HOUSE BILL No. 6023

 

December 2, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Brinks and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     A bill to amend 1995 PA 123, entitled

 

"Enterprise community development corporation act,"

 

by amending section 7 (MCL 125.2607).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 7. (1) A written application may be made by not less than

 

3 persons to the governing body of a municipality with a population

 

of less than 900,000 600,000 for permission to incorporate an

 

enterprise community development corporation on behalf of the

 

municipality. The application shall include proposed articles of

 

incorporation and proposed bylaws. The name of the corporation

 

shall be "the enterprise community development corporation of

 

_______________" (the name of the incorporating municipality).

 

     (2) The governing body of the municipality shall notify the

 

public of receipt of the application as provided in subsection 3.


 

(3). The application may be approved after a public hearing by

 

adoption of a resolution by the governing body.

 

     (3) Notice Through December 31, 2014, notice of the time and

 

place of the hearing shall be given by publication once in a

 

newspaper of general circulation designated by the municipality not

 

less than 10 days before the date set for the hearing. Beginning

 

January 1, 2015, the governing body shall provide tier B public

 

notice as provided in the local government public notice act of the

 

time and place of the hearing not less than 10 days before the date

 

set for the hearing. In addition, through December 31, 2014, notice

 

of the hearing shall be posted not less than 10 days before the

 

hearing in at least 10 conspicuous and public places within the

 

designated enterprise community.

 

     (4) The process for approving the articles of incorporation

 

and the bylaws and for amending the articles or bylaws shall be

 

prescribed by an ordinance of the municipality.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5560 (request no.

 

03796'13) of the 97th Legislature is enacted into law.