Bill Text: MI SB0508 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Economic development; downtown development authorities; department of history, arts, and libraries; abolish, and transfer responsibilities to department of state. Amends sec. 29 of 1975 PA 197 (MCL 125.1679). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0503'09

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-09-02 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [SB0508 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0508-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 508

 

 

April 30, 2009, Introduced by Senators VAN WOERKOM, ALLEN, BROWN, BIRKHOLZ, KUIPERS and JELINEK and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Tourism.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1975 PA 197, entitled

 

"An act to provide for the establishment of a downtown development

authority; to prescribe its powers and duties; to correct and

prevent deterioration in business districts; to encourage historic

preservation; to authorize the acquisition and disposal of

interests in real and personal property; to authorize the creation

and implementation of development plans in the districts; to

promote the economic growth of the districts; to create a board; to

prescribe its powers and duties; to authorize the levy and

collection of taxes; to authorize the issuance of bonds and other

evidences of indebtedness; to authorize the use of tax increment

financing; to reimburse downtown development authorities for

certain losses of tax increment revenues; and to prescribe the

powers and duties of certain state officials,"

 

by amending section 29 (MCL 125.1679), as amended by 2004 PA 66.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 29. (1) A public facility, building, or structure that is

 

determined by the municipality to have significant historical

 

interests shall be preserved in a manner as considered necessary by

 

the municipality in accordance with laws relative to the

 

preservation of historical sites. The preservation of facilities,

 

buildings, or structures determined to be historic sites by a

 

municipality shall include, at a minimum, equipping the historic

 

site with a fire alarm system.

 

     (2) An authority shall refer all proposed changes to the

 

exterior of sites listed on the state register of historic sites

 

and the national register of historic places to the applicable

 

historic district commission created under the local historic

 

districts act, 1970 PA 169, MCL 399.201 to 399.215, or the

 

department of history, arts, and libraries state for review.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. 503                                        

 

          of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.