HOUSE BILL No. 4534


     March 27, 2001, Introduced by Reps. LaSata, Scranton, Richardville and DeRossett and referred to the Committee on Land
Use and Environment.


        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  ACCORDING to the

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       provisions of Act No. 206 of the Public Acts of 1893, as

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      amended, being sections 211.1 to 211.157 of the Compiled Laws of

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      1948  GENERAL PROPERTY TAX ACT, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 TO

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      211.157,  upon  ON or on account of the trailer while located in

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      the trailer coach park.  The licensee of a trailer coach park

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      shall not collect a monthly tax for  any  space occupied by a

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      trailer coach accompanied by an automobile when the trailer coach

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      and automobile bear license plates issued by  any  A state other

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      than this state for an accumulated period THAT DOES not  to 

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      exceed 90 days in  any  A 12-month period, if all the occupants

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      of the trailer coach with accompanying automobiles are tourists

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      or vacationists.  When one  IF 1 or more persons occupying a

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      trailer coach bearing a foreign license are employed or are con-

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      ducting  any manner of  business or furnishing  any  A
   service

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      for gain within this state, there  shall be  IS no exemption from

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      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 dupli-

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      cate  to be retained by the treasurer  for municipal records, and

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      TRANSMIT the triplicate, together with 50 cents per trailer

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      coach,  shall be transmitted  to the county treasurer, who shall

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      issue a receipt for the amount received and credit the proceeds

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      to the county general fund.  The municipal treasurer shall credit

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      the municipal general fund with  50 cents  $4.50 per trailer

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      coach located within the municipality.  For taxes transmitted

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      after June 30, 1994, the  THE municipal treasurer shall transmit

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       $2.00  $3.00 for each trailer coach parked in the municipality

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      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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