§ 125.2831 Definitions
§ 125.2833 Sign advertising sexually oriented business; prohibitions; limitations
§ 125.2835 Conflict with local zoning ordinance or other state law; controlling provision
§ 125.2837 Violation of act as nuisance; action; civil fine; distribution to public libraries

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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 125 > Act 342 of 2010 - Signs Advertising Sexually Oriented Businesses

  • 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
  • Department: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • Director: means the director of the Michigan department of agriculture or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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 transportation company: means the company that is the person responsible for a milk tank truck. See Michigan Laws 288.574
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • 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