Act No. 229

Public Acts of 2008

Approved by the Governor

July 15, 2008

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 17, 2008

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 17, 2008

STATE OF MICHIGAN

94TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2008

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

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 978

AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled "An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state; to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment and natural resources of the state; to regulate the discharge of certain substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters, and other natural resources of the state; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and donations; to provide certain appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," 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.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor