HOUSE BILL No. 5179

 

September 6, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Sheltrown and Rick Jones and referred to the Committee on New Economy and Quality of Life.

 

     A bill to amend 2005 PA 280, entitled

 

"Corridor improvement authority act,"

 

by amending section 18 (MCL 125.2888), as amended by 2007 PA 44.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 18. (1) If the authority determines that it is necessary

 

for the achievement of the purposes of this act, the authority

 

shall prepare and submit a tax increment financing plan to the

 

governing body of the municipality. The plan shall include a

 

development plan as provided in section 21, a detailed explanation

 

of the tax increment procedure, the maximum amount of bonded

 

indebtedness to be incurred, and the duration of the program, and

 

shall be in compliance with section 19. The plan shall contain a

 

statement of the estimated impact of tax increment financing on the

 

assessed values of all taxing jurisdictions in which the


 

development area is located. The plan may provide for the use of

 

part or all of the captured assessed value, but the portion

 

intended to be used by the authority shall be clearly stated in the

 

tax increment financing plan. The authority or municipality may

 

exclude from captured assessed value growth in property value

 

resulting solely from inflation. The plan shall set forth the

 

method for excluding growth in property value resulting solely from

 

inflation.

 

     (2) Approval of the tax increment financing plan shall comply

 

with the notice, hearing, and disclosure provisions of section 22.

 

If the development plan is part of the tax increment financing

 

plan, only 1 hearing and approval procedure is required for the 2

 

plans together.

 

     (3) Before the public hearing on the tax increment financing

 

plan, the governing body shall provide a reasonable opportunity to

 

the taxing jurisdictions levying taxes subject to capture to meet

 

with the governing body. The authority shall fully inform the

 

taxing jurisdictions of the fiscal and economic implications of the

 

proposed development area. The taxing jurisdictions may present

 

their recommendations at the public hearing on the tax increment

 

financing plan. The authority may enter into agreements with the

 

taxing jurisdictions and the governing body of the municipality in

 

which the development area is located to share a portion of the

 

captured assessed value of the development area.

 

     (4) A tax increment financing plan may be modified if the

 

modification is approved by the governing body upon notice and

 

after public hearings and agreements as are required for approval


 

of the original plan.

 

     (5) Except for a development area located in a qualified

 

development area or as otherwise provided in this subsection, not

 

more than 60 days after the public hearing, the governing body in a

 

taxing jurisdiction levying ad valorem property taxes that would

 

otherwise be subject to capture may exempt its taxes from capture

 

by adopting a resolution to that effect and filing a copy with the

 

clerk of the municipality proposing to create the authority. The

 

Beginning with a public hearing held on or after January 1, 2008 by

 

a governing body on the tax increment financing plan, if the

 

governing body approves the tax increment financing plan, then only

 

the ad valorem property taxes of that municipality are subject to

 

capture under this act. The taxes of the other taxing jurisdictions

 

levying ad valorem property taxes located inside the boundaries of

 

the authority are subject to capture only if the governing body of

 

the taxing jurisdiction consents to the capture by adopting a

 

resolution to that effect and filing a copy with the clerk of the

 

municipality creating the authority. A resolution described in this

 

subsection shall take effect when filed with the clerk and remains

 

effective until a copy of a resolution rescinding that resolution

 

is filed with that clerk.