2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 722 - CHILDREN
Act 199 of 1988 - SURROGATE PARENTING ACT (722.851 - 722.863)
Section 722.853 - Definitions.

Sec. 3.

As used in this act:

(a) “Compensation” means a payment of money, objects, services, or anything else having monetary value except payment of expenses incurred as a result of the pregnancy and the actual medical expenses of a surrogate mother or surrogate carrier.

(b) “Developmental disability” means that term as defined in the mental health code, Act No. 258 of the Public Acts of 1974, being sections 330.1001 to 330.2106 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

(c) “Mental illness” means that term as defined in the mental health code, Act No. 258 of the Public Acts of 1974.

(d) “Mentally retarded” means that term as defined in the mental health code, Act No. 258 of the Public Acts of 1974.

(e) “Participating party” means a biological mother, biological father, surrogate carrier, or the spouse of a biological mother, biological father, or surrogate carrier, if any.

(f) “Surrogate carrier” means the female in whom an embryo is implanted in a surrogate gestation procedure.

(g) “Surrogate gestation” means the implantation in a female of an embryo not genetically related to that female and subsequent gestation of a child by that female.

(h) “Surrogate mother” means a female who is naturally or artificially inseminated and who subsequently gestates a child conceived through the insemination pursuant to a surrogate parentage contract.

(i) “Surrogate parentage contract” means a contract, agreement, or arrangement in which a female agrees to conceive a child through natural or artificial insemination, or in which a female agrees to surrogate gestation, and to voluntarily relinquish her parental or custodial rights to the child. It is presumed that a contract, agreement, or arrangement in which a female agrees to conceive a child through natural or artificial insemination by a person other than her husband, or in which a female agrees to surrogate gestation, includes a provision, whether or not express, that the female will relinquish her parental or custodial rights to the child.

History: 1988, Act 199, Eff. Sept. 1, 1988 ;-- Am. 1990, Act 190, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1990