Bill Text: MI HB4557 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Economic development; plant rehabilitation; plant rehabilitation act; modify certain exemptions. Amends sec. 11a of 1974 PA 198 (MCL 207.561a).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-07-14 - Assigned Pa 123'15 With Immediate Effect [HB4557 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB4557-Chaptered.html
Act No. 123
Public Acts of 2015
Approved by the Governor
July 9, 2015
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 10, 2015
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 10, 2015
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2015
Introduced by Rep. Townsend
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4557
AN ACT to amend 1974 PA 198, entitled “An act to provide for the establishment of plant rehabilitation districts and industrial development districts in local governmental units; to provide for the exemption from certain taxes; to levy and collect a specific tax upon the owners of certain facilities; to impose and provide for the disposition of an administrative fee; to provide for the disposition of the tax; to provide for the obtaining and transferring of an exemption certificate and to prescribe the contents of those certificates; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state tax commission and certain officers of local governmental units; and to provide penalties,” by amending section 11a (MCL 207.561a), as added by 2012 PA 397.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 11a. (1) If a facility was subject to an industrial facilities exemption certificate on or after December 31, 2012, notwithstanding any other provision of this act to the contrary, that portion of the facility that is eligible manufacturing personal property shall remain subject to the industrial facilities tax and shall remain exempt from ad valorem property taxes as provided in section 8 until that eligible manufacturing personal property would otherwise be exempt from the collection of taxes under section 9m, 9n, or 9o of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, 211.9n, and 211.9o. The holder of an industrial facilities exemption certificate that has been extended under this subsection shall indicate that portion of a facility that is eligible manufacturing personal property by filing an affidavit with the assessor of the township or city in which the eligible manufacturing personal property is located not later than February 20 of the first year that the eligible manufacturing personal property is eligible personal property in a manner provided by section 7(8) of the state essential services assessment act, 2014 PA 92, MCL 211.1057. The affidavit shall be in a form prescribed by the state tax commission.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) “Eligible manufacturing personal property” means that term as defined in section 9m of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m.
(b) “Eligible personal property” means that term as defined in section 3(e)(iii) of the state essential services assessment act, 2014 PA 92, MCL 211.1053.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
