Bill Text: MI SB0526 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: History and arts; other; department of history, arts, and libraries; abolish, and transfer responsibilities to department of state. Amends sec. 1a of 1970 PA 169 (MCL 399.201a). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0503'09
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-09-02 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [SB0526 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB0526-Engrossed.html
SB-0526, As Passed Senate, August 27, 2009
SENATE BILL No. 526
April 30, 2009, Introduced by Senators JANSEN, ALLEN, BROWN and JELINEK and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Tourism.
A bill to amend 1970 PA 169, entitled
"Local historic districts act,"
by amending section 1a (MCL 399.201a), as amended by 2004 PA 67.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1a. As used in this act:
(a) "Alteration" means work that changes the detail of a
resource but does not change its basic size or shape.
(b) "Certificate of appropriateness" means the written
approval of a permit application for work that is appropriate and
that does not adversely affect a resource.
(c) "Commission" means a historic district commission created
by the legislative body of a local unit under section 4.
(d) "Committee" means a historic district study committee
appointed by the legislative body of a local unit under section 3
or 14.
(e) "Demolition" means the razing or destruction, whether
entirely or in part, of a resource and includes, but is not limited
to, demolition by neglect.
(f) "Demolition by neglect" means neglect in maintaining,
repairing, or securing a resource that results in deterioration of
an exterior feature of the resource or the loss of structural
integrity of the resource.
(g) "Denial" means the written rejection of a permit
application for work that is inappropriate and that adversely
affects a resource.
(h)
"Department" means the department of history, arts, and
libraries state.
(i) "Fire alarm system" means a system designed to detect and
annunciate the presence of fire or by-products of fire. Fire alarm
system includes smoke alarms.
(j) "Historic district" means an area, or group of areas not
necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that contains 1 resource
or a group of resources that are related by history, architecture,
archaeology, engineering, or culture.
(k) "Historic preservation" means the identification,
evaluation, establishment, and protection of resources significant
in history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture.
(l) "Historic resource" means a publicly or privately owned
building, structure, site, object, feature, or open space that is
significant in the history, architecture, archaeology, engineering,
or culture of this state or a community within this state, or of
the United States.
(m) "Local unit" means a county, city, village, or township.
(n) "Notice to proceed" means the written permission to issue
a permit for work that is inappropriate and that adversely affects
a resource, pursuant to a finding under section 5(6).
(o) "Open space" means undeveloped land, a naturally
landscaped area, or a formal or man-made landscaped area that
provides a connective link or a buffer between other resources.
(p) "Ordinary maintenance" means keeping a resource unimpaired
and in good condition through ongoing minor intervention,
undertaken from time to time, in its exterior condition. Ordinary
maintenance does not change the external appearance of the resource
except through the elimination of the usual and expected effects of
weathering. Ordinary maintenance does not constitute work for
purposes of this act.
(q) "Proposed historic district" means an area, or group of
areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that has
delineated boundaries and that is under review by a committee or a
standing committee for the purpose of making a recommendation as to
whether it should be established as a historic district or added to
an established historic district.
(r) "Repair" means to restore a decayed or damaged resource to
a good or sound condition by any process. A repair that changes the
external appearance of a resource constitutes work for purposes of
this act.
(s) "Resource" means 1 or more publicly or privately owned
historic or nonhistoric buildings, structures, sites, objects,
features, or open spaces located within a historic district.
(t) "Smoke alarm" means a single-station or multiple-station
alarm responsive to smoke and not connected to a system. As used in
this subdivision, "single-station alarm" means an assembly
incorporating a detector, the control equipment, and the alarm
sounding device into a single unit, operated from a power supply
either in the unit or obtained at the point of installation.
"Multiple-station alarm" means 2 or more single-station alarms that
are capable of interconnection such that actuation of 1 alarm
causes all integrated separate audible alarms to operate.
(u) "Standing committee" means a permanent body established by
the legislative body of a local unit under section 14 to conduct
the activities of a historic district study committee on a
continuing basis.
(v) "Work" means construction, addition, alteration, repair,
moving, excavation, or demolition.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No. 503
of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.
