Bill Text: MI SB0932 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Natural resources; funding; Michigan natural resources trust fund and Michigan state parks endowment fund; modify allowable expenditures. Amends sec. 74101 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.74101).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-31 - Assigned Pa 599'18 12/31/18 Addenda [SB0932 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0932-Enrolled.html

STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

Introduced by Senators Booher, Casperson and Hansen

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 932

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 protect the people’s right to hunt and fish; 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 74101 (MCL 324.74101), as amended by 2010 PA 33.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 74101. As used in this part:

(a) “Commercial motor vehicle” means a commercial vehicle as defined in section 7 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.7.

(b) “Endowment fund” means the Michigan state parks endowment fund established in section 35a of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in section 74119.

(c) “Improvement program” means the construction, reconstruction, development, improvement, bettering, operating, maintaining, and extending a facility at a state park, including a site improvement, impoundment, road and parking lot, toilet building, concession building, shelter building, bathhouse, utility, outdoor center, visitor service facility, ski area, ski tow, ski shelter, and administration unit.

(d) “Motor vehicle” means a vehicle that is self-propelled.

(e) “Nonresident motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle other than a commercial motor vehicle that is not registered as a motor vehicle in this state.

(f) “Recreation passport fee” means that term as defined in section 2001.

(g) “Resident motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle other than a commercial motor vehicle that is registered as a motor vehicle in this state.

(h) “State park” means a state park or state recreation area designated by the director.

(i) “State park improvement account” means the state park improvement account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2030.

(j) “State park revenues” means all revenues collected for state parks, including but not limited to, revenue from recreation passport fees, motor vehicle permits, concession fees, nonmotorized trail permits, fees, leases, camping fees, sale of farm animals from Maybury state park, donations, and gifts.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 763.

(b) Senate Bill No. 931.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Joint Resolution O of the 99th Legislature becomes a part of the state constitution of 1963 as provided in section 1 of article XII of the state constitution of 1963.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor