SB-0978, As Passed House, June 27, 2008
December 6, 2007, Introduced by Senators STAMAS, ALLEN, SANBORN, KUIPERS, GILBERT, RICHARDVILLE, BIRKHOLZ, HUNTER, BROWN, HARDIMAN, KAHN, CLARK-COLEMAN, CLARKE, GEORGE, BARCIA, PAPPAGEORGE, JACOBS, ANDERSON, THOMAS and SCOTT and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Tourism.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending section 1907 (MCL 324.1907), as added by 1995 PA 60.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1907. (1) The board shall determine which lands and
rights in land within the state should be acquired and which public
recreation facilities should be developed with money from the trust
fund and shall submit to the legislature in January of each year a
list of those lands and rights in land and those public recreation
facilities that the board has determined should be acquired or
developed with trust fund money, compiled in order of priority. In
preparing the list under this subsection, the board shall give
particular consideration to the acquisition of land and rights in
land for recreational trails that intersect the downtown areas of
cities and villages.
(2) This list shall be accompanied by estimates of total costs
for the proposed acquisitions and developments.
(3) The board shall supply with each list a statement of the
guidelines used in listing and assigning the priority of these
proposed acquisitions and developments.
(4) The legislature shall approve by law the lands and rights
in land and the public recreation facilities to be acquired or
developed each year with money from the trust fund.