Bill Text: MI SB0602 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Liens; other; state tax liens; modify fee for recording or filing and indexing liens and notices. Amends sec. 5 of 1968 PA 203 (MCL 211.685). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0599'15

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-06 - Presented To Governor 6/14/2016 @ 11:52 Am [SB0602 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0602-Chaptered.html

Act No. 227

Public Acts of 2016

Approved by the Governor

June 22, 2016

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 23, 2016

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2016

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

Introduced by Senators Zorn, MacGregor, Hertel and Booher

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 602

AN ACT to amend 1968 PA 203, entitled “An act to provide for the recording and filing of notices of state tax liens and discharges of tax liens,” by amending section 5 (MCL 211.685).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 5. (1) The fee for recording or filing and indexing a notice of lien or certificate or notice affecting the tax lien is as follows:

(a) For a tax lien, on real estate or on tangible and intangible property, the same fee provided by law for recording a real estate mortgage.

(b) For a certificate of discharge or subordination, the same fee provided by law for recording a discharge of a real estate mortgage.

(c) For all other notices, including a certificate of release or nonattachment, the same fee provided by law for recording a real estate mortgage.

(2) A register of deeds shall bill the state collecting agencies on a monthly basis for fees for documents filed by the agencies, unless alternative payment methods are established.

(3) The secretary of state shall not charge or collect a fee for filing and recording an instrument presented by a state collecting agency.

(4) A state collecting agency may recover fees paid under this section from the person liable for the unpaid tax as additional costs.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect October 1, 2016.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 599 of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor