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- Abandoned property: means an aircraft; a watercraft, including a ship, boat, canoe, skiff, raft, or barge; the rigging, gear, fittings, trappings, and equipment of an aircraft or watercraft; the personal property of the officers, crew, and passengers of an aircraft or watercraft; and the cargo of an aircraft or watercraft, which have been deserted, relinquished, cast away, or left behind and for which attempts at reclamation have been abandoned by owners and insurers. See Michigan Laws 324.76101
- Abandoned scrap tires: means an accumulation of scrap tires on property where the property owner is not responsible in whole or in part for the accumulation of the scrap tires. See Michigan Laws 324.16901
- Absent voter: is a voter who utilizes the process described in section 759. See Michigan Laws 168.2
- Absent voter ballot: means a ballot that is issued to a voter through the absent voter process. See Michigan Laws 168.2
- Accessible and available market: means that opportunities exist to sell wastepaper products that are collected pursuant to this part at rates and at locations that make it fiscally reasonable to collect that paper. See Michigan Laws 324.16501
- Accessory: means any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded on a land corner recordation certificate that has been filed under this act. See Michigan Laws 54.202
- Acknowledgment: means a declaration by an individual in the presence of a notary public that he or she has signed a record for the purposes stated in the record and, if the record is signed in a representative capacity, that he or she signed the record with the proper authority and signed it as the act of the person identified in the record. See Michigan Laws 55.263
- Acquittal:
- Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
- A verdict of "not guilty."
- Active patient: means a person who has received any type of dental care in a mobile dental facility in the preceding 24 months. See Michigan Laws 333.21601
- Active service: means that term as defined in section 105 of the Michigan military act, 1967 PA 150, MCL 32. See Michigan Laws 32.432
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of this state. See Michigan Laws 32.432
- Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of this state. See Michigan Laws 35.922
- Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of this state. See Michigan Laws 35.972
- Administrative act: includes an action, omission, decision, recommendation, practice, or other procedure of the department. See Michigan Laws 4.771
- Administrative admission: means the admission of an individual with a developmental disability to a facility under section 509. See Michigan Laws 330.1500
- administrator: means the administrator of veterans affairs, or his successor. See Michigan Laws 35.71
- Adulterated: means adulterated as determined under the Michigan food law of 1968, Act No. See Michigan Laws 10.121
- Adverse resource impact: means any of the following:
(i) Until February 1, 2009, decreasing the flow of a river or stream by part of the index flow such that the river's or stream's ability to support characteristic fish populations is functionally impaired. See Michigan Laws 324.32701Advice 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 council: means the Michigan trails advisory council created in section 72110. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 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. Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court. Agent: means a stamping agent, as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Agricultural biomass: means residue and waste generated on a farm or by farm co-operative members from the production and processing of agricultural products, animal wastes, food processing wastes, or other materials as approved by the director. See Michigan Laws 324.14501 agricultural drain: means a human-made conveyance of water that meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Does not have continuous flow. See Michigan Laws 324.30103agricultural drain: means a human-made conveyance of water that meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Does not have continuous flow. See Michigan Laws 324.30305Agricultural property: means real property used for farming in any of its branches, including cultivating of soil; growing and harvesting of any agricultural, horticultural, or floricultural commodity; dairying; raising of livestock, bees, fish, fur-bearing animals, or poultry; turf and tree farming; or performing any practices on a farm as an incident to, or in conjunction with, these farming operations. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Agricultural purpose: means the agricultural production of plants and animals useful to human beings and includes, but is not limited to, forages and sod crops, grains and feed crops, field crops, dairy animals and dairy products, poultry and poultry products, cervidae, livestock, including breeding and grazing, equine, fish and other aquacultural products, bees and bee products, berries, herbs, fruits, vegetables, flowers, seeds, grasses, nursery stock, trees and tree products, mushrooms, and other similar products, or any other product, as determined by the commission of agriculture, that incorporates the use of food, feed, fiber, or fur. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Air: means ambient or indoor air at the point of exposure. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 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 Aircraft transport vehicle: means that term as defined in section 20902. See Michigan Laws 333.21501 Airport rescue firefighter: means an employee of or volunteer assigned by a political subdivision to assist an organized fire department or public safety department who is certified under National Fire Protection Association standard no. See Michigan Laws 29.362 All appropriate inquiry: means an evaluation of environmental conditions at a property at the time of purchase, occupancy, or foreclosure that reasonably defines the existing conditions and circumstances at the property in conformance with 40 C. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 All appropriate inquiry: means an evaluation of environmental conditions at a property at the time of purchase, occupancy, or foreclosure that reasonably defines the existing conditions and circumstances at the property in conformance with 40 CFR 312. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 All hazard incident: means an incident, whether natural or human-caused, that requires an organized response by a public, private, or governmental entity to protect life, public health or safety, or other values or to minimize any disruption of governmental, social, or economic services. See Michigan Laws 324.51501 Allegation: something that someone says happened. Altered or degraded wetland: means wetland that meets any of the following criteria:
(i) Has been partially or fully drained, such as by ditching, tiling, or pumping. See Michigan Laws 324.30301Alternative program of care and treatment: means an outpatient program of care and treatment suitable to the individual's needs under the supervision of a psychiatrist that is developed in accordance with person-centered planning under section 712. See Michigan Laws 330.1500 Ambulance: means that term as defined in section 20902. See Michigan Laws 333.21501 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. Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments. Ancillary facility: means any revolving credit agreement, agreement establishing a line of credit, or letter of credit; reimbursement agreement; interest rate exchange or similar agreement; currency exchange agreement; commodity exchange agreement; interest rate floor or cap; option, put, call, or similar agreement to hedge payment, currency, commodity, rate, spread, or similar exposure; investment agreement; float agreement; forward agreement or other investment arrangement; insurance contract; surety bond; commitment to purchase or sell securities; purchase or sale agreement or commitment; or other contract or agreement or other security agreement approved by the authority under this act, including without limitation any arrangement referred to in this act. See Michigan Laws 12.272 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 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. 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. Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal. Appliance: means a refrigerator, dehumidifier, freezer, oven, range, microwave oven, washer, dryer, dishwasher, trash compactor, window room air conditioner, television, or computer. See Michigan Laws 324.17201 Applied behavior analysis services: means services provided to clients that are included in the practice of applied behavior analysis. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Appointment: means all means of selection, promotion, appointing or employing any person to hold any office, place or position of employment subject to civil service. See Michigan Laws 51.365 Appraisal: A determination of property value. 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 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. Assessment tool: means the water withdrawal assessment tool provided for in section 32706a. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account. Assistant behavior analyst: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized under this part to engage in practice as an assistant behavior analyst. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Associated facilities: means restrooms, shelters, campgrounds, and parking lots directly related to trails or waterways projects. See Michigan Laws 324.71101 ASTM: means ASTM international, formerly the American society for testing and materials. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Athletic trainer: means an individual engaged in the practice of athletic training. See Michigan Laws 333.17901 Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court. Attended terminal: means a terminal, other than a remote control terminal, where an individual knowledgeable in the aboveground liquid storage tank filling operation is physically in attendance and control during the entire delivery of a flammable liquid and has as his or her primary responsibility supervising the storage tank filling operation. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Attorney general: means the department of the attorney general. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 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. ATV: means a vehicle with 3 or more wheels that is designed for off-road use, has low-pressure tires, has a seat designed to be straddled by the rider, and is powered by a 50cc to 1,000cc gasoline engine or an engine of comparable size using other fuels. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Authority: means the Michigan finance authority created by Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 12.272 Authorizing body: means that term as defined in section 501, 521, or 551, as applicable. See Michigan Laws 380.381 Authorizing body: means any of the following that issues a contract as provided in this part:
(i) The board of a school district. See Michigan Laws 380.501Authorizing body: means the governing board of a state public university that issues a contract as provided in this part. See Michigan Laws 380.521 Authorizing body: means any of the following that issues a contract as provided in this part:
(i) The board of a school district. See Michigan Laws 380.551BACB: means the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, a nonprofit corporation that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 501, or its successor, as determined by the board. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Background concentration: means the concentration or level of a hazardous substance that exists in the environment at or regionally proximate to a facility that is not attributable to any release at or regionally proximate to the facility. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 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. Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms. Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays. Ballot container: means a container that is used for transporting and storing voted ballots, as described and approved under section 24j. See Michigan Laws 168.14a 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. Base state: means the state selected by a motor carrier according to the procedures established by the uniform program. See Michigan Laws 29.472 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. Baseline environmental assessment: means a written document that describes the results of an all appropriate inquiry and the sampling and analysis that confirm that the property is or contains a facility. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Behavior analyst: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized under this part to engage in the practice of applied behavior analysis. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Behavior technician: means an individual who is not licensed or authorized to practice a profession under this part and who delivers applied behavior analysis services under the delegation and supervision of a behavior analyst and meets the requirements of section 18263. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Beneficiary: 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: means , in relation to a deceased veteran, the surviving husband or wife, the child or children, or the surviving dependent mother, dependent father, dependent person standing in loco parentis, or dependent brothers and sisters, in the order named, which determination may be made by the probate court of the county of residence of the veteran at the time of death on petition of the adjutant general. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Beneficiary: means , in relation to a deceased veteran, the surviving husband or wife, child or children, or the surviving mother, father, person standing in loco parentis, brothers and sisters, in the order named, which determination may be made by the probate court of the county of residence of the veteran at the time of death on petition of the adjutant general. See Michigan Laws 35.972 benefits: shall mean all moneys paid or payable by the United States through the veterans administration. See Michigan Laws 35.71 benefits: means advantages resulting from a project to public corporations, the inhabitants of public corporations, the inhabitants of this state, and property within public corporations. See Michigan Laws 324.30901 Bequest: Property gifted by will. Biofuel: means any renewable liquid or gas fuel offered for sale as a fuel that is derived from recently living organisms or their metabolic by-products and meets applicable quality standards, including, but not limited to, ethanol, ethanol-blended fuel, biodiesel, and biodiesel blends. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Biogas: means a biofuel that is a gas. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Block: means block as that term is used by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census in conducting its 1980 decennial census. See Michigan Laws 4.804 Block: means block as that term is used by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census in conducting the 2010 decennial census. See Michigan Laws 4.2006 Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Michigan Laws 12.272 Board: means the municipal fire service classification board created by section 2. See Michigan Laws 28.651 Board: means the state fire safety board created in section 3b. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Board: means the Michigan veterans' trust fund board of trustees created in subsection (1). See Michigan Laws 35.603b Board: means the state administrative board. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Board: means the state administrative board. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Board: means the brownfield redevelopment board created in section 20104a. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Board: means a river management board created as the governing body of a river management district in accordance with this part. See Michigan Laws 324.31101 Board: means the county board of commissioners. See Michigan Laws 324.31301 Board: means the board of foresters created in section 53505(1). See Michigan Laws 324.53501 Board certified: means certified to practice in a particular medical specialty by a national board recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties or the American Osteopathic Association. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Board of trustees: means the board of trustees of a corporation created under or governed by this act. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Bond: means a bond, note, financial instrument, or other evidence of indebtedness or obligation issued by the authority under this act. See Michigan Laws 12.272 Bond: means a performance bond from a surety company authorized to transact business in this state, a certificate of deposit, a cash bond, or an irrevocable letter of credit, in favor of the department. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Bonds: means private activity bonds subject to the unified volume limitation and any other bonds, notes, and evidences of indebtedness, including certain lease and installment purchase obligations, that would be treated by the internal revenue service as private activity bonds unless issued with an allocation from the unified volume limitation. See Michigan Laws 12.112 Bonds: means the bonds issued under part 193 or former Act No. See Michigan Laws 324.19501 Bonds: means the bonds authorized under the clean Michigan initiative act, 1998 PA 284, MCL 324. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Bonds: means the bonds authorized under the Great Lakes water quality bond authorization act. See Michigan Laws 324.19701 Bonds: means the bonds issued under part 713 or former Act No. See Michigan Laws 324.71501 Bottomland: means the land area of an inland lake or stream that lies below the ordinary high-water mark and that may or may not be covered by water. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Bottomlands: means land in the Great Lakes, and bays and harbors of the Great Lakes, lying below and lakeward of the ordinary high-water mark as described in section 32502. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 Bottomlands: means the unpatented lake bottomlands of the Great Lakes. See Michigan Laws 324.76101 Breast height: means 4. See Michigan Laws 324.52501 Brine: means a liquid produced as a by-product of oil or natural gas production or exploration. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Building: means a structure, framework, or place for housing 1 or more persons or a tank, receptacle, or container for the storage of commodities or other materials. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Bureau: means the bureau of fire services created in section 1b. See Michigan Laws 29.1 by-product: means any material that is produced by, is incident to, or results from industrial, commercial, or governmental activity or any other activity or enterprise, that is determined to be liquid by method 9095 (paint filter liquids test) as described in "Test methods for evaluating solid wastes, physical/chemical methods" United States Environmental Protection Agency publication no. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Cancellation: means the nullification of a notary public commission due to an error or defect or because the notary public is no longer entitled to the commission. See Michigan Laws 55.263 Capillary fringe: means the portion of the aquifer above an unconfined saturated zone in which groundwater is drawn upward by capillary force and can include the presence of LNAPL. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Care: includes treatment, control, transportation, confinement, and isolation in a facility or other location. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 Care or care placement services: means the provision of care, treatment, education, training, instruction, supervision, or recreation to a child, an elderly individual, or an individual with a disability. See Michigan Laws 28.832 Carrier: means an individual who serves as a potential source of infection and who harbors or who the department reasonably believes to harbor a specific infectious agent or a serious communicable disease or infection, whether or not there is present discernible disease. See Michigan Laws 333.5201 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. Certificate: means a numbered document issued by the state fire marshal to a person who has obtained certification under this act. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Certificated teacher: means an individual who holds a valid teaching certificate issued by the superintendent of public instruction under section 1531. See Michigan Laws 380.551 Certification: means either of the following:
(i) A determination by the state fire marshal that a person meets the certification requirements for a position within the fire service, as established by the council under this act. See Michigan Laws 29.362Certification: means certification issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to a nursing home as evidence that the nursing home complies with requirements under federal law for participation in Medicare. See Michigan Laws 333.22101 Certification: means a process where an independent third party organization assesses and evaluates forest management practices according to the standards of a certification program resulting in an issuance of a certificate of compliance or conformity. See Michigan Laws 324.52501 Certification program: means a program that develops specific standards that measure whether forest management practices are consistent with principles of sustainable forestry. See Michigan Laws 324.52501 Certified health department: means a city, county, or district department of health certified under section 11716. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Certified nurse midwife: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification in the practice of nurse midwifery by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Certified nurse midwife: means a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification in the profession specialty field of nurse midwifery by the board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.17101 Certified nurse practitioner: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification as a nurse practitioner by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Certified prescribed burn manager: means an individual who has successfully completed the certification program of the department under section 51513 and possesses a valid certification number. See Michigan Laws 324.51501 Cesspool: means a cavity in the ground that receives waste to be partially absorbed directly or indirectly by the surrounding soil. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Chambers: A judge's office. Characteristic fish curve: means a fish functional response curve that describes the abundance of characteristic fish populations in response to reductions in index flow as published in the document entitled "Report to the Michigan Legislature in response to 2006 Public Act 34" by the former groundwater conservation advisory council dated July 2007, which is incorporated by reference. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 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. Chief executive officer: means the mayor of a city, the village manager of a village, the township supervisor of a township, or 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. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Chief executive official: means :
(i) In the case of a county with an elected county executive, the county executive. See Michigan Laws 30.402chief of an organized fire department: means the chief operating officer of an organized fire department. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Child: means an individual who is less than 18 years of age and is not emancipated by operation of law as provided in section 4 of 1968 PA 293, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 28.832 chronic disease: includes an impairment or deviation from normal having 1 or more of the following characteristics:
(a) It is permanent. See Michigan Laws 333.5401Cigarette: means that term as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493 CISM services: means services provided by a critical incident stress management team or critical incident stress management team member to an emergency service provider affected by a critical incident or a series of critical incidents that are designed to assist the emergency service provider in coping with critical incident stress or to mitigate reactions to critical incident stress. See Michigan Laws 333.20981 CISM team: means an organized community or local crisis response team that is a member of the Michigan Crisis Response Association Network. See Michigan Laws 333.20981 CISM team member: means an individual who is specially trained to provide critical incident stress management services as a member of a critical incident stress management team. See Michigan Laws 333.20981 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 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 Cleanup criteria for unrestricted residential use: means any of the following:
(i) Cleanup criteria that satisfy the requirements for the residential category in section 20120a(1)(a). See Michigan Laws 324.20101Clinical certificate: means the written conclusion and statements of a physician or a licensed psychologist that an individual is a person requiring treatment, together with the information and opinions, in reasonable detail, that underlie the conclusion, on the form prescribed by the department or on a substantially similar form. See Michigan Laws 330.1400 Clinical nurse specialist-certified: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification as a clinical nurse specialist by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Code: means the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Cold river system: means a stream or small river that has the appropriate summer water temperature that, based on statewide averages, sustains a fish community composed predominantly of cold-water fish species, and where small increases in water temperature will not cause a decline in these populations, as determined by a scientific methodology adopted by order of the commission. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Cold-transitional river system: means a stream or river that has the appropriate summer water temperature that, based on statewide averages, sustains a fish community composed predominantly of cold-water fish species, and where small increases in water temperature will cause a decline in the proportion of cold-water species, as determined by a scientific methodology adopted by order of the commission. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Collection site: means , subject to subdivision (e), a site consisting of a parcel or adjacent parcels of real property where any of the following are accumulated:
