(i) It bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to health except that, if the substance is not an added substance, the food or milk product is not considered adulterated if the quantity of that substance in the food or milk product does not ordinarily render it injurious to health. See Michigan Laws 288.570

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.

Applicant: means 1 or more individuals, corporations, nonprofit corporations, partnerships, associations, limited liability companies, labor organizations, mutual corporations, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated associations, trustees, and entities formed under the state housing development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2812

Approved laboratory: means a laboratory that has been evaluated by the department and is approved to perform tests on manufacturing milk and milk products. See Michigan Laws 288.570

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

Audited financial statement: means a fiscal year end financial statement prepared by a certified public accountant according to generally accepted accounting principles. See Michigan Laws 288.570

Authority: means the Michigan state housing development authority created in the state housing development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2812

certificate: means the certificate issued pursuant to section 6. See Michigan Laws 125.2782

Cheese: means natural cheeses, processed cheeses, blended cheeses, cheese foods, cheese spreads, nonstandard cheese products, and related foods described in 21 C. See Michigan Laws 288.571

Commission: means the state tax commission created by 1927 PA 360, MCL 209. See Michigan Laws 125.2782

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

Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.

Cream: means any of the following:

    (i) Light cream containing not less than 18% but not more than 30% milkfat. See Michigan Laws 288.571

Dairy farm: means any place or premises where 1 or more dairy animals are kept for milking purposes, and from which a part or all of the milk is provided, sold, or offered for sale. See Michigan Laws 288.572

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

Department: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 288.572

Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 125.2782

Devise: To gift property by will.

Director: means the director of the Michigan department of agriculture or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 288.572

Distributor: means a person other than a producer or processor who offers for sale, holds for sale, or sells at wholesale milk or dairy products. See Michigan Laws 288.572

district: means the territory of a next Michigan development corporation. See Michigan Laws 125.2953

Eligible urban entity: means a city with a population of 100,000 or more and is the largest city within a metropolitan statistical area as defined by the United States office of management and budget. See Michigan Laws 125.2953

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}

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.

Facility: except as otherwise provided in this act, means a building or group of contiguous buildings. See Michigan Laws 125.2782

Family residential real estate: means real property located in this state, to be newly constructed for residential purposes and intended for occupancy by a single family, 2 families, or 3 families and that is constructed using funds provided as a construction period loan, a bridge loan, or other temporary financing with a term of not more than 24 months and that are provided under the state housing development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2812

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.

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}

Frozen desserts: means desserts made from dairy products described in 21 C. See Michigan Laws 288.573

grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e

Imminent or substantial health hazard: means a determination by the director of either or both of the following:

    (i) A condition that exists at a dairy farm or dairy plant requiring immediate action to prevent endangering the public health or safety. See Michigan Laws 288.573

in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q

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

Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article conforming to a requirement imposed under this act that any word, statement, or other information appearing on the label also appears on the outside container or wrapper of the retail package of the article or be easily legible through the outside container or wrapper. See Michigan Laws 288.573

Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying the article. See Michigan Laws 288.573

Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}

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

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

Local governmental unit: means a county, city, village, township, or charter township. See Michigan Laws 125.2953

Michigan strategic fund: means the Michigan strategic fund as described in the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2953

Milk: means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of 1 or more healthy cows, goats, sheep, or other dairy animals. See Michigan Laws 288.574

Milk buyer: means any milk producer, milk producer marketing organization, dairy plant, receiving station, transfer station, or bulk milk hauler that either takes delivery of raw milk or a raw milk product or manages the sale of the raw milk or raw milk product, or both. See Michigan Laws 288.574

milk plant: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or dairy products are collected, handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, aseptically processed, packaged, or prepared for distribution. See Michigan Laws 288.572

milk product: means products that include, but are not limited to, evaporated milk, condensed skim milk, condensed milk, condensed buttermilk, condensed milk solids, concentrate milk, nonfat dry milk, dry milk, dry cream, dry whey, dry buttermilk, butter, buttermilk, cheese, cheese products, ice cream, sherbet, frozen desserts, dairy confections, or novelties, related dairy products with butter fat or milk solids substitutions, filtered milk components, infant formula manufactured with dairy ingredients, whey, whey cream, and other products for human consumption not regulated under the grade A milk law of 2001 or as determined appropriate by the director. See Michigan Laws 288.572

Milk tank truck: means both a bulk milk pickup tanker and a milk transport tank. See Michigan Laws 288.574

Milk tank truck cleaning facility: means any place, premises, or establishment, separate from a dairy plant, receiving station, or transfer station where a milk tank truck is cleaned and sanitized. See Michigan Laws 288.574

