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Act No. 470

Public Acts of 2000

Approved by the Governor

January 10, 2001

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 10, 2001

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 10, 2001

STATE OF MICHIGAN

90TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2000

Introduced by Reps. Richardville, Green, Mortimer, Garcia, Ehardt, Cameron Brown, Faunce, DeRossett, Kowall, Hager, Geiger, Patterson, Toy, Koetje, Shackleton, Rocca, Bisbee, Julian, Jansen, Pappageorge, Rick Johnson, Woronchak, Tabor, Sanborn, Spade, Woodward, Schermesser, Wojno, Allen, Richner, Prusi, Vaughn, Jamnick, Frank, Pestka, Neumann, Bradstreet, Raczkowski and DeHart

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6091

AN ACT to amend 1988 PA 234, entitled ''An act to create the Vietnam veterans memorial monument fund; to establish a commission to govern the monument fund; to prescribe the purpose of the monument fund; to prescribe the powers and duties of the commission and certain state departments and officers; to provide for legislative oversight; and to provide for dissolution of the commission and monument fund,'' by amending the title and sections 2 and 5 (MCL 35.1052 and 35.1055), section 5 as amended by 1992 PA 122, and by adding section 5a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

TITLE

An act to create the Vietnam veterans memorial monument fund; to establish a commission to govern the monument fund; to prescribe the purpose of the monument fund; to prescribe the powers and duties of the commission and certain state departments and officers; to designate the veterans memorial park; to provide for legislative oversight; and to provide for dissolution of the commission and monument fund.

Sec. 2. As used in this act:

(a) "Commission" means the Michigan Vietnam veterans memorial monument fund commission established in section 4.

(b) "Monument fund" means the Vietnam veterans memorial monument fund created in section 3.

(d) "Veterans memorial park" means the veterans memorial park established in section 5a.

Sec. 5. (1) The commission shall oversee the financing and construction of a memorial monument dedicated to Vietnam veterans from Michigan who died or are listed as missing in action as a result of the Vietnam conflict. The commission shall solicit designs for the monument and shall select the final design.

(2) The names of each Michigan Vietnam veteran who died or is listed as missing in action as a result of the Vietnam conflict shall be inscribed on the Vietnam veterans memorial monument.

(3) The Vietnam veterans memorial monument shall be located within the veterans memorial park on a state owned site that is a 1-acre parcel of land measuring approximately 186.95 feet, in an east-west direction and approximately 233.00 feet, in a north-south direction, the west line of this parcel is 41.71 feet east of and parallel with the east right of way line of Butler Street and the north line of this parcel is 30.00 feet north of and parallel with the centerline of Michigan Avenue. The actual structure of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Monument shall not be closer than 15.625 feet south of the center axis.

This parcel being more particularly described as beginning at a point that is 127.00 feet northerly on the west line of block 1, Bush, Butler and Sparrow's Addition, City of Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan and 41.71 feet easterly from the southwest corner of said block 1; thence northerly 233.00 feet parallel with the west line of said block 1; thence easterly 186.95 feet parallel with the centerline of Michigan Avenