Section 600.8701 - Definitions.
REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961
600.8701 Definitions.
Sec. 8701.
As used in this chapter:
(a) “Authorized local official” means a police officer or other personnel of a county, city, village, township, or regional parks and recreation commission created under section 2 of Act No. 265 of the Public Acts of 1961, being section 46.352 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, legally authorized to issue municipal civil infraction citations.
(b) “Citation” means a written complaint or notice to appear in court upon which an authorized local official records the occurrence or existence of 1 or more municipal civil infractions by the person cited.
(c) “Municipal civil infraction determination” means a determination that a defendant is responsible for a municipal civil infraction by 1 of the following:
(i) An admission of responsibility for the municipal civil infraction.
(ii) An admission of responsibility for the municipal civil infraction, “with explanation”.
(iii) A preponderance of the evidence at an informal hearing or formal hearing on the question under section 8719 or 8721, respectively.
(iv) A default judgment for failing to appear as directed by a citation or other notice, at a scheduled appearance under section 8715(3)(b) or (4), at an informal hearing under section 8719, or at a formal hearing under section 8721.
History: Add. 1994, Act 12, Eff. May 1, 1994