toward a bachelor or associate degree from a state institution of higher education. See Michigan Laws 390.1242 Undergraduate class: means a class or course that provides a student with academic credit applicable toward a bachelor or associate degree from an eligible institution. See Michigan Laws 390.1342 Underground ore: means iron ore in its natural state which to be mined must be removed through a shaft, incline or adit. See Michigan Laws 207.271 Underserved area: means an area determined by the Michigan department of agriculture that contains a low or moderate income census tract and a below average supermarket density, an area that has a supermarket customer base with more than 50% living in a low income census tract, or an area that has demonstrated significant access limitations due to travel distance. See Michigan Laws 207.842 Undocumented property: means property in the possession of a museum, the owner or lender of which the museum has no reasonable means of identifying. See Michigan Laws 399.602 Unearned income: means income that is not earned from employment, including, but not limited to, financial prize, unemployment benefits, annuities, stock dividends, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, or retirement income. See Michigan Laws 169.303 Unearned premium reserve: means that portion of the premium on a health insurance policy or certificate paid or due to the insurer that is applicable to the period of coverage extending beyond the valuation date. See Michigan Laws 500.701 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 Uniform standards of professional appraisal practice: means all of the following, if applicable:
(i) Standards relating to real property adopted by the appraisal foundation and in effect on the effective date of the amendatory act that added subparagraph (ii). See Michigan Laws 339.2601Uniform standards of professional appraisal practice: means that term as defined in section 2601. See Michigan Laws 339.2661 Uniformed services: means the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 Union station corporation: means the Durand union station, inc. See Michigan Laws 399.302 United States: when used in a geographical sense includes only the 50 states and the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 205.256 United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o Universal life insurance: means any individual or group life insurance policy under the policy provisions of which separately identified interest credits, other than in connection with dividend accumulations, premium deposit funds, or other supplementary accounts, and mortality and expense charges are made to the policy. See Michigan Laws 500.4001 Unlimited heating service: means the servicing of heating equipment and systems without restrictions concerning thermal capacity or grade of fuel oil or type of fuel. See Michigan Laws 339.5803 Unlimited refrigeration and air conditioning service: means the servicing of refrigeration equipment and systems and air conditioning equipment and systems employing the refrigeration cycle unlimited as to thermal capacity or type of refrigerant. See Michigan Laws 339.5803 Unofficial hemp sample: means a sample of industrial hemp collected by a grower for routine compliance monitoring testing throughout the growing season for testing by a compliance monitoring testing facility. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Unreasonably impracticable: means that the measures necessary to comply with the rules or ordinances adopted pursuant to this act subject licensees to unreasonable risk or require such a high investment of money, time, or any other resource or asset that a reasonably prudent businessperson would not operate the marihuana establishment. See Michigan Laws 333.27953 Unzoned qualified local governmental unit: means a qualified local governmental unit that has no zoning ordinance within its zoning jurisdiction. See Michigan Laws 211.1152 Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision. Usable marihuana: means the dried leaves, flowers, plant resin, or extract of the marihuana plant, but does not include the seeds, stalks, and roots of the plant. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Usable marihuana: means the dried leaves, flowers, plant resin, or extract of the marihuana plant, but does not include the seeds, stalks, and roots of the plant. See Michigan Laws 333.27102 USDA: means the United States Department of Agriculture. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Use tax: means the tax imposed under the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 141.1322 Use tax: means the tax imposed under the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 141.1432 Use tax: means the tax imposed under the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 141.1442 Use tax: means the tax levied under the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.173 Use tax: means the tax levied under the use tax act. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Use tax act: means 1937 PA 94, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 205.803 User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services. Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. Source: OCC Utility: means either of the following:
(i) A person regulated by the Michigan public service commission as a utility. See Michigan Laws 205.51Valuation net modal premium: means the modal fraction of the valuation net annual premium that corresponds to the gross modal premium in effect on any contract to which contract reserves apply. See Michigan Laws 500.701 Value: means the current or fair market worth in terms of legal monetary exchange at the time of the transfer. See Michigan Laws 207.501 Value: means the current or fair market worth in terms of legal monetary exchange at the time of the transfer. See Michigan Laws 207.522 Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate. Variety: means a subdivision of a species that has the following characteristics:
