August 9, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Elsenheimer, Casperson, Adamini and Brown and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
A bill to amend 1969 PA 306, entitled
"Administrative procedures act of 1969,"
by amending section 5 (MCL 24.205), as amended by 2004 PA 23.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 5. (1) "License" includes the whole or part of an agency
permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or similar
form of permission required by law, but 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.
(2) "Licensing" includes agency activity involving the grant,
denial, renewal, suspension, revocation, annulment, withdrawal,
recall, cancellation, or amendment of a license.
(3) "Michigan register" means the publication described in
section 8.
(4) "Notice" means a written or electronic record that informs
a person of past or future action of the person generating the
record.
(5) "Notice of objection" means the record adopted by the
committee that indicates the committee's formal objection to a
proposed rule.
(6) "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. Party includes an applicant for a license or a
person holding that license for purposes of any contested case or
judicial review under this act regarding that license or
application for that license.
(7) "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.
(8) "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.
(9) "Promulgation of a rule" means that step in the processing
of a rule consisting of the filing of a rule with the secretary of
state.
(10) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a paper
or electronic medium.