2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 24 - Printing and State Documents › Act 306 of 1969 - Administrative Procedures Act of 1969 (24.201 - 24.328) › 306-1969-1 - Chapter 1 General Provisions (24.201...24.211) › Section 24.205 - Definitions; L to R.

24.205 Definitions; L to R.
Sec. 5.
As used in this act:
(a) "License" includes the whole or part of an agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or similar form of permission required by law. License does not include a license required solely for revenue purposes or a license or registration issued under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923.
(b) "Licensing" includes agency activity involving the grant, denial, renewal, suspension, revocation, annulment, withdrawal, recall, cancellation, or amendment of a license.
(c) "Michigan register" means the publication described in section 8.
(d) "Notice" means a written or electronic record that informs a person of past or future action of the person generating the record.
(e) "Notice of objection" means the record adopted by the committee that indicates the committee's formal objection to a proposed rule.
(f) "Office" means, unless expressly stated otherwise, the office of performance and transformation.
(g) "Office of regulatory reform", "state office of administrative hearings and rules", and "office of regulatory reinvention" mean the office.
(h) "Party" means a person or agency named, admitted, or properly seeking and entitled of right to be admitted, as a party in a contested case. In a contested case regarding an application for a license, party includes the applicant for the license.
(i) "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any kind other than the agency engaged in the particular processing of a rule, declaratory ruling, or contested case.
(j) "Processing of a rule" means the action required or authorized by this act regarding a rule that is to be promulgated, including the rule's adoption, and ending with the rule's promulgation.
(k) "Promulgation of a rule" means that step in the processing of a rule consisting of the filing of the rule with the secretary of state.
(l) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a paper or electronic medium.
History:
1969, Act 306, Eff. July 1, 1970 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 413, Eff. Jan. 1, 1984 ;-- Am. 1999, Act 262, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Mar. 10, 2004 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 460, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2006 ;-- Am. 2016, Act 513, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 2017
Compiler's Notes:
Enacting section 1 of Act 460 of 2006 provides:"Enacting section 1. Section 5 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.205, as amended by this amendatory act, is curative and intended to express the original intent of the legislature regarding the application of section 5 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.205, as amended by 2004 PA 23."For the transfer of powers and duties of the office of performance and transformation under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, to the Michigan office of administrative hearings and rules, and abolishment of the Michigan administrative hearings system, office of regulatory reinvention, and office of performance and transformation, see E.R.O. 2019-1, compiled at 324.99923.
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Act 306
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