§ 254.221 International bridge authority; definitions
§ 254.222 Revenue bonds; statement, expenses
§ 254.223 International bridge authority; powers and duties; value of assets; efficiencies
§ 254.223a Expenditure from bridge revenues; purposes; payment
§ 254.224 Real property; purchase and conveyance by city of Sault Ste. Marie; condemnation proceedings; title; removal of property
§ 254.225 Revenue bonds; issuance, principal and interest payments, date, form, signatures, coupon or registered, sale, approval, proceeds, use; interim receipts or temporary bonds
§ 254.226 Revenue bonds; secured by trust agreement, pledge, provisions, indemnifying bonds, expenses, approval
§ 254.227 Tolls; collection; contracts with public utilities; appropriation of revenue; supervision and regulation; sinking fund; pledge
§ 254.228 Trust funds; depository acting as trustee
§ 254.229 Trust agreement or resolution; enforcement
§ 254.230 Bonds; negotiable instruments
§ 254.231 Purpose of project; taxation
§ 254.232 Bonds made securities
§ 254.233 Revenue refunding bonds; purpose, regulation
§ 254.234 Vehicular traffic facilities; covenant with bondholders; limitations
§ 254.235 Authorization for action; project maintenance and operation, report to governor, failure to pay tolls, surveying
§ 254.236 Bonds; final payment; disposition of property; dissolution of authority; assumption of powers and responsibilities; use of property and funds; surveys and studies; availability of data
§ 254.237 Powers; supplemental and additional
§ 254.238 Construction of act
§ 254.240 Repeal
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 254 > Act 99 of 1954 - International Bridge Authority

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Authority: means the international bridge authority of Michigan created by section 2 of 1935 PA 237, MCL 254. See Michigan Laws 254.221
  • average weekly wage: means the weekly wage earned by the employee at the time of the employee's injury in all employment, inclusive of overtime, premium pay, and cost of living adjustment, and exclusive of any fringe or other benefits which continue during the disability. See Michigan Laws 418.371
  • Carrier: means a self-insurer or an insurer. See Michigan Laws 418.601
  • Certificate: means documentation issued by the certifying agency to an individual who is vocationally disabled. See Michigan Laws 418.901
  • Certifying agency: means the division of vocational rehabilitation of the department of education. See Michigan Laws 418.901
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Cost: includes the cost of construction or acquisition, the cost of the acquisition of all land, rights-of-way, property, rights, easements, and interests acquired by the authority for the construction, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of acquiring the existing ferry system or any portion of that ferry system, operating between Sault Ste. See Michigan Laws 254.221
  • director: means the director of the bureau or his or her duly authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 418.201
  • Disability: means a limitation of an employee's wage earning capacity in work suitable to his or her qualifications and training resulting from a personal injury or work-related disease. See Michigan Laws 418.301
  • employee: means :
    (a) A person in the service of the state, a county, city, township, village, or school district, under any appointment, or contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written. See Michigan Laws 418.161
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Fund: means the second injury fund created in chapter 5. See Michigan Laws 418.901
  • 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
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: includes all individuals, copartnerships, associations, or corporations and also municipalities, political subdivisions, and all public agencies and instrumentalities having any title or interest in any property, rights, easements, and interests authorized to be acquired by this act. See Michigan Laws 254.221
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Project: includes a bridge or tunnel, overpasses, underpasses, entrance plazas, toll houses, administration, storage and other buildings and facilities, and all equipment therefor, and may include buses and terminal facilities, the existing ferry system, and such approaches and approach highways as may be determined by the authority to be necessary to facilitate the flow of traffic or to connect the project with the existing highway systems, together with all property, rights, easements, and interests acquired by the authority for the construction or operation of the project. See Michigan Laws 254.221
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • revenue bonds: means revenue bonds of the authority issued under this act. See Michigan Laws 254.221
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
    •     (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Vocationally disabled: means a person who has a medically certifiable impairment of the back or heart, or who is subject to epilepsy, or who has diabetes, and whose impairment is a substantial obstacle to employment, considering such factors as the person's age, education, training, experience, and employment rejection. See Michigan Laws 418.901