Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 141 > Act 100 of 1990 > Chapter 1 - City Utility Users Tax

• Acupressure: means a form of manual therapy in which physical pressure is applied to various points on the body. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Acupuncture: means the insertion and manipulation of needles through the surface of the human body. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Acupuncturist: means an individual who is licensed under this part to engage in the practice of acupuncture. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• 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.
• Assignment: means that a dentist has designated a patient of record on whom services are to be performed and has described the procedures to be performed. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Cupping: means the placement of a specially designed cup on the body to create suction. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Dentist: means an individual who is licensed under this article to engage in the practice of dentistry. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dermal friction: means the use of repeated, closely timed, unidirectional press-stroking with a smooth-edged instrument over a lubricated area of the body. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Dietary counseling: means the process of advising a patient about healthy food choices and healthy eating habits in accordance with East Asian medical theory. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Dry needling: means a rehabilitative procedure using filiform needles to penetrate the skin or underlying tissues by targeting only myofascial trigger points and muscular and connective tissues to affect change in body structures and functions for the evaluation and management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and movement impairment. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• East Asian medicine techniques: includes , but is not limited to, acupuncture, manual therapy, moxibustion, heat therapy, dietary counseling, therapeutic exercise, acupressure, cupping, dermal friction, homeopathy, lifestyle coaching, and treatment with herbal medicines. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• Heat therapy: means the use of heat in therapy, such as for pain relief and health. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Herbal medicine: means the internal and external use of a plant or a plant extract, a mineral, or an animal product, that is not a prescription drug as that term is defined in section 17708. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Homeopathy: means the use of a highly diluted natural remedy from the plant, mineral, and animal domain. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• 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.
• Lifestyle coaching: means the process of advising a patient about healthy lifestyle choices and habits in accordance with East Asian medical theory. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• lighting authority: means a lighting authority created under the municipal lighting authority act. See Michigan Laws 141.1152
• Manual therapy: means the application of an accurately determined and specifically directed manual force to the body, excluding a high-velocity, low-amplitude thrust to the spine. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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
• Moxibustion: means burning the dried plant Artemisia vulgaris on or very near the surface of the skin as a form of therapy. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• police officer: means a police officer, investigator, or police sergeant. See Michigan Laws 141.1152
• Practice of chiropractic: means that term as defined in section 16401. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Practice of dentistry: means the diagnosis, treatment, prescription, or operation for a disease, pain, deformity, deficiency, injury, or physical condition of the human tooth, teeth, alveolar process, gums or jaws, or their dependent tissues, or an offer, undertaking, attempt to do, or holding oneself out as able to do any of these acts. See Michigan Laws 333.16601
• Practice of massage therapy: means that term as defined in section 17951. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Practice of medicine: means that term as defined in section 17001. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery: means that term as defined in section 17501. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Practice of physical therapy: means that term as defined in section 17801. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Registered acupuncturist: means an individual who is registered or otherwise authorized under this part before the effective date of the rules promulgated under section 16525 regarding licensure. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• 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.
• 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
• Systematic acupuncture education: means a course of education that covers the foundation of acupuncture science and theory, channel and point location, needling techniques, approaches to diagnosis and therapy, and patient management. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Therapeutic exercise: means a range of physical activities that help restore and build physical strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, and stability. See Michigan Laws 333.16501
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.