Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 207 > Act 385 of 1984 - Technology Park Development Act

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Apprentice electrician: means an individual other than an electrical contractor, master electrician, or electrical journeyman, who is engaged in learning about and assisting in the installation or alteration of electrical wiring and equipment under the direct personal supervision of an electrical journeyman or master electrician. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Armed forces: means the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard or other military force designated by Congress as a part of the Armed Forces of the United States, including the reserve components. See Michigan Laws 339.5103
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Board: means the electrical administrative board described in section 705. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Charitable organization: means a not-for-profit tax-exempt religious, educational, or humane organization. See Michigan Laws 339.5103
• Citation: means that term as described in section 537. See Michigan Laws 339.5103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 339.5103
• Director: means the director of the department of licensing and regulatory affairs or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 339.5103
• Electric sign: means fixed, stationary, or portable self-contained, electrically illuminated equipment that has words or symbols designed to convey information or attract attention. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Electrical contractor: means a person that is engaged in the business of erecting, installing, altering, repairing, servicing, or maintaining electrical wiring. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Electrical journeyman: means an individual other than an electrical contractor who, as his or her principal occupation, is engaged in the practical installation or alteration of electrical wiring. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Electrical wiring: means all wiring, generating equipment, fixtures, appliances, devices, and appurtenances in connection with the generation, distribution, and utilization of electrical energy, in or on a building, residence, structure, or properties, regardless of whether or not the electrical wiring is energized at the time of installation. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Enforcing agency: means that term as defined in section 2a of the Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 339.5105
• 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.
• Fire alarm contractor: means a person that is engaged in the business of erecting, installing, altering, repairing, servicing, or maintaining wiring, devices, appliances, or equipment of a fire alarm system. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Fire alarm specialty apprentice technician: means an individual other than a fire alarm contractor or a fire alarm specialty technician who is engaged in learning about and assisting in the installation or alteration of fire alarm system wiring and equipment under the direct personal supervision of a fire alarm specialty technician. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Fire alarm specialty licensure: means licensure as a fire alarm contractor or a fire alarm specialty or apprentice technician. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Fire alarm specialty technician: means an individual other than a fire alarm contractor who, as his or her principal occupation, is engaged in the design and practical installation or alteration of fire alarm systems. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• Fire alarm system: means a system that is designed to detect and annunciate the presence of fire, or by-products of fire, installed in a building or structure. See Michigan Laws 339.5701
• General public: means each individual who resides in this state and is 18 years of age or older, other than an individual or the spouse of an individual who is licensed or registered in the occupation or who has a material financial interest in the occupation that is regulated by the specific article in which the term is used. See Michigan Laws 339.5105
• in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
• Jobsite: means the immediate work area within the property lines of a single construction project, alteration project, or maintenance project where electrical construction or alteration of electrical wiring is in progress. See Michigan Laws 339.5703
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• License: includes the whole or part of a governmental permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or similar form of permission required under a specific article of this act. See Michigan Laws 339.5105
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Master electrician: means an individual who has the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to supervise the installation of electrical wiring and equipment in accordance with the standard rules and regulations governing that work. See Michigan Laws 339.5703
• Michigan electrical code: means part 8 of the state construction code, R 408. See Michigan Laws 339.5107
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 339.5107
• Occupation: means a field of endeavor regulated under this act. See Michigan Laws 339.5107
• Outline lighting: means an arrangement of incandescent lamps or electric discharge tubing that is an integral part of an electrical sign that outlines certain features, such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window. See Michigan Laws 339.5703
• Person: means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or common law trust or a combination of those legal entities. See Michigan Laws 339.5107
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Related wiring: means any of the following: