Bill Text: MI SB0154 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Recreation; trails; Hart-Montague trail state park; redesignate as the "William Field Memorial Hart-Montague Trail State Park". Amends sec. 74126 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.74126).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-06 - Referred To Committee On Natural Resources [SB0154 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0154-Engrossed.html

SB-0154, As Passed Senate, March 6, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 154

 

 

February 6, 2013, Introduced by Senator HANSEN and referred to the Committee on Outdoor Recreation and Tourism.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

by amending section 74126 (MCL 324.74126), as added by 2006 PA 248.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 74126. (1) The state-owned land containing the White Pine

 

trail, which traverses an abandoned rail corridor between Comstock

 

Park and Cadillac, shall be known as the "Fred Meijer White Pine

 

Trail State Park".

 

     (2) The department shall facilitate the establishment of a

 

recreational trail that traverses, in part, the abandoned rail

 

corridor that runs from White Lake drive, south of the city of

 

Whitehall, to Lake avenue in the city of North Muskegon . This

 

trail shall be known as the "Fred Meijer Berry Junction Trail".

 

     (3) The Hart-Montague trail state park is renamed the "William

 


Field Memorial Hart-Montague Trail State Park".

 

     (4) (3) The department, in consultation with the committee,

 

the commission , and the Michigan natural resources trust fund

 

board established in section 1905, shall develop criteria for

 

naming state parks and other state-owned recreational facilities.

 

Within 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that

 

added this subsection, By July 3, 2007, the department shall

 

present to the standing committees of the senate and the house of

 

representatives with jurisdiction primarily relating to natural

 

resources and state parks the criteria it has developed under this

 

section.

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