Bill Text: MI HB4513 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Housing; housing development authority; requirement to offer vacant apartment to mobility-impaired tenants; provide for. Amends sec. 44 of 1933 (Ex Sess) PA 18 (MCL 125.694).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-12-03 - Referred To Committee On Local Government And Elections [HB4513 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4513-Engrossed.html

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HB-4513, As Passed House, November 14, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL No. 4513

 

April 9, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Stanley, Slavens, Rutledge, Dillon, Stallworth, Brunner and Driskell and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     A bill to amend 1933 (Ex Sess) PA 18, entitled

 

"An act to authorize any city, village, township, or county to

purchase, acquire, construct, maintain, operate, improve, extend,

and repair housing facilities; to eliminate housing conditions

which are detrimental to the public peace, health, safety, morals,

or welfare; and for any such purposes to authorize any such city,

village, township, or county to create a commission with power to

effectuate said purposes, and to prescribe the powers and duties of

such commission and of such city, village, township, or county; and

for any such purposes to authorize any such commission, city,

village, township, or county to issue notes and revenue bonds; to

regulate the issuance, sale, retirement, and refunding of such

notes and bonds; to regulate the rentals of such projects and the

use of the revenues of the projects; to prescribe the manner of

selecting tenants for such projects; to provide for condemnation of

private property for such projects; to confer certain powers upon

such commissions, cities, villages, townships, and counties in

relation to such projects, including the power to receive aid and

cooperation of the federal government; to provide for a referendum

thereon; to provide for cooperative financing by 2 or more

commissions, cities, villages, townships, or counties or any

combination thereof; to provide for the issuance, sale, and

retirement of revenue bonds and special obligation notes for such

purposes; to provide for financing agreements between cooperating

borrowers; to provide for other matters relative to the bonds and

notes and methods of cooperative financing; for other purposes; and

to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"

 

by amending section 44 (MCL 125.694).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 44. (1) In the operation or management of housing

 

projects, a commission shall at all times observe the following

 

duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection: (a) it may

 

rent do all of the following:

 

     (a) Rent or lease the dwelling accommodations therein only to

 

persons of low income.; (b) it may rent

 

     (b) Rent or lease the dwelling accommodations therein only at

 

rentals within the financial reach of such affordable to persons of

 

low income.; (c) it may rent

 

     (c) Rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations

 

consisting of the number of rooms, but no greater number, which it

 

deems that it considers necessary to provide safe and sanitary

 

accommodations to the proposed occupants, thereof, without

 

overcrowding.; (d) it shall not

 

     (d) Not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project

 

if the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling

 

accommodations have an aggregate annual net income in excess of any

 

maximum allowed by the federal government pursuant to federal law

 

or regulation in any contract for financial assistance.; (e) it

 

shall prohibit

 

     (e) Prohibit subletting by tenants.

 

     Nothing contained in this section or in section 27 shall be

 

construed as limiting

 

     (f) Adopt and implement a policy to offer current disabled

 

tenants a right of first refusal to relocate to an available

 

dwelling accommodation on a lower floor of the same housing

 

project. As used in this subdivision, "disabled tenant" means a

 

tenant who is a disabled person as that term is defined in section

 

19a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.19a, other

 

than a tenant who is a disabled person only because of blindness.

 

     (2) Neither this section nor section 27 limits the power of a

 

borrower to vest in an obligee or trustee the right, in the event

 

of a default by the borrower, to cause the appointment of a

 

receiver thereof, for the borrower, free from all the restrictions

 

any restriction imposed by this section or by section 27.