Bill Text: MI HB5358 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Economic development; other; land bank fast track act reference to first class school districts; modify to apply to certain other school districts. Amends sec. 3 of 2003 PA 258 (MCL 124.753).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-09-16 - Printed Bill Filed 09/16/2009 [HB5358 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB5358-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5358

 

September 15, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Bettie Scott, Womack, Leland, Lemmons, Jackson, Johnson, Durhal, Bledsoe, Young, Geiss and Nathan and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 2003 PA 258, entitled

 

"Land bank fast track act,"

 

by amending section 3 (MCL 124.753).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Authority" means a land bank fast track authority created

 

under section 15, section 23(4), or section 23(5).

 

     (b) "Authority board" means the board of directors of the

 

state authority appointed under section 16.

 

     (c) "Casino" means a casino regulated by this state under the

 

Michigan gaming control and revenue act, the Initiated Law of 1996

 

IL 1, MCL 432.201 to 432.226, or a casino at which gaming is

 

conducted under the Indian gaming regulatory act, Public Law 100-

 

497, 102 Stat. 2467, and all property associated or affiliated with

 

the operation of the casino, including, but not limited to, a

 

parking lot, hotel, motel, or retail store.

 

     (d) "County authority" means a county land bank fast track

 

authority created by a county foreclosing governmental unit under

 

section 23(4).

 

     (e) "Department" means the department of energy, labor, and

 

economic growth, a principal department of state government.

 

created by section 225 of the executive organization act of 1965,

 

1965 PA 380, MCL 16.325, and renamed by Executive Order No. 1996-2,

 

MCL 445.2001, and by Executive Order No. 2003-18.

 

     (f) "Foreclosing governmental unit" means that term as defined

 

in section 78 of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.78.

 

     (g) "Fund" means the land bank fast track fund created in

 

section 18.

 

     (h) "Intergovernmental agreement" means a contractual

 

agreement between 1 or more governmental agencies, including, but

 

not limited to, an interlocal agreement to jointly exercise any

 

power, privilege, or authority that the agencies share in common

 

and that each might exercise separately under the urban cooperation

 

act of 1967, 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 7, MCL 124.501 to 124.512.

 

     (i) "Local authority" means a local land bank fast track

 

authority created by a qualified city under section 23(5).

 

     (j) "Local unit of government" means a city, village,

 

township, county, or any intergovernmental, metropolitan, or local

 

department, agency, or authority, or other local political

 

subdivision.

 

     (k) "Michigan economic development corporation" means the

 

public body corporate created under section 28 of article VII of

 

the state constitution of 1963 and the urban cooperation act of

 

1967, 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 7, MCL 124.501 to 124.512, by a contractual

 

interlocal agreement effective April 5, 1999, as amended, between

 

local participating economic development corporations formed under

 

the economic development corporations act, 1974 PA 338, MCL

 

125.1601 to 125.1636, and the Michigan strategic fund. If the

 

Michigan economic development corporation is unable for any reason

 

to perform its duties under this act, those duties may be exercised

 

by the Michigan strategic fund.

 

     (l) "Michigan state housing development authority" means the

 

authority created under the state housing development authority act

 

of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL 125.1401 to 125.1499c.

 

     (m) "Michigan strategic fund" means the Michigan strategic

 

fund as described in the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270,

 

MCL 125.2001 to 125.2093 125.2094.

 

     (n) "Qualified city" means a city that contains a first class

 

school district or a school district with at least 60,000 but fewer

 

than 100,000 pupils in membership and includes any department or

 

agency of the city. As used in this subdivision, "membership" means

 

that term as defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL

 

380.1 to 380.1852.

 

     (o) "State administrative board" means the board created under

 

1921 PA 2, MCL 17.1 to 17.3, that exercises general supervisory

 

control over the functions and activities of all administrative

 

departments, boards, commissioners, and officers of the state and

 

of all state institutions.

 

     (p) "State authority" means the land bank fast track authority

 

created under section 15.

 

     (q) "Tax reverted property" means property that meets 1 or

 

more of the following criteria:

 

     (i) The property was conveyed to this state under former

 

section 67a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.67a, and subsequently was not sold at a public auction under

 

former section 131 of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206,

 

MCL 211.131, except property described in former section 131 of the

 

general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.131, that is

 

withheld from sale by the director of the department of natural

 

resources as authorized in that section.

 

     (ii) The property was conveyed to this state under former

 

section 67a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.67a, and subsequently was either redeemed by a local unit of

 

government or transferred to a local unit of government under

 

section 2101 or 2102 of the natural resources and environmental

 

protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.2101 and 324.2102, or under

 

former section 461 of 1909 PA 223 except property transferred to a

 

local unit of government that is subject to a reverter clause under

 

which the property reverts to this state upon transfer by the local

 

unit of government.

 

     (iii) The property was subject to forfeiture, foreclosure, and

 

sale for the collection of delinquent taxes as provided in sections

 

78 to 79a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.78

 

to 211.79a, and both of the following apply:

 

     (A) Title to the property vested in a foreclosing governmental

 

unit under section 78k of the general property tax act, 1893 PA

 

206, MCL 211.78k.

 

     (B) The property was offered for sale at an auction but not

 

sold under section 78m of the general property tax act, 1893 PA

 

206, MCL 211.78m.

 

     (iv) The property was obtained by or transferred to a local

 

unit of government under section 78m of the general property tax

 

act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.78m.

 

     (v) Pursuant to the requirements of a city charter, the

 

property was deeded to or foreclosed by the city or a department or

 

agency of the city for unpaid delinquent real property taxes.