Bill Text: MI SB1030 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Economic development; renaissance zones; definition of renewable energy facility; modify. Amends sec. 3 of 1996 PA 376 (MCL 125.2683).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-09 - Referred To Committee On New Economy And Quality Of Life [SB1030 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB1030-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 1030
December 10, 2009, Introduced by Senator BROWN and referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Bioeconomy.
A bill to amend 1996 PA 376, entitled
"Michigan renaissance zone act,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 125.2683), as amended by 2008 PA 217.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. As used in this act:
(a) "Agricultural processing facility" means 1 or more
facilities or operations that transform, package, sort, or grade
livestock or livestock products, agricultural commodities, or
plants or plant products, excluding forest products, into goods
that are used for intermediate or final consumption including goods
for nonfood use, and surrounding property.
(b) "Board" means the state administrative board created in
1921 PA 2, MCL 17.1 to 17.3.
(c) "Development plan" means a written plan that addresses the
criteria in section 7 and includes all of the following:
(i) A map of the proposed renaissance zone that indicates the
geographic boundaries, the total area, and the present use and
conditions generally of the land and structures within those
boundaries.
(ii) Evidence of community support and commitment from
residential and business interests.
(iii) A description of the methods proposed to increase economic
opportunity and expansion, facilitate infrastructure improvement,
and identify job training opportunities.
(iv) Current social, economic, and demographic characteristics
of the proposed renaissance zone and anticipated improvements in
education, health, human services, public safety, and employment if
the renaissance zone is created.
(v) Any other information required by the board.
(d) "Elected county executive" means the elected county
executive in a county organized under 1966 PA 293, MCL 45.501 to
45.521, or 1973 PA 139, MCL 45.551 to 45.573.
(e) "Forest products processing facility" means 1 or more
facilities or operations that transform, package, sort, recycle, or
grade forest or paper products into goods that are used for
intermediate or final use or consumption or for the creation of
biomass or alternative fuels through the utilization of forest
products or forest residue, and surrounding property. Forest
products processing facility does not include an existing facility
or operation that is located in this state that relocates to a
renaissance zone for a forest products processing facility. Forest
products processing facility does not include a facility or
operation that engages primarily in retail sales.
(f) "Local governmental unit" means a county, city, village,
or township.
(g) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation,
association, limited liability company, governmental entity, or
other legal entity.
(h) "Qualified local governmental unit" means either of the
following:
(i) A county.
(ii) A city, village, or township that contains an eligible
distressed area as defined in section 11 of the state housing
development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL 125.1411.
(i) "Recovery zone" means a tool and die renaissance recovery
zone created in section 8d.
(j) "Renaissance zone" means a geographic area designated
under this act.
(k) "Renewable energy facility" means a facility that creates
energy, fuels, or chemicals directly or fuel from the wind, the
sun, trees, grasses, biosolids, algae, agricultural commodities,
processed products from agricultural commodities, or residues from
agricultural processes, wood or forest processes, food production
and processing, or the paper products industry. Renewable energy
facility
also includes a facility that creates energy, or fuels, or
chemicals from solid biomass, animal wastes, or landfill gases.
Renewable energy facility also includes a facility that focuses on
research, development, or manufacturing of systems or components of
systems
used to create energy, or fuel fuels, or chemicals from the
items described in this subdivision.
(l) "Residential rental property" means that term as defined in
section 7ff of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL
211.7ff.
(m) "Review board" means the renaissance zone review board
created in section 5.
(n) "Rural area" means an area that lies outside of the
boundaries of an urban area.
(o) "Urban area" means an urbanized area as determined by the
economics and statistics administration, United States bureau of
the census according to the 1990 census.
