Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 484 > Act 480 of 2006 - Uniform Video Services Local Franchise 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.
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• 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.
• Cable operator: means that term as defined in 47 USC 522(5). See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• Cable service: means that term as defined in 47 USC 522(6). See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• Cable system: means that term as defined in 47 USC 522(7). See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Confinement sanction: means a violation sanction resulting in confinement in a departmental facility or local county jail for not more than 60 days. See Michigan Laws 791.258a
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substance: means that term as defined under section 7104 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 791.258a
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• franchise agreement: means the franchise agreement required under this act to be the operating agreement between each franchising entity and video provider in this state. See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• Franchising entity: means the local unit of government in which a provider offers video services through a franchise. See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• 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}
• Graduated sanction: means any of a wide range of offender accountability measures and programs, including, but not limited to, electronic supervision tools, drug and alcohol testing and monitoring, day or evening reporting centers, community service or work crew, rehabilitative interventions such as substance abuse or mental health treatment, reporting requirements, residential treatment, counseling, confinement, and incarceration. See Michigan Laws 791.258a
• Household: means a house, an apartment, a mobile home, or any other structure or part of a structure intended for residential occupancy as separate living quarters. See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• 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
• Incumbent video provider: means a cable operator serving cable subscribers or a telecommunication provider providing video services through the provider's existing telephone exchange boundaries in a particular franchise area within a local unit of government on the effective date of this act. See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• IPTV: means internet protocol television. See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• 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.
• Local unit of government: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 484.3301
• 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
• Nonconfinement sanction: means a violation sanction that does not result in imprisonment in the custody of the department or the county jail, including, but not limited to, any of the following: