Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 399 > Act 169 of 1970 - Local Historic Districts Act

• Alteration: means work that changes the detail of a resource but does not change its basic size or shape. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Benefit contract: means the agreement for provision of benefits authorized by section 8179, as that agreement is described in section 8182(1). See Michigan Laws 500.8161
• Benefit member: means an adult member designated by the laws or rules of the society to be a benefit member under a benefit contract. See Michigan Laws 500.8161
• Certificate: means the document issued as written evidence of a benefit contract. See Michigan Laws 500.8161
• Certificate of appropriateness: means the written approval of a permit application for work that is appropriate and that does not adversely affect a resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Commission: means a historic district commission created by the legislative body of a local unit under section 4. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Committee: means a historic district study committee appointed by the legislative body of a local unit under section 3 or 14. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• 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.
• Creditor: is a person having a claim against the insurer, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, absolute, fixed, or contingent. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Demolition: means the razing or destruction, whether entirely or in part, of a resource and includes, but is not limited to, demolition by neglect. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Demolition by neglect: means neglect in maintaining, repairing, or securing a resource that results in deterioration of an exterior feature of the resource or the loss of structural integrity of the resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Denial: means the written rejection of a permit application for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects a resource. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Department: means the department of history, arts, and libraries. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Domiciliary state: means the state in which an insurer is incorporated or organized, or, in the case of an alien insurer, its state of entry. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
• 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}
• 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.
• Fire alarm system: means a system designed to detect and annunciate the presence of fire or by-products of fire. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Foreign country: means any other jurisdiction not in any state. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
• 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}
• 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 assets: includes all property or its proceeds in excess of the amount necessary to discharge the sum or sums secured by the property. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
• Historic district: means an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that contains 1 resource or a group of resources that are related by history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Historic preservation: means the identification, evaluation, establishment, and protection of resources significant in history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• Historic resource: means a publicly or privately owned building, structure, site, object, feature, or open space that is significant in the history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture of this state or a community within this state, or of the United States. See Michigan Laws 399.201a
• 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
• insolvent: means :