Act No. 355

Public Acts of 2002

Approved by the Governor

May 23, 2002

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 23, 2002

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 23, 2002

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2002

Introduced by Rep. Lipsey

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5717

AN ACT to amend 1883 PA 197, entitled "An act to provide for the disposition of certain lands granted to the state of Michigan for railroad purposes by acts of congress of June 3, 1856, and March 4, 1879, upon the route from Grand Haven to Flint and thence to Port Huron, in the state of Michigan; to secure the title thereto to bona fide settlers and purchasers; to provide for the further sale thereof, and to provide for the adjustment of certain taxes heretofore assessed thereon," by amending section 10 (MCL 322.460).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 10. The state treasurer shall adjust the amounts due claimants under this act, and shall draw a warrant upon the state treasury for the amount due in favor of the person entitled to the amount within 3 months after application is made by that person. The balance of the taxes previously assessed upon the lands granted to this state and lying within the counties of Ottawa and Muskegon, upon the route extending from Grand Haven to Owosso and then to Flint, as described in this act and returned by the county treasurers of the counties of Muskegon and Ottawa to the state treasurer as delinquent and unpaid, and all interest and charges since accrued, are hereby canceled, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to credit the counties of Muskegon and Ottawa respectively with the amount of those taxes in all cases in which the tax has been previously charged back to those counties, with all interest and charges accrued upon the amounts charged back. However, the total amount of the credit shall not exceed the total amount the county may now be indebted to the state, and the counties of Muskegon and Ottawa shall credit up to the several townships in their respective counties all of the tax which has been charged back to the townships, or the proportion of the tax the county is credited with by the state.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.