Act No. 243

Public Acts of 2002

Approved by the Governor

April 30, 2002

Filed with the Secretary of State

April 30, 2002

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 30, 2002

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2002

Introduced by Senator Gast

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1166

AN ACT to amend 1893 PA 206, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of rights and interests, including leasehold interests, in property and the levy and collection of taxes on property, and for the collection of taxes levied; making those taxes a lien on the property taxed, establishing and continuing the lien, providing for the sale or forfeiture and conveyance of property delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the state and not redeemed or purchased; to provide for the establishment of a delinquent tax revolving fund and the borrowing of money by counties and the issuance of notes; to define and limit the jurisdiction of the courts in proceedings in connection with property delinquent for taxes; to limit the time within which actions may be brought; to prescribe certain limitations with respect to rates of taxation; to prescribe certain powers and duties of certain officers, departments, agencies, and political subdivisions of this state; to provide for certain reimbursements of certain expenses incurred by units of local government; to provide penalties for the violation of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," (MCL 211.1 to 211.157) by adding section 44d.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 44d. (1) A local taxing unit that levied part or all of its 2002 property taxes in December in a city or township shall not increase the proportion of its mills levied in the summer in that city or township in 2003.

(2) Notwithstanding section 44, if a county treasurer or the state treasurer collects a summer property tax levy under section 5b of the state education tax act, 1993 PA 331, MCL 211.905b, the county treasurer or the state treasurer may retain all administration fees collected in that summer property tax levy.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Approved

Governor.