Michigan § 460.622 - Definitions.

As used in this act:

(a) "Commission" means the propane commission created in section 3.

(b) "Department" means the department of agriculture and rural development.

(c) "Director" means the director of the department.

(d) "Education" means any action to provide propane consumers or members of the propane industry with information regarding the safe use and handling of propane, the proper use and handling of propane equipment, and the proper mechanical and technical practices when using and handling propane.

(e) "Financial institution" means a state or nationally chartered bank, member of the farm credit system, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union, whose deposits are insured by an agency of the United States government and that maintains a principal or branch office located in this state under the laws of this state or the United States.

(f) "Import" means to bring odorized propane into this state by motor vehicle, marine vessel, pipeline, or any other means. Import does not include bringing odorized propane into this state in the fuel supply tank of a motor vehicle if the odorized propane is used to power that motor vehicle.

(g) "Industry association" means the Michigan Propane Gas Association, a nonprofit corporation of this state.

(h) "MiPERC" means the national Propane Education and Research Council affiliate in this state.

(i) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, limited liability company, or any other business entity.

(j) "Propane" means a hydrocarbon whose chemical composition is predominantly C3H8, and includes liquefied petroleum gases, renewable propane, and any mixture of both liquefied petroleum gases and renewable propane.

(k) "Propane Education and Research Council" means a nonprofit corporation operated by the national propane industry to promote propane education, research, and use.

(l) "Research" means any type of study, investigation, or other activity designed to advance the image, desirability, usage, marketability, efficiency, and safety of propane and propane use equipment and to further the development of information and products related to propane and propane use equipment.

(m) "Retail propane dispenser" means a person that sells odorized propane to consumers only in containers of less than 240 pounds water capacity or for use as fuel to power motor vehicles.

(n) "Retail propane marketer" means a person engaged in the business of selling odorized propane to consumers in containers larger than 240 pounds water capacity or selling odorized propane to retail propane dispensers.

(o) "Wholesale propane distributor" means a person that sells odorized propane to a retail propane marketer.