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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 125.4412

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Assessed value: means 1 of the following:
    (i) For valuations made before January 1, 1995, the state equalized valuation as determined under the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Authority: means a local development finance authority created under this part. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Authority district: means an area or areas within which an authority exercises its powers. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Board: means the governing body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Business development area: means an area designated as a certified industrial park under this part before June 29, 2000, or an area designated in the tax increment financing plan that meets all of the following requirements:
  •     (i) The area is zoned to allow its use for eligible property. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Captured assessed value: means the amount in any 1 year by which the current assessed value of the eligible property identified in the tax increment financing plan or, for a certified technology park, a certified alternative energy park, or a next Michigan development area, the real and personal property included in the tax increment financing plan, including the current assessed value of property for which specific local taxes are paid in lieu of property taxes as determined pursuant to subdivision (hh), exceeds the initial assessed value. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Certified alternative energy park: means that portion of an authority district designated by a written agreement entered into under section 412c between the authority, the municipality or municipalities, and the Michigan economic development corporation. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Certified business park: means a business development area that has been designated by the Michigan economic development corporation as meeting criteria established by the Michigan economic development corporation. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Certified technology park: means that portion of the authority district designated by a written agreement entered into under section 412a between the authority, the municipality, and the Michigan economic development corporation. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Development plan: means that information and those requirements for a development set forth in section 415. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Development program: means the implementation of a development plan. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Eligible property: means land improvements, buildings, structures, and other real property, and machinery, equipment, furniture, and fixtures, or any part or accessory of these items whether completed or in the process of construction comprising an integrated whole, located within an authority district, of which the primary purpose and use is or will be 1 of the following:
  •     (i) The manufacture of goods or materials or the processing of goods or materials by physical or chemical change. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Governing body: means , except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, the elected body having legislative powers of a municipality creating an authority under this part. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Michigan economic development corporation: means the public body corporate created under section 28 of article VII of the state constitution of 1963 and the urban cooperation act of 1967, 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 7, MCL 124. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Municipality: means a city, village, or urban township. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Next Michigan development area: means a portion of an authority district designated by a next Michigan development corporation under section 412e to which a development plan is applicable. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Next Michigan development corporation: means that term as defined in section 3 of the next Michigan development act, 2010 PA 275, MCL 125. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Public facility: means 1 or more of the following:
  •     (i) A street, road, bridge, storm water or sanitary sewer, sewage treatment facility, facility designed to reduce, eliminate, or prevent the spread of identified soil or groundwater contamination, drainage system, retention basin, pretreatment facility, waterway, waterline, water storage facility, rail line, electric, gas, telephone or other communications, or any other type of utility line or pipeline, transit-oriented facility, transit-oriented development, or other similar or related structure or improvement, together with necessary easements for the structure or improvement. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Specific local taxes: means a tax levied under 1974 PA 198, MCL 207. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
  • Tax increment revenues: means the amount of ad valorem property taxes and specific local taxes attributable to the application of the levy of all taxing jurisdictions on the captured assessed value of eligible property within the district or, for purposes of a certified technology park, a next Michigan development area, or a certified alternative energy park, real or personal property that is located within the certified technology park, a next Michigan development area, or a certified alternative energy park and included within the tax increment financing plan, subject to the following requirements:
  •     (i) Tax increment revenues include ad valorem property taxes and specific local taxes attributable to the application of the levy of all taxing jurisdictions, other than this state under the state education tax act, 1993 PA 331, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 125.4402
        (1) If the board determines that it is necessary for the achievement of the purposes of this part, the board shall prepare and submit a tax increment financing plan to the governing body. The plan shall be in compliance with section 413 and shall include a development plan as provided in section 415. The plan shall also contain the following:
        (a) A statement of the reasons that the plan will result in the development of captured assessed value that could not otherwise be expected. The reasons may include, but are not limited to, activities of the municipality, authority, or others undertaken before formulation or adoption of the plan in reasonable anticipation that the objectives of the plan would be achieved by some means.
