§ 8.21 Acts and joint resolutions; binding
§ 8.22 Acts and joint resolutions; binding after enrollment, certificate, signatures
§ 8.23 Acts and joint resolutions; bound volumes as records, expenses

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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 8 > Act 46 of 1847 - Preservation of Laws

  • 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.
  • Agent: means a stamping agent, as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • ASTM: means ASTM international, formerly the American society for testing and materials. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • 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.
  • Base state: means the state selected by a motor carrier according to the procedures established by the uniform program. See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • Cigarette: means that term as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • city: whenever used in this act , shall be construed to mean a city incorporated under this act, or made subject to its provisions. See Michigan Laws 113.10
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.30301
  • Department: means the director of the department of natural resources or his or her designee to whom the director delegates a power or duty by written instrument. See Michigan Laws 324.301
  • Department: means the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 324.30301
  • Director: means the director of the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.301
  • Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Election: means an election or primary election at which the electors of this state or of a subdivision of this state choose or nominate by ballot an individual for public office or decide a ballot question lawfully submitted to them. See Michigan Laws 168.2
  • election precinct: as used in this act shall mean a political subdivision, the area of which is embraced in its entirety within the confines of a city, ward, township or village, and for which not more than 1 polling place is provided for all qualified and registered electors residing therein. See Michigan Laws 168.654
  • 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.
  • Fill material: means soil, rocks, sand, waste of any kind, or any other material that displaces soil or water or reduces water retention potential. See Michigan Laws 324.30301
  • 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
  • Fund: means the environmental pollution prevention fund created in section 11130 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • 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.
  • Hazardous materials: means any of the following:
    (i) "Hazardous waste" as that term is defined in section 11103 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • major political party: means each of the 2 political parties whose candidate for the office of secretary of state received the highest and second highest number of votes at the immediately preceding general election in which a secretary of state was elected. See Michigan Laws 168.16
  • Manufacturer: means any of the following:
  •     (i) A manufacturer as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Motor carrier: means a person engaged in the transportation of hazardous materials by highway. See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • Motor oil: means oil used as a lubricant in a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 324.16701
  • New York fire safety standards for cigarettes: means the New York executive law, section 156-c, and the New York fire safety standards for cigarettes, New York compilation of codes, rules, and regulations, title 19, section 429. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • 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.
  • Oil: means petroleum based oil. See Michigan Laws 324.16701
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Participating state: means a state electing to participate in the uniform program by entering a base state agreement. See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • 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, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, municipality, this state, an instrumentality or agency of this state, the federal government, an instrumentality or agency of the federal government, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 324.30301
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 324.301
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Power unit: means a motor vehicle that provides motor power to the entire combination, or to the vehicle if a single unit. See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • 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.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Quality control and quality assurance program: means laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing of cigarettes and ensure that testing repeatability remains within the required repeatability values stated in section 5(2)(g) for all test trials used to certify cigarettes under this act. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Recycle: means to prepare used oil for reuse as a petroleum product by refining, rerefining, reclaiming, reprocessing, or other means to utilize used oil in a manner that substitutes for a petroleum product made from new oil, if the preparation or use is operationally safe, environmentally sound, and complies with the law, rules, and regulations of this state and the United States. See Michigan Laws 324.16701
  • Repeatability: means the range of values within which the repeat results of cigarette test trials from a single laboratory will fall 95% of the time. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Retail dealer: means a retailer, as that term is defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Sale: means that term as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
  •     (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
  • Secondary wholesaler: means that term as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Sell: means to sell or to offer or agree to sell. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • 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
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tobacco products tax act: means the tobacco products tax act, 1993 PA 327, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • 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.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Unclassified acquirer: means that term as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493
  • Uniform application: means the uniform registration and permit application form established under the uniform program. See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • Uniform program: means the uniform state hazardous materials transportation registration and permit program established in the report submitted and amended pursuant to 49 USC 5119(b). See Michigan Laws 29.472
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Used oil: means oil which through use, storage, or handling has become unsuitable for its original purpose due to the presence of impurities or loss of original properties. See Michigan Laws 324.16701
  • Wetland: means a land or water feature, commonly referred to as a bog, swamp, or marsh, inundated or saturated by water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, hydric soils and a predominance of wetland vegetation or aquatic life. See Michigan Laws 324.30301
  • Wholesale dealer: means a wholesaler, as that term is defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493