Bill Text: MI SB0104 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Vehicles; registration plates; specialty plates for scouts; create. Amends sec. 811e of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.811e) & adds sec. 811r.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-30 - Assigned Pa 0066'11 With Immediate Effect [SB0104 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB0104-Chaptered.html
Act No. 66
Public Acts of 2011
Approved by the Governor
June 28, 2011
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 28, 2011
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2011
Introduced by Senators Kahn, Marleau, Proos, Meekhof, Jones, Brandenburg and Booher
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 104
AN ACT to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “An act to provide for the registration, titling, sale, transfer, and regulation of certain vehicles operated upon the public highways of this state or any other place open to the general public or generally accessible to motor vehicles and distressed vehicles; to provide for the licensing of dealers; to provide for the examination, licensing, and control of operators and chauffeurs; to provide for the giving of proof of financial responsibility and security by owners and operators of vehicles; to provide for the imposition, levy, and collection of specific taxes on vehicles, and the levy and collection of sales and use taxes, license fees, and permit fees; to provide for the regulation and use of streets and highways; to create certain funds; to provide penalties and sanctions for a violation of this act; to provide for civil liability of owners and operators of vehicles and service of process on residents and nonresidents; to regulate the introduction and use of certain evidence; to provide for the levy of certain assessments; to provide for the enforcement of this act; to provide for the creation of and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies; to impose liability upon the state or local agencies; to provide appropriations for certain purposes; to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act or contrary to this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on a specific date,” by amending section 811e (MCL 257.811e), as amended by 2009 PA 99, and by adding section 811r.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 811e. (1) The secretary of state may develop a fund-raising plate as provided in this section.
(2) A start-up fee of $15,000.00 shall be paid for any new fund-raising plate authorized under this section. The fee shall be deposited in the transportation administration collection fund through October 1, 2015 to be used for the cost of creating, producing, and issuing fund-raising plates. If the fee described in this subsection is not paid within 18 months after the effective date of the public act that authorizes the development and issuance of a fund-raising plate, the related fund-raising plate shall not be created, produced, or issued. A start-up fee paid under this subsection is nonrefundable.
(3) Not less than 3 years after the secretary of state first issues 1 of the fund-raising plates as described in subsection (1) and upon payment of $2,000.00, the Michigan university or other person sponsoring that fund-raising plate may redesign it as approved by the secretary of state. The payment required under this subsection shall be deposited in the transportation administration collection fund through October 1, 2015 to be used for the cost of creating, producing, and issuing fund-raising plates. A payment under this subsection is nonrefundable.
(4) The secretary of state may develop 1 or more limited term registration plates to recognize a Michigan university or an accomplishment or occasion of a Michigan university.
(5) The secretary of state may develop different state sponsored fund-raising plates as described in this section, and matching state-sponsored collector plates as described in section 811g.
(6) The secretary of state shall not develop or issue a fund-raising plate unless a public act authorizing the fund-raising plate, at a minimum, does all of the following:
(a) Identifies the purpose of the fund-raising plate.
(b) Creates a nonprofit fund or designates an existing nonprofit fund to receive the money raised through the sale of fund-raising plates and matching collector plates.
(c) If a fund is created, names the person or entity responsible for administering the fund.
Sec. 811r. (1) The secretary of state shall develop under section 811e and issue under section 811f a fund-raising plate recognizing the boy scouts of America. The secretary of state in conjunction with the boy scouts of America shall design the fund-raising plates authorized in this section.
(2) The boy scouts of America fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments. Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.
(3) The secretary of state shall transfer the donation money from the sale of fund-raising plates recognizing the boy scouts of America to the state treasurer, who shall credit the donation money to the boy scouts of America fund established under subsection (2).
(4) The state treasurer shall disburse money in the fund established under subsection (2) on a quarterly basis to the boy scouts of America.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January 1, 2012.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