(i) 500 or more scrap tires. See Michigan Laws 324.16901Collector: means a person who receives covered electronic devices from consumers and arranges for the delivery of the covered electronic devices to a recycler. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Combustible liquid: means a liquid with a flash point at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and below 200 degrees Fahrenheit. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Commercial motor vehicle: means a commercial vehicle as defined in section 7 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 Commercial motor vehicle: means that term as defined in section 74101. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Commercial purposes: means offering for sale, selling, giving, or furnishing to others. See Michigan Laws 324.48728 Commercial waste: means all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other nonmanufacturing activities, but does not include household waste from single residences, hazardous waste, or industrial waste. See Michigan Laws 324.17501 Commission: means the Michigan state capitol commission established in section 5. See Michigan Laws 4.1942 Commission: means the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards created in this act or, by express delegation of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards, its executive director and staff. See Michigan Laws 28.602 Commission: means the commission on law enforcement standards created under the commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 28.632 Commission: means the Michigan law enforcement officers memorial monument fund commission created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 28.782 Commission: means the school safety commission created in section 5. See Michigan Laws 28.803 Commission: means the civil service commission herein created. See Michigan Laws 51.365 Commission: means the state survey and remonumentation commission created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 54.262 Commission: means the Michigan-Indiana state line commission established in section 5(1). See Michigan Laws 54.313 Commission: means the health information technology commission created under section 2503. See Michigan Laws 333.2501 Commission: means the commission of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Commission: means the Michigan jobs commission. See Michigan Laws 324.79501 Commission: means the Michigan state waterways commission created in part 781. See Michigan Laws 324.79101 Commissioner: means any one of the 3 commissioners of that commission. See Michigan Laws 51.365 Commissioner: means the county drain commissioner or the county road commission in counties not having a drain commissioner, and, if more than 1 county is involved, each of the drain commissioners or drain commissioner and road commission in counties having no drain commissioner. See Michigan Laws 324.30701 Committee: means the underwater salvage and preserve committee created in section 76103. See Michigan Laws 324.76101 Commodity: means crumb rubber, tire chips, a ring or slab cut from a tire for use as a weight, or a product die-cut or punched from a tire, or any other product that, as determined by the department based on the product's production cost and value, is not likely to result in an accumulation, at the site of production or use, that poses a threat to public health or the environment. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Commodity storage area: means 1 or more locations within a collection site where a commodity is stored. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Common carrier: means a company that transports mail, on reasonable request, on regular routes and at set rates. See Michigan Laws 168.2 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. Communicable disease: means an illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that results from transmission of that infectious agent or its products from a reservoir to a susceptible host, directly as from an infected individual or animal, or indirectly through the agency of an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 Community cleanup site: means a site owned by a local unit of government or nonprofit organization that has received a scrap tire cleanup grant under section 16908(2)(c) and uses this site for the purpose of collecting scrap tires from residents as part of a community cleanup day or resident drop off. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Community college: means a community college organized under the community college act of 1966, 1966 PA 331, MCL 389. See Michigan Laws 380.501 Community college: means a community college organized under the community college act of 1966, 1966 PA 331, MCL 389. See Michigan Laws 380.551 Community district education trust fund: means the community district education trust fund created in section 12. See Michigan Laws 12.252 Community recreation plan: means a 5-year, comprehensive recreation plan for a given local unit of government, approval of which is required by the department for participation in the land and water conservation fund program pursuant to the land and water conservation fund act of 1965, public law 88-578, 78 Stat. See Michigan Laws 324.71601 Community supply: means that term as it is defined in section 2 of the safe drinking water act, 1976 PA 399, MCL 325. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Compact: means the Great Lakes-St. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Compensation: means salaries. See Michigan Laws 4.511 Competent clinical opinion: means the clinical judgment of a physician, psychiatrist, or licensed psychologist. See Michigan Laws 330.1400 Complainant: means a resident veteran, family member of a resident veteran, legal guardian or individual with power of attorney for a resident veteran, or legislator who files a complaint under section 4. See Michigan Laws 4.771 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Comprehensive dental services: means clinical evaluation, including diagnosis and treatment planning; imagery services; and indicated treatment that may include preventative, restorative, and surgical procedures that are considered necessary for an individual patient. See Michigan Laws 333.21601 Computer: means a desktop personal computer or laptop computer, a computer monitor, or beginning April 1, 2011, a printer. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Computer takeback program: means a program required under section 17305(c). See Michigan Laws 324.17301 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. Consecutive days: means calendar days, but does not include Saturday, Sunday, or state- or federally recognized holidays. See Michigan Laws 333.22101 Conservation: means the wise use of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.52501 Consolidated township: means a general law or charter township formed by the consolidation of 2 or more townships as prescribed by section 16b to 16j. See Michigan Laws 46.16a Consultant: means a person that meets the requirements set forth in section 21325. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Consumer: means a person who used a covered electronic device primarily for personal or small business purposes in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Consumptive use: means that portion of water withdrawn or withheld from the Great Lakes basin and assumed to be lost or otherwise not returned to the Great Lakes basin due to evaporation, incorporation into products or agricultural products, use as part of the packaging of products or agricultural products, or other processes. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Container: means any portable device in which a liquid industrial by-product is stored, transported, treated, or otherwise handled. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Containers: means glass, metal, or plastic bottles, cans, jars, or other receptacles that contain any substance. See Michigan Laws 324.16301 contaminated: means the presence of a regulated substance in soil, surface water, or groundwater or air that has been released from an underground storage tank system at a concentration exceeding the level set forth in the RCBA tier I screening levels established under section 20120a(1)(a) and (b). See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time. Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Contract: means the executive act taken by an authorizing body that evidences the authorization of a public school academy and that establishes, subject to the constitutional powers of the state board and applicable law, the written instrument executed by an authorizing body conferring certain rights, franchises, privileges, and obligations on a public school academy, as provided by this part, and confirming the status of a public school academy as a public school in this state. See Michigan Laws 380.501 Contract: means the executive act taken by an authorizing body that evidences the authorization of an urban high school academy and that establishes, subject to the constitutional powers of the state board and applicable law, the written instrument executed by an authorizing body conferring certain rights, franchises, privileges, and obligations on an urban high school academy, as provided by this part, and confirming the status of an urban high school academy as a public school in this state. See Michigan Laws 380.521 Contract: means the executive act taken by an authorizing body that evidences the authorization of a school of excellence and that establishes, subject to the constitutional powers of the state board and applicable law, the written instrument executed by an authorizing body conferring certain rights, franchises, privileges, and obligations on a school of excellence, as provided by this part, and confirming the status of a school of excellence as a public school in this state. See Michigan Laws 380.551 Contribution: means the promise, grant, or payment of money or property of any kind or value, including promises to pay made to an organization or professional fund-raiser. See Michigan Laws 14.302 Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant. Cool river system: means a stream or river that has the appropriate summer water temperature that, based on statewide averages, sustains a fish community composed mostly of warm-water fish species, but also contains some cool-water species or cold-water species, or both, as determined by a scientific methodology adopted by order of the commission. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Coordinates: means the x and y plane rectangular coordinate values computed for a geographic position from a pair of mutually perpendicular axes. See Michigan Laws 54.231a Coordinating committee: means the committee designated and elected as provided in section 16d in connection with a township consolidation. See Michigan Laws 46.16a Corner: means an original public land survey corner, a protracted public land survey corner, a property controlling corner, a witness monument, or a property corner. See Michigan Laws 54.202 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: means a municipal health facilities corporation incorporated under this act or created under 1913 PA 350, MCL 331. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 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: means that term as it is defined in section 21302. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Corrective action: means the investigation, assessment, cleanup, removal, containment, isolation, treatment, or monitoring of regulated substances released into the environment from an underground storage tank system that is necessary under this part to prevent, minimize, or mitigate injury to the public health, safety, or welfare, the environment, or natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Costs: means 1 or more of the following costs that may be chargeable to the waste management project as a capital cost under generally acceptable accounting principles:
(i) The cost or fair market value of the acquisition or construction of lands, property rights, utility extensions, disposal facilities, buildings, structures, fixtures, machinery, equipment, access roads, easements, and franchises. See Michigan Laws 324.11901costs of response activity: means all costs incurred in taking or conducting a response activity, including enforcement costs. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Council: means the legislative council established under section 15 of article IV of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 4.771 Council: means the firefighters training council created under section 3. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Council: means the Michigan emergency management advisory council. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Council: means the prosecuting attorneys coordinating council. See Michigan Laws 49.102 Council: means a watershed council created under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.31101 Council: means the Great Lakes-St. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Council: means a trail management council established pursuant to section 72106. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 counseling: means the rendering to individuals, groups, families, organizations, or the general public in accordance with accepted and established ethics a service involving clinical counseling principles, methods, or procedures for the purpose of achieving social, personal, career, and emotional development and with the goal of promoting and enhancing healthy self-actualizing and satisfying lifestyles whether the services are rendered in an educational, business, health, private practice, or human services setting. See Michigan Laws 333.18101 Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff. county: means a county or a county agency in that county, other than the county road commission. See Michigan Laws 45.203 County: means a county establishing a corporation incorporated under, or governed by, this act. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 County agency: means an agency created or controlled by a county board of commissioners or a county executive, a board of county road commissioners, or an office of the county drain commissioner. See Michigan Laws 324.31201 County board: means the county board of commissioners, and if more than 1 county is involved, the boards of commissioners of each of those counties. See Michigan Laws 324.30701 County juvenile agency: means a county that has approved a resolution in accordance with section 3. See Michigan Laws 45.622 County juvenile agency services: means that term as defined in section 117a of the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 45.622 County peer review group: means a county peer review group appointed under section 9b of the state survey and remonumentation act, 1990 PA 345, MCL 54. See Michigan Laws 54.313 County plan: means a county monumentation and remonumentation plan and perpetual monument maintenance plan established under section 8. See Michigan Laws 54.262 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 representative: means the individual performing the duties of county representative under section 9 of the state survey and remonumentation act, 1990 PA 345, MCL 54. See Michigan Laws 54.202 County representative: means the individual obligated to perform the duties of county representative under section 9. See Michigan Laws 54.262 County road: means a county primary road or county local road as described in section 5 of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Course of study: means an individual class, or group of classes, in which an eligible person is enrolled for the purpose of obtaining a not-yet-completed training program, obtaining a not-yet-completed certificate program, or obtaining a not-yet-completed associate, bachelor's, or master's degree. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Court: means the probate court or the court with responsibility with regard to mental health services for the county of residence of the subject of a petition, or for the county in which the subject of a petition was found. See Michigan Laws 330.1400 Court: means the probate court or the court with responsibility with regard to mental health matters for the county in which an individual with a developmental disability resides or was found. See Michigan Laws 330.1500 Court: means a circuit court, and if more than 1 judicial circuit is involved, the circuit court designated by the county board or otherwise authorized by law to preside over an action. See Michigan Laws 324.30701 Covered computer: means a computer that was or will be used primarily for personal or small business purposes in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Covered electronic device: means a covered computer or covered video display device. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Covered individual: means an individual who meets any of the following requirements:
(i) Is employed by a qualified entity and has, seeks to have, or may have supervised or unsupervised access to a child, an elderly individual, or individual with a disability for whom the qualified entity provides care or care placement services. See Michigan Laws 28.832Covered video display device: means a video display device that was or will be used primarily for personal or small business purposes in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Crayfish: means any arthropod of the decapoda family. See Michigan Laws 324.48728 Credential analysis: means a process or service by which a third party affirms the validity of an identity document described in section 25(6)(c) through a review of public and proprietary data sources conducted remotely. See Michigan Laws 55.263 Criminal history record information: means that term as defined in section 1a of 1925 PA 289, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 28.832 Criteria for treatment: means the criteria specified in section 515 for admission of an adult with an intellectual disability to a facility, private facility, or alternative program of care and treatment under section 518. See Michigan Laws 330.1500 Critical incident: means an actual or perceived event or situation that involves crisis, disaster, trauma, or emergency. See Michigan Laws 333.20981 Critical incident stress: means stress or trauma that an emergency service provider may experience in providing an emergency service in response to a critical incident or a series of critical incidents. See Michigan Laws 333.20981 Crustacea: means any freshwater crayfish, shrimp, or prawn of the order decapoda. See Michigan Laws 324.48701 Cyber school: means a school of excellence established under this part that has been issued a contract to be organized and operated as a cyber school under section 552(2) and that provides full-time instruction to pupils through online learning or otherwise on a computer or other technology, which instruction and learning may be remote from a school facility. See Michigan Laws 380.551 Dam: means an artificial barrier, including dikes, embankments, and appurtenant works, that impounds, diverts, or is designed to impound or divert water. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Dam: means an artificial barrier, structure, or facility, and appurtenant works, used to regulate or maintain the level of an inland lake. See Michigan Laws 324.30701 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Dams: means dams, embankments, dikes, pumps, weirs, locks, gates, tubes, ditches, or any other devices or construction to impound or release water. See Michigan Laws 324.31301 Dark sky preserve: means an area designated in section 75102. See Michigan Laws 324.75101 Dealer: means a person engaged in the sale, lease, or rental of an ORV as a regular business or, for purposes of selling licenses under section 81116, any other person authorized by the department to sell licenses or permits, or both, under this act. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Decedent: A deceased person. 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. Degradable: means capable of being broken down by biodegradation, photodegradation, or chemical degradation into component parts within 360 days under exposure to the elements. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 Degradable: means capable of being broken down by biodegradation, photodegradation, or chemical degradation into component parts within 360 days under exposure to the elements. See Michigan Laws 324.16301 Delegated authority: means the county drain commissioner or any other person designated by the county board to perform duties required under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.30701 Dental home: means a network of individualized care based on risk assessment, that includes oral health education, dental screenings, preventative dental services, diagnostic services, comprehensive dental services, and emergency services. See Michigan Laws 333.21601 Dental school: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become dentists. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Dentist: means an individual who is licensed to engage in the practice of dentistry under part 166. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Department: means the department of military and veterans affairs. See Michigan Laws 4.771 Department: means the department of treasury. See Michigan Laws 12.131 Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 28.803 Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 28.832 Department: means the department of labor and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 29.472 Department: means the department of energy, labor, and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 54.202 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 54.262 Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 54.313 Department: means the department of state. See Michigan Laws 55.263 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.2501 Department: means the department of community health. See Michigan Laws 333.21601 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 environmental quality or its authorized agent. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.14301 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.14501 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.17501 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.19701 Department: means the director or his or her designee to whom the director delegates a power or duty by written instrument. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Department: means the department of natural resources, underground storage tank division. See Michigan Laws 324.21101 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.30301 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.32501 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Department: means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy. See Michigan Laws 324.14701 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.14721 Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.51501 Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.53501 Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.71601 Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.79501 Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Department of natural resources: means the principal state department created in section 501. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Dependent: means any individual who was substantially reliant for support upon the income of the deceased public safety officer. See Michigan Laws 28.632 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. Deputy: means any deputy, assistant or other subordinate officer, authorized pursuant to law to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See Michigan Laws 31.2 Designated advanced practice registered nurse: means a certified nurse midwife, certified nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist-certified. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Designated facility: means a treatment facility, storage facility, disposal facility, or reclamation facility that receives liquid industrial by-product from off-site. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Designated mental health professional: means an individual who is qualified in the area of mental illness or developmental disabilities and who is 1 of the following:
(i) A nurse. See Michigan Laws 333.2701Designated physician: means a physician qualified in 1 of the physician specialty areas identified in section 2711. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Designated professional: means a designated physician, designated advanced practice registered nurse, dentist, physician's assistant, or designated mental health professional. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Designated state-operated public boating access site: means a state-operated public boating access site designated under section 78105(2). See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Devise: To gift property by will. Diagnostic pharmaceutical agent: means a topically administered prescription drug or other topically administered drug used for the purpose of investigating, analyzing, and diagnosing a defect or abnormal condition of the human eye or ocular adnexa. See Michigan Laws 333.17401 Dietitian nutritionist: means an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of medical nutrition therapy under this article. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Direct and proximate: means that the antecedent event is a substantial factor in the result. See Michigan Laws 28.632 Director: means director of the department of licensing and regulatory affairs, or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 12.272 Director: means the director of the department of labor and economic growth. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Director: means the director of the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Director: means the director of the department of environmental quality or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Director: means the director of the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.14501 Director: means the director of the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 324.30301 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 324.32501 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 324.71601 Director: means the director of the department or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Director: means the administrative director of the commission. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Directors: means the directors or their designees of the departments of environmental quality, community health, agriculture and rural development, and state police. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Disaster: means an occurrence or threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from a natural or human-made cause, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, snowstorm, ice storm, tornado, windstorm, wave action, oil spill, water contamination, utility failure, hazardous peacetime radiological incident, major transportation accident, hazardous materials incident, epidemic, air contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, or hostile military action or paramilitary action, or similar occurrences resulting from terrorist activities, riots, or civil disorders. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Disaster: means an extraordinary misfortune caused by an enemy attack upon the United States or by civil disorder and resulting in widespread destruction of life and property. See Michigan Laws 31.2 Disaster relief forces: means all agencies of state, county, and municipal government, private and volunteer personnel, public officers and employees, and all other persons or groups of persons having duties or responsibilities under this act or pursuant to a lawful order or directive authorized by this act. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Discarded: means any of the following:
(i) Abandoned by being disposed of, burned, or incinerated; or accumulated, stored, or treated before, or instead of, being abandoned. See Michigan Laws 324.12101Discharge: means the accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, releasing, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping of liquid industrial by-product into the land, air, or water. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source: Disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of a liquid industrial by-product into or on land or water in such a manner that the liquid industrial by-product may enter the environment, or be emitted into the air, or discharged into surface water or groundwater. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous substance into or on any land or water so that the hazardous substance or any constituent of the hazardous substance may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any groundwater or surface water. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Disposal facility: means a facility or a part of a facility at which liquid industrial by-product is disposed. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Distributor: means a person who sells batteries to retailers in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.17101 District: means a river management district established under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.31101 District coordinator: means the state police emergency management division district coordinator. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Diversion: means a transfer of water from the Great Lakes basin into another watershed, or from the watershed of 1 of the Great Lakes into that of another by any means of transfer, including, but not limited to, a pipeline, canal, tunnel, aqueduct, channel, modification of the direction of a water course, tanker ship, tanker truck, or rail tanker but does not apply to water that is used in the Great Lakes basin or a Great Lake watershed to manufacture or produce a product that is then transferred out of the Great Lakes basin or watershed. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 DNAPL: means a dense nonaqueous-phase liquid with a specific gravity greater than 1 and composed of 1 or more organic compounds that are immiscible or sparingly soluble in water. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings. Domestic purposes: refers to burning that is any of the following:
(i) A fire within the curtilage of a dwelling where the material being burned has been properly placed in a debris burner constructed of metal or masonry, with a metal covering device with openings no larger than 3/4 of an inch. See Michigan Laws 324.51501Domestic septage: means liquid or solid material removed from a septic tank, cesspool, portable toilet, type III marine sanitation device, or similar storage or treatment works that receives only domestic sewage. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Domestic service: means military service by a veteran during the period of service in 1 or more states of the United States or in the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Domestic service: means military service by a veteran during the period of service in any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Domestic sewage: means waste and wastewater from humans or household operations. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Domestic treatment plant septage: means biosolids generated during the treatment of domestic sewage in a treatment works and transported to a receiving facility or managed in accordance with a residuals management program approved by the department. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Donee: The recipient of a gift. Donor: The person who makes a gift. Drug: means that term as defined in section 17703, but does not include a controlled substance as defined in section 7104 and included in schedule 2 under section 7214, an oral cortical steroid, or a prescription drug. See Michigan Laws 333.17401 Due care activities: means those activities conducted under section 20107a and 21304c. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Educational institution: means a public or private institution, or a separate school or department of a public or private institution, that is authorized by law or an accrediting body to grant or issue a diploma, degree, certificate, or license, or to grant approval to practice a profession or engage in an enterprise, and includes, but is not limited to, an academy, high school, college, university, community college, junior college, secondary school, extension course, or a business, nursing, professional, secretarial, technical, or vocational school. See Michigan Laws 168.2 Educational management company: means an entity that enters into an agreement with the governing board of a public school to provide comprehensive educational, administrative, management, or instructional services or staff to the public school. See Michigan Laws 380.521 Educational management organization: means an entity that enters into an agreement with the governing board of a public school to provide comprehensive educational, administrative, management, or instructional services or staff to the public school. See Michigan Laws 380.551 Elderly individual: means an individual who is 65 years of age or older. See Michigan Laws 28.832 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 Elector: means an individual who has the qualifications of an elector under section 492 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168. See Michigan Laws 61.1a Electrodiagnostic studies: means the testing of neuromuscular functions utilizing nerve conduction tests and needle electromyography. See Michigan Laws 333.17501 Electronic: means relating to technology that has electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Michigan Laws 55.263 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 Electronic notarization system: means a set or system of applications, programs, hardware, software, or technologies designed to enable a notary public to perform electronic notarizations. See Michigan Laws 55.263 Eligible educational institution: means a public or private college, university, vocational school, technical school, or trade school located in this state. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Eligible entity: means a law enforcement agency or organized fire department that is prescribed auto-injectable epinephrine. See Michigan Laws 28.821 Eligible person: means a member of the Michigan national guard who meets all of the following conditions:
(i) Is in active service. See Michigan Laws 32.432Embezzlement: 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: means any occasion or instance in which the governor determines state assistance is needed to supplement local efforts and capabilities to save lives, protect property and the public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the state. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Emergency interim successor: means a person designated pursuant to this act who, in the event the incumbent or his deputy is unavailable, is to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by law, or until the lawful incumbent or his deputy is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge of the duties of the office. See Michigan Laws 31.2 Emergency management coordinator: means a person appointed pursuant to section 9 to coordinate emergency management within the county or municipality. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Emergency service provider: means any of the following:
(i) An individual who provides emergency response services, including a law enforcement officer, corrections officer, firefighter, emergency medical services provider, dispatcher, emergency response communication employee, or rescue service provider. See Michigan Laws 333.20981End-user: means any of the following:
(i) A person who possesses a permit to burn tires under part 55. See Michigan Laws 324.16901Endowment fund: means the Michigan state parks endowment fund established in section 35a of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in section 74119. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 Enemy attack: means any attack or series of attacks by a power hostile to the United States which causes or may cause death, injury or substantial damage to the people and property in the United States by sabotage, or by the use of bombs, missiles or shells, or any other weapons of conventional, atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, biological or any other nature, process or means. See Michigan Laws 31.2 Energy advisory committee: means the committee created under section 2. See Michigan Laws 10.81 Energy emergency: means a condition of danger to the health, safety, or welfare of the citizens of this state due to an impending or present energy shortage. See Michigan Laws 10.81 Enforcement costs: means court expenses, reasonable attorney fees of the attorney general, and other reasonable expenses of an executive department that are incurred in relation to enforcement under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 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, labor organization, or any other association, corporation, trust, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 380.501 Entity: means a nonprofit corporation that is organized under the nonprofit corporation act, 1982 PA 162, MCL 450. See Michigan Laws 380.521 Entity: means a partnership, nonprofit or business corporation, labor organization, or any other association, corporation, trust, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 380.551 enumeration district: means enumeration district as that term is used by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census in conducting its 1980 decennial census. See Michigan Laws 4.804 Environmental area: means an area of the shoreland determined by the department on the basis of studies and surveys to be necessary for the preservation and maintenance of fish and wildlife. See Michigan Laws 324.32301 Environmental audit: means a voluntary and internal evaluation conducted on or after the effective date of this part of 1 or more facilities or an activity at 1 or more facilities regulated under state, federal, regional, or local laws or ordinances, or of environmental management systems or processes related to the facilities or activity, or of a previously corrected specific instance of noncompliance, that is designed to identify historical or current noncompliance and prevent noncompliance or improve compliance with 1 or more of those laws, or to identify an environmental hazard, contamination, or other adverse environmental condition, or to improve an environmental management system or process. See Michigan Laws 324.14801 Environmental audit report: means a document or a set of documents, each labeled at the time it is created "environmental audit report: privileged document" and created as a result of an environmental audit. See Michigan Laws 324.14801 Environmental contamination: means the release of a hazardous substance, or the potential release of a discarded hazardous substance, in a quantity which is or may become injurious to the environment or to the public health, safety, or welfare. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Environmental health: means an area of activity dealing with the protection of human health through the management, control, and prevention of environmental factors that may adversely affect the health of individuals. See Michigan Laws 333.18401 Environmental wastes: means all environmental pollutants, wastes, discharges, and emissions, regardless of how they are regulated and regardless of whether they are released to the general environment or the workplace environment. See Michigan Laws 324.14301 Equine access locations: means open access roads, management roads, forestry access roads, 2-track and single-track trails that are not wildlife paths, staging areas for pack and saddle animals to be dropped off or picked up, and associated wilderness campsites. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 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 Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. Estate: means the ownership of real or personal property at the time of death, the title to which was held either in the sole name of the decedent or by the entireties, tenancy in common, or joint tenancy with the spouse, child, or parent of the decedent, but does not include real property owned by the decedent as the homestead of the decedent. See Michigan Laws 35.801 Evaluation: means those activities including, but not limited to, investigation, studies, sampling, analysis, development of feasibility studies, and administrative efforts that are needed to determine the nature, extent, and impact of a release or threat of release and necessary response activities. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 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. Exacerbation: means the occurrence of either of the following caused by an activity undertaken by the person who owns or operates the property, with respect to contamination for which the person is not liable:
(i) Migration of contamination beyond the boundaries of the property that is the source of the release at levels above cleanup criteria for unrestricted residential use unless a criterion is not relevant because exposure is reliably restricted as otherwise provided in this part. See Michigan Laws 324.20101Executive secretary: means the executive secretary of the council. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Executive secretary: means the executive secretary of the council. See Michigan Laws 49.102 Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent Expand: means to occupy a larger area of an inland lake or stream than authorized by a permit issued under this part for marina mooring structures and watercraft moored at the marina. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Expedited review: means an expedited review of an application for a construction permit under section 4112. See Michigan Laws 324.4101 Expenses: means expenses incurred by the legislator in connection with the discharge of his official duties. See Michigan Laws 4.511 facility: means a Michigan veterans' facility established under 1885 PA 152, MCL 36. See Michigan Laws 4.771 Facility: means all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on land for treating, storing, disposing of, or reclamation of liquid industrial by-product. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Facility: means that term as it is defined in part 201. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Facility: means any area, place, parcel or parcels of property, or portion of a parcel of property where a hazardous substance in excess of the concentrations that satisfy the cleanup criteria for unrestricted residential use has been released, deposited, disposed of, or otherwise comes to be located. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 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. Farm: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan right to farm act, 1981 PA 93, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Farm: means that term as it is defined in section 2 of the Michigan right to farm act, 1981 PA 93, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Farm operation: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan right to farm act, 1981 PA 93, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Farm operation: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan right to farm act, 1981 PA 93, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Farm product: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan right to farm act, 1981 PA 93, MCL 286. See Michigan Laws 324.73101 Farm property: means land used in the production of a farm product and all lands contained within the farm. See Michigan Laws 324.73101 Farm vehicle: means either of the following:
(i) An implement of husbandry as defined in section 21 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 324.81101Feasibility study: means a process for developing, evaluating, and selecting appropriate response activities. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it. Feldenkrais method: means a system of somatic education in which touch and words are used to eliminate faulty habits, learn new patterns of self-organization and action, and improve a person's own functional movement patterns. See Michigan Laws 333.17951 Felony: means a violation of the laws of this state, another state, or the United States that is designated as a felony. See Michigan Laws 29.362 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 fence: means a structure or natural barrier which is sufficient to confine an animal as defined in section 1 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 43.51 FGCC: means the federal geodetic control committee of the United States department of commerce or a successor agency to the committee. See Michigan Laws 54.231a Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. 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 Financing costs: means all capitalized interest; operating and debt service reserves; costs of issuance; fees for credit and liquidity enhancements; any item of expense directly or indirectly payable or reimbursable by the authority and related to the authorization, sale, or issuance of bonds, including without limitation underwriting fees, counsel fees, fees of the attorney general, and fees and expenses of consultants, advisors, fiduciaries, and rating agencies; and other costs as the authority determines to be desirable in issuing, securing, and marketing and remarketing the bonds. See Michigan Laws 12.272 Fire alarm system: means an assemblage of components that indicates or provides a warning of a fire emergency, installation of which is required by the bureau under rules promulgated under section 3c. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Fire chief: means the individual who serves as the administrative head of an organized fire department. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Fire chief: means that term as defined in section 1 of the fire prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29. See Michigan Laws 324.14701 Fire hazard: means a building, premises, place, or thing that, because of its nature, location, occupancy, condition, or use, may cause loss, damage, or injury to persons or property by fire, explosion, or action of the elements. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Fire inspector: means an employee of or volunteer assigned by a political subdivision to assist an organized fire department or public safety department whose job description, duties, or responsibilities include, or who is in a capacity that includes responsibility for, inspecting property for fire code violations and enforcing the general fire codes of the jurisdiction that he or she serves. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Fire instructor: means an employee of or volunteer assigned by a political subdivision to assist an organized fire department or public safety department, or other individual who is certified to instruct 1 or more council-approved fire service training programs. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Fire investigator: means an employee of or volunteer assigned by a political subdivision to assist an organized fire department or public safety department who is certified under National Fire Protection Association standard no. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Fire officer: means a current member of an organized fire department or public safety department assigned a rank above firefighter who is responsible for, or is in a capacity that includes responsibility for, performing supervisory or management responsibilities of an emergency or nonemergency nature within his or her organized fire department or public safety department. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Fire service: means the engaging in the directing or management of emergency response activities, fire safety prevention inspection, plans examination, fire investigation, hazardous material response, technical rescue response, airport rescue response, airport rescue firefighting, fire service instruction, and the enforcement of the general fire laws of this state and the communities therein by fire service members and organized fire departments and public safety departments. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Fire service classification scale: means the criteria by which a fire service delivery system is evaluated. See Michigan Laws 28.651 Fire service delivery system: means all the equipment, personnel, procedures, and resources which are utilized in the prevention and suppression of fire. See Michigan Laws 28.651 Fire service discipline: means each of the respective certifiable fire service positions included under this act. See Michigan Laws 29.362 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 Firefighter: means that term as defined in section 1 of the fire prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29. See Michigan Laws 28.821 Firefighter: means a member of an organized fire department, including a volunteer member or a member paid on call, who is responsible for, or is in a capacity that includes responsibility for, the extinguishment of fires, the directing of the extinguishment of fires, the prevention and detection of fires, and the enforcement of the general fire laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Firefighter: means that term as defined in section 2 of the firefighters training council act, 1966 PA 291, MCL 29. See Michigan Laws 29.331 Firefighter: means a member of an organized fire department or public safety department who is responsible for, or is in a capacity that includes responsibility for, the extinguishment of fires, the directing of the extinguishment of fires, the directing or management of emergency response activities, fire safety prevention inspection, plans examination, fire investigation, hazardous materials response, technical rescue response, airport rescue response, airport rescue firefighting, fire service instruction, and the enforcement of the general fire laws of this state and the community where he or she serves. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Firefighter training: means an education or training program including a program eligible to receive funding from the fireworks safety fund created in section 11 of the Michigan fireworks safety act, 2011 PA 256, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Firm: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, association, or corporation. See Michigan Laws 29.1 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. Fish: means game fish or nongame fish as those terms are defined in section 48701. See Michigan Laws 324.73101 Flammable liquid: means a liquid with a flash point below 100 degrees Fahrenheit and a vapor pressure that does not exceed 40 pounds per square inch absolute at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Flammable material: means any substance that will burn, including, but not limited to, refuse, debris, waste forest material, brush, stumps, logs, rubbish, fallen timber, grass, stubble, leaves, fallow land, slash, crops, or crop residue. See Michigan Laws 324.51501 Flint settlement trust fund: means the Flint settlement trust fund created in section 11. See Michigan Laws 12.252 Flood risk area: means the area of the shoreland that is determined by the department on the basis of studies and surveys to be subject to flooding from effects of levels of the Great Lakes and is not limited to 1,000 feet. See Michigan Laws 324.32301 Flow-based safety factor: means a protective measure of the assessment tool that reduces the portion of index flow available for a withdrawal to 1/2 of the index flow for the purpose of minimizing the risk of adverse resource impacts caused by statistical uncertainty. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Food establishment septage: means material pumped from a grease interceptor, grease trap, or other appurtenance used to retain grease or other fatty substances contained in restaurant wastes and that is blended into a uniform mixture, consisting of not more than 1 part of that restaurant-derived material per 3 parts of domestic septage prior to land application or is disposed of at a receiving facility. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 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 Foreclosure: means possession by a lender of a property on which it has foreclosed on a security interest or the expiration of a lawful redemption period, whichever occurs first. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Foreign service: means military service by a veteran during the period of service anywhere outside of any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Foreign service: means military service by a veteran during the period of service anywhere outside of any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Forensic laboratory: means a laboratory maintained by the department of state police or a municipality that meets all of the following criteria:
(i) Has at least 1 regularly employed forensic scientist who conducts analyses of controlled substances or androgenic anabolic steroids for criminal justice agencies in criminal matters, and provides testimony with respect to those analyses. See Michigan Laws 12.202Forensic test: means a drug analysis, toxicology analysis, or other forensic analysis or examination in areas including, but not limited to, latent prints, microchemistry, serology, firearms, toolmarks, or questioned documents. See Michigan Laws 12.202 Forest development fund: means the forest development fund created in section 50507. See Michigan Laws 324.53501 Forest road: means that term as defined in section 81101. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Forest road: means a hard surfaced road, gravel or dirt road, or other route capable of travel by a 2-wheel drive, 4-wheel conventional vehicle designed for road use. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Forester: means an individual who, by reason of his or her knowledge of the natural sciences, mathematics, and the principles of forestry, acquired by forestry education and practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of professional forestry. See Michigan Laws 324.53501 Forestry commission: means a forestry commission appointed by a municipality pursuant to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.52701 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 Formal voluntary hospitalization: means hospitalization of an individual based on both of the following:
(i) The execution of an application for voluntary hospitalization by the individual or by a patient advocate designated under the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 330.1400Former wetland: means land that was wetland but that has been modified to the point that it no longer has the hydrologic characteristics of wetland. See Michigan Laws 324.30301 Foundation: means the Michigan state parks foundation created in section 74302. See Michigan Laws 324.74301 Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. Free flowing: means existing or flowing in natural condition without impoundment, diversion, straightening, riprapping, or other modification. See Michigan Laws 324.30501 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 Full-time: means employment during which an individual works scheduled shifts, is paid for all hours he or she works, and works sufficient hours weekly to be classified as a full-time employee by the applicable employing political subdivision. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Fully shielded: means outdoor light fixtures shielded or constructed so that no light rays are emitted by the installed fixture at angles above 15 degrees below the horizontal plane and also constructed so that the filament or light source is not visible to the naked eye when viewed from a point higher than 15 degrees below the horizontal plane. See Michigan Laws 324.75101 Fund: means the Michigan state capitol historic site fund created in section 7. See Michigan Laws 4.1942 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 Fund: means the Michigan national guard tuition assistance fund created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Fund: means the state survey and remonumentation fund created in section 11. See Michigan Laws 54.262 Fund: means the septage waste program fund created in section 11717. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Fund: means the scrap tire regulatory fund created in section 16908. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Fund: means the environmental protection bond fund created in section 19506. See Michigan Laws 324.19501 Fund: means the clean Michigan initiative bond fund created in section 19606. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Fund: means the Great Lakes water quality bond fund created in section 19706. See Michigan Laws 324.19701 Fund: means the cleanup and redevelopment fund established in section 20108. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Fund: means the underground storage tank regulatory enforcement fund created in section 21104. See Michigan Laws 324.21101 Fund: means the infrastructure construction fund created in section 4113. See Michigan Laws 324.4101 Fund: means the land and water management permit fee fund created in section 30113. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Fund: means the submerged log recovery fund created in section 32610. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 Fund: means the recreation bond fund created in section 71506. See Michigan Laws 324.71501 Fund: means the Pure Michigan Trails fund created in section 72109. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Funding unit: means 1 of the following, as applicable:
(i) For a circuit other than the third circuit of the circuit court, each county in the circuit. See Michigan Laws 12.131Game: means that term as defined in section 40103. See Michigan Laws 324.73101 Game fish: includes all of the following:
(i) Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). See Michigan Laws 324.48701Gaming facility: means a gaming facility regulated under the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, the initiated law of 1996, MCL 432. See Michigan Laws 324.79501 Gaming facility: means a gaming facility regulated under the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1, MCL 432. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 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 General nonmedical nutrition information: means information on any of the following:
