HOUSE BILL No. 4232


     February 14, 2001, Introduced by Reps. Mead, Bradstreet, Bishop, Shackleton, Allen and Pappageorge and referred to the
Committee on Conservation and Outdoor Recreation.


        A bill to amend 1929 PA 48, entitled

   "An act levying a specific tax to be known as the severance tax
   upon all producers engaged in the business of severing oil and
   gas from the soil; prescribing the method of collecting the tax;
   requiring all producers of such products or purchasers thereof to
   make reports; to provide penalties; to provide exemptions and
   refunds; to prescribe the disposition of the funds so collected;
   and to exempt those paying such specific tax from certain other
   taxes,"

   (MCL 205.301 to 205.317) by adding section 14a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           SEC. 14A.  THE REVENUE DESCRIBED IN SECTION 14(B) SHALL BE

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      DISBURSED AS FOLLOWS:

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           (A) FIFTY PERCENT TO THE COUNTY FROM WHICH THE OIL OR GAS

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      WAS REMOVED.

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           (B) FIFTY PERCENT TO THE CITY, VILLAGE, OR TOWNSHIP FROM

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      WHICH THE OIL OR GAS WAS REMOVED.





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           Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

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      effect unless Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. 4233

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      (request no. 00030'01) of the 91st Legislature is enacted into

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      law.
















































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