Bill Text: MI HB4712 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Local government; other; failure of municipality to bill for water or sewerage services; clarify customer responsibility, and require municipalities to bill customers for water or sewerage services on a regular basis. Amends sec. 1 of 1939 PA 178 (MCL 123.161) & adds sec. 1a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-08 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/07/2017 [HB4712 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4712-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4712

 

 

June 7, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Garrett, Chang, Pagan, Yanez, Hammoud, Neeley, Wittenberg, Moss, Sneller, Phelps, Geiss, Hoadley, Gay-Dagnogo, LaGrand, Ellison, Canfield, Chirkun, Faris, Love and Peterson and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     A bill to amend 1939 PA 178, entitled

 

"An act to provide for the collection of water or sewage system

rates, assessments, charges, or rentals; and to provide a lien for

water or sewage system services furnished by municipalities as

defined by this act,"

 

by amending section 1 (MCL 123.161), as amended by 1981 PA 132, and

 

by adding section 1a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Municipality" means a county, city, township, village,

 

authority, or metropolitan district.

 

     (b) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership,

 

association, or corporation which that is the owner or occupant of

 

any house or other building or any premises, lot, or parcel of

 

land.

 

     (c) "Sewage system" means a sewage disposal system, including

sanitary sewers, combined sanitary and storm sewers, plants, works,

 

instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with

 

the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage or industrial

 

wastes.

 

     Sec. 1a. (1) Regardless of whether a customer's account for

 

water or sewerage service is current or delinquent, a municipality

 

that owns or operates a water distribution system or a sewage

 

system and that provides water or sewerage service in this state

 

shall bill each customer of the system on a regular basis that does

 

not exceed every 60 days as determined by the city.

 

     (2) A municipality that owns or operates a water distribution

 

system or a sewage system and that provides water or sewerage

 

service in this state shall include on each customer's water or

 

sewerage bill both of the following:

 

     (a) The water or sewerage rates charged to the customer for

 

the billing period.

 

     (b) The actual water or sewerage usage by the customer for the

 

billing period.

 

     (3) Subject to subsection (4), a customer of a municipality

 

that provides water or sewerage service is not responsible for any

 

water or sewerage usage for a billing period if that water or

 

sewerage usage is not billed to that customer by the municipality

 

within 10 business days after the end of the billing period.

 

     (4) Subsection (3) only applies if, during the period in which

 

the customer of the municipality that owns or operates a water

 

distribution system or sewage system does not receive a water or

 

sewerage bill, the customer provides 2 separate written or

electronic notices to the municipality about the failure to receive

 

a water or sewerage bill and the municipality fails to respond to

 

the customer's first written or electronic notice within 30 days of

 

receipt of that notice.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.