HOUSE BILL No. 5194


     September 30, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Hammerstrom, Brackenridge, Crissman and Birkholz and referred to the Committee on Local Government.


        A bill to amend 1945 PA 47, entitled

   "An act to authorize 2 or more cities, townships, and villages,
   or any combination of cities, townships, and villages, to incor-
   porate a hospital authority for planning, promoting, acquiring,
   constructing, improving, enlarging, extending, owning, maintain-
   ing, and operating 1 or more community hospitals and related
   buildings or structures and related facilities; to provide for
   the sale, lease, or other transfer of a hospital owned by a hos-
   pital authority to a nonprofit corporation established under the
   laws of this state for no or nominal monetary consideration; to
   define hospitals and community hospitals; to provide for changes
   in the membership therein; to authorize the cities, townships,
   and villages to levy taxes for community hospital purposes; to
   provide for the issuance of bonds; to provide for the pledge of
   assessments; to provide for borrowing money for operation and
   maintenance and issuing notes for operation and maintenance; to
   validate elections heretofore held and notes heretofore issued;
   to validate bonds heretofore issued; to authorize condemnation
   proceedings; to grant certain powers of a body corporate; and to
   validate and ratify the organization, existence, and membership
   of entities acting as hospital authorities under the act and the
   actions taken by hospital authorities and by the members of the
   hospital authorities,"

   (MCL 331.1 to 331.11) by amending the title, as amended by 1987

   PA 117, and by adding section 10.



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 1                THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 2                                  TITLE

 3         An act to authorize 2 or more cities, townships, and vil-

 4    lages, or any combination of cities, townships, and villages, to

 5    incorporate a hospital authority for planning, promoting, acquir-

 6    ing, constructing, improving, enlarging, extending, owning, main-

 7    taining, and operating 1 or more community hospitals and related

 8    buildings or structures and related facilities; to provide for

 9    the sale, lease, or other transfer of a hospital owned by a hos-

10    pital authority to a nonprofit corporation established under the

11    laws of this state for no or nominal monetary consideration; to

12    define hospitals and community hospitals; to provide for changes

13    in the membership therein; to authorize the cities, townships,

14    and villages to levy taxes for community hospital purposes; to

15    provide for the issuance of bonds; to provide for the pledge of

16    assessments; to provide for borrowing money for operation and

17    maintenance and issuing notes for operation and maintenance; to

18    validate elections heretofore held and notes heretofore issued;

19    to validate bonds heretofore issued; to authorize condemnation

20    proceedings; to grant certain powers of a body corporate;  and 

21    to validate and ratify the organization, existence, and member-

22    ship of entities acting as hospital authorities under the act and

23    the actions taken by hospital authorities and by the members of

24    the hospital authorities; AND TO PRESCRIBE PENALTIES AND PROVIDE

25    REMEDIES.

26         SEC. 10.  A PETITION UNDER SECTION 8C OR 9, INCLUDING THE

27    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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