HOUSE BILL No. 5516


     March 16, 2000, Introduced by Rep. LaSata and referred to the Committee on Economic Development.


        A bill to amend 1959 PA 243, entitled

   "An act to define, license and regulate trailer coach parks; to
   prescribe the powers and duties of the state health commissioner
   and other state and local officers; to provide for the levy and
   collection of specific taxes on occupied trailers in trailer
   coach parks and the disposition of the revenues therefrom; to
   provide remedies and penalties for the violation of this act; and
   to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,"

   by amending sections 41 and 42 (MCL 125.1041 and 125.1042), sec-

   tion 42 as amended by 1994 PA 365.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           Sec. 41.  Each licensee shall collect and remit a specific

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      tax of  $3.00  $8.00 per month, or major fraction  thereof 
   OF A

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      MONTH, per occupied trailer coach.  , which shall be  THE SPE-

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      CIFIC TAX IS a tax  upon  ON the owners or occupants of each

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      occupied trailer coach, including A trailer  coaches  COACH

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      licensed under the provisions of  Act No. 300 of the Public Acts

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      of 1949, as amended, being sections 257.1 to 257.923 of the


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      Compiled Laws of 1948  THE MICHIGAN VEHICLE CODE, 1949 PA 300,

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      MCL 257.1 TO 257.923, notwithstanding any provision of  Act

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      No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, as amended,  THAT ACT to the

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      contrary, occupying space within the trailer coach park.  The

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      specific tax  shall be  IS in lieu of  any  property tax
   levied

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       upon  ON the trailer coach pursuant to the  provisions of Act

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      No. 206 of the Public Acts of 1893, as amended, being sections

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      211.1 to 211.157 of the Compiled Laws of 1948  GENERAL PROPERTY

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      TAX ACT, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 TO 211.157,  upon  ON or on

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      account of the trailer while located in the trailer coach park.

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      The licensee of a trailer coach park shall not collect a monthly

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      tax for  any  space occupied by a trailer coach accompanied by an

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      automobile when the trailer coach and automobile bear license

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      plates issued by  any  A state other than this state for an accu-

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      mulated period not to exceed 90 days in  any  A 12-month period,

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      if all the occupants of the trailer coach with accompanying auto-

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      mobiles are tourists or vacationists.  When  one  1 or more per-

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      sons occupying a trailer coach bearing a foreign license are

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      employed or are conducting  any manner of  business or furnishing

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       any  A service for gain within this state, there  shall be
    IS

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      no exemption from the specific tax LEVIED UNDER THIS SECTION.

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           Sec. 42.  The treasurer of the municipality, in which a

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      trailer coach park is located, shall accept and verify the

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      monthly reports from licensees and collect and disburse the

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      monthly tax payments as provided in this act.  The municipal

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      treasurer shall issue a receipt in triplicate for all money

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      collected under this act.  ,  THE TREASURER SHALL GIVE the



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      original receipt  to be given  to the licensee, RETAIN the

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      duplicate  to be retained by the treasurer  for municipal

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      records, and TRANSMIT the triplicate, together with 50 cents per

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      trailer coach,  shall be transmitted  to the county treasurer,

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      who shall issue a receipt for the amount received and credit the

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      proceeds to the county general fund.  The municipal treasurer

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      shall credit the municipal general fund with  50 cents  $4.50 per

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      trailer coach located within the municipality.  For taxes trans-

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      mitted after June 30, 1994, the municipal treasurer shall trans-

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      mit  $2.00  $3.00 for each trailer coach parked in the municipal-

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      ity to the state treasury for credit to the state school aid fund

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      established by section 11 of article IX of the state constitution

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      of 1963.































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