Bill Text: MI SB1235 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Local government; authorities; building authorities; include reference to transit-oriented facilities. Amends title & sec. 1 of 1948 (1st Ex Sess) PA 31 (MCL 123.951).
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-29 - Assigned Pa 0243'10 With Immediate Effect [SB1235 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB1235-Engrossed.html
SB-1235, As Passed House, December 1, 2010
SENATE BILL No. 1235
March 18, 2010, Introduced by Senators CROPSEY, ALLEN, JACOBS, CHERRY, GILBERT, PAPPAGEORGE, RICHARDVILLE, HARDIMAN, BIRKHOLZ, KAHN, HUNTER, GEORGE, CLARKE, GLEASON, SWITALSKI and BARCIA and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Tourism.
A bill to amend 1948 (1st Ex Sess) PA 31, entitled
"An act to provide for the incorporation of authorities to acquire,
furnish, equip, own, improve, enlarge, operate, and maintain
buildings, automobile parking lots or structures, recreational
facilities, stadiums, and the necessary site or sites therefor,
together with appurtenant properties and facilities necessary or
convenient for the effective use thereof, for the use of any
county, city, village, or township, or for the use of any
combination of 2 or more counties, cities, villages, or townships,
or for the use of any school district and any city, village, or
township wholly or partially within the district's boundaries, or
for the use of any school district and any combination of 2 or more
cities, villages, or townships wholly or partially within the
district's boundaries, or for the use of any intermediate school
district and any constituent school district or any city, village,
or township, wholly or partially within the intermediate school
district's boundaries; to provide for compensation of authority
commissioners; to permit transfers of property to authorities; to
authorize the execution of contracts, leases, and subleases
pertaining to authority property and the use of authority property;
to authorize incorporating units to impose taxes without limitation
as to rate or amount and to pledge their full faith and credit for
the payment of contract of lease obligations in anticipation of
which bonds are issued by an authority; to provide for the issuance
of bonds by such authorities; to validate action taken and bonds
issued; to provide other powers, rights, and duties of authorities
and incorporating units, including those for the disposal of
authority property; and to prescribe penalties and provide
remedies,"
by amending the title and section 1 (MCL 123.951), the title as
amended by 1998 PA 190 and section 1 as amended by 1993 PA 121.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An act to provide for the incorporation of authorities to
acquire, furnish, equip, own, improve, enlarge, operate, and
maintain buildings, automobile parking lots or structures, transit-
oriented developments, transit-oriented facilities, recreational
facilities, stadiums, and the necessary site or sites therefor,
together with appurtenant properties and facilities necessary or
convenient for the effective use thereof, for the use of any
county, city, village, or township, or for the use of any
combination of 2 or more counties, cities, villages, or townships,
or for the use of any school district and any city, village, or
township wholly or partially within the district's boundaries, or
for the use of any school district and any combination of 2 or more
cities, villages, or townships wholly or partially within the
district's boundaries, or for the use of any intermediate school
district and any constituent school district or any city, village,
or township, wholly or partially within the intermediate school
district's boundaries; to provide for compensation of authority
commissioners; to permit transfers of property to authorities; to
authorize the execution of contracts, leases, and subleases
pertaining to authority property and the use of authority property;
to authorize incorporating units to impose taxes without limitation
as to rate or amount and to pledge their full faith and credit for
the payment of contract of lease obligations in anticipation of
which bonds are issued by an authority; to provide for the issuance
of bonds by such authorities; to validate action taken and bonds
issued; to provide other powers, rights, and duties of authorities
and incorporating units, including those for the disposal of
authority property; and to prescribe penalties and provide
remedies.
Sec. 1. (1) A county, city, village, or township may
incorporate, as provided in this act, 1 or more authorities for the
purpose of acquiring, furnishing, equipping, owning, improving,
enlarging, operating and maintaining a building or buildings,
automobile parking lots or structures, transit-oriented
developments, transit-oriented facilities, recreational facilities,
stadiums, and the necessary site or sites therefore, together with
appurtenant properties and facilities necessary or convenient for
the effective use of the facilities, for use for any legitimate
public
purpose of the county, city, village, or township. For
purposes
of this act, the development of a qualified facility
pursuant
to the federal facility development act, Act No. 275 of
the
Public Acts of 1992, being sections 3.931 to 3.940 of the
Michigan
Compiled Laws, or the federal data facility act, is
considered
a legitimate public purpose of a county or city if that
county
or city makes a determination that such a facility would
result
in economic development in that county or city.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Transit-oriented development" means infrastructure
improvements that are located within 1/2 mile of a transit station
or transit-oriented facility that promotes transit ridership or
passenger rail use.
(b) "Transit-oriented facility" means a facility that houses a
transit station in a manner that promotes transit ridership or
passenger rail use.