        (b) An estimate of the captured assessed value for each year of the plan. The plan may provide for the use of part or all of the captured assessed value or, subject to subsection (3), of the tax increment revenues attributable to the levy of any taxing jurisdiction, but the portion intended to be used shall be clearly stated in the plan. The board or the municipality creating the authority may exclude from captured assessed value a percentage of captured assessed value as specified in the plan or growth in property value resulting solely from inflation. If excluded, the plan shall set forth the method for excluding growth in property value resulting solely from inflation.
        (c) The estimated tax increment revenues for each year of the plan.
        (d) A detailed explanation of the tax increment procedure.
        (e) The maximum amount of note or bonded indebtedness to be incurred, if any.
        (f) The amount of operating and planning expenditures of the authority and municipality, the amount of advances extended by or indebtedness incurred by the municipality, and the amount of advances by others to be repaid from tax increment revenues.
        (g) The costs of the plan anticipated to be paid from tax increment revenues as received.
        (h) The duration of the development plan and the tax increment plan.
        (i) An estimate of the impact of tax increment financing on the revenues of all taxing jurisdictions in which the eligible property is or is anticipated to be located.
        (j) A legal description of the eligible property to which the tax increment financing plan applies or shall apply upon qualification as eligible property.
        (k) An estimate of the number of jobs to be created as a result of implementation of the tax increment financing plan.
        (l) The proposed boundaries of a certified technology park to be created under an agreement proposed to be entered into pursuant to section 412a, or of a certified alternative energy park to be created under an agreement proposed to be entered into pursuant to section 412c, or of a Next Michigan development area designated under section 412e, an identification of the real property within the certified technology park, the certified alternative energy park, or the Next Michigan development area to be included in the tax increment financing plan for purposes of determining tax increment revenues, and whether personal property located in the certified technology park, the certified alternative energy park, or the Next Michigan development area is exempt from determining tax increment revenues.
        (2) Except as provided in subsection (7), a tax increment financing plan shall provide for the use of tax increment revenues for public facilities for eligible property whose captured assessed value produces the tax increment revenues or, to the extent the eligible property is located within a business development area or a Next Michigan development area, for other eligible property located in the business development area or the Next Michigan development area. Public facilities for eligible property include the development or improvement of access to and around, or within the eligible property, of road facilities reasonably required by traffic flow to be generated by the eligible property, and the development or improvement of public facilities that are necessary to service the eligible property, whether or not located on that eligible property. If the eligible property identified in the tax increment financing plan is property to which section 402(p)(iv) applies, the tax increment financing plan shall not provide for the use of tax increment revenues for public facilities other than those described in the development plan as of April 1, 1991. Whether or not provided in the tax increment financing plan, if the eligible property identified in the tax increment financing plan is property to which section 402(s)(iv) applies, then to the extent that captured tax increment revenues are utilized for the costs of cleanup of identified soil and groundwater contamination, the captured tax increment revenues shall be first credited against the shares of responsibility for the total costs of cleanup of uncollectible parties who are responsible for the identified soil and groundwater contamination pursuant to law, and then shall be credited on a pro rata basis against the shares of responsibility for the total costs of cleanup of other parties who are responsible for the identified soil and groundwater contamination pursuant to law.
        (3) The percentage of taxes levied for school operating purposes that is captured and used by the tax increment financing plan and the tax increment financing plans under part 2, part 3, and the brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651 to 125.2672, shall not be greater than the percentage capture and use of taxes levied by a municipality or county for operating purposes under the tax increment financing plan and tax increment financing plans under part 2, part 3, and the brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651 to 125.2672. For purposes of the previous sentence, taxes levied by a county for operating purposes include only millage allocated for county or charter county purposes under the property tax limitation act, 1933 PA 62, MCL 211.201 to 211.217a.
        (4) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, approval of the tax increment financing plan shall be in accordance with the notice, hearing, disclosure, and approval provisions of section 416 and 417. If the development plan is part of the tax increment financing plan, only 1 hearing and approval procedure is required for the 2 plans together. For a plan submitted by an authority established by 2 or more municipalities under sections 403(2) and 404(7) or by an authority established by a Next Michigan development corporation under sections 403(3) and 404(8), the notice required by section 416 may be published jointly by the municipalities in which the authority district is located or by the Next Michigan development corporation. For a plan submitted by an authority exercising its powers under sections 403(2) and 404(7), the plan shall not be considered approved unless each governing body in which the authority district is located makes the determinations required by section 417 and approves the same plan, including the same modifications, if any, made to the plan by any other governing body. A plan submitted by an authority exercising its powers under sections 403(3) and 404(8) shall be approved if the governing body of the Next Michigan development corporation makes the determinations required by section 417.