(i) Principles of human nutrition and food preparation. See Michigan Laws 333.18351general November election: means the election held on the November regular election date in an even numbered year. See Michigan Laws 168.2 Generator: means a person whose act or process produces liquid industrial by-product. See Michigan Laws 324.12101 Genetic counselor: means an individual who is licensed under this part to engage in the practice of genetic counseling. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 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. Governmental agency: means the federal government, a county, city, village, or township, or a combination of any of these entities. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Governmental unit: means a county, township, municipality, or regional authority. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Grade: means the fire protection level which a fire service delivery system achieves on the fire service classification scale. See Michigan Laws 28.651 Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage, Grant: means a local recreation grant under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.71601 Grant: means a waterfront redevelopment grant under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.79501 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. Great Lakes: means Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Erie, and includes Lake St. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 Great Lakes: means Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron, Erie, and Ontario and their connecting waterways including the St. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Great Lakes: means lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, St. See Michigan Laws 324.76101 Great Lakes basin: means the watershed of the Great Lakes and the St. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Great Lakes charter: means the document establishing the principles for the cooperative management of the Great Lakes water resources, signed by the governors and premiers of the Great Lakes region on February 11, 1985. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Great Lakes region: means the geographic region composed of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Canada. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Groundwater: means water below the land surface in the zone of saturation and capillary fringe. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Group health plan: means an employer program of health benefits, including 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 333.21501 Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC 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. Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted. Harbor: means a portion of a lake or other body of water either naturally or artificially protected in order to be a place of safety for watercraft. See Michigan Laws 324.79101 Harbor facilities: means the structures of a harbor constructed to protect the lake or body of water and the facilities provided within the harbor and on shore for the mooring and servicing of watercraft and the servicing of crews and passengers. See Michigan Laws 324.79101 Hazardous material: means explosives, pyrotechnics, flammable gas, flammable compressed gas, nonflammable compressed gas, flammable liquid, combustible liquid, oxidizing material, poisonous gas, poisonous liquid, irritating material, etiologic material, radioactive material, corrosive material, or liquefied petroleum gas. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Hazardous material: means a chemical or other material which is or may become injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare, or to the environment. See Michigan Laws 324.20301 Hazardous materials: means any chemical, substance, compound, mixture, or other material defined as, designated as, listed as, or having the same characteristics as any chemical substance, compound, mixture, or material defined as, designated as, or listed as hazardous under federal or state law or regulations. See Michigan Laws 29.362 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 29.472Hazardous materials responder: means an employee of or volunteer assigned by a political subdivision to assist an organized fire department or public safety department who is certified under National Fire Protection Association standard no. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Hazardous materials response: means any response to an event involving any chemical, substance, compound, mixture, or other material defined as, designated as, listed as, or having the same characteristics as any substance, compound, mixture, or material defined as, designated as, or listed as hazardous under federal or state law or regulation. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Hazardous substance: means 1 or more of the following, but does not include fruit, vegetable, or field crop residuals or processing by-products, or aquatic plants, that are applied to the land for an agricultural use or for use as an animal feed, if the use is consistent with generally accepted agricultural management practices at the time of the application or stamp sands:
(i) Any substance that the department demonstrates, on a case by case basis, poses an unacceptable risk to the public health, safety, or welfare, or the environment, considering the fate of the material, dose-response, toxicity, or adverse impact on natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.20101HDPE: means high density polyethylene. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 Health benefit plan: means a group health plan, an individual or group expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy or certificate, or an individual or group health maintenance organization contract. See Michigan Laws 333.21501 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 provider: means an individual who is licensed or registered under this article. See Michigan Laws 333.17101 Health facility: means a health facility or agency licensed under article 17 or a hospital, psychiatric hospital, or psychiatric unit licensed under the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 333.18501 Health facility: means a health facility or agency licensed under article 17. See Michigan Laws 333.18701 Health facility or agency: means that term as defined in article 17 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 29.411 Health resource shortage area: means a geographic area, population group, or health facility designated by the department under section 2717. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 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 threat to others: means that an individual who is a carrier has demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to conduct himself or herself in such a manner as to not place others at risk of exposure to a serious communicable disease or infection. See Michigan Laws 333.5201 Heating oil: means petroleum that is no. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Height of the dam: means the difference in elevation measured vertically between the natural bed of an inland lake or stream at the downstream toe of the dam, or, if it is not across a stream channel or watercourse, from the lowest elevation of the downstream toe of the dam, to the design flood elevation or to the lowest point of the top of the dam, whichever is less. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 High-risk area: means an area of the shoreland that is determined by the department on the basis of studies and surveys to be subject to erosion. See Michigan Laws 324.32301 Highly restricted personal information: means an individual's photograph or image, Social Security number, digitized signature, and medical and disability information. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Highway: means a state trunk line highway or a segment of a state trunk line highway. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Historical value: means value relating to, or illustrative of, Michigan history, including the statehood, territorial, colonial, and historic, and prehistoric native American periods. See Michigan Laws 324.76101 HIV: means human immunodeficiency virus. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 HIV infected: means the status of an individual who is infected with HIV, as evidenced by any of the following:
(i) An HIV test, or a combination of tests, that is considered a confirmatory diagnostic test according to prevailing medical technology and algorithms or guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. See Michigan Laws 333.5101Home care: means a level of care provided to a patient that is consistent with the categories "routine home care" or "continuous home care" described in 42 C. See Michigan Laws 333.21401 Homestead: means a dwelling or a unit in a multiple unit dwelling and includes a mobile home or trailer coach. See Michigan Laws 35.801 Honorable service: means that service as evidenced by:
(i) Honorable or general discharge, or separation under honorable conditions. See Michigan Laws 35.1001Hospice residence: means a facility that meets all of the following:
(i) Provides 24-hour hospice care to 2 or more patients at a single location. See Michigan Laws 333.21401Household waste: means any solid waste that is derived from single residences, but does not include any of the following:
(i) Commercial waste. See Michigan Laws 324.17501Hunting dog: means a dog allowed to range freely to engage in or aid in hunting on the day the dog enters the property of another person. See Michigan Laws 324.73101 Identification for election purposes: means , if issued to the individual presenting the card or document and if presented for voting purposes the name on the card or document sufficiently matches the individual's name in the individual's voter registration record so as to accurately identify the individual as the registered elector, or if issued to the individual presenting the card or document and if presented for voter registration purposes, any of the following:
(i) An operator's or chauffeur's license issued under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 168.2Identity proofing: means a process or service by which a third party provides a notary public with a reasonable means to verify the identity of an individual through a review of personal information from public or proprietary data sources conducted remotely. See Michigan Laws 55.263 Imagery: means visualization of oral and facial structures using specialized instruments and techniques for diagnostic purposes. See Michigan Laws 333.21601 Immediate family: means an individual's father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, and spouse and a relative of any degree residing in the same household as that individual. See Michigan Laws 168.2 Immediate jeopardy: means that term as defined in the "state operations manual" published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. See Michigan Laws 333.22101 Immunization: means the process of increasing an individual's immunity to a disease by use of a vaccine, antibody preparation, or other substance. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 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. Impoundment: means water held back by a dam, dike, floodgate, or other barrier. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Improvement program: means the construction, reconstruction, development, improvement, bettering, operating, maintaining, and extending a facility at a state park, including a site improvement, impoundment, road and parking lot, toilet building, concession building, shelter building, bathhouse, utility, outdoor center, visitor service facility, ski area, ski tow, ski shelter, and administration unit. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 In a representative capacity: means any of the following:
(i) For and on behalf of a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust, association, or other legal entity as an authorized officer, manager, agent, partner, trustee, or other representative of the entity. See Michigan Laws 55.263In the presence of: means either of the following:
(i) In the same physical location with and close enough to see, hear, communicate with, and exchange tangible identification credentials with another individual. See Michigan Laws 55.263in 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 income: shall include only moneys received by the guardian from the veterans administration, all earnings, interest, and profit derived therefrom and all property acquired therewith. See Michigan Laws 35.71 Incorporation: means the mechanical mixing of surface-applied septage waste with the soil. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 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 Index flow: means the 50% exceedance flow for the lowest summer flow month of the flow regime, for the applicable stream reach, as determined over the period of record or extrapolated from analyses of the United States geological survey flow gauges in Michigan. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies. Individual with a disability: means an individual with a mental or physical impairment who requires assistance to perform 1 or more daily living tasks. See Michigan Laws 28.832 Infection: means the invasion of the body with microorganisms or parasites, whether or not the invasion results in detectable pathologic effects. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 Informal dispute resolution process: means the process described in section 22115. See Michigan Laws 333.22101 Information: includes data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, and databases. See Michigan Laws 55.263 Infrastructure improvement: means restoration of the natural environment or the renovation, repair, replacement, upgrading, or structural improvement of an existing facility that is not less than 15 years old, including any of the following:
(i) Recreation centers. See Michigan Laws 324.71601inhabitant: means a resident of a city, township, village, district or county. See Michigan Laws 8.3f Injection: means the pressurized placement of septage waste below the surface of soil. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Inland lake: means a natural or artificial lake, pond, impoundment, or a part of 1 of those bodies of water. See Michigan Laws 324.30701 Inland lake: means a public inland lake or a private inland lake. See Michigan Laws 324.30901 Inland lake or stream: means either of the following:
(i) An artificial or natural lake, pond, or impoundment that is a water of the United States as that term is used in section 502(7) of the federal water pollution control act, 33 USC 1362. See Michigan Laws 324.30101Inland lake or stream: means that term as defined in section 30101. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Inpatient care: means a level of care provided to a patient that is consistent with the categories "inpatient respite care day" and "general inpatient care day" described in 42 C. See Michigan Laws 333.21401 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 a junior college or community college established pursuant to section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 29.411 Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person. 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 person: means a person who has a record interest in the title to, right of ingress to, or reversionary right to a piece or parcel of land that would be affected by a permanent change in the bottomland of a natural or artificial, public or private inland lake, or adjacent wetland. See Michigan Laws 324.30901 Interim response activity: means the cleanup or removal of a released hazardous substance or the taking of other actions, prior to the implementation of a remedial action, as may be necessary to prevent, minimize, or mitigate injury to the public health, safety, or welfare, or to the environment. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Invasive procedures: means all of the following:
(i) The use of lasers other than for observation. See Michigan Laws 333.17401Involuntary mental health treatment: means court-ordered hospitalization, assisted outpatient treatment, or combined hospitalization and assisted outpatient treatment as described in section 468. See Michigan Laws 330.1400 IRC: means the internal revenue code of 1954 as in effect on January 1, 1970. See Michigan Laws 14.272 Issuer: means a municipal issuer or a state issuer. See Michigan Laws 12.112 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. 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 an individual who is any of the following:
(i) Within or likely to come within the jurisdiction of the court for the county under section 2(a) or (d) of chapter XIIA of 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A. See Michigan Laws 45.622Juvenile: 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 Label: means a molded, imprinted, or raised symbol on or near the bottom of a plastic product. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 laboratory: means a facility for the biological, microbiological, serological, chemical, immunohematological, hematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological, or other examination of materials derived from the human body for the purpose of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease or impairment of, or the assessment of the health of, human beings. See Michigan Laws 333.20501 Lake augmentation well: means a water well used to withdraw groundwater for the purpose of maintaining or raising water levels of an inland lake or stream as defined in section 30101. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Land corner recordation certificate: means a written record for a corner in the form prescribed under section 5 that is to be filed as provided by this act. See Michigan Laws 54.202 land to be zoned: means the land in this state that borders or is adjacent to a Great Lake or a connecting waterway and that, except for flood risk areas, is situated within 1,000 feet landward from the ordinary high-water mark as defined in section 32501, land bordering or adjacent to waters affected by levels of the Great Lakes landward of the ordinary high-water mark as defined by section 30101, and land between the ordinary high-water mark and the water's edge. See Michigan Laws 324.32301 lands: as used in this part refers to the aforesaid described unpatented lake bottomlands and unpatented made lands and patented lands in the Great Lakes and the bays and harbors of the Great Lakes lying below and lakeward of the natural ordinary high-water mark, but this part does not affect property rights secured by virtue of a swamp land grant or rights acquired by accretions occurring through natural means or reliction. See Michigan Laws 324.32502 Large quantity withdrawal: means 1 or more cumulative total withdrawals of over 100,000 gallons of water per day average in any consecutive 30-day period that supply a common distribution system. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Large river: means a river with a drainage area of 300 or more square miles. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Law enforcement officer: means :
(i) Except as provided in subparagraph (ii), an individual employed by a law enforcement agency as 1 or more of the following:
(A) An individual authorized by law, including common law, to prevent and detect crime and enforce the general criminal laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 28.602law enforcement officer: means that term as defined in section 2 of the commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 28.693 Law enforcement officer: means that term as defined in section 2 of the commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 28.782 Law enforcement officer: means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 28.821 Law enforcement officer: means any law enforcement officer who is trained and licensed or certified under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Law of another state: means a law or ordinance enacted by any of the following:
(i) Another state. See Michigan Laws 324.81101Lawsuit: 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. LDPE: means low density polyethylene. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 Lead acid battery: means a storage battery, that is used to start an internal combustion engine or as the principal electrical power source for a vehicle, in which the electrodes are grids of lead containing lead oxides that change in composition during charging and discharging, and the electrolyte is dilute sulfuric acid. See Michigan Laws 324.17101 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 Legacy: A gift of property made by will. Legislative body: means any board of supervisors, township board, city or village legislative body, or school district board. See Michigan Laws 324.52701 Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto). Legislator: means a member of the senate or the house of representatives of this state. See Michigan Laws 4.771 Lender: means any of the following:
(i) A state or nationally chartered bank. See Michigan Laws 324.20101Level of stream flow: means a measure of water quantity including the amount of water passing a designated point over a designated period and the levels of lakes that are an integral part of the surface drainage system of the watershed. See Michigan Laws 324.31101 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. License: means a hunting, fishing, or fur harvester's license or, in the discretion of the court, any combination of such licenses. See Michigan Laws 324.73101 Licensed professional counselor: means an individual who is licensed under part 181 to engage in the practice of counseling without supervision. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Licensed professional counselor: means an individual who is licensed under this article to engage in the practice of counseling without supervision. See Michigan Laws 333.18101 Licensing standards: means the requirements with which a person must comply for licensure as a law enforcement officer under this act. See Michigan Laws 28.602 Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Limited licensed counselor: means an individual who has been granted a limited license under this article to engage in the practice of counseling under the supervision of a licensed professional counselor who meets the requirement of section 18106. See Michigan Laws 333.18101 Line of duty: means either of the following:
(i) Any action which an officer whose primary function is crime control or reduction, enforcement of the criminal law, or suppression of fires is obligated or authorized by rule, regulations, condition of employment or service, or law to perform, including those social, ceremonial, or athletic functions to which the officer is assigned, or for which the officer is compensated, by the public agency he or she serves. See Michigan Laws 28.632Lineal ancestor: means an individual who is in the direct line of ascent including, but not limited to, a parent or grandparent. See Michigan Laws 55.265 Listed offense: means that term as defined in section 2 of the sex offenders registration act, 1994 PA 295, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. LNAPL: means a light nonaqueous-phase liquid having a specific gravity less than 1 and composed of 1 or more organic compounds that are immiscible or sparingly soluble in water, and the term encompasses all potential occurrences of LNAPL. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Local agencies: means local units of government, special districts, or other legally constituted agencies of local units of government exercising powers that may affect water resources. See Michigan Laws 324.31101 Local authority: means an authority created under Act No. See Michigan Laws 324.11901 Local governing body: means the legislative body of a local unit of government. See Michigan Laws 324.30901 Local government reimbursement fund: means the local government reimbursement fund created in section 3a. See Michigan Laws 12.252 Local governmental unit: means a county, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Local recreation project: means capital improvement projects including, but not limited to, the construction, expansion, development, or rehabilitation of recreational facilities. See Michigan Laws 324.71601 Local state of emergency: means a proclamation or declaration that activates the response and recovery aspects of any and all applicable local or interjurisdictional emergency operations plans and authorizes the furnishing of aid, assistance, and directives under those plans. See Michigan Laws 30.402 local unit: means a municipality or county. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Local unit: means any city, village, township, or soil conservation district acting through its governing body. See Michigan Laws 324.31301 Local unit of government: means a county, city, village, or township, or an agency of a county, city, village, or township; or a brownfield redevelopment authority, economic development corporation, or an authority or other public body created by or pursuant to state law. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Local unit of government: means a county, city, township, or village, an agency of a local unit of government, an authority or any other public body or entity created by or pursuant to state law. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Local unit of government: means a municipality, county, or governmental authority or any combination of municipalities, counties, or governmental authorities. See Michigan Laws 324.21101 Local unit of government: means a city, village, township, county, fire department, or local health department as defined in section 1105 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Local unit of government: means a county, city, township, village, school district, the Huron-Clinton metropolitan authority, or any authority composed of counties, cities, townships, villages, or school districts, or any combination of those entities, which authority is legally constituted to provide public recreation. See Michigan Laws 324.71501 Local unit of government: means a county, city, township, village, the Huron-Clinton metropolitan authority, or any authority composed of counties, cities, townships, villages, or any combination of those entities, which authority is legally constituted to provide public recreation. See Michigan Laws 324.71601 Local unit of government: means a county, township, or municipality. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Maintained portion: means the roadway and any shoulder of a street, county road, or highway. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 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 Majority leader: see Floor Leaders 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 29.493Manufacturer: means a person that prepares, produces, derives, propagates, compounds, processes, packages, or repackages a drug or device salable on prescription only, or otherwise changes the container or the labeling of a drug or device salable on prescription only, and that supplies, distributes, sells, offers for sale, barters, or otherwise disposes of that drug or device and any other drug or device salable on prescription only, to another person for resale, compounding, or dispensing. See Michigan Laws 333.17706 Manufacturer: means a person who produces batteries for sale in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.17101 Manufacturer: means a person, partnership, corporation, or association engaged in the production and manufacture of ORVs as a regular business. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Marina: means a site which contains harbor facilities. See Michigan Laws 324.79101 Marina: means a facility that is owned or operated by a person, extends into or over an inland lake or stream, and offers service to the public or members of the marina for docking, loading, or other servicing of recreational watercraft. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Marina purposes: means an operation making use of submerged bottomlands or filled-in bottomlands of the Great Lakes for the purpose of service to boat owners or operators, which operation may restrict or prevent the free public use of the affected bottomlands or filled-in lands. See Michigan Laws 324.32501 Marriage and family therapist: means an individual who is licensed under part 169 to engage in the practice of marriage and family therapy. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Massage therapist: means an individual engaged in the practice of massage therapy. See Michigan Laws 333.17951 Measurable economic benefit: means the permanent jobs that are created or retained, the capital invested, or the increased tax base to the applicable county, city, village, and township where the project is located. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Measurable environmental benefit: means the extent that the requirements of part 201 or part 213, or both, are advanced at a brownfield project where environmental conditions inhibit the site's redevelopment or reuse. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Medicaid: means benefits under the program of medical assistance established under title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396 to 1396w-6, and administered by the department under the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Medicaid benefits trust fund: means the Michigan Medicaid benefits trust fund established in section 5. See Michigan Laws 12.252 Medicaid special financing payments: means the Medicaid special adjustor payments each year authorized in the department of health and human services appropriations act. See Michigan Laws 12.252 Medical benefit plan: means a plan to provide for the payment of medical, optical, or dental benefits, including, but not limited to, hospital and physician services, prescription drugs, and related benefits. See Michigan Laws 28.632 Medical director: means a physician who is responsible for the quality, safety, appropriateness, and effectiveness of the respiratory care services provided by a respiratory therapist, who assists in quality monitoring, protocol development, and competency validation, and who meets all of the following:
