Bill Text: MI SB0173 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Vehicles: wreckers; incentives for or from local governments for wrecker, recovery, or towing services; prohibit. Amends sec. 676d of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.676d).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-07-22 - Assigned Pa 0141'20 With Immediate Effect [SB0173 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0173-Chaptered.html
Act No. 141
Public Acts of 2020
Approved by the Governor
July 8, 2020
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 8, 2020
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 6, 2020
state of michigan
100th Legislature
Regular session of 2020
Introduced by Senator Stamas
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 173
AN ACT to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “An act to provide for the registration, titling, sale, transfer, and regulation of certain vehicles operated upon the public highways of this state or any other place open to the general public or generally accessible to motor vehicles and distressed vehicles; to provide for the licensing of dealers; to provide for the examination, licensing, and control of operators and chauffeurs; to provide for the giving of proof of financial responsibility and security by owners and operators of vehicles; to provide for the imposition, levy, and collection of specific taxes on vehicles, and the levy and collection of sales and use taxes, license fees, and permit fees; to provide for the regulation and use of streets and highways; to create certain funds; to provide penalties and sanctions for a violation of this act; to provide for civil liability of manufacturers, the manufacturers of certain devices, the manufacturers of automated technology, upfitters, owners, and operators of vehicles and service of process on residents and nonresidents; to regulate the introduction and use of certain evidence; to regulate and certify the manufacturers of certain devices; to provide for approval and certification of installers and servicers of certain devices; to provide for the levy of certain assessments; to provide for the enforcement of this act; to provide for the creation of and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies; to impose liability upon the state or local agencies; to provide appropriations for certain purposes; to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act or contrary to this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on a specific date,” by amending section 676d (MCL 257.676d), as added by 2014 PA 303.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 676d. (1) A local unit of government shall not require as a term of a contract with a wrecker, recovery, or towing service that the wrecker, recovery, or towing service pay a fee to that local unit of government for responding to the scene of an impound, accident, disabled vehicle, or abandoned vehicle and providing wrecker, recovery, or towing services. A local unit of government shall not accept a payment, commission, or portion of wrecker, recovery, or towing service fees from a wrecker, recovery, or towing service in exchange for securing business for that wrecker, recovery, or towing service.
(2) A wrecker, recovery, or towing service shall not offer to a local unit of government a payment, fee, or commission to induce the local unit of government to enter into a contract with or secure business for the wrecker, recovery, or towing service.
(3) This section only applies to a contract between a local unit of government and a wrecker, recovery, or towing service that is entered into or renewed after January 7, 2015.
Enacting section
1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into
law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor