Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 141.1434

  • Assessment: means the amount levied against an owner of a transient facility within an assessment district computed by application of the applicable percentage against aggregate room charges with respect to that transient facility during the applicable assessment period. See Michigan Laws 141.1432
  • Assessment district: means a combination of 2 or more adjoining municipalities as described in a marketing program. See Michigan Laws 141.1432
  • Bureau: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of this state existing solely to promote convention business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state and that complies with all of the following:
    (i) Has been actively engaged in promoting convention business and tourism for not less than 5 years. See Michigan Laws 141.1432
  • Marketing program: means a program established by a bureau to develop, encourage, solicit, and promote regional convention business and tourism within this state or a portion of this state within which the bureau operates. See Michigan Laws 141.1432
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  •     A marketing program may include all or any of the following:
        (a) Provisions for establishing and paying the costs of advertising, marketing, and promotional programs to encourage convention business and tourism in the assessment district.
        (b) Provisions for assisting transient facilities within the assessment district in promoting regional convention business and tourism.
        (c) Provisions for the acquisition of personal property considered appropriate by the bureau in furtherance of the purposes of the marketing program.
        (d) Provisions for the hiring of and payment for personnel employed by the bureau to implement the marketing program.
        (e) Provisions for contracting with organizations, agencies, or persons for carrying out activities in furtherance of the purposes of the marketing program.
        (f) Programs for establishing and paying the costs of research designed to encourage convention business and tourism in the assessment district.