(i) Is the medical director of an inpatient or outpatient respiratory care service or department within a health facility, or of a home care agency, durable medical equipment company, or educational program. See Michigan Laws 333.18701Medical school: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become physicians. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Medical weight control: means the practice of medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of reducing, maintaining, or gaining weight. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Medicare: means benefits under the federal Medicare program established under title XVIII of the social security act, 42 USC 1395 to 1395lll. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 member: means a person described in subdivision (a), (h), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), (u), (aa), (dd), (ff), or (ii). See Michigan Laws 29.362 Member: means a municipality, county, county agency, public school district, public college or university, or other local or regional public agency that is a member of a watershed alliance as provided for in this part. See Michigan Laws 324.31201 Memorandum of agreement: means written documentation of an agreement between parties to work together cooperatively on an agreed-upon project or meet an agreed-upon objective. See Michigan Laws 333.21601 Mental health professional program: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become a designated mental health professional. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Mental illness: means 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 330.1400 Mercuric oxide battery: means a dry cell battery that delivers an essentially constant output voltage throughout its useful life by means of a chemical reaction between zinc and mercuric oxide. See Michigan Laws 324.17101 Mercury thermometer: means a product or component, other than a dry cell battery, of a product used for measuring temperature that contains mercury or a mercury compound intentionally added to the product or component. See Michigan Laws 324.17201 Method detection limit: means the minimum concentration of a hazardous substance that can be measured and reported with 99% confidence that the analyte concentration is greater than zero and is determined from analysis of a sample in a given matrix that contains the analyte. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Metropolitan district: means a district incorporated under the metropolitan district act, 1929 PA 312, MCL 119. See Michigan Laws 168.17 Metropolitan district election coordinator: means the county clerk of the county in which the largest number of registered electors of the metropolitan district reside. See Michigan Laws 168.17 Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund: means the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund established in section 40 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in section 2002. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Michigan emergency management plan: means the plan prepared and maintained by the emergency management division of the department and signed by the governor. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Michigan merit award trust fund: means the Michigan merit award trust fund established in section 9. See Michigan Laws 12.252 Michigan opioid healing and recovery fund: means the Michigan opioid healing and recovery fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 12.252 Midwife: means an individual licensed under this part to engage in the practice of midwifery. See Michigan Laws 333.17101 Migrating NAPL: means NAPL that is observed to spread or expand laterally or vertically or otherwise result in an increased volume of the NAPL extent, usually indicated by time series data or observation. See Michigan Laws 324.21302 Mileage: means cost of transportation via the shortest traveled route either by train, bus or private automobile from the residence of the legislator to Lansing. See Michigan Laws 4.511 military duty: means (1) training and service performed by an inductee, enlistee or reservist or any entrant into a temporary component of the armed forces of the United States, and (2) time spent in reporting for and returning from such training and service, or if a rejection occurs, from the place of reporting therefor: Provided, That the time spent does not exceed the minimum time required by law for the inductee or not exceed 3 years for the first enlistment, or not exceed 3 years for the reservist after being recalled to active duty or as soon after the expiration of such 3 years as the reservist is able to obtain orders relieving him from active duty: And provided further, That if the re-employment provision of the selective service act is amended to provide a period of other than 3 years, such a period provided by the selective service act shall apply. See Michigan Laws 35.351 Minnows: means chubs, shiners, suckers, when of a size ordinarily used for bait in hook and line fishing, dace, stonerollers, muddlers, and mudminnows. See Michigan Laws 324.48728 Minor drainage: includes ditching and tiling for the removal of excess soil moisture incidental to the planting, cultivating, protecting, or harvesting of crops or improving the productivity of land in established use for agriculture, horticulture, silviculture, or lumbering. See Michigan Laws 324.30301 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 Missing senior or vulnerable adult: means a resident of this state who is 1 of the following:
(i) At least 60 years of age and is believed to be incapable of returning to his or her residence without assistance and is reported missing by a person familiar with that individual. See Michigan Laws 28.712Mobile dental facility: means either of the following:
(i) A self-contained, intact facility in which dentistry or dental hygiene is practiced that may be transported from 1 location to another. See Michigan Laws 333.21601Mollusks: means any mollusk of the classes bivalvia and gastropoda. See Michigan Laws 324.48701 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: means a marker that occupies the position of a corner and that possesses or is made to possess a magnetic field. See Michigan Laws 54.202 Monument: means a relatively permanent physical marker that occupies the position of a corner and that possesses or is made to possess a magnetic field. See Michigan Laws 54.313 Monument fund: means the Michigan police officers memorial monument fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 28.782 Monumentation: means all land surveying activities performed by a surveyor to monument a protracted public land survey corner under this act and in accordance with the laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 54.262 Mooring structures: means structures used to moor watercraft, including, but not limited to, docks, piers, pilings, mooring anchors, lines and buoys, and boat hoists. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. 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 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 Motor vehicle: means a vehicle that is self-propelled. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 Motor vehicle: means that term as defined in section 74101. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Municipal issuer: means a city, village, township, county, school district, or community college district, or an agency, instrumentality, authority, or district created by 1 or more of the foregoing that is authorized by law to issue bonds. See Michigan Laws 12.112 Municipality: means a county, township, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 12.202 Municipality: means a city, village, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 28.651 Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Municipality: means a county, city, township, village, or local authority, or a combination thereof. See Michigan Laws 324.11901 Municipality: means a county, township, city, village, or school district. See Michigan Laws 324.52701 Municipality: means a city or village. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Name that was formally changed: means a name changed by a proceeding under chapter XI of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 711. See Michigan Laws 168.3 NAPL: means that term as it is defined in section 21303. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 NAPL: means a nonaqueous-phase liquid or a nonaqueous-phase liquid solution composed of 1 or more organic compounds that are immiscible or sparingly soluble in water. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 National 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 Health Service Corps: means the agency established under 42 USC 254d. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Nationwide permit: means a nationwide permit issued by the United States Army Corps of Engineers under 72 FR 11091 to 11198 (March 12, 2007), including all general conditions, regional conditions, and conditions imposed by this state pursuant to a water quality certification under section 401 of title IV of the federal water pollution control act, 33 USC 1341, or a coastal zone management consistency determination under section 307 of the coastal zone management act of 1972, 16 USC 1456. See Michigan Laws 324.30301 Natural gas: means natural gas, synthetic gas, and manufactured gas. See Michigan Laws 324.21101 natural resources: means land, surface water, groundwater, subsurface strata, air, fish, wildlife, or biota within this state. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Natural river: means a river that has been designated by the department for inclusion in the wild, scenic, and recreational rivers system. See Michigan Laws 324.30501 Net increase in wetland functions and services: means an increase in 1 or more wetland functions and services with not more than a minimal decrease in other wetland functions and services. See Michigan Laws 324.30301 New or increased large quantity withdrawal: means a new water withdrawal of over 100,000 gallons of water per day average in any consecutive 30-day period or an increase of over 100,000 gallons of water per day average in any consecutive 30-day period beyond the baseline capacity of a withdrawal. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 New or increased withdrawal capacity: means new or additional water withdrawal capacity to supply a common distribution system that is an increase from the person's baseline capacity. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 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 No further action report: means a report under section 20114d detailing the completion of remedial actions and including a postclosure plan and a postclosure agreement, if appropriate. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 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. Noncommercial transportation: means the occasional transportation of personal property by an individual not for compensation or in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise, and transportation not regulated under the motor carrier safety act of 1963, 1963 PA 181, MCL 480. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Nonemergency patient: means that term as defined in section 20908. See Michigan Laws 333.21501 Nonresident motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle other than a commercial motor vehicle that is not registered as a motor vehicle in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 Nonresidential: means that category of land use for parcels of property or portions of parcels of property that is not residential. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Normal level: means the level or levels of the water of an inland lake that provide the most benefit to the public; that best protect the public health, safety, and welfare; that best preserve the natural resources of the state; and that best preserve and protect the value of property around the lake. See Michigan Laws 324.30701 Notarial act: means any of the following:
(i) An act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or electronic record, that a notary public commissioned in this state is authorized to perform including, but not limited to, taking an acknowledgment, administering an oath or affirmation, taking a verification upon oath or affirmation, or witnessing or attesting a signature performed in compliance with this act. See Michigan Laws 55.265Note: means a note issued by a municipality pursuant to this part. See Michigan Laws 324.11901 Notify: means to communicate or send a message by a recognized mail, delivery service, or electronic means. See Michigan Laws 55.265 Nurse: means an individual who is licensed to engage in the practice of nursing under part 172. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Nursing home: means that term as defined in section 20109. See Michigan Laws 333.17301 Nursing home administrator: means the individual licensed under this article to engage in the practice of nursing home administration. See Michigan Laws 333.17301 Nursing program: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become nurses. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Nutrition assessment: means the ongoing, dynamic, and systematic process of obtaining, verifying, and interpreting biochemical, anthropometric, physical, nutrigenomic, and dietary data to make decisions about the nature and cause of nutrition-related problems and making recommendations, including recommendations on enteral and parenteral nutrition. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Nutrition care services: means any part or all of the following services within a systematic process:
(i) Assessing and evaluating the nutritional needs of individuals and groups and determining resources and constraints in the practice setting, including ordering laboratory tests to check and track nutrition status, creating dietary plans and orders, and monitoring the effectiveness thereof. See Michigan Laws 333.18351Nutrition counseling: means a supportive process, characterized by a collaborative counselor-patient or counselor-client relationship with individuals or groups, to establish food and nutrition priorities, goals, and individualized action plans and general physical activity guidance that acknowledge and foster responsibility for self-care to treat or manage an existing disease or medical condition or to promote health and wellness. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Nutrition diagnosis: means identifying and labeling nutritional problems managed and treated by a dietitian nutritionist. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Nutrition intervention: means purposefully planned actions and nutrition counseling intended to positively change a nutrition-related behavior, risk factor, environmental condition, or aspect of the health status for an individual. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Nutrition monitoring and evaluation: means identifying patient outcomes relevant to a nutrition diagnosis and comparing the outcomes with the patient's previous health status, intervention goals, or reference standards to determine the progress made in achieving desired outcomes of nutrition care and whether nutrition intervention should be continued or revised. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Oath: 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. Occupational therapist: means an individual licensed under this article to engage in the practice of occupational therapy. See Michigan Laws 333.18301 Occupational therapy assistant: means an individual licensed under this article to engage in practice as an occupational therapy assistant. See Michigan Laws 333.18301 Occupational therapy services: means those services provided to promote health and wellness, prevent disability, preserve functional capabilities, prevent barriers, and enable or improve performance in everyday activities, including, but not limited to, the following:
(i) Establishment, remediation, or restoration of a skill or ability that is impaired or not yet developed. See Michigan Laws 333.18301Odd year general election: means the election held on the November regular election date in an odd numbered year. See Michigan Laws 168.3 Odd year primary election: means the election held on the August regular election date in an odd numbered year. See Michigan Laws 168.3 Off-road vehicle: means ORV as it is defined in part 811, which is required to be registered under part 811. See Michigan Laws 324.71101 Off-road vehicle account: means the off-road vehicle account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund established in section 2015. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Office: means the office of the Michigan veterans' facility ombudsman created under this act. See Michigan Laws 4.771 Office: means the office of prosecuting attorneys coordination as created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 49.102 officer: means any individual serving a public agency or any authority, district, board, or other entity created in whole or in part by 1 or more cities, counties, villages, or townships, in an official capacity, with or without compensation, as a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew. See Michigan Laws 28.632 Officer: means the village president, clerk, or treasurer, a village trustee, or an appointed person authorized by the council. See Michigan Laws 61.1a Official compendium: means the United States Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary, or the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, as applicable. See Michigan Laws 333.17706 Official misconduct: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) The exercise of power or the performance of a duty that is unauthorized, unlawful, abusive, negligent, reckless, or injurious. See Michigan Laws 55.265Oil: means petroleum based oil. See Michigan Laws 324.16701 Ombudsman: means the Michigan veterans' facility ombudsman. See Michigan Laws 4.771 On-site: means on the same geographically contiguous property, which may be divided by a public or private right-of-way if access is by crossing rather than going along the right-of-way. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Online registration process: means the online registration process provided for in section 32706. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Operating expenses: means the reasonable operating expenses of the authority under this act, including without limitation the cost of preparation of accounting and other reports; costs of maintaining the ratings on the bonds; bond insurance premiums; costs of authority meetings or other required activities of the authority under this act; counsel fees, including the fees of the attorney general; fees and expenses incurred for consultants, advisors, and fiduciaries relating to bonds or activities of the authority authorized by this act; and any other costs arising from activities authorized in section 8(2). See Michigan Laws 12.272 Operating plan: means a plan developed by a receiving facility for receiving septage waste that specifies at least all of the following:
(i) Categories of septage waste that the receiving facility will receive. See Michigan Laws 324.11701operation: includes dredging, filling, or construction and placement of structures in the waste collection or treatment facility in compliance with this act. See Michigan Laws 324.30103 Operator: means either of the following:
(i) An individual with a valid, current license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene in this state who utilizes and holds a permit under this part for a mobile dental facility. See Michigan Laws 333.21601Operator: means a person who is in control of or responsible for the operation of a facility. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Operator: means a person who is presently, or was at the time of a release, in control of or responsible for the operation of an underground storage tank system. See Michigan Laws 324.21101 Operator: means a person who is presently, or was at the time of a release, in control of, or responsible for, the operation of an underground storage tank system. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Operator: means an individual who operates or is in actual physical control of the operation of an ORV. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Optimum flow: means that rate and quantity of flow in any stream as determined in accordance with this part. See Michigan Laws 324.31301 Optometrist: means an individual licensed under this article to engage in the practice of optometry. See Michigan Laws 333.17401 Ordinary high-water mark: means the line between upland and bottomland that persists through successive changes in water levels, below which the presence and action of the water is so common or recurrent that the character of the land is marked distinctly from the upland and is apparent in the soil itself, the configuration of the surface of the soil, and the vegetation. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Ordinary high-water mark: means the ordinary high-water mark as specified in section 32502. See Michigan Laws 324.30301 Ordinary high-water mark: means the elevations described in section 32502. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 organization: means any group, organization, association, union, or conference of current or former law enforcement officers, fire fighters, correctional officers, employees thereof or any other entity that represents itself to be affiliated or associated with such organizations that meet both of the following:
(i) The voting membership is comprised of at least 75% of individuals who are currently or formerly law enforcement officers, fire fighters, or correctional officers. See Michigan Laws 14.302Organized fire department: means an organization or department which provides a fire service delivery system within a municipality and is a fire department of a municipality or is a fire service delivery system designated by a municipality pursuant to a contract with that municipality. See Michigan Laws 28.651 Organized fire department: means a department, authority, or other governmental entity that safeguards life and property from damage from explosion, fire, or disaster and that provides fire suppression and other related services in this state. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Organized fire department: means that term as defined in section 2 of the firefighters training council act, 1966 PA 291, MCL 29. See Michigan Laws 29.331 Organized fire department: means that term as defined in section 1 of the fire prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Original public land survey corner: means a corner established and monumented pursuant to orders and instructions issued by the United States government for the purposes of delineating the United States public lands and private lands or subdividing the public lands for conveyance. See Michigan Laws 54.202 Original public land survey corner: means a corner established and monumented pursuant to orders and instructions issued by the United States government for the purposes of delineating United States public lands and private lands or subdividing public lands for conveyance. See Michigan Laws 54.262 ORV safety certificate: means an ORV safety certificate issued under section 81130 or, except as used in section 81130, a comparable safety certificate issued under the authority of another state or province of Canada. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 OTHER: means multilayer. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 Other certification board: means a nationally recognized behavior analysis certification board approved by the department by rule. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 outdoors: means in a place other than a building or covered vehicle. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Outsourcing facility: means that term as defined in 21 USC 353b. See Michigan Laws 333.17706 Outstanding: means with respect to bonds, all bonds except those that have been paid in full at maturity or that are not outstanding under the terms of the applicable authority resolution, trust indenture, or trust agreement authorizing the issuance of the bonds. See Michigan Laws 12.272 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Owner: means a person with an ownership interest in property, and includes a trustee, a board of trustees of property, and a person with a freehold interest in property. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Owner: means a person who owns a facility. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Owner: means a person who holds, or at the time of a release who held, a legal, equitable, or possessory interest of any kind in an underground storage tank system or in the property on which an underground storage tank system is located, including, but not limited to, a trust, vendor, vendee, lessor, or lessee. See Michigan Laws 324.21101 Owner: means a person who holds, or at the time of a release who held, a legal, equitable, or possessory interest of any kind in an underground storage tank system or in the property on which an underground storage tank system is or was located including, but not limited to, a trust, vendor, vendee, lessor, or lessee. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Owner: means any of the following:
