# Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.203: Definitions

> Michigan · Statutes · In force

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.203

## Section

- **Citation:** Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.203
- **Heading:** Definitions
- **Jurisdiction:** Michigan
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** MI Code / Chapter 446 / Act Act-273-of-1917 / Section 446.203

## Text

Sec. 3.

As used in this act:

(a) "Chief executive officer" means any of the following:

( i ) For a city, the mayor.

( ii ) For a village, the village president.

( iii ) For a township or charter township, the township supervisor.

( iv ) For a county, the county executive or, if there is no county executive, the person designated by a resolution of the county board of commissioners.

(b) "Governmental unit" means a city, township, charter township, county, or incorporated village.

(c) "Internet drop-off store" means a person, corporation, or firm that contracts with other persons, corporations, or firms to offer its personal property or other valuable thing for sale, purchase, consignment, or trade through means of an internet website and meets the conditions described in section 1(3).

(d) "Local police agency" means the police agency of the city, village, or township, or if none, the county sheriff of the county in which the internet drop-off store conducts business.

(e) "Pawnbroker" means a person, corporation, or member, or members of a copartnership or firm, who loans money on deposit, or pledge of personal property, or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidence of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable thing on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price.

History: 1917, Act 273, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917; CL 1929, 9686; CL 1948, 446.203; Am. 2002, Act 469, Imd. Eff. June 21, 2002; Am. 2006, Act 292, Imd. Eff. July 20, 2006

## Nearby sections

- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.201 Pawnbrokers; license required; exception; internet drop-off store exempt from licensure.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.201.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.202 Licenses; issuance; contents; term; transferability; fee; bond; limitations.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.202.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.203 Definitions.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.203.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.204 Licensed pawnbroker; action upon bond.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.204.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.205 Record of property received; contents; inspection; form of permanent record.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.205.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.206 Statement to police of articles received; contents.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.206.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.208 Purchaser's memorandum of pawn; contents.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.208.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.209 Interest on loans; rate; storage charge; time of payment; computation; fee or excess charge prohibited.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.209.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.210 Title to item; sale of pledged or pawned item; time of possession.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.210.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.211 Payment or tender of debt before sale; effect as to title and right to property; agreement to permit pawner to maintain possession.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.211.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.212 Misappropriated property; effect of written hold order; delivery of property to person claiming ownership; return of property to pawnbroker; liability; "appropriate law enforcement official" defined.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.212.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.213 Pawned property; destruction or defacing unlawful; visibility of serial number or insignia.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.213.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.214 Pawned property; acceptance from certain persons prohibited.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.214.md)
- [Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.216 Bond of complainant; amount, surety.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MI_C446_AAct-273-of-1917_S446.216.md)

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