(i) The subdivision is uniform, in the sense that variations between the subdivision and other subdivisions in essential and distinctive characteristics are describable. See Michigan Laws 333.29103Vehicle: means that term as defined in section 79 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 777.1 Vending machine operator: means a person who operates 1 or more vending machines in this state for the sale of a tobacco product. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge. Vessel: means that term as defined in section 80104 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 777.1 Veteran: means that term as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 339.5107 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. Viable seed: means seed that has a germination rate of greater than 0. See Michigan Laws 333.29103 Village: means a village establishing a corporation incorporated under, or governed by, this act. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Village public hospital: means a health care facility that is owned or operated by a village. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Visiting qualifying patient: means a patient who is not a resident of this state or who has been a resident of this state for less than 30 days. See Michigan Laws 333.26423 Vocational disability: means any disability except blindness which constitutes, contributes to, or if not corrected will probably result in an obstruction to occupational performance. See Michigan Laws 395.82 Vocational program: means an education or training program intended to teach a trade, occupation, or vocation and offered by a public or private postsecondary institution in this state. See Michigan Laws 390.1663 Voluntary seller: means a seller who does not have a requirement to obtain a license or register to collect the sales or use tax for this state. See Michigan Laws 205.803 Voting security: includes any security convertible into or evidencing the right to acquire a voting security. See Michigan Laws 500.4601 Voting security: includes any security convertible into or evidencing a right to acquire a voting security. See Michigan Laws 500.115 Wages: means money paid or to be paid on an hourly or daily basis by an owner, lessor, or occupant of a residential structure as consideration for the performance of personal labor on the structure by an individual who does not perform or promise to perform the labor for any other fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, valuable consideration, or other compensation and who does not furnish or agree to furnish the material or supplies required to be used in the performance of the labor or an act described in subdivision (a) or (b). See Michigan Laws 339.2401 Waiting period: means , with respect to a health benefit plan and an individual who is a potential enrollee in the plan, the period that must pass with respect to the individual before the individual is eligible to be covered for benefits under the terms of the plan. See Michigan Laws 500.3701 Ward: means an individual for whom a guardian is appointed. See Michigan Laws 700.1108 Ward: means that term as defined in section 1108 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 333.1052 waste: means radioactive material that consists of or contains class A, B, or C radioactive waste as defined by 10 C. See Michigan Laws 333.26202 Water service pipe: means the pipe from the water main or other source of potable water supply to the water distributing system of the building served. See Michigan Laws 339.6103 Weighted average tuition cost of state institutions of higher education: means the tuition cost arrived at by adding the products of the annual undergraduate tuition cost at each state institution of higher education and its total number of undergraduate fiscal year equated students, and then dividing the gross total of this cumulation by the total number of undergraduate fiscal year equated students attending state institutions of higher education. See Michigan Laws 390.1424 Wholesale price: means the actual price paid to a seller for a tobacco product, by a wholesaler or unclassified acquirer to acquire that tobacco product from the seller. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Wholesaler: means a person who purchases all or part of its tobacco products from a manufacturer and who sells 75% or more of those tobacco products to others for resale. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Wholesaler: means a person who acquires motor fuel from a supplier or from another wholesaler for subsequent sale and distribution at wholesale by a fuel transportation vehicle, rail car, or other motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 207.1006 Wind energy system: means an integrated unit consisting of a wind turbine composed of a rotor, an electrical generator, a control system, an inverter or other power conditioning unit, and a tower, which uses moving air to produce power. See Michigan Laws 207.822 Work: means construction, addition, alteration, repair, moving, excavation, or demolition. See Michigan Laws 399.152 Work: means construction, addition, alteration, repair, moving, excavation, or demolition. See Michigan Laws 399.201a Wrap: means an individual tobacco wrapper that is made wholly or in part from tobacco, including reconstituted tobacco, whether in the form of tobacco leaf, sheet, or tube, if the wrap is designed to be offered, or is offered, for sale to consumers to create or to use as a component part of a tobacco product. See Michigan Laws 205.422 Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act. Written agreement: means a written agreement made pursuant to section 8. See Michigan Laws 207.803 Written certification: means a document signed by a physician, stating all of the following:
(1) The patient's debilitating medical condition. See Michigan Laws 333.26423