Bill Text: MI HB5278 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Property tax; exemptions; commercial scale wind turbines; exempt. Amends 1893 PA 206 (MCL 211.1 - 211.155) by adding sec. 9m. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5279'12
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-25 - Printed Bill Filed 01/25/2012 [HB5278 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB5278-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5278
January 24, 2012, Introduced by Rep. Damrow and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.
A bill to amend 1893 PA 206, entitled
"The general property tax act,"
(MCL 211.1 to 211.155) by adding section 9m.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 9m. (1) Beginning on December 31 in the year in which an
application for exemption is submitted under subsection (2), an
alternative commercial energy system, but not the real property on
which that alternative commercial energy system is located, is
exempt from the collection of taxes under this act.
(2) An owner of an alternative commercial energy system may
apply for the exemption under subsection (1) at any time after the
alternative commercial energy system receives final approval by the
Michigan public service commission by filing an application on a
form prescribed by the department of treasury with the assessor of
the local tax collecting unit in which the alternative commercial
energy system is located.
(3) An alternative commercial energy system that is exempt
under subsection (1) is subject to the specific tax levied under
the alternative commercial energy specific tax act.
(4) As used in this section, "alternative commercial energy
system" means that term as defined in the alternative commercial
energy specific tax act.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5279(request no.
04015'11 a) of the 96th Legislature is enacted into law.
