Bill Text: MI HB5768 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Counties; boards and commissions; public notice concerning rules and regulations for county parks; revise to make reference to the local government public notice act. Amends sec. 6 of 1913 PA 90 (MCL 123.66). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5560'14
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-09-10 - Printed Bill Filed 09/10/2014 [HB5768 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB5768-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5768
September 9, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Hovey-Wright and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1913 PA 90, entitled
"An act authorizing and empowering the boards of supervisors of
counties to purchase, acquire by condemnation, accept gifts and
devises of real estate for, and to improve and maintain public
parks and zoological gardens, airports and landing fields, and to
contribute to the improvement and maintenance of public parks and
public zoological gardens, airports and landing fields, owned or
held in trust by cities, villages or townships or used for the
benefit of the public; to authorize the making of reasonable rules
and regulations relative to the public use of park property; and to
provide penalties for violations of such rules and regulations,"
by amending section 6 (MCL 123.66).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
6. (1) Whenever If the county board
of supervisors
commissioners
of any county shall have adopted adopts a
resolution
to
purchase, condemn, or to accept certain lands for park
purposes,
and
make an appropriation therefor under the provisions of sections
1
and 2, of this act, there shall be created a board
of 3 members
to
be known and designated as "county park trustees." the county
park trustees. In counties operating under the county road system,
the
board of county road commissioners is hereby designated and
shall
then act as the county park trustees. In all other counties,
the
county board of supervisors, commissioners, at the time of
making
the appropriation above provided for, shall name and appoint
from their number 3 members to be known and designated as the
county park trustees.
(2) Said The board of county park trustees shall have the
management,
control, and expenditure of such the funds
when
collected and shall hold in trust for the county the title to any
real
estate so purchased, acquired by condemnation, or
accepted by
way of gift or devise for park purposes, and shall supervise the
improvement
of any such property so purchased, acquired, or
accepted
as authorized by the county board of supervisors. Said
commissioners. The board of county park trustees shall have the
power
to impound water on any property so purchased, acquired by
condemnation, or accepted for park purposes and to form a lake
thereon
whenever on that property if they deem consider it
necessary
in the course of improving such the
property for park
purposes.
(3) Such The county park trustees
shall also have the care and
control
of such the park property and may make reasonable rules and
regulations and enforce the same when made respecting the use by
the
public of such the park property. : Provided, That no
such
Before January 1, 2015, a rule or regulation shall not become
effective
until (1) it the rule or
regulation has been approved by
resolution
of the county board of supervisors, (2) such
commissioners,
the resolution containing such the rule
or
regulation has been published at least once in a newspaper of
general
circulation within the county, and (3) such the rule
or
regulation
has been posted in at least 3 conspicuous places in such
the park property, the posters to be not less than 10 inches by 12
inches
in size and printed in legible type. Such Beginning January
1, 2015, a rule or regulation shall not become effective until the
rule or regulation has been approved by resolution of the county
board of commissioners, tier C public notice of the rule or
regulation has been provided as set forth in the local government
public notice act, and the rule or regulation has been posted in at
least 3 conspicuous places in the park property, the posters to be
not less than 10 inches by 12 inches in size and printed in legible
type. The posting of a rule or regulation as required in this
subsection shall be continuously maintained. In addition, beginning
January 1, 2015, if the county has a website, the rule or
regulation shall remain posted on that website indefinitely after
tier C public notice has been provided as set forth in the local
government public notice act.
(4) They The county park trustees shall
elect a chairman
chairperson and secretary from among their number. All expenditures
of
funds so appropriated shall be paid only by the county treasurer
on
the warrant or voucher of the chairman chairperson and 1 other
member
of such the board
of county park trustees. The trustee
so
trustees appointed shall make a full report to the county board of
supervisors
commissioners at each October session as to the
condition of the property and the expenditure of funds. The members
of
such the board of county park trustees shall continue to act
until their successors have been duly elected or appointed. In all
counties of this state operating under the county road system when
this
act takes effect, the board of "county park trustees"
heretofore
county park trustees appointed before
the effective date
of this act shall be immediately dissolved and cease to exist, and
the board of county road commissioners shall take the place thereof
and thereafter exercise the powers and perform the duties of the
board of county park trustees, taking possession of all books,
records, and
office equipment of such the
former board.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless House Bill No. 5560 of the 97th Legislature is enacted into
law.
