Section 28.14101. Definitions; A to D.

Rule 101.  As used in these rules:

(a) "Act" means 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601.

(b)    "Activate as a licensed law enforcement officer" means a recognized law enforcement agency complies with all of the requirements in R 28.14205 to R 28.14207.

(c)    "Applicant" means a person seeking employment as  a  licensed law enforcement officer empowered to enforce all of the general criminal laws of this state.

(d)   "Approved law enforcement training" means recruit or in-service law enforcement training conducted under the authority of either 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 et seq., or 1982 PA 302, MCL 18.421 et seq.

(e)   "Basic law enforcement training academy" means a city, county, township, village, corporation, college, community college, university, or state agency that is approved by  the  commission  to  offer  the  basic  law enforcement training program.

(f)     "Basic law enforcement training program" means the entire commission approved process by which a person is  screened,  trained,   and qualified   for activation as a law enforcement officer.

(g)       "Commission" means the 15 member Michigan commission on law enforcement standards or, by express delegation, its executive director and staff.

(h)   "Contested case" means the same as the term is defined in section 3 of the Administrative Procedures Act of 1969, MCL 24.203.

(i)     "Course of study"   means  the  total  instruction  that  a  basic law enforcement training academy is approved to offer a recruit before qualifying the recruit for licensing.

History: 2006 AACS.