April 24, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Acciavatti, Byrum, Stahl, Byrnes, Mayes, Rick Jones, Ball, Spade, Meekhof and Bieda and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Outdoor Recreation and Natural Resources.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending section 76101 (MCL 324.76101), as added by 1995 PA 58.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 76101. As used in this part:
(a) "Abandoned property" means an aircraft; a watercraft,
including a ship, boat, canoe, skiff, raft, or barge; the rigging,
gear, fittings, trappings, and equipment of an aircraft or
watercraft; the personal property of the officers, crew, and
passengers of an aircraft or watercraft; and the cargo of an
aircraft or watercraft, which have been deserted, relinquished,
cast away, or left behind and for which attempts at reclamation
have been abandoned by owners and insurers. Abandoned property also
means materials resulting from activities of historic and
prehistoric Native Americans.
(b) "Bottomlands" means the unpatented lake bottomlands of the
Great Lakes.
(c)
"Committee" means the underwater Great Lakes state park
and
salvage and preserve advisory committee
created in section
76103.
(d) "Great Lakes" means lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, St.
Clair, and Superior.
(e) "Great Lakes bottomlands preserve" means an area located
on the bottomlands of the Great Lakes and extending upward to and
including the surface of the water, which is delineated and set
aside by rule for special protection of abandoned property of
historical value, or ecological, educational, geological, or scenic
features or formations having recreational, educational, or
scientific value. A preserve may encompass a single object,
feature, or formation, or a collection of several objects,
features, or formations.
(f) "Historical value" means value relating to, or
illustrative of, Michigan history, including the statehood,
territorial, colonial, and historic, and prehistoric native
American periods.
(g) "Mechanical or other assistance" means all humanmade
devices, including pry bars, wrenches and other hand or power
tools, cutting torches, explosives, winches, flotation bags, lines
to surface, extra divers buoyancy devices, and other buoyance
devices, used to raise or remove artifacts.
(h) "Recreational value" means value relating to an activity
that the public engages in, or may engage in, for recreation or
sport, including scuba diving and fishing.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 94th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 429 or House Bill No.____ (request no.
02426'07 *).
(b) Senate Bill No. or House Bill No. 4638(request no.
02427'07 *).
(c) Senate Bill No. 431 or House Bill No.____ (request no.
02428'07 *).
(d) Senate Bill No. 430 or House Bill No.____ (request no.
02429'07 *).
(e) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4640(request no.
02430'07 *).