2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 287 - ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Act 239 of 1982 - BODIES OF DEAD ANIMALS (287.651 - 287.683)
Section 287.654 - Definitions; G to T.

Sec. 4.

(1) "Grinding" means the mechanical reduction of intact or whole animal tissues into smaller pieces.

(2) "Groundwater" means that term as defined in section 8303 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.8303.

(3) "Normal natural daily mortality" means dead animals generated as a result of the ordinary death loss or tissue by-product accumulations associated with or as a result of the day-to-day operations of raising, keeping, and harvesting animals.

(4) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, cooperative, association, joint venture, or other legal entity or 2 or more entities in contractual relationships.

(5) "Pile" means the mass or mound of compost within the forms of an open-pile, contained-pile within bin, or open-windrow.

(6) "Rendering plant" means an establishment for the reduction by cooking or processing of dead animals to tallow and meat scrap, cracklings, or other items unfit for human consumption.

(7) "Restaurant grease dealer" means a person who procures and transports cooking grease wastes from a restaurant.

(8) "Static" means a compost pile that is left to stand motionless or idle and does not include a rotating drum in-vessel compost digester.

(9) "Transfer station" means an establishment for the collection of dead animals that are to be transported to a facility licensed either under this act or the Michigan commercial feed law, 1975 PA 120, MCL 287.521 to 287.535.

History: 1982, Act 239, Eff. Oct. 1, 1982 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 228, Eff. Feb. 4, 1994 ;-- Am. 2005, Act 66, Imd. Eff. July 7, 2005