Bill Text: MI SB0916 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transportation; funds; public transportation corporation; amend definition. Amends sec. 1 of 1951 PA 35 (MCL 124.1).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-26 - Referred To Committee On Transportation [SB0916 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0916-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 916

 

 

January 26, 2012, Introduced by Senator KOWALL and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1951 PA 35, entitled

 

"An act to authorize intergovernmental contracts between municipal

corporations; to authorize any municipal corporation to contract

with any person or any municipal corporation to furnish any lawful

municipal service to property outside the corporate limits of the

first municipal corporation for a consideration; to prescribe

certain penalties; to authorize contracts between municipal

corporations and with certain nonprofit public transportation

corporations to form group self-insurance pools; and to prescribe

conditions for the performance of those contracts,"

 

by amending section 1 (MCL 124.1), as amended by 1996 PA 289.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Municipal corporation" means a county, charter county,

 

county road commission, township, charter township, city, village,

 

school district, intermediate school district, community college

 

district, metropolitan district, court district, public authority,

 

or drainage district as defined in the drain code of 1956, Act No.

 

40 of the Public Acts of 1956, being sections 1956 PA 40, MCL 280.1

 

to 280.630, of the Michigan Compiled Laws, or any other local

 

governmental authority or local agency with power to enter into

 

contractual undertakings. For purposes of sections 5 to 12b,

 

"municipal corporation" includes a public transportation

 

corporation.

 

     (b) "Public transportation corporation" means a nonprofit

 

corporation organized pursuant to the nonprofit corporation act,

 

Act No. 162 of the Public Acts of 1982, being sections 1982 PA 162,

 

MCL 450.2101 to 450.3192, of the Michigan Compiled Laws, to which 1

 

of the following applies:

 

     (i) The primary purpose of the nonprofit corporation is

 

providing public transportation services.

 

     (ii) The nonprofit corporation receives funding from the

 

specialized services assistance program under section 10e of Act

 

No. 51 of the Public Acts of 1951, being section 1951 PA 51, MCL

 

247.660e. of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

 

     (c) "Public transportation" means that term as defined in

 

section 10c of Act No. 51 of the Public Acts of 1951, being section

 

1951 PA 51, MCL 247.660c. of the Michigan Compiled Laws.