HOUSE BILL No. 6345


     September 18, 2002, Introduced by Reps. Tabor, DeRossett, Julian and Hummel and referred to the Committee on Commerce.


        A bill to amend 1959 PA 243, entitled

   "An act to define, license and regulate trailer coach parks; to
   prescribe the powers and duties of the state health commissioner
   and other state and local officers; to provide for the levy and
   collection of specific taxes on occupied trailers in trailer
   coach parks and the disposition of the revenues therefrom; to
   provide remedies and penalties for the violation of this act; and
   to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,"

   by amending the title and section 41 (MCL 125.1041).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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                                      TITLE

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             An act to  define, license and regulate trailer coach parks;

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        to prescribe the powers and duties of the state health commis-

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        sioner and other state and local officers; to  provide for the

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        levy and collection of A specific  taxes  TAX on CERTAIN occupied

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        trailers in trailer coach parks;  and the disposition  TO PROVIDE

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        FOR THE COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION of the  revenues therefrom;




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        to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of this act

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        SPECIFIC TAX; and to repeal  certain  acts and parts of acts.

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             Sec. 41.  (1)  Each licensee  EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED

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        IN SUBSECTION (2), EACH TRAILER COACH PARK shall collect and

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        remit a specific tax of $3.00 per month  ,  or major fraction

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         thereof,  OF A MONTH per occupied trailer coach.  , which shall

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        be

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             (2) THE SPECIFIC TAX LEVIED UNDER THIS ACT SHALL NOT BE

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        ASSESSED AGAINST AN OCCUPIED TRAILER COACH LOCATED IN A MOBILE

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        HOME PARK FOR WHICH AN INITIAL LICENSE TO OPERATE WAS ISSUED

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        UNDER SECTION 16 OF THE MOBILE HOME COMMISSION ACT, 1987 PA 96,

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        MCL 125.2316, AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2002.  AN OCCUPIED TRAILER COACH

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        LOCATED IN A MOBILE HOME PARK FOR WHICH AN INITIAL LICENSE TO

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        OPERATE WAS ISSUED UNDER SECTION 16 OF THE MOBILE HOME COMMISSION

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        ACT, 1987 PA 96, MCL 125.2316, AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2002, IS

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        SUBJECT TO THE COLLECTION OF TAXES UNDER THE GENERAL PROPERTY TAX

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        ACT, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 TO 211.157.

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             (3) THE SPECIFIC TAX LEVIED UNDER THIS ACT IS a tax upon the

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        owners or occupants of each occupied trailer coach, including

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        trailer coaches licensed under the  provisions of Act No. 300 of

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        the Public Acts of 1949, as amended, being sections 257.1 to

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        257.923 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, notwithstanding any provi-

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        sion of Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, as amended, to

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        the contrary  MICHIGAN VEHICLE CODE, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 TO

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        257.923, occupying space within the trailer coach park.

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             (4) The specific tax LEVIED UNDER THIS ACT shall be in lieu

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        of any  property tax levied upon  TAXES ON the trailer coach



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         pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 206 of the Public Acts of

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        1893, as amended, being sections 211.1 to 211.157 of the Compiled

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        Laws of 1948  THAT ARE COLLECTED UNDER THE GENERAL PROPERTY TAX

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        ACT, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 TO 211.157, upon or on account of the

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        trailer COACH while IT IS located in the trailer coach park.

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         The licensee of a

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             (5) A trailer coach park shall not collect a monthly

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        SPECIFIC tax for any space occupied by a trailer coach accom-

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        panied by an automobile  when  IF the trailer coach and automo-

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        bile bear license plates issued by  any  A state other than this

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        state, THE TRAILER COACH AND ACCOMPANYING AUTOMOBILE DO NOT

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        OCCUPY THE SPACE for an accumulated period  not to exceed  OF

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        MORE THAN 90 days in any 12-month period,  if  AND all the occu-

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        pants of the trailer coach  with  AND accompanying  automobiles

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        AUTOMOBILE are tourists or vacationists.   When one  THE EXEMP-

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        TION UNDER THIS SUBSECTION DOES NOT APPLY IF 1 or more persons

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        occupying  a  THE trailer coach  bearing a foreign license  are

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        employed  or  IN THIS STATE, are conducting any manner of busi-

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        ness IN THIS STATE, or ARE furnishing any service for gain

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         within  IN this state.  , there shall be no exemption from the

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        specific tax.

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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. 6344

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        (request no. 07788'02) of the 91st Legislature is enacted into

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        law.







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