Michigan Compiled Laws § 399.602 Definitions.


399.602 Definitions.

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

(a) “Lender” means a person whose name appears on the records of the museum as the person legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person the museum knows to be legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person who establishes his or her legal entitlement to that property.

(b) “Loan” means a deposit of property that is not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property.

(c) “Museum” means an institution generally known as a museum, archives, or library located in this state that is or does each of the following:

(i) Established primarily for artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or preservation purposes.

(ii) Exhibits, cares for, studies, archives, or catalogs property.

(iii) Operated by a nonprofit corporation, college, university, or public agency.

(d) “Property” means an animate or inanimate object in a museum's possession or under a museum's care because of that object's artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or cultural value.

(e) “Undocumented property” means property in the possession of a museum, the owner or lender of which the museum has no reasonable means of identifying.


History: 1992, Act 24, Imd. Eff. Mar. 23, 1992


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