Bill Text: MI HB4208 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Local government; other; resort district board members; revise residency requirement. Amends secs. 2 & 6 of 1986 PA 59 (MCL 125.2202 & 125.2206).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-12-31 - Assigned Pa 245'13 With Immediate Effect 2013 Addenda [HB4208 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4208-Chaptered.html
Act No. 245
Public Acts of 2013
Approved by the Governor
December 21, 2013
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 26, 2013
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 26, 2013
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013
Introduced by Reps. Zorn, LaVoy, Jenkins, Kurtz and Somerville
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4208
AN ACT to amend 1986 PA 59, entitled “An act to authorize the establishment of a resort district authority; to prescribe its powers and duties; to correct and prevent deterioration in resort 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 rehabilitation plans in the districts; to create a board and to prescribe its powers and duties; to authorize the levy and collection of taxes; and to authorize the issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness,” by amending sections 2 and 6 (MCL 125.2202 and 125.2206).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) “Authority” means a resort district authority created pursuant to this act.
(b) “Board” means the governing body of an authority.
(c) “Operation” means office maintenance, including salaries and expenses of employees, office supplies, consultation fees, design costs, and other expenses incurred in the daily management of the authority and planning of its activities.
(d) “Rehabilitation” means construction, reconstruction, repair, or maintenance of a road, street lighting, a sanitary sewer, a storm sewer, storm water drainage facilities, or a flood control project within a resort district, or establishment and operation of a system of garbage collection within the resort district.
(e) “Rehabilitation plan” means a plan as described in section 15.
(f) “Resort district” means an area that encompasses a natural geographic feature used for recreation, such as an inland lake or the Great Lakes shoreline, that is specifically designated by resolution and approved as provided in this act, and a portion of which is land that is or was a part of a resort association incorporated under 1 of the following:
(i) 1897 PA 230, MCL 455.1 to 455.24.
(ii) 1889 PA 39, MCL 455.51 to 455.72.
(iii) 1887 PA 69, MCL 455.101 to 455.113.
(iv) 1929 PA 137, MCL 455.201 to 455.220.
Sec. 6. (1) The authority shall be under the supervision and control of a board. The board shall consist of 2 elected officials of the township, 2 residents of the resort district, and 1 individual designated by the industrial or commercial facility, located within the township, that has the highest state equalized valuation as of December 31 of the year preceding the year of the designation. The board members shall be appointed or designated within 30 days after adoption of the ordinance or resolution under section 5.
(2) A member shall be appointed by the township supervisor subject to approval by the township board. Of the 2 resident members first appointed, 1 shall be appointed for a term expiring December 31 of the year after the year of appointment and 1 for a term expiring December 31 of the third year after the year of appointment. Thereafter, each resident member shall serve for a term of 4 years. A member shall hold office until the member’s successor is appointed. An appointment to fill a vacancy shall be made by the township supervisor for the unexpired term.
(3) If approved by the township board, a board member shall receive compensation limited to a reasonable per diem which shall include actual and necessary expenses.
(4) The chairperson of the board shall be elected by the board from among its members. Before assuming the duties of office, a board member shall qualify by taking and subscribing to the constitutional oath of office provided in section 1 of article XI of the state constitution of 1963.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