(i) A vendee or lessee of an ORV that is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease of the ORV, with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement, and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee. See Michigan Laws 324.81101Pack and saddle trails: means trails and equine access locations that may be used by pack and saddle animals. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Paid on-call: means employment during which an individual works on an on-call basis, is paid for all hours he or she works, and only occasionally works scheduled shifts. See Michigan Laws 29.362 paid on-call firefighter: means an individual who is charged with the prevention or suppression of fires and who is directly engaged in the hazards of firefighting or in charge of a designated fire company or companies that are directly engaged in the hazards of firefighting on a volunteer or paid on-call basis. See Michigan Laws 29.362 paid signature gatherer: means an individual who is compensated, directly or indirectly, through payments of money or other valuable consideration to obtain signatures on a petition as described in section 471. See Michigan Laws 168.482d Panel: means the response activity review panel established under section 20114e. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Part-time: means employment during which an individual is paid for all hours he or she works and works scheduled shifts but works fewer hours weekly than the hours necessary to be classified as a full-time employee by the applicable employing political subdivision. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Participating physician: means a physician, a physician designated by a group of physicians under section 17549 to represent that group, or a physician designated by a health facility or agency under section 20174 to represent that health facility or agency. See Michigan Laws 333.17501 Participating provider: means a provider that, under contract with an insurer that issues health benefit plans, 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 333.21501 Participating state: means a state electing to participate in the uniform program by entering a base state agreement. See Michigan Laws 29.472 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. Patented lands: means any bottomlands lying within a specific government grant area, including a private claim patent or federal patent. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 Pathogen: means a disease-causing agent. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Patient: means an individual recipient of the practice of medical nutrition therapy, whether in the outpatient, inpatient, or nonclinical setting. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 PBDE: means polybrominated diphenyl ether. See Michigan Laws 324.14721 Peace officer: means a sheriff or sheriff's deputy, a village or township marshal, an officer of the police department of any city, village, or township, any officer of the Michigan state police, any peace officer who is trained and licensed or certified under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Peace officer: means any law enforcement officer who is trained and licensed or certified under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Period of service: means the period of time between September 16, 1940 and June 30, 1946 and, for purposes of former section 25 of article X of the state constitution of 1908, also means the period of time between June 27, 1950 and the termination of the state of national emergency, which state of national emergency was proclaimed on December 16, 1950. See Michigan Laws 35.922 Period of service: means the period of time between June 27, 1950 and December 31, 1953. See Michigan Laws 35.972 Period of service: means that period of time between 12:01 a. See Michigan Laws 35.1001 period of war: means that phrase as described in 38 C. See Michigan Laws 35.602 Permanent and total disability: means medically determinable consequences of a catastrophic, line-of-duty injury that permanently prevent a former public safety officer from performing any gainful work. See Michigan Laws 28.632 Permanent mail ballot voter: means a registered elector who submits a signed absent voter ballot application to receive an absent voter ballot by mail for all future elections and whose application has been verified. See Michigan Laws 168.6 Permitted release: means 1 or more of the following:
(i) A release in compliance with an applicable, legally enforceable permit issued under state law. See Michigan Laws 324.20101Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 4.1942 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, organization, or association of any kind. See Michigan Laws 10.81 Person: means an individual, corporation, limited or general partnership, association, joint venture, limited liability company, or a governmental entity, including this state. See Michigan Laws 12.272 Person: means an individual, organization, group, association, partnership, corporation, trust, professional fund-raiser, or any combination of those entities. See Michigan Laws 14.302 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, or voluntary association. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or any other entity. See Michigan Laws 30.402 person: includes a partnership, corporation or an association. See Michigan Laws 35.71 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 54.202 Person: means an individual or a corporation, business trust, statutory trust, estate, partnership, trust, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 55.265 Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, unincorporated joint venture, or trust, organized, permitted, or existing under the laws of this state or any other state, including a federal corporation, or a combination thereof, but excluding a municipality, special district having taxing powers, or other political subdivision of this state. See Michigan Laws 324.11901 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: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l Person: includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or body politic, except the United States and this state, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative of those entities. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 person requiring treatment: means (a), (b), or (c):
(a) An individual who has mental illness, and who as a result of that mental illness can reasonably be expected within the near future to intentionally or unintentionally seriously physically injure himself, herself, or another individual, and who has engaged in an act or acts or made significant threats that are substantially supportive of the expectation. See Michigan Laws 330.1401person who is liable: includes a person who is described as being subject to liability in section 20126. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Personal information: means information that identifies an individual, including an individual's driver identification number, name, address not including zip code, and telephone number, but does not include information on ORV operation or equipment-related violations or civil infractions, operator or vehicle registration status, accidents, or other behaviorally related information. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Personal property: All property that is not real property. PETE: means polyethylene terephthalate. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 PFAS: means a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance. See Michigan Laws 29.362 PFAS: means a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance. See Michigan Laws 324.14701 physical disability: means that term as defined in section 6 of the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 168.19 Physical therapist: means an individual licensed under this article to engage in the practice of physical therapy. See Michigan Laws 333.17801 Physical therapist assistant: means an individual with a health profession subfield license under this part who assists a physical therapist in physical therapy intervention. See Michigan Laws 333.17801 Physician: means an individual licensed as a physician under part 170 or part 175 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 52.202 Physician: means an individual who is licensed as a physician under part 170 or part 175. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Physician: means an individual who is licensed or authorized under this article to engage in the practice of medicine. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 Physician: means an individual licensed to engage in the practice of medicine under part 170 or the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery under part 175. See Michigan Laws 333.17101 Physician: means a physician who is licensed under part 170 or part 175. See Michigan Laws 333.17201 Physician: means that term as defined in section 17001 or 17501. See Michigan Laws 333.17401 Physician: means an individual who is licensed or authorized under this article to engage in the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery. See Michigan Laws 333.17501 Physician: means that term as defined in section 17001 and 17501. See Michigan Laws 333.18701 Pipeline: means a pipeline that conveys a flammable liquid from a crude petroleum wellhead collection site to a refinery or terminal or from a refinery to a terminal. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Place of public assemblage: means a room or other space in a building if the room or other space can accommodate 50 or more individuals, including connected rooms and spaces that share a common means of entrance and egress. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. Plan: means a plan adopted by the board or boards and approved by an order of the department for the best development, utilization, and conservation of the surplus water of the state. See Michigan Laws 324.31301 Plan: means the forestry development, conservation, and recreation management plan for state forests as provided for in section 52503. See Michigan Laws 324.52501 Plans and specifications: means a true description or representation of the entire sewerage system and parts of a system as the sewerage system exists or is to be constructed, and also a full and fair statement of how the system is to be operated. See Michigan Laws 324.4101 Plans examiner: means an employee of or volunteer assigned by a political subdivision to assist an organized fire department or public safety department who is certified under National Fire Protection Association standard no. See Michigan Laws 29.362 plant: means a tree, bough, shrub, vine, or other native plant, or a part of a tree, bough, shrub, vine, or other native plant, listed in subsection (1). See Michigan Laws 324.52901 Plastic: means any material made of polymeric organic compounds and additives that can be shaped by flow. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 Plastic bottle: means a rigid plastic container with a capacity of 16 ounces or more that has a neck that is smaller than the body of the container. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 Plastic product: means a plastic bottle and any other rigid plastic container. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 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. 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. Polarity therapy: means diverse applications affecting the human energy system and includes energetic approaches to somatic contact, verbal facilitation, nutrition, exercise, and health education. See Michigan Laws 333.17951 Political subdivision: means a county, municipality, school district, or any other local governmental unit, agency, body, board, or commission but does not include a state department, board, commission, or agency of state government. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Political subdivision: means a county, municipality, school district, or any other governmental unit, agency, body, board, or commission which is not a state department, board, commission, or agency of state government. See Michigan Laws 30.402 political subdivision: means any local unit of government or port district of this state and any other governmental agency or subdivision, public corporation, authority, or district in this state, which is or may be authorized by law to acquire, establish, construct, maintain, improve, and operate harbors, channels, and other navigational facilities. See Michigan Laws 324.79301 Pollution prevention: means all of the following:
(i) "Source reduction" as defined in the pollution prevention act of 1990, subtitle G of title VI of the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1990, Public Law 101-508, 42 U. See Michigan Laws 324.14301Pollution prevention: means all of the following:
(i) "Source reduction" as defined in 42 USC 13102. See Michigan Laws 324.14501Portable shredding operation: means a person who operates scrap tire shredding equipment that produces a commodity or tire shreds and that can be moved from site to site. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Portable toilet: means a receptacle for human waste temporarily in a location for human use. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 position: means employment, whether probationary or otherwise, held by a public employee at the time of entrance into military duty, but shall not include temporary or casual employment or an office filled by election, nor officers appointed for a fixed term. See Michigan Laws 35.351 Postclosure agreement: means an agreement between the department and a person who has submitted a no further action report that prescribes, as appropriate, activities required to be undertaken upon completion of remedial actions as provided for in section 20114d. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Postclosure plan: means a plan for land use or resource use restrictions or permanent markers at a facility upon completion of remedial actions as provided for in section 20114c. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 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 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 Practice agreement: means an agreement described in section 17047. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 Practice agreement: means an agreement described in section 17547. See Michigan Laws 333.17501 Practice as an assistant behavior analyst: means the practice of applied behavior analysis under the supervision of a behavior analyst. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Practice as an occupational therapy assistant: means the practice of occupational therapy under the supervision of an occupational therapist licensed under this article. See Michigan Laws 333.18301 Practice of applied behavior analysis: means the design, implementation, and evaluation of instructional and environmental modifications to produce socially significant improvements in human behavior. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Practice of athletic training: means the treatment of an individual for risk management and injury prevention, the clinical evaluation and assessment of an individual for an injury or illness, or both, the immediate care and treatment of an individual for an injury or illness, or both, and the rehabilitation and reconditioning of an individual's injury or illness, or both, if those activities are within the rules promulgated under section 17904 and performed under the direction of, on the prescription of, or in collaboration with an individual licensed under part 170 or 175. See Michigan Laws 333.17901 Practice of dietetics and nutrition: means the integration and application of scientific principles derived from the study of food, nutrition, biochemistry, metabolism, nutrigenomics, physiology, food systems and management, and from behavioral and social sciences in achieving and maintaining health throughout the lifespan and in providing nutrition care services, including the practice of medical nutrition therapy, for the prevention, management, and treatment of diseases or medical conditions. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Practice of genetic counseling: means provision of any of the following services:
(i) Obtaining and evaluating individual, family, and medical histories to determine the genetic risk for genetic or medical conditions or diseases in a client, the client's descendants, or other family members of the client. See Michigan Laws 333.17001Practice of massage therapy: means the application of a system of structured touch, pressure, movement, and holding to the soft tissue of the human body in which the primary intent is to enhance or restore the health and well-being of the client. See Michigan Laws 333.17951 Practice of medical nutrition therapy: means the provision of nutrition care services for the treatment or management of diseases or medical conditions. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Practice of medicine: means that term as defined in section 17001. See Michigan Laws 333.18501 Practice of nursing: means the systematic application of substantial specialized knowledge and skill, derived from the biological, physical, and behavioral sciences, to the care, treatment, counsel, and health teaching of individuals who are experiencing changes in the normal health processes or who require assistance in the maintenance of health and the prevention or management of illness, injury, or disability. See Michigan Laws 333.17201 Practice of occupational therapy: means the therapeutic use of everyday life occupations and occupational therapy services to aid individuals or groups to participate in meaningful roles and situations in the home, school, workplace, community, and other settings, to promote health and wellness through research and practice, and to serve those individuals or groups who have or are at risk for developing an illness, injury, disease, disorder, condition, impairment, disability, activity limitation, or participation restriction. See Michigan Laws 333.18301 Practice of optometry: means 1 or more of the following, but does not include the performance of invasive procedures:
(i) The examination of the human eye to ascertain the presence of defects or abnormal conditions that may be corrected, remedied, or relieved, or the effects of which may be corrected, remedied, or relieved by the use of lenses, prisms, or other mechanical devices. See Michigan Laws 333.17401Practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery: means a separate, complete, and independent school of medicine and surgery utilizing full methods of diagnosis and treatment in physical and mental health and disease, including the prescription and administration of drugs and biologicals, operative surgery, obstetrics, radiological and other electromagnetic emissions, and placing special emphasis on the interrelationship of the musculoskeletal system to other body systems. See Michigan Laws 333.17501 Practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery: means that term as defined in section 17501. See Michigan Laws 333.18501 Practice of physical therapy: means the evaluation of, education of, consultation with, or treatment of an individual by the employment of effective properties of physical measures and the use of therapeutic exercises and rehabilitative procedures, with or without assistive devices, for the purpose of preventing, correcting, or alleviating a physical or mental disability. See Michigan Laws 333.17801 Practice of professional forestry: means the science, art, and practice of creating, managing, using, planning and researching, and conserving forests and associated resources for human benefit and in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values. See Michigan Laws 324.53501 Practice of psychology: means the rendering to individuals, groups, organizations, or the public of services involving the application of principles, methods, and procedures of understanding, predicting, and influencing behavior for the purposes of the diagnosis, assessment related to diagnosis, prevention, amelioration, or treatment of mental or emotional disorders, disabilities or behavioral adjustment problems by means of psychotherapy, counseling, behavior modification, hypnosis, biofeedback techniques, psychological tests, or other verbal or behavioral means. See Michigan Laws 333.18201 Practice of respiratory care: means the provision of respiratory care services. See Michigan Laws 333.18701 Preadmission screening unit: means a service component of a community mental health services program established under section 409. See Michigan Laws 330.1400 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. Preliminary costs: includes costs of the engineering feasibility report, economic study, estimate of total cost, and cost of setting up the assessment district. See Michigan Laws 324.30901 Premises: means a lot or parcel of land, exclusive of buildings, and includes a parking lot, tourist camp, trailer camp, airport, stockyard, junkyard, wharf, pier, and any other place or enclosure. See Michigan Laws 29.1 prescribed burning: means the burning, in compliance with a prescription and to meet planned fire or land management objectives, of a continuous cover of fuels. See Michigan Laws 324.51501 Prescription: means a written plan establishing the criteria necessary for starting, controlling, and extinguishing a burn. See Michigan Laws 324.51501 Prescription drug: means that term as defined in section 17708, but does not include a controlled substance as defined in section 7104 and included in schedule 2 under section 7214 or an oral cortical steroid. See Michigan Laws 333.17401 Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. Source: U.S. Courts President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service. Presidential primary ballot selection form: means a form, as prescribed by the secretary of state, that a permanent mail ballot voter can use to select, or use to change a prior selection of, the political party ballot that the permanent mail ballot voter wishes to receive for a presidential primary election. See Michigan Laws 168.6 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. Preventative dental services: means dental services that include, but are not limited to, screening of a patient, assessment of a patient, prophylaxis, fluoride treatments, and application of sealants. See Michigan Laws 333.21601 primary election: as used in this act , shall mean a primary election held for the purpose of deciding by ballot who shall be the nominees for the offices named in this act, or for the election by ballot of delegates to political conventions. See Michigan Laws 168.7 Primary public safety answering point: means that term as defined in section 102 of the emergency 9-1-1 service enabling act, 1986 PA 32, MCL 484. See Michigan Laws 324.51501 Printer: means a printer or a multifunction or "all-in-one" device that in addition to printing performs 1 or more other operations such as copying, scanning, or faxing, that is designed to be placed on a desk or other work surface, and that may use any of various print technologies, such as laser and LED (electrographic), ink jet, dot matrix, thermal, or digital sublimation. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Prior conviction: means a conviction for any of the following, whether under a law of this state, a local ordinance substantially corresponding to a law of this state, a law of the United States substantially corresponding to a law of this state, or a law of another state substantially corresponding to a law of this state:
(i) A violation or an attempted violation of section 81134(1), (3), (4), (5), (6), or (7), except that only 1 violation or attempted violation of section 81134(6), a local ordinance substantially corresponding to section 81134(6), a law of another state substantially corresponding to section 81134(6), or a law of the United States substantially corresponding to section 81134(6) may be used as a prior conviction other than for enhancement purposes as provided in section 81134(11)(b). See Michigan Laws 324.81101Private activity bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued as private activity bonds as authorized by law and as defined in section 141 of the internal revenue code. See Michigan Laws 12.112 Private facility: means an adult foster care facility operated under contract with a community mental health services program or on a private pay basis that agrees to do both of the following:
(i) Accept the admission of an individual with developmental disability. See Michigan Laws 330.1500Private foundation trust: means a trust, including a trust described in section 4947(a)(1) of the IRC, as defined in section 509(a) of the IRC. See Michigan Laws 14.272 Private inland lake: means an inland lake other than a public inland lake. See Michigan Laws 324.30901 Privilege: means the privilege provided to an environmental audit report as provided in this part. See Michigan Laws 324.14801 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. Professional fund-raiser: means a person who for compensation or other consideration plans, conducts, manages, or carries on, either directly or through paid individual solicitors, a drive or campaign of soliciting contributions for or on behalf of a public safety organization or person. See Michigan Laws 14.302 Program: means the volunteer employee criminal history system program created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 28.832 project: means the entire project to be undertaken, including, but not limited to, the actual site remediation and its resulting economic development. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Project: means a proposal to install within 1 general area a new wastewater collection system. See Michigan Laws 324.4101 Project: means an activity that requires a permit pursuant to section 30102. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 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 Property: includes any matter or thing upon or in respect to which an offense may be committed. See Michigan Laws 761.1 Property: means real estate that is contaminated by a release from an underground storage tank system. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Property controlling corner: means either of the following:
(i) A position misidentified as and used as an original public land survey corner or as a protracted public land survey corner that serves to control property. See Michigan Laws 54.202Property controlling corner: means either of the following:
(i) A position misidentified as and used as an original public land survey corner or as a protracted public land survey corner that serves to control property lines. See Michigan Laws 54.262Property corner: means a geographic point on the surface of the earth that is on, is a part of, and controls a property line. See Michigan Laws 54.202 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Protracted public land survey corner: means any of the following:
(i) A closing quarter section position along a township or range line or a center quarter section position that was not actually monumented on the ground in the field notes of the original federal government survey, but that serves to complete the nominal half-mile grid of government corners. See Michigan Laws 54.202Protracted public land survey corner: means either of the following:
(i) A closing quarter section position along a township or range line or a center quarter section position that was not actually monumented on the ground in the field notes of the original United States government survey, but that serves to complete the nominal half-mile grid of government corners. See Michigan Laws 54.262Psychologist: means an individual licensed to engage in the practice of psychology under part 182. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Psychologist: means an individual who is licensed or authorized under this article to engage in the practice of psychology. See Michigan Laws 333.18201 Public boating access site: means a publicly owned site for the launching of recreational watercraft. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Public charitable organization: means an organization described in section 509(a)(1), (2) or (3) of the IRC and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of the IRC. See Michigan Laws 14.272 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 defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters. Public domain: means all land owned by this state or land deeded to this state under state law. See Michigan Laws 324.301 public employee: means any person holding a position in public employment, both classified and unclassified. See Michigan Laws 35.351 public employer: means any government, department or agency mentioned in subsection (b) of this section employing a public employee in a position. See Michigan Laws 35.351 public employment: means remunerative employment by the government of this state, or of any county, municipality, or other civil or political subdivision thereof, including any department, agency or instrumentality thereof. See Michigan Laws 35.351 Public highway: means a road or highway under the jurisdiction of the state transportation department, a county road commission, or a local unit of government. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Public inland lake: means a lake that is accessible to the public by publicly owned lands or highways contiguous to publicly owned lands or by the bed of a stream, except the Great Lakes and connecting waters. See Michigan Laws 324.30901 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 safety department: means a department of a political subdivision providing both law enforcement and fire services either separately or utilizing a combined response force with personnel trained and certified as both firefighters under this act and law enforcement officers under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Public safety director: means the individual who serves as the administrative head of a public safety department. See Michigan Laws 29.362 public threat: means a clear, present, persistent, ongoing, and random threat to public safety. See Michigan Laws 28.672 Publicly owned treatment works: means any entity that treats municipal sewage or industrial waste or liquid industrial by-product that is owned by the state or a municipality, as that term is defined in 33 USC 1362. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Pure Michigan Trail: means a trail designated as a "Pure Michigan Trail" under section 72103. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Pure Michigan Trail Town: means a "Pure Michigan Trail Town" designated under section 72104. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Pure Michigan Water Trail: means a water trail designated as a "Pure Michigan Water Trail" under section 72103. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Qualified agricultural energy production system: means the structures, equipment, and apparatus to be used to produce a gaseous fuel from the noncombustive decomposition of agricultural biomass and the apparatus and equipment used to generate electricity or heat from the gaseous fuel or store the gaseous fuel for future generation of electricity or heat. See Michigan Laws 324.14501 qualified city: means either of the following:
(a) A city with a population of less than 15,500. See Michigan Laws 41.810qualified elector: as used in this act , means a person who possesses the qualifications of an elector as prescribed in section 1 of article II of the state constitution of 1963 and who has resided in the city or township 30 days. See Michigan Laws 168.10 Qualified entity: means a business or organization, whether public, private, operated for profit, or operated not for profit that provides care or care placement services. See Michigan Laws 28.832 qualified military veteran: means an individual who meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Before graduation from a high school, the military veteran enlisted in or was drafted into the armed forces of the United States during World War II between December 16, 1940 and December 31, 1946, during the Korean conflict between June 27, 1950 and January 31, 1955, or during the Vietnam era between February 28, 1961 and May 7, 1975. See Michigan Laws 35.341Qualified program: means any of the following:
(i) A program that is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, includes coursework and training in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders, and is approved by the department in consultation with the board. See Michigan Laws 333.18101Qualified supervisor: means an individual meeting the requirements described in section 18360. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 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 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Quorum: means , except as otherwise defined, 1 of the following:
(i) Three council members, if the village has adopted an ordinance reducing the number of trustees under chapter II. See Michigan Laws 61.1aRail-trail: means a former railroad bed that is in public ownership and used as a trail. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 Rap back program: means a state or federal record of arrest and prosecution background program that enables qualified entities to receive ongoing status notifications of any criminal history reported on covered individuals whose fingerprints are registered in the system thereby eliminating the need for repeated background checks on covered individuals by qualified entities. See Michigan Laws 28.832 Rare and imperiled wetland: means any of the following:
(i) Great Lakes marsh. See Michigan Laws 324.30301RBCA: means the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) document entitled standard guide for risk-based corrective action applied at petroleum release sites, designation E 1739-95 (reapproved 2010) E1; standard guide for risk-based corrective action designation E 2081-00 (reapproved 2010) E1; and standard guide for development of conceptual site models and remediation strategies for light nonaqueous-phase liquids released to the subsurface designation E 2531-06 E1, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 RBSL: means the unrestricted residential and nonresidential generic cleanup criteria developed by the department pursuant to part 201. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Receiving facility: means a structure that is designed to receive septage waste for treatment at a wastewater treatment plant or at a research, development, and demonstration project authorized under section 11511b to which the structure is directly connected, and that is available for that purpose as provided for in an ordinance of the local unit of government where the structure is located or in an operating plan. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business. Reclamation: means either processing to recover a usable product or regeneration. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Recombinant nucleic acid techniques: means laboratory techniques through which genetic material is isolated and manipulated in vitro and then inserted into an organism. See Michigan Laws 324.48701 Reconfigure: means to, without expanding the marina, do either of the following:
(i) Change the location of the dock or docks and other mooring structures at the marina to occupy an area of the inland lake or stream that was not previously authorized by a permit issued under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.30101Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 55.265 record owner: means a person, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, firm, corporation, or other legal entity, possessed of the most recent fee title or a land contract vendee's interest in the land as shown by the records of the county register of deeds. See Michigan Laws 41.721a 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 Recreation improvement account: means the recreation improvement account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2020. See Michigan Laws 324.71101 Recreation passport fee: means that term as defined in section 2001. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 Recreation passport fee: means that term as defined in section 2001. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Recreational value: means value relating to an activity that the public engages in, or may engage in, for recreation or sport, including scuba diving and fishing. See Michigan Laws 324.76101 Recyclable materials: means that term as it is defined in section 11505. See Michigan Laws 324.17501 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 Recycled paper: means a paper product that contains not less than 50% wastepaper. See Michigan Laws 324.16501 Recycler: means a person who as a principal component of business operations acquires covered electronic devices and sorts and processes the covered electronic devices to facilitate recycling or resource recovery techniques. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Recycling: means an action or process, such as separation, sorting, baling, or shipping, applied to reportable recyclable materials for the purposes of reuse or conversion into raw materials or new products. See Michigan Laws 324.17501 Recycling establishment: means an establishment engaged in recycling of, or brokering of, reportable recyclable materials. See Michigan Laws 324.17501 Reference monument: means an accessory that is employed if the site of a corner is such that a monument cannot be set or is liable to destruction or if occupation of the site provides for unsafe conditions. See Michigan Laws 54.202 Reforestation: means adequate stocking of forestland is assured by natural seeding, sprouting, suckering, or by planting seeds or seedlings. See Michigan Laws 324.52501 Registered dietitian nutritionist: means an individual who is credentialed by the Commission on Dietetic Registration or its successor organization as a registered dietitian or registered dietitian nutritionist. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Registered forester: means a forester registered under section 53509. See Michigan Laws 324.53501 Registered sanitarian: means a sanitarian registered in accordance with this article. See Michigan Laws 333.18401 Regular ballot: means a ballot that is issued to a voter on election day at a polling place location. See Michigan Laws 168.3 Regular election: means an election held on a regular election date to elect an individual to, or nominate an individual for, elective office in the regular course of the terms of that elective office. See Michigan Laws 168.3 Regular election date: means 1 of the dates established as a regular election date in section 641. See Michigan Laws 168.3 Regulated substance: means any of the following:
(i) A substance defined in section 101(14) of title I of the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980, Public Law 96-510, 42 U. See Michigan Laws 324.21101Regulated substance: means any of the following:
(i) A substance defined in section 101(14) of title I of the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980, Public Law 96-510, 42 USC 9601, but not including a substance regulated as a hazardous waste under subtitle C of the solid waste disposal act, title II of Public Law 89-272, 42 USC 6921 to 6939e. See Michigan Laws 324.21303Release: means the transfer of an individual who is subject to an order of combined hospitalization and assisted outpatient treatment from 1 treatment program to another in accordance with his or her individual plan of services. See Michigan Laws 330.1400 Release: includes , but is not limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of a hazardous substance into the environment, or the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing a hazardous substance. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Release: means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing from an underground storage tank system into groundwater, surface water, or subsurface soils. See Michigan Laws 324.21101 Release: means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, or leaching from an underground storage tank system into groundwater, surface water, or subsurface soils. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 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. Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired. Remedial action: includes , but is not limited to, cleanup, removal, containment, isolation, destruction, or treatment of a hazardous substance released or threatened to be released into the environment, monitoring, maintenance, or the taking of other actions that may be necessary to prevent, minimize, or mitigate injury to the public health, safety, or welfare, or to the environment. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Remedial action plan: means a work plan for performing remedial action under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Remonumentation: means all land surveying activities performed by a surveyor to perpetuate a previously monumented original public land survey corner, protracted public land survey corner, or property controlling corner as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 54.262 Remote control terminal: means a terminal where filling an aboveground liquid storage tank with a flammable liquid is controlled at a remote location by the individual who conveyed the flammable liquid to the terminal. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Remote electronic notarization platform: means any combination of technology that enables a notary public to perform a notarial act remotely; that allows the notary public to communicate by sight and sound with the individual for whom he or she is performing the notarial act, and witnesses, if applicable, by means of audio and visual communication; and that includes features to conduct credential analysis and identity proofing. See Michigan Laws 55.265 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 Reptiles: means any turtle, snake, or lizard of the class reptilia. See Michigan Laws 324.48701 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. Residence: as used in this act , for registration and voting purposes means that place at which a person habitually sleeps, keeps his or her personal effects, and has a regular place of lodging. See Michigan Laws 168.11 Resident: means a person who meets 1 or more of the following:
(i) Was born in and lived in this state until entrance into the armed forces of the United States. See Michigan Laws 35.972Resident: means either of the following:
(i) A person who resides in a settled or permanent home or domicile with the intention of remaining in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.48701Resident motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle other than a commercial motor vehicle that is registered as a motor vehicle in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 Resident motor vehicle: means that term as defined in section 74101. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 Resident veteran: means a veteran who is a resident of a Michigan veterans' facility or an individual who is a resident of a Michigan veterans' facility by virtue of the individual's relationship with a veteran. See Michigan Laws 4.771 Residential: means that category of land use for parcels of property or portions of parcels of property where people live and sleep for significant periods of time such that the frequency of exposure is reasonably expected or foreseeable to meet the exposure assumptions used by the department to develop generic residential cleanup criteria as set forth in rules promulgated under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Respiratory care services: means preventative services, diagnostic services, therapeutic services, and rehabilitative services under the written, verbal, or telecommunicated order of a physician to an individual with a disorder, disease, or abnormality of the cardiopulmonary system as diagnosed by a physician. See Michigan Laws 333.18701 Response activity: means that term as it is defined in part 201 or corrective action as defined in part 213. See Michigan Laws 324.19601 Response activity: means evaluation, interim response activity, remedial action, demolition, providing an alternative water supply, or the taking of other actions necessary to protect the public health, safety, or welfare, or the environment or the natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Response activity plan: means a plan for undertaking response activities. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. 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 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 Retailer: means a person who sells or offers for sale new, retreaded, or remanufactured tires to consumers in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Retailer: means a person who sells or offers to sell batteries to consumers within this state. See Michigan Laws 324.17101 Retailer: means a person that sells a covered electronic device to a consumer by any means, including transactions conducted through sales outlets, catalogs, mail order, or the internet, whether or not the person has a physical presence in this state. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 RETAP: means the retired engineers technical assistance program created in section 14511. See Michigan Laws 324.14501 Retreader: means a person who retreads, recases, or recaps tire casings for reuse. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Revenue: means money or income received by a municipality as a result of activities authorized by this part, including loan repayments and interest on loan repayments; proceeds from the sale of real or personal property; interest payments on investments; rentals and other payments due and owing on account of an instrument, lease, contract, or agreement to which the municipality is a party; and gifts, grants, bestowals, or other moneys or payments to which a municipality is entitled under this part or other law. See Michigan Laws 324.11901 Revocation: means the termination of a notary public's commission to perform notarial acts. See Michigan Laws 55.265 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 Rigid plastic container: means any container composed predominantly of plastic resin and having a relatively inflexible finite shape or form that directly holds a substance or material and has a capacity of 8 ounces or more. See Michigan Laws 324.16101 Riparian interest area: means that portion of an inland lake or stream over which a riparian owner has an ownership interest. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Riparian owner: means a person who has riparian rights. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Riparian owner: means a person who owns frontage bordering bottomlands. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 Riparian rights: means those rights which are associated with the ownership of the bank or shore of an inland lake or stream. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Riparian rights: means those rights that are associated with the ownership of frontage bordering bottomlands, subject to the public trust. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 River: means a flowing body of water or a portion or tributary of a flowing body of water, including streams, creeks, or impoundments and small lakes thereon. See Michigan Laws 324.30501 River: means a flowing body of water with a drainage area of 80 or more square miles. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 River management: means the control of river flow by the operation of dams, reservoirs, conduits, and other human-made devices in order to improve and expand the uses of the river for those who depend upon it for a variety of private and public benefits. See Michigan Laws 324.31101 Roadway: means the portion of a street, county road, or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for travel by vehicles registered under the code. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Route: means a forest road or other road that is designated for purposes of this part by the department. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Rule: means a rule promulgated under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. See Michigan Laws 30.402 Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 324.301 Rules: means rules promulgated by the department in consultation with the board under this part. See Michigan Laws 333.18251 Rural emergency hospital: means a hospital that is designated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to offer rural emergency hospital services. See Michigan Laws 333.21501 SAF: means Society of American Foresters. See Michigan Laws 324.53501 Sale: means that term as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Sanitary sewer cleanout septage: means sanitary sewage or cleanout residue removed from a separate sanitary sewer collection system that is not land applied and that is transported by a vehicle licensed under this part elsewhere within the same system or to a receiving facility that is approved by the department. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Satellite office of a clerk: means a place designated by a clerk, and staffed by employees of the clerk or assistants as authorized under section 29, to perform specific duties under this act and to offer specified election administration services to electors of a municipality. See Michigan Laws 168.8 Saturated zone: means a soil area where the soil pores are filled with groundwater and can include the presence of LNAPL. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 School: means a public school, nonpublic school, or public school academy as those terms are defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 28.803 School: means any of the following accredited or licensed institutions of higher education that meet the minimum standards and curriculum, in compliance with section 16148:
(i) A public or private community college, college, or university. See Michigan Laws 333.17951School board: means the governing body of a school district, including the board of trustees of a community college. See Michigan Laws 168.4 School board member: means an individual holding the office of school board member under the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 168.4 School district: means a school district, a local act school district, or an intermediate school district, as those terms are defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 168.4 School district election coordinating committee: means 1 of the following:
(i) For a school district whose entire territory lies within a single city or township, a committee composed of the secretary of the school board or his or her designee, the city or township election commission, and the school district election coordinator. See Michigan Laws 168.4School district election coordinator: means 1 of the following:
(i) For a school district whose entire territory lies within a single city or township, the city or township clerk. See Michigan Laws 168.4Scrap tire: means a tire that is no longer being used for its original intended purpose including, but not limited to, a used tire, a reusable tire casing, or portions of a tire. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Scrap tire hauler: means a person who transports more than 10 scrap tires at once in a vehicle on a public road or street. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Scrap tire processor: means either of the following:
(i) A person who is authorized by this part to accumulate scrap tires and is engaged in the business of buying or otherwise acquiring scrap tires and reducing their volume by shredding or otherwise facilitating recycling or resource recovery techniques for scrap tires. See Michigan Laws 324.16901seal: means a seal of high tensile strength that is approved by the secretary of state under section 36. See Michigan Laws 168.14a seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
(a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3nSeasonal structure: includes any type of dock, boat hoist, ramp, raft, or other recreational structure that is placed into an inland lake or stream and removed at the end of the boating season. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Seawall: means a vertically sloped wall constructed to break the force of waves and retain soil for the purpose of shore protection. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Secondary wholesaler: means that term as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Secretary: means the secretary of state or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 55.267 Secretary of state: means the secretary of state of this state, acting directly or through a duly authorized deputy, investigators, agents, and employees. See Michigan Laws 324.78101 secular day: means a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. See Michigan Laws 168.2 Security interest: means any interest, including a reversionary interest, in real property created or established for the purpose of securing a loan or other obligation. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Sell: means to sell or to offer or agree to sell. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Septage waste: means the fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage solids, liquids, and sludge of human or domestic origin that is removed from a wastewater system. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Septage waste servicing license: means a septage waste servicing license as provided for under section 11703 and 11706. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Septage waste vehicle: means a vehicle that is self-propelled or towed and that includes a tank used to transport septage waste. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Septage waste vehicle license: means a septage waste vehicle license as provided for under section 11704 and 11706. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Septic tank: means a septic toilet, chemical closet, or other enclosure used for the decomposition of domestic sewage. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Serious communicable disease or infection: means a communicable disease or infection that is designated as serious by the department under this part. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 service: means service in the armed forces of the United States during a period of war as described in 38 C. See Michigan Laws 35.801 service area: means the territory for which a receiving facility has the capacity and is available to receive and treat septage waste, except that the geographic service area of a receiving facility shall not extend more than 25 radial miles from the receiving facility. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Service obligation: means the contractual obligation undertaken by an individual under section 2705 or section 2707 to provide health care services for a determinable time period at a site designated by the department. See Michigan Laws 333.2701 Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party. servicing: means cleaning, removing, transporting, or disposing, by application to land or otherwise, of septage waste. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 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. Sewerage system: means a system of pipes and structures including pipes, channels, conduits, manholes, pumping stations, sewage or waste treatment works, diversion and regulatory devices, outfall structures, and appurtenances, collectively or severally, actually used or intended for use by the public for the purpose of collecting, conveying, transporting, treating, or otherwise handling sanitary sewage or other industrial liquid wastes that are capable of adversely affecting the public health. See Michigan Laws 324.4101 Sewers: means interceptor sewers for the transportation of sewage or storm water or both, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, combined sanitary and storm sewers and all instrumentalities, facilities, and properties used or useful in connection with the collection of sewage or storm water. See Michigan Laws 46.171 Sexually transmitted infection: means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale, and other sexually transmitted infections that the department may designate and require to be reported under section 5111. See Michigan Laws 333.5101 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 Shipping document: means a log, an invoice, a bill of lading, or other record, in either written or electronic form, that includes all of the following information:
(i) The name and address of the generator. See Michigan Laws 324.12102Shoreland: means the land, water, and land beneath the water that is in close proximity to the shoreline of a Great Lake or a connecting waterway. See Michigan Laws 324.32301 Shoreline: means that area of the shorelands where land and water meet. See Michigan Laws 324.32301 Shoulder: means that portion of a street, county road, or highway contiguous to the roadway and generally extending the contour of the roadway, not designed for vehicular travel but maintained for the temporary accommodation of disabled or stopped motor vehicles otherwise permitted on the roadway. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Signature: means an individual's written or printed name, electronic signature, or mark, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed, adopted, or made by the individual with the intent to sign the record. See Michigan Laws 55.267 signature on file: means any of the following:
