Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 791 > Act 232 of 1953 > Chapter IIIB

• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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: