Bill Text: MI HB6022 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Economic development; other; public notice provisions in the empowerment zone development corporation act; revise to make reference to the local government public notice act. Amends sec. 7 of 1995 PA 75 (MCL 125.2567). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5560'14
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-12-03 - Printed Bill Filed 12/03/2014 [HB6022 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB6022-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 6022
December 2, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Price and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1995 PA 75, entitled
"Empowerment zone development corporation act,"
by amending section 7 (MCL 125.2567).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 7. (1) A written application may be made by not less than
3 persons to the governing body of a municipality with a population
of less than 900,000 for permission to incorporate an empowerment
zone development corporation on behalf of the municipality. In a
municipality with a population of 900,000 or more, a majority of an
empowerment zone coordinating council shall designate not less than
3 persons to apply. The application shall include proposed articles
of incorporation and proposed bylaws. The name of the corporation
shall be "the empowerment zone development corporation of
_______________" (the name of the incorporating municipality).
(2) The governing body of the municipality shall notify the
public of receipt of the application as provided in subsection (3).
The application may be approved after a public hearing by adoption
of a resolution by the governing body.
(3)
Notice Through December
31, 2014, notice of the time and
place of the hearing shall be given by publication once in a
newspaper of general circulation designated by the municipality not
less than 10 days before the date set for the hearing. Beginning
January 1, 2015, the governing body of a municipality shall provide
tier B public notice as provided in the local government public
notice act of the time and place of the hearing not less than 10
days before the date set for the hearing. In addition, through
December 31, 2014, notice of the hearing shall be posted not less
than 10 days before the hearing in at least 10 conspicuous and
public places within the designated empowerment zone.
(4) The process for approving the articles of incorporation
and the bylaws and for amending the articles or bylaws shall be
prescribed by an ordinance of the municipality.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5560 (request no.
03796'13) of the 97th Legislature is enacted into law.
