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MI HB6124

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/14/2024

Primary Sponsor

Jenn Hill

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Origin

House of Representatives

102nd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Reduces the minimum number of municipalities needed to establish a recreational authority from two to one, allowing single municipalities to create authorities independently.

  • Adds "public forest and natural resources area" as a permissible purpose for recreational authorities, with provisions for designating property, restricting uses, and establishing payments in lieu of taxes.

  • Allows recreational authorities to sell, lease, license, or develop property; establish endowment funds; permit sustainable commercial activities including forestry and carbon credit sales; and distribute funds to participating municipalities.

  • Permits board members to receive compensation if approved in the articles of incorporation and establishes procedures for removing elected board members for cause by unanimous vote of remaining members.

  • Creates dissolution provisions requiring public forest and natural resources areas to revert to the state if the designated use is not continued by participating municipalities, with authority to waive reversion rights.

Legislative Description

Local government: authorities; revisions to the recreational authorities act; provide for. Amends secs. 5, 7 & 9 of 2000 PA 321 (MCL 123.1135 et seq.) & adds sec. 10.

Local government: authorities

Last Action

Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/26/2024

11/26/2024

Committee Referrals

Local Government And Municipal Finance11/14/2024

Full Bill Text

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