SB-0978, As Passed House, June 27, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 978

 

 

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.