Milk transport tank: means a vehicle, including the truck and tank, used by a bulk milk hauler/sampler to transport bulk shipments of milk from a dairy plant, receiving station, or transfer station to another dairy plant, receiving station, or transfer station. See Michigan Laws 288.574

Milk transportation company: means the company that is the person responsible for a milk tank truck. See Michigan Laws 288.574

Misbranded: means food to which any of the following apply:

    (i) Its labeling is false or misleading in any particular. See Michigan Laws 288.575

Mix: means ice cream mix, yogurt mix, sherbet mix, and any other unfrozen pasteurized liquid mixture which is to be manufactured into a frozen dessert including a liquid mixture intended for processing into quiescently frozen confections. See Michigan Laws 288.575

month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j

Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.

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.

Obsolete property: means commercial property or commercial housing property, that is 1 or more of the following:

    (i) Blighted, as that term is defined in section 2 of the brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.2782

Offering for sale: means selling, offering to sell, holding for sale, preparing for sale, trading, bartering, offering as a gift as an inducement for sale of, and advertising for sale in any media. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Other security: means a mutually acceptable producer security agreement, acceptable to the director, approved and signed by the milk buyer and all milk sellers selling milk to that milk buyer. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.

person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l

Person: means an individual, partnership, company, limited liability company, cooperative, association, firm, trustee, educational institution, state or local government unit, or corporation. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Personal property: All property that is not real property.

Processor: means the owner or operator of a dairy plant. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Producer: means a person who owns or operates a dairy farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm including a person who markets milk on behalf of a producer pursuant to a marketing agreement. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

Receiving station: means any place, premise, or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored, or cooled and is prepared for further transporting. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Registered name: means either a name that is registered as "doing business as" at the county clerk's office in the county in which the producer or processor resides or that is registered with the state of Michigan as a legal entity registered to do business within the state under an assumed name. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Rehabilitation: means changes to obsolete property other than replacement that are required to restore or modify the property, together with all appurtenances, to an economically efficient condition. See Michigan Laws 125.2782

Retail: means selling or offering for sale dairy products directly to a consumer. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Retail food establishment: means an operation that sells or offers to sell food directly to a consumer. See Michigan Laws 288.576

Sanitary standards: means the dairy equipment construction standards or accepted dairy system operating practices formulated by 1 of the following:

    (i) 3-A sanitary standards committees representing the international association for food protection, the United States public health service, the United States department of agriculture, and the dairy industry committee. See Michigan Laws 288.577

Sanitizing: means the application of any effective method or sanitizing agent in compliance with the federal act to a clean surface for the destruction of pathogens and other organisms as far as is practicable. See Michigan Laws 288.577

Scheduled process: means the aseptic process selected by the processor as adequate under the conditions of manufacture for a given product to be free of viable microorganisms having a public health significance as well as microorganisms of nonhealth significance capable of reproducing in the food under normal nonrefrigerated conditions. See Michigan Laws 288.577

Seminudity: means a state of dress in which the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus, anal cleft, or nipple and areola of the female breast are less than completely and opaquely covered. See Michigan Laws 125.2831

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

Sexually oriented business: includes , but is not limited to, an adult bookstore, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motion picture theater, sexual device shop, or sexual encounter center or an establishment that regularly features live performances characterized by the exposure of a specified anatomical area or by a specified sexual activity or in which persons appear in a state of nudity or seminudity in the performance of their duties. See Michigan Laws 125.2831

Specified anatomical area: means less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus, anal cleft, or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if covered. See Michigan Laws 125.2831

Specified sexual activity: means the fondling or other erotic touching of covered or uncovered human genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus, anal cleft, or female breast. See Michigan Laws 125.2831

Standard methods: means the sixteenth edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products" published by the American public health association, dated 1992, incorporated by reference. See Michigan Laws 288.577

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

Sterilized or aseptic milk and dairy products: means products hermetically sealed in a container and thermally processed or otherwise processed so as to render the product free of microorganisms capable of reproducing in the product under normal nonrefrigeration conditions of storage and distribution and free of viable microorganisms including spores of public health significance. See Michigan Laws 288.577

Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.

Transfer station: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or dairy products are transferred directly from 1 milk tank truck to another. See Michigan Laws 288.577

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

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

Verified financial statement: means a financial statement that contains a notarized statement, signed and sworn to by an authorized representative of the dairy plant, attesting that the financial statement is correct. See Michigan Laws 288.577

Wholesale: means selling or offering to sell dairy products to retailers, jobbers, or distributors rather than directly to a consumer. See Michigan Laws 288.577