Bill Text: MI HB5582 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Land use; zoning and growth management; requirement that zoning ordinance not totally prohibit establishment of land use; exempt oil and gas exploration and production. Amends sec. 207 of 2006 PA 110 (MCL 125.3207).

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-21 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/20/2016 [HB5582 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5582-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5582

April 20, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Moss, Lucido, Zemke, LaGrand, Schor, Gay-Dagnogo, Wittenberg, Durhal, Hovey-Wright, Faris and Sarah Roberts and referred to the Committee on Energy Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 2006 PA 110, entitled

 

"Michigan zoning enabling act,"

 

by amending section 207 (MCL 125.3207).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 207. (1) A zoning ordinance or zoning decision shall not

 

have the effect of totally prohibiting the establishment of a land

 

use within a local unit of government in the presence of a

 

demonstrated need for that land use within either that local unit

 

of government or the surrounding area within the state, unless a

 

location within the local unit of government does not exist where

 

the use may be appropriately located or the use is unlawful.

 

     (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to oil or gas exploration or

 

production.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.