HOUSING INSPECTIONS S.B. 107 (S-5):
SUMMARY OF BILL
REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE
Senate Bill 107 (Substitute S-5 as reported)
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Housing Law of Michigan to do the following:
-- Require a local governmental unit to inspect a multiple dwelling or other dwelling, instead of a multiple dwelling or rooming house, if it received a complaint from a lessee of a violation of the Law.
-- Revise provisions regarding the maximum period between inspections of a multiple dwelling or other dwellings, depending on the basis of the inspection and whether the local unit of government adopted an ordinance providing for inspections.
-- Allow inspections of multiple dwellings or other dwellings, instead of multiple dwellings or rooming houses, conducted by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Real Estate Assessment Center inspection process or by other government agencies to be accepted by a local governmental unit and an enforcing agency as an inspection substitute.
-- Specify that inspectors would have to receive consent from the lessee to enter a leasehold.
-- Revise provisions regarding an owner's and a lessee's responsibilities in providing inspectors with access to a leasehold, and require a lessee to allow access under certain conditions.
-- Refer to a lessee, rather than an occupant, in a provision prohibiting discrimination based on consenting to or refusing entry to a leasehold.
The bill would take effect 90 days after its enactment.
MCL 125.526 Legislative Analyst: Drew Krogulecki
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Date Completed: 6-8-17 Fiscal Analyst: Elizabeth Pratt
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.