March 29, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Neeley, Jones, Sneller, Rabhi and Faris and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1933 (Ex Sess) PA 18, entitled
"An act to authorize any city, village, township, or county to
purchase, acquire, construct, maintain, operate, improve, extend,
and repair housing facilities; to eliminate housing conditions
which are detrimental to the public peace, health, safety, morals,
or welfare; and for any such purposes to authorize any such city,
village, township, or county to create a commission with power to
effectuate said purposes, and to prescribe the powers and duties of
such commission and of such city, village, township, or county; and
for any such purposes to authorize any such commission, city,
village, township, or county to issue notes and revenue bonds; to
regulate the issuance, sale, retirement, and refunding of such
notes and bonds; to regulate the rentals of such projects and the
use of the revenues of the projects; to prescribe the manner of
selecting tenants for such projects; to provide for condemnation of
private property for such projects; to confer certain powers upon
such commissions, cities, villages, townships, and counties in
relation to such projects, including the power to receive aid and
cooperation of the federal government; to provide for a referendum
thereon; to provide for cooperative financing by 2 or more
commissions, cities, villages, townships, or counties or any
combination thereof; to provide for the issuance, sale, and
retirement of revenue bonds and special obligation notes for such
purposes; to provide for financing agreements between cooperating
borrowers; to provide for other matters relative to the bonds and
notes and methods of cooperative financing; for other purposes; and
to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"
by amending section 44 (MCL 125.694).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 44. (1) In the operation or management of housing
projects, a
commission shall at all times observe the following
duties
with respect to rentals and tenant selection: (a) it may
rent
do all of the following:
(a)
Rent or lease the dwelling
accommodations therein only to
persons
of low income.; (b) it may rent
(b)
Rent or lease the dwelling
accommodations therein only at
rentals
within the financial reach of such affordable to persons of
low
income.; (c) it may rent
(c) Rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations
consisting
of the number of rooms, but no greater number, which it
deems
that it considers necessary to provide safe and sanitary
accommodations
to the proposed occupants, thereof, without
overcrowding.;
(d) it shall not
(d) Not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project
if the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling
accommodations have an aggregate annual net income in excess of any
maximum allowed by the federal government pursuant to federal law
or
regulation in any contract for financial assistance.;
(e) it
shall
prohibit
(e) Prohibit subletting by tenants.
Nothing
contained in this section or in section 27 shall be
construed
as limiting
(f) Adopt and implement a policy to offer a current disabled
tenant a right of first refusal to relocate to an available
dwelling accommodation on a floor of the same housing project lower
than the floor the tenant currently occupies. As used in this
subdivision, "disabled tenant" means a tenant who is a disabled
person as that term is defined in section 19a of the Michigan
vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.19a, other than a tenant who is
a
disabled person only because of blindness.
(2) Neither this section nor section 27 limits the power of a
borrower
to vest in an obligee or trustee the right, in the event
of
a default by if the borrower
defaults, to cause the appointment
of
a receiver thereof, for
the borrower, free from all the
restrictions
any restriction imposed by this section or by section
27.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.