Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 2 > Act 58 of 1965 - State Fish

• Aquatic plant: means a submergent, emergent, obligate wetland, facultative wetland, or floating-leaf plant or a fragment thereof, including a seed or other propagule. See Michigan Laws 324.41301
• Commercial purposes: means offering for sale, selling, giving, or furnishing to others. See Michigan Laws 324.48728
• Commission: means the commission of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.301
• 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.
• Crayfish: means any arthropod of the decapoda family. See Michigan Laws 324.48728
• Crustacea: means any freshwater crayfish, shrimp, or prawn of the order decapoda. See Michigan Laws 324.48701
• Crustacean: means freshwater crayfish, shrimp, or prawn of the order Decapoda. See Michigan Laws 324.41301
• 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 of natural resources: means the principal state department created in section 501. See Michigan Laws 324.301
• Director: means the director of the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 324.301
• 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
• Genetically engineered: refers to an organism whose genome, chromosomal or extrachromosomal, is modified permanently and heritably, using recombinant nucleic acid techniques, or the progeny of such an organism. See Michigan Laws 324.41301
• Land: includes lands, tenements, and real estate and rights to and interests in lands, tenements, and real estate. See Michigan Laws 324.2130
• local unit: means a municipality or county. See Michigan Laws 324.301
• 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
• Mollusk: means any mollusk of the classes Bivalvia and Gastropoda. See Michigan Laws 324.41301
• Mollusks: 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
• Municipality: includes a metropolitan district, a water or sewer authority created by law, or a county, township, charter township, incorporated city, or incorporated village. See Michigan Laws 324.4701
• Nonnative: means not native. See Michigan Laws 324.41301
• Nonresident: means a person who is not a resident. See Michigan Laws 324.48701
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 324.301
• Reptiles: means any turtle, snake, or lizard of the class reptilia. See Michigan Laws 324.48701
• Resident: means either of the following: