Bill Text: MI HB5527 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Economic development; plant rehabilitation; certain filing requirements; modify. Amends sec. 11a of 1974 PA 198 (MCL 207.561a).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-10 - Assigned Pa 110'16 With Immediate Effect [HB5527 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5527-Chaptered.html

Act No. 110

Public Acts of 2016

Approved by the Governor

May 5, 2016

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 5, 2016

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 6, 2016

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

Introduced by Rep. Farrington

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5527

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 amended by 2015 PA 123.

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 the combined document required under section 9m or 9n of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m and 211.9n, with the assessor of the township or city in which the eligible manufacturing personal property is located by February 20 of each year.

(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