(a) Any signature of an elector contained in the qualified voter file. See Michigan Laws 168.766aSite: means a location or locations on a parcel or tract, as those terms are defined in section 102 of the land division act, 1967 PA 288, MCL 560. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Site: means a location where a release has occurred or a threat of release exists from an underground storage tank system, excluding any location where corrective action was completed which satisfies the applicable RBSL or SSTL. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Site identification number: means a number that is assigned by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the department to a transporter or facility. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Site permit: means a permit issued under section 11709 authorizing the application of septage waste to a site. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Site-specific review: means the department's independent review under section 32706c to determine whether the withdrawal is a zone A, zone B, zone C, or zone D withdrawal and whether a withdrawal is likely to cause an adverse resource impact. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Small business: means a business that is not dominant in its field as described in 13 C. See Michigan Laws 324.14501 Small business: means a business with 10 or fewer employees. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Small river: means a river with a drainage area of less than 300 square miles. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Snowmobile account: means the snowmobile account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2025. See Michigan Laws 324.71101 Social service technician: means an individual registered under this article who is specially trained to practice only under the supervision of a licensed master's social worker or a licensed bachelor's social worker. See Michigan Laws 333.18501 Solid waste hauler: means a solid waste hauler as defined in section 11506 who transports less than 25% by weight or volume of scrap tires along with other solid waste in any truckload to a disposal area licensed under part 115. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Source: means any storage, handling, distribution, or processing equipment from which the release originates and first enters the environment. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Source watershed: means the watershed from which a withdrawal originates. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Special election: means an election to elect an individual to, or nominate an individual for, a partial term in office or to submit a ballot question to the electors. See Michigan Laws 168.4 Special primary: means a primary called by competent authority for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at a special election. See Michigan Laws 168.4 Speech-language pathologist: means an individual who is engaged in the practice of speech-language pathology. See Michigan Laws 333.17601 Spill: means any leaking, pumping, pouring, emptying, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing of a hazardous material in a quantity which is or may become injurious to the public health, safety, welfare, or to the environment. See Michigan Laws 324.20301 Split interest trust: means a trust for individual and charitable beneficiaries that is subject to section 4947(a)(2) of the IRC. See Michigan Laws 14.272 SSTL: means an RBCA risk-based remedial action target level for contamination developed for a site under RBCA tier II and tier III evaluations. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Stamp sands: means finely grained crushed rock resulting from mining, milling, or smelting of copper ore and includes native substances contained within the crushed rock and any ancillary material associated with the crushed rock. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 55.267 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 executive officers: means the elected heads of the principal departments of this state. See Michigan Laws 31.2 State fire marshal: means the individual appointed by the director under section 1b. See Michigan Laws 29.1 State forest: means state land owned or controlled by the department that is designated as state forest by the director. See Michigan Laws 324.52501 State forester: means that term as defined in section 50502. See Michigan Laws 324.53501 State issuer: means the state of Michigan, an agency, authority, or other instrumentality created by the laws of this state, the governing body of which is composed of members elected by the people or appointed in whole or in part by a state officer, or a state college or university listed or described in section 4 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963, which entity is authorized to issue bonds. See Michigan Laws 12.112 State of disaster: means an executive order or proclamation that activates the disaster response and recovery aspects of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency operations plans applicable to the counties or municipalities affected. See Michigan Laws 30.402 State of emergency: means an executive order or proclamation that activates the emergency response and recovery aspects of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency operations plans applicable to the counties or municipalities affected. See Michigan Laws 30.402 State park: means a state park or state recreation area designated by the director. See Michigan Laws 324.74301 State park: means a state park or state recreation area designated by the director. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 State park improvement account: means the state park improvement account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2030. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 State park revenues: means all revenues collected for state parks, including but not limited to, revenue from recreation passport fees, motor vehicle permits, concession fees, nonmotorized trail permits, fees, leases, camping fees, sale of farm animals from Maybury state park, donations, and gifts. See Michigan Laws 324.74101 State public university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 380.501 State public university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 380.521 State public university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 380.551 State treasurer: means the state treasurer of this state or his or her designee, if the designee is authorized to exercise delegated signatory power for purposes of this act in a written instrument signed by the state treasurer and maintained in a permanent file. See Michigan Laws 12.272 Statewide trail network: means the statewide trail network established in section 72114. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 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. Statutes at large: A chronological listing of the laws enacted each Congress. They are published in volumes numbered by Congress. Storage: means the containment of liquid industrial by-product, on a temporary basis, in a manner that does not constitute disposal of the by-product. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Storage facility: means a structure that receives septage waste for storage but not for treatment. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Storage requirements: means the requirements of section 16903(1) and, if applicable, (2). See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Strategic outreach and attraction reserve fund: means the strategic outreach and attraction reserve fund created in section 4. See Michigan Laws 12.252 Stream: means a flowing body of water with a drainage area of less than 80 square miles. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Stream reach: means a segment of a stream or river. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Street: means a city or village major street or city or village local street as described in section 9 of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Stress or trauma: means an emotional, cognitive, behavioral, or physical reaction that may interfere with normal functioning, including, but not limited to, 1 or more of the following:
(i) Physical and emotional illness. See Michigan Laws 333.20981Structure: includes a wharf, dock, pier, seawall, dam, weir, stream deflector, breakwater, groin, jetty, sewer, pipeline, cable, and bridge. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Subject of a petition: means an individual regarding whom a petition has been filed with the court asserting that the individual is or is not a person requiring treatment or for whom an objection to involuntary mental health treatment has been made under section 484. See Michigan Laws 330.1400 Submerged log: means a portion of the trunk of a felled tree that has not been further processed for any end use and is located on, in, over, or under bottomlands. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents. Subsidiary board: means the board of trustees of a subsidiary corporation. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Subsidiary corporation: means a subsidiary municipal health facilities corporation incorporated under this act. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act. Surface impoundment: means a treatment facility, storage facility, or disposal facility or part of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility that is either a natural topographic depression, a human-made excavation, or a diked area formed primarily of earthen materials. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Surface water: means all of the following, but does not include groundwater or an enclosed sewer, other utility line, storm water retention basin, or drainage ditch:
(i) The Great Lakes and their connecting waters. See Michigan Laws 324.21303Surplus water: means water that may be impounded without decreasing the flow of a river or stream below its optimum flow. See Michigan Laws 324.31301 surveyor: means any of the following:
(a) A surveyor employed by the government of the United States of America or this state. See Michigan Laws 54.121Surveyor: means a professional surveyor who is licensed to practice professional surveying under article 20 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339. See Michigan Laws 54.202 Surveyor: means a professional surveyor who is licensed to practice professional surveying under article 20 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339. See Michigan Laws 54.262 Surviving spouse: means the husband or wife of the deceased officer at the time of the officer's death, and includes a spouse living apart from the officer at the time of the officer's death for any reason. See Michigan Laws 28.632 Suspension: means the temporary withdrawal of the notary public's commission to perform notarial acts during the period of the suspension. See Michigan Laws 55.267 Sustainable forestry: means forestry practices that are designed to meet present and future needs by employing a land stewardship ethic that integrates the reforestation, managing, growing, nurturing, and harvesting of trees for useful products with the conservation of soil, air and water quality, wildlife and fish habitat, and visual qualities. See Michigan Laws 324.52501 System: means all of those rivers or portions of rivers designated under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.30501 takeback program: means a computer takeback program or a video display device takeback program. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Tank: means an enclosed container placed on a septage waste vehicle to carry or transport septage waste. See Michigan Laws 324.11701 Target detection limit: means the detection limit for a hazardous substance in a given environmental medium that is specified in a rule promulgated by the department. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Task force: means the joint task force created in section 17025. See Michigan Laws 333.17001 Task force: means the joint task force created in section 17025. See Michigan Laws 333.17501 Technical rescue responder: means an employee of or volunteer assigned by a political subdivision to assist an organized fire department or public safety department who is certified under National Fire Protection Association standard no. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Technical rescue response: means those aspects of saving life or property that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for firefighting, medical emergency, and rescue. See Michigan Laws 29.362 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 in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent Terminal: means a location where an aboveground liquid storage tank containing a flammable liquid is located. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Testify: Answer questions in court. Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Therapeutic diet: means a diet intervention prescribed by a physician, or another health professional licensed under this article, that provides food or nutrients via oral, enteral, and parenteral routes as part of treatment of a disease or clinical condition to modify, eliminate, decrease, or increase identified micronutrients and macronutrients in the diet, or to provide mechanically altered food when indicated. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Thermostat: means a consumer product that uses a switch that contains mercury or a mercury compound to sense and control room temperature, including room temperature in residential, commercial, industrial, and other buildings, by communicating with heating, ventilating, or air-conditioning equipment. See Michigan Laws 324.17201 Third party administrator: means that term as defined in section 2 of the third party administrator act, 1984 PA 218, MCL 550. See Michigan Laws 333.21501 this part: includes "rules promulgated under this part". See Michigan Laws 324.20101 threat of release: means any circumstance that may reasonably be anticipated to cause a release. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 threatened release: means any circumstance that may reasonably be anticipated to cause a release. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Thriving fish curve: means a fish functional response curve that describes the initial decline in density of thriving fish populations in response to reductions in index flow as published in the document entitled "Report to the Michigan Legislature in response to 2006 Public Act 34" by the former groundwater conservation advisory council dated July 2007, which is incorporated by reference. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Tire: means a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a tractor or other farm machinery or of a vehicle. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Tire storage area: means a location within a collection site where tires are accumulated. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 Tobacco products tax act: means the tobacco products tax act, 1993 PA 327, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Tobacco settlement revenue: means money received by this state that is attributable to the master settlement agreement incorporated into a consent decree and final judgment entered into on December 7, 1998 in Kelly Ex Rel. See Michigan Laws 12.252 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. Tract: means tract as that term is used by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census in conducting its 1980 decennial census. See Michigan Laws 4.804 Tract: means tract as that term is used by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census in conducting the 2010 decennial census. See Michigan Laws 4.2006 Trager approach: means a form of movement education that uses subtle directed movements and the skilled touch of a practitioner. See Michigan Laws 333.17951 Trail: means a right-of-way adapted to foot, horseback, motorized, or other nonmotorized travel. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 trail: means a right-of-way adapted to foot or horseback travel. See Michigan Laws 324.72301 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 date: means that term as defined in section 12b. See Michigan Laws 380.381 Transportation: means the movement of liquid industrial by-product by air, rail, public or private roadway, or water. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Transporter: means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of liquid industrial by-product by air, rail, public roadway, or water. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Treasurer: means the state treasurer or a deputy or employee of the department of treasury that the state treasurer authorizes to act under this act. See Michigan Laws 12.112 Treatment: means admission into an appropriate treatment facility or an outpatient program of care and treatment suitable to the individual's needs under the supervision of a psychiatrist that is developed in accordance with person-centered planning under section 712. See Michigan Laws 330.1500 Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any liquid industrial by-product, to neutralize the by-product, or to render the by-product safer to transport, store, or dispose of, amenable to recovery, amenable to storage, or reduced in volume. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Treatment facility: means a facility or part of a facility at which liquid industrial by-product undergoes treatment. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. Trout stream: means any stream or portion of a stream that contains a significant population of any species of trout or salmon as determined by the department. See Michigan Laws 324.48701 Trust: means an express trust created by a trust instrument, including a will. See Michigan Laws 14.272 Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. Trustee: means the trustee or person possessing a power referred to in this act. See Michigan Laws 14.272 Trustee: means a person serving on a board of trustees or a subsidiary board. See Michigan Laws 331.1103 Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor. Tuition: means the cost of a course of study at an eligible educational institution, including the cost of instructional fees, laboratory fees, computer fees, and other fees directly related to that eligible person's specific course of study at that eligible educational institution. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Tuition assistance program: means the Michigan national guard tuition assistance program created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 32.432 Unavailable: means that the lawful incumbent of the office, including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of the office because of a vacancy, and his duly authorized deputy are not available to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See Michigan Laws 31.2 Unclassified acquirer: means that term as defined in section 2 of the tobacco products tax act, MCL 205. See Michigan Laws 29.493 Underground storage tank system: means a tank or combination of tanks, including underground pipes connected to the tank or tanks, which is, was, or may have been used to contain an accumulation of regulated substances, and the volume of which, including the volume of the underground pipes connected to the tank or tanks, is 10% or more beneath the surface of the ground. See Michigan Laws 324.21101 Underground storage tank system: means a tank or combination of tanks, including underground pipes connected to the tank or tanks, which is, was, or may have been used to contain an accumulation of regulated substances, and the volume of which, including the volume of the underground pipes connected to the tank or tanks, is 10% or more beneath the surface of the ground. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 Unified volume limitation: means the ceiling for this state on the aggregate amount of bonds that may be issued by all issuers in the state as prescribed by section 146 of the internal revenue code for a particular year. See Michigan Laws 12.112 Uniform application: means the uniform registration and permit application form established under the uniform program. See Michigan Laws 29.472 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 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 Uniform voting system: means the type of voting system that is used at all elections in every election precinct throughout the state. See Michigan Laws 168.4 Uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act: means the uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act, 42 USC 1973ff to 1973ff-6. See Michigan Laws 168.18 Unit of government: means a city, village, township, charter township, and any duly authorized and established combinations thereof, within or without the county establishing any of the improvements, facilities, or services authorized under this act. See Michigan Laws 46.171 United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o United States Department of Defense verified electronic signature: means the certificate-based digital identification code issued to qualified personnel by the United States Department of Defense as part of the Common Access Card, or its successor. See Michigan Laws 168.18a Unpatented lands: means all bottomlands except patented lands. See Michigan Laws 324.32601 Unrestricted practice of medical nutrition therapy: means the application of dietetics and nutrition knowledge and skills by an individual who regulates and is responsible for the individual's own practice or treatment procedures. See Michigan Laws 333.18351 Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision. Upland: means the land area that lies above the ordinary high-water mark. See Michigan Laws 324.30101 Used oil: means any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used and that, as a result of the use, is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 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 utility line: means any pipe or pipeline used for the transportation of any gaseous, liquid, liquescent, or slurry substance, for any purpose, and any cable, line, or wire for the transmission for any purpose of electrical energy, telephone or telegraph messages, or radio or television communication. See Michigan Laws 324.30305 Vadose zone: means the soil between the land surface and the top of the capillary fringe. See Michigan Laws 324.21303 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. Vehicle: means a tank vehicle or bulk transportation vehicle, excluding the tractor of a tank vehicle or bulk transportation vehicle. See Michigan Laws 29.1 Vehicle: means that term as defined in section 79 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 777.1 Vehicle: means a transport vehicle as defined by 49 C. See Michigan Laws 324.12102 Vehicle: means a device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway. See Michigan Laws 324.16901 vehicle: means a motor-driven off-road recreation vehicle capable of cross-country travel without benefit of a road or trail, on or immediately over land, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain. See Michigan Laws 324.81101 Venting groundwater: means groundwater that is entering a surface water of this state from a facility. See Michigan Laws 324.20101 Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge. Verification upon oath or affirmation: means a declaration, made by an individual on oath or affirmation before a notary public, that a statement in a record is true. See Michigan Laws 55.267 Vessel: means all watercraft except the following:
(i) Watercraft used for commercial fishing. See Michigan Laws 324.71101Veteran: means that term as defined in section 2a of 1885 PA 152, MCL 36. See Michigan Laws 4.771 veteran: means an individual who meets all of the following:
(a) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.441veteran: means an individual who meets all of the following:
(a) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.602Veteran: means an individual who meets all of the following:
(i) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.922Veteran: means an individual who meets both of the following:
(i) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.972Veteran: means an individual who meets both of the following:
(i) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35. See Michigan Laws 35.1001veterans administration: means the United States veterans administration, its predecessors or successors. See Michigan Laws 35.71 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. Video display device: means an electronic device with a viewable screen of 4 inches or larger that contains a tuner that locks on to a selected carrier frequency and is capable of receiving and displaying television or video programming via broadcast, cable, or satellite. See Michigan Laws 324.17301 Video display device takeback program: means a program required under section 17305(d). See Michigan Laws 324.17301 village: as used in this act , shall mean an incorporated village. See Michigan Laws 168.9 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 Violations committee: means the violations committee appointed under section 53505. See Michigan Laws 324.53501 Volunteer: means appointment or employment for which an individual receives no compensation for work provided, or appointment or employment for which an individual receives compensation in the form of reasonable expenses incurred during the course of his or her appointment or employment or other reasonable benefits, including, but not limited to, length of service awards or nominal fees. See Michigan Laws 29.362 Volunteer: means an individual who is designated as a volunteer by the public entity designated by the governor and is acting solely on behalf of that entity without remuneration beyond reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses in connection with the assistance. See Michigan Laws 324.20301 Voting accessibility for the elderly and handicapped act: means the voting accessibility for the elderly and handicapped act, 42 USC 1973ee to 1973ee-6. See Michigan Laws 168.18 ward: means a beneficiary of the veterans administration. See Michigan Laws 35.71 Warm river system: means a stream or river that has the appropriate summer water temperature that, based on statewide averages, sustains a fish community composed predominantly of warm-water fish species, as determined by a scientific methodology adopted by order of the commission. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Waste: means a discarded solid or semisolid material, including garbage, refuse, rubbish, ashes, liquid material, and other discarded materials generated by residential, commercial, agricultural, municipal, or industrial activities, including waste from sewage collected and treated in a municipal sewage system. See Michigan Laws 324.11901 Waste management project: means 1 or more parts of a waste collection, transportation, disposal, or resource recovery system, including plants, works, systems, facility or transfer stations planned, designed, or financed under this part. See Michigan Laws 324.11901 Wastepaper: means any discarded paper or corrugated paper board that is generated after the completion of the paper manufacturing process, and includes, but is not limited to, trimmings, printed paper, cutting and converting paper, newsprint, telephone books, catalogs, or other mixed postconsumer paper. See Michigan Laws 324.16501 Water dependent: means requiring access or proximity to or siting within an aquatic site to fulfill its basic purpose. See Michigan Laws 324.30301 Water trail: means a designated route on a body of water. See Michigan Laws 324.72101 water withdrawal: means the removal of water from its source for any purpose. See Michigan Laws 324.30103 Watercraft: means any contrivance that is used or designed for navigation on water, including, but not limited to, any vessel, ship, boat, motor vessel, steam vessel, vessel operated by machinery, motorboat, sailboat, barge, scow, tugboat, and rowboat, but does not include watercraft used or owned by the United States. See Michigan Laws 324.71101 Watercraft: means any contrivance used or designed for navigation on water, including, but not limited to, any vessel, ship, boat, motor vessel, steam vessel, vessel operated by machinery, motorboat, sailboat, barge, scow, tugboat, and rowboat. See Michigan Laws 324.79101 Waterfront: means land that is contiguous to the Great Lakes or their connecting waterways, a river, or a lake or impoundment that has a surface area of not less than 50 acres. See Michigan Laws 324.79501 Waterfront planning area: means the geographic area included within a waterfront redevelopment plan. See Michigan Laws 324.79501 Waterfront redevelopment plan: means a waterfront redevelopment plan prepared by a local unit of government under section 79503 or a state approved recreation plan that includes waterfront improvements. See Michigan Laws 324.79501 Waters of the state: means all groundwaters, lakes, rivers, streams, and other watercourses including the Great Lakes and their connecting waterways within the jurisdiction of the state. See Michigan Laws 324.20301 Waters of the state: means groundwater, lakes, rivers, and streams and all other watercourses and waters, including the Great Lakes, within the territorial boundaries of the state. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Watershed: means the drainage area of a stream. See Michigan Laws 324.31101 Watershed: means a geographic area in the state within which surface water drains into a common river, stream, or body of water. See Michigan Laws 324.31201 Watershed alliance: means an organization established under section 31202. See Michigan Laws 324.31201 Waterways account: means the waterways account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2035. See Michigan Laws 324.71101 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 Wetland: means land characterized by the presence of water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, wetland vegetation or aquatic life, and is commonly referred to as a bog, swamp, or marsh. See Michigan Laws 324.51501 Wetland functions and services: means any of the following:
(i) Wetland hydrology that approximates the predisturbance condition or that emulates the natural condition of the wetland. See Michigan Laws 324.30301Wholesale 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 Wigglers: means Mayfly nymphs or any other aquatic insect nymphs or larvae. See Michigan Laws 324.48728 Withdrawal: means the removal of water from surface water or groundwater. See Michigan Laws 324.32701 Witness monument: is a n accessory that is a monumented point near a corner. See Michigan Laws 54.202 Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act. Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal. Zone D withdrawal: means , beginning February 1, 2009, a withdrawal that is likely to cause an adverse resource impact. See Michigan Laws 324.32701