HOUSE BILL No. 5179


     September 30, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Callahan, Brackenridge and Dobronski and referred to the Committee on Local Government.


        A bill to amend 1991 PA 180, entitled

   "An act to assist in the financing of stadia or convention facil-
   ities; to permit eligible municipalities to impose and collect an
   excise tax on businesses engaged in the preparation and delivery
   of food and beverages for immediate consumption, in leasing or
   renting motor vehicles in the eligible municipality, and in pro-
   viding accommodations for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping pur-
   poses; to limit the rate of that excise tax; to authorize voter
   approval in a single ballot question of the excise tax authorized
   by this act and of certain purposes for which the excise tax is
   imposed; to provide for the establishment of procedures for the
   collection, administration, and enforcement of the excise tax; to
   prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments and
   state and local officials; to provide for the disposition and
   transmittal of the revenues from the tax for stadia or convention
   facility development and other purposes and authorize the pledge
   of those revenues; to authorize the appointment of employees and
   officials of a local governmental unit to an authority to which
   revenues from the tax may be pledged; to prescribe penalties and
   provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,"

   (MCL 207.751 to 207.759) by adding section 2a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 2A.  A PETITION UNDER SECTION 2, INCLUDING THE

 2    CIRCULATION AND SIGNING OF THE PETITION, IS SUBJECT TO SECTION


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 1    488 OF THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.488.  A

 2    PERSON WHO VIOLATES A PROVISION OF THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW,

 3    1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 TO 168.992, APPLICABLE TO A PETITION

 4    DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION IS SUBJECT TO THE PENALTIES PRESCRIBED

 5    FOR THAT VIOLATION IN THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA 116, MCL

 6    168.1 TO 168.992.

 7         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

 8    effect unless Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. _____

 9    (request no. 02378'97) of the 89th Legislature is enacted into

10    law.




































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