SENATE BILL No. 107

 

 

January 27, 2005, Introduced by Senator BASHAM and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

 

 

     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 the title and sections 35, 41, 42, and 43 (MCL

 

125.1035, 125.1041, 125.1042, and 125.1043), section 42 as amended

 

by 1994 PA 365.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

TITLE

 

     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 a specific  taxes  tax on occupied trailers in


 

trailer coach parks;  and the disposition  to provide for the

 

collection and distribution of the  revenues therefrom; to provide

 

remedies and penalties for the violation of this act  specific tax;

 

and to repeal  certain  acts and parts of acts.

 

     Sec. 35.  If  All of the following apply to a trailer coach

 

park  is  located in more than  one  1 municipality:  , then it

 

     (a) The trailer coach park shall be considered to be a

 

separate trailer coach park for each of the municipalities in which

 

it is located.  , except that all

 

     (b) All requirements pertaining to physical arrangement and

 

provision of facilities shall be the same as though for a single

 

trailer coach park.

 

     (c) Any license fees and  monthly  taxes accruing to  

 

municipalities  a municipality under  the provisions of  this act

 

shall be paid  to each municipality  on the basis of the number of

 

trailer coach sites in  each  that municipality and the number of

 

occupied trailer coaches on sites in  each  that municipality.

 

     Sec. 41. (1)  Each licensee  Before January 1, 2005, a trailer

 

coach park 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

 

     (2) After December 31, 2004, a specific tax calculated in the

 

following manner shall be levied on each occupied trailer coach:

 

     (a) For taxes levied after December 31, 2004 and before

 

January 1, 2006, 10% of the trailer coach's fair market value

 

multiplied by the number of mills levied in the local tax

 

collecting unit in which the trailer coach is located.


 

     (b) For taxes levied after December 31, 2005 and before

 

January 1, 2007, 20% of the trailer coach's fair market value

 

multiplied by the number of mills levied in the local tax

 

collecting unit in which the trailer coach is located.

 

     (c) For taxes levied after December 31, 2006 and before

 

January 1, 2008, 30% of the trailer coach's fair market value

 

multiplied by the number of mills levied in the local tax

 

collecting unit in which the trailer coach is located.

 

     (d) For taxes levied after December 31, 2007 and before

 

January 1, 2009, 40% of the trailer coach's fair market value

 

multiplied by the number of mills levied in the local tax

 

collecting unit in which the trailer coach is located.

 

     (3) The specific tax levied under this section 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, notwithstanding any provision

 

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

 

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

 

occupying space within the trailer coach park.

 

     (4) The specific tax levied under subsection (1) shall be

 

remitted annually as provided in section 43.

 

     (5) The local tax collecting unit shall collect the specific

 

tax levied under subsection (2) at the same time and in the same

 

manner as taxes collected under the general property tax act, 1893

 

PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.157. The local tax collecting unit shall

 

distribute the specific tax collected under this subsection in the


 

same proportion as taxes collected under the general property tax

 

act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.157.

 

     (6) The specific tax  shall be  levied under subsection (1) or

 

(2) is in lieu of any general ad valorem property tax  levied upon  

 

collected on 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, upon or on account

 

of the trailer  under the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206,

 

MCL 211.1 to 211.157, while the trailer coach is located in the

 

trailer coach park.  The licensee of a

 

     (7) A trailer coach park shall not collect a  monthly  

 

specific tax under subsection (1) or (2) for any space occupied by

 

a trailer coach accompanied by an automobile  when  if the trailer

 

coach and automobile bear license plates issued by  any  a state

 

other than this state, the trailer coach and accompanying

 

automobile do not occupy the space for an accumulated period  not

 

to exceed  of more than 90 days in any 12-month period,  if  and

 

all the occupants of the trailer coach  with  and accompanying  

 

automobiles  automobile are tourists or vacationists.  When one  

 

The exemption under this subsection does not apply if 1 or more

 

persons occupying  a  the trailer coach  bearing a foreign license  

 

are employed  or  in this state, are conducting any manner of

 

business in this state, or are furnishing any service for gain  

 

within  in this state.  , there shall be no exemption from the

 

specific tax.

 

     Sec. 42. (1) The treasurer of  the municipality,  a local tax

 

collecting unit in which a trailer coach park is located  ,  shall  


 

accept  do all of the following:

 

     (a) Accept and verify the  monthly reports  annual tax payment

 

of the specific tax levied under section 41(1) from  licensees and

 

collect  the trailer coach park required under section 43.

 

     (b) Collect and disburse the  monthly  annual tax  payments  

 

payment of the specific tax levied under section 41(1) as provided

 

in this  act  section.

 

     (2) The  municipal  treasurer of the local tax collecting unit

 

shall issue a receipt in triplicate for  all money  the specific

 

tax levied under section 41(1) that is collected under this act.  ,

 

the  The original receipt  to  shall be given to the  licensee, the

 

duplicate to  trailer coach park, 1 copy shall be retained by the

 

treasurer for municipal records, and  the triplicate  1 copy,

 

together with 50 cents per month per trailer coach, shall be

 

transmitted to the  county  treasurer  , who shall  of the county

 

in which the trailer coach park is located.

 

     (3) A county treasurer who receives an annual payment of the

 

specific tax levied under section 41(1) under subsection (2) shall

 

issue a receipt for the amount received and credit the proceeds to

 

the county general fund.

 

     (4) The  municipal  treasurer of the local tax collecting unit

 

that collects an annual tax payment of the specific tax levied

 

under section 41(1) under subsection (1) shall credit the  

 

municipal  general fund of the local tax collecting unit with 50

 

cents per month for each trailer coach located within the

 

municipality. For taxes  transmitted  collected under section 41(1)

 

after June 30, 1994, the  municipal  treasurer shall transmit $2.00


 

per month for each trailer coach  parked in the municipality  

 

located in the local tax collecting unit that is subject to the

 

specific tax levied under this act to the state treasury for credit

 

to the state school aid fund established by section 11 of article

 

IX of the state constitution of 1963.

 

     Sec. 43. (1)  All remittances of monthly taxes shall be made

 

by the licensee on or before the fifth day of each month for the

 

preceding month. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any licensee

 

from reimbursing himself for the amount of each specific tax which

 

he is obligated to collect and remit by adding to his charges for  

 

A trailer coach park shall remit to the treasurer of the local tax

 

collecting unit in which the trailer coach park is located the

 

specific tax levied under section 41(1) not later than January 15

 

for taxes levied and collected under this act in the immediately

 

preceding year.

 

     (2) A trailer coach park may add a charge equal to the

 

specific tax levied under this act to each parking space in  his  

 

the trailer coach park.  an amount equal to the specific tax levied

 

hereunder.

 

     Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act takes effect January

 

1, 2005.