HOUSE BILL No. 5099

 

August 24, 2005, Introduced by Rep. Jones and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Urban Policy.

 

     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 section 41 (MCL 125.1041).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 41. (1)  Each  Except as otherwise provided in this

 

section, each licensee shall collect and remit a specific tax of

 

$3.00 per month, or major fraction  thereof  of a month, per

 

occupied trailer coach, which  shall be  specific tax is a tax upon

 

the owners or occupants of each occupied trailer coach, including

 

trailer coaches licensed under the  provisions of Act No. 300 of

 

the Public Acts of 1949, as amended, being sections 257.1 to


 

257.923 of the Compiled Laws of 1948  Michigan vehicle code, 1949

 

PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, notwithstanding any provision of  Act

 

No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, as amended  the Michigan

 

vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, to the contrary,

 

occupying space within the trailer coach park.

 

     (2)  The  For a trailer coach subject to the specific tax

 

under this act, the specific tax  shall be  is in lieu of any

 

property tax levied upon the trailer coach  pursuant to the

 

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

 

being sections 211.1 to 211.157 of the Compiled Laws of 1948  under

 

the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.157,

 

upon or on account of the occupied trailer coach while located in

 

the trailer coach park.

 

     (3) Beginning January 1, 2006, the specific tax under this act

 

does not apply to an occupied trailer coach that is a new mobile

 

home and an occupied trailer coach that is a new mobile home shall

 

be subject to the levy and collection of general ad valorem taxes

 

under the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to

 

211.157, as provided in section 2 of the general property tax act,

 

1893 PA 206, MCL 211.2.  As used in this subsection, "new mobile

 

home" means a mobile home for which a certificate of title was

 

initially issued under the mobile home commission act, 1987 PA 96,

 

MCL 125.2301 to 125.2349, on or after January 1, 2006.

 

     (4) The licensee of a trailer coach park shall not collect a

 

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

 

accompanied by an automobile  when  if the occupied trailer coach

 

and automobile bear license plates issued by any state other than


 

this state for an accumulated period not to exceed 90 days in any

 

12-month period, if all the occupants of the occupied trailer coach

 

with  and accompanying automobiles are tourists or vacationists.

 

     (5)  When one  If 1 or more persons occupying a trailer coach

 

bearing a foreign license are employed or are conducting any manner

 

of business or furnishing any service for gain within this state,

 

there shall be no exemption from  the occupied trailer coach is

 

subject to the specific tax levied under this act.

 

     Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5083(request no.

 

01817'05) of the 93rd Legislature is enacted into law.