399.602 Definitions. Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) 'Lender' means a person whose name appears on the records of the museum as the person legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person the museum knows to be legally entitled to property on loan to a museum, or a person who establishes his or her legal entitlement to that property. (b) 'Loan' means a deposit of property that is not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property. (c) 'Museum' means an institution generally known as a museum, archives, or library located in this state that is or does each of the following: (i) Established primarily for artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or preservation purposes. (ii) Exhibits, cares for, studies, archives, or catalogs property. (iii) Operated by a nonprofit corporation, college, university, or public agency. (d) 'Property' means an animate or inanimate object in a museum's possession or under a museum's care because of that object's artistic, educational, scientific, historic, or cultural value. (e) 'Undocumented property' means property in the possession of a museum, the owner or lender of which the museum has no reasonable means of identifying. nal, scientific, historic, or cultural value. (e) 'Undocumented property' means property in the possession of a museum, the owner or lender of which the museum has no reasonable means of identifying. History: 1992, Act 24, Imd. Eff. Mar. 23, 1992
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