SB-1061, As Passed House, May 6, 2010
January 14, 2010, Introduced by Senators JELINEK and SWITALSKI and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1974 PA 359, entitled
"An act to authorize the department of natural resources to convey
certain lands lying within the boundaries of the lakeshore zone and
parkway location of the Sleeping Bear dunes national lakeshore park
to the United States; to provide for cession of certain
jurisdiction of this state and to determine the measure thereof
over such lands; to authorize acceptance of relinquished
jurisdiction over such lands or portions thereof; and to repeal
certain acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 8 (MCL 3.908), as amended by 1996 PA 30; and to
repeal acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
8. (1) In order to To provide for reimbursement to local
units of government for taxes lost due to establishment of Sleeping
Bear
dunes national lakeshore, the department of treasury , shall
make payments in lieu of taxes for a period not to exceed 10 years
from the date of purchase by the federal government, in accordance
with
the following formula in
this subsection. : On the tax day
first following transfer, the state treasurer shall determine the
equalized valuation that existed prior to January 1, 1974 for each
taxing jurisdiction from which the property was transferred and the
rate
of ad valorem taxation existing at the time of transfer. The
Subject to subsection (2), the state treasurer shall thereupon make
payments to each taxing unit in an amount such that revenues
received
by the taxing unit from local taxes shall be are
equal to
the amounts that would have been received had the existing tax rate
been still in effect and had the equalized valuation been the same
prior to transfer. On each succeeding tax day for 10 years
thereafter the treasurer shall make further payments to each taxing
unit but reduced by 1/10 per year from the amount originally paid.
(2) If the amount appropriated for payment to all local units
of government is less than the amount required for payment to all
local units of government under subsection (1), the amount
appropriated for payment to each local unit of government shall be
distributed in the same proportion that the required payment to
that local unit of government is to the total of all required
payments.
(3) (2)
This same The formula under
subsection (1) shall apply
to state-owned lands transferred under this act for which payments
in
lieu of taxes were previously made under the provisions of
former
Act No. 91 of the Public Acts of 1925 PA 91, or subpart 14
of
part 21 (general real estate powers) of the natural resources
and
environmental protection act, Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of
1994,
being sections 1994 PA 451, MCL
324.2152 to 324.2154. of
the
Michigan Compiled Laws.
(4) (3)
On state-owned lands transferred
under this act for
which
payments were previously made pursuant to former Act No. 116
of
the Public Acts of 1917 PA 116,
or subpart 13 of part 21
(general
real estate powers) of the natural
resources and
environmental
protection act, Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of
1994,
being sections 1994 PA 451, MCL
324.2150 to 324.2151, of
the
Michigan
Compiled Laws, the annual payment
shall continue for a
period of 10 years at the rate existing at the time of transfer.
(5) (4)
The treasurer or other officer
charged with the
collection of taxes for the assessing district shall forward a
statement of payments due to the Lansing office of the state
treasurer, which shall review the statement, and if the amount is
determined pursuant to this act, pay the same from the state
general fund.
(5)
There shall be appropriated from the general fund of the
state
a sufficient sum to meet the expenditures necessary to carry
out
the requirements of this section.
Enacting section 1. Sections 9 and 10 of 1974 PA 359, MCL
3.909 and 3.910, are repealed.