HB-5988, As Passed House, September 23, 2010
March 24, 2010, Introduced by Reps. Wayne Schmidt, Byrnes, Liss, Tyler, Opsommer, Lori and Proos and referred to the Committee on Intergovernmental and Regional Affairs.
A bill to amend 1987 PA 231, entitled
"An act to create a transportation economic development fund in the
state treasury; to prescribe the uses of and distributions from
this fund; to create the office of economic development and to
prescribe its powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties
of the state transportation department, state transportation
commission, and certain other bodies; and to permit the issuance of
certain bonds,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 247.901), as amended by 1991 PA 188.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. As used in this act:
(a) "Administrator" means the person appointed by the
department, in accordance with the policies of the commission and
civil service rules, to serve as director of the office of economic
development.
(b) "Advanced traffic management systems" means the
application of new technology designed to monitor, control, and
manage the flow of traffic in real-time on a transportation network
through traffic detection, communications, traffic control, and
information processing technologies. Advanced traffic management
systems do not include on-board navigation systems or electronic
route guidance systems in a motor vehicle.
(c) "Commercial forest land" means land defined as commercial
forest in Michigan's fourth forest inventory completed in May 1981
and reported by the United States department of agriculture in the
resource bulletin NC-68 available from the United States forest
service's north central experiment station.
(d) "Commission" means the state transportation commission.
(e) "County road agency" means the board of county road
commissioners, or if a board does not exist in a county, the agency
designated by county charter.
(f) "Department" means the state transportation department.
(g) "Fund" means the economic development fund created in
section 2.
(h) "National lakeshore" means land conveyed by this state to
the United States and which the United States has designated as
national lakeshore.
(i) "National park" means land set aside and designated as a
national park by the United States.
(j) "Project" means a transportation road construction or
improvement. Project also includes a transit-oriented development
and a transit-oriented facility.
(k) "Qualified county" means a county in which a national
lakeshore or a national park is located, or a county in which 34%
or more of all the land is commercial forest land.
(l) "Rural county" means any county in this state with a
population of 400,000 or less.
(m) "Transit-oriented development" means infrastructure
improvements that are located within 1/2 mile of a transit station
or transit-oriented facility that promotes transit ridership or
passenger rail use.
(n) "Transit-oriented facility" means a facility that houses a
transit station in a manner that promotes transit ridership or
passenger rail use.
(o) (m)
"Urban county" means a
county in this state with a
population greater than 400,000.