        (5) Before the public hearing on the tax increment financing plan, the governing body shall provide a reasonable opportunity to the taxing jurisdictions levying taxes subject to capture to express their views and recommendations regarding the tax increment financing plan. The authority shall fully inform the taxing jurisdictions about the fiscal and economic implications of the proposed tax increment financing plan. The taxing jurisdictions may present their recommendations at the public hearing on the tax increment financing plan. The authority may enter into agreements with the taxing jurisdictions and the governing body of the municipality in which the authority district is located to share a portion of the captured assessed value of the district or to distribute tax increment revenues among taxing jurisdictions. Upon adoption of the plan, the collection and transmission of the amount of tax increment revenues, as specified in this part, shall be binding on all taxing units levying ad valorem property taxes or specific local taxes against property located in the authority district.
        (6) Property qualified as a public facility under section 402(ff)(ii) that is acquired by an authority may be sold, conveyed, or otherwise disposed to any person, public or private, for fair market value or reasonable monetary consideration established by the authority with the concurrence of the Michigan economic development corporation and the municipality in which the eligible property is located based on a fair market value appraisal from a fee appraiser only if the property is sold for fair market value. Unless the property acquired by an authority was located within a certified business park, a certified technology park, a certified alternative energy park, or a Next Michigan development area at the time of disposition, an authority shall remit all monetary proceeds received from the sale or disposition of property that qualified as a public facility under section 402(ff)(ii) and was purchased with tax increment revenues to the taxing jurisdictions. Proceeds distributed to taxing jurisdictions shall be remitted in proportion to the amount of tax increment revenues attributable to each taxing jurisdiction in the year the property was acquired. If the property was acquired in part with funds other than tax increment revenues, only that portion of the monetary proceeds received upon disposition that represent the proportion of the cost of acquisition paid with tax increment revenues is required to be remitted to taxing jurisdictions. If the property is located within a certified business park, a certified technology park, or a certified alternative energy park, or a Next Michigan development area at the time of disposition, the monetary proceeds received from the sale or disposition of that property may be retained by the authority for any purpose necessary to further the development program for the certified business park, certified technology park, certified alternative energy park, or Next Michigan development area in accordance with the tax increment financing plan.
        (7) The tax increment financing plan may provide for the use of tax increment revenues from a certified technology park for public facilities for any eligible property located in the certified technology park. The tax increment financing plan may provide for the use of tax increment revenues from a certified alternative energy park for public facilities for any eligible property located in the certified alternative energy park. The tax increment financing plan may provide for the use of tax increment revenues within or without the development area from which the tax increment revenues are derived, provided that the tax increment revenues shall be used for public facilities within a Next Michigan development area within the municipality whose levy has contributed to the tax increment revenues except as otherwise provided in the interlocal agreement creating the Next Michigan development corporation that established the authority.
        (8) If title to property qualified as a public facility under section 402(ff)(ii) and acquired by an authority with tax increment revenues is sold, conveyed, or otherwise disposed of pursuant to subsection (6) for less than fair market value, the authority shall enter into an agreement relating to the use of the property with the person to whom the property is sold, conveyed, or disposed of, which agreement shall include a penalty provision addressing repayment to the authority if any interest in the property is sold, conveyed, or otherwise disposed of by the person within 12 years after the person received title to the property from the authority. This subsection shall not require enforcement of a penalty provision for a conveyance incident to a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale-lease back transaction, employee stock ownership plan, or other change in corporate or business form or structure.
        (9) The penalty provision described in subsection (8) shall not be less than an amount equal to the difference between the fair market value of the property when originally sold, conveyed, or otherwise disposed of and the actual consideration paid by the person to whom the property was originally sold, conveyed, or otherwise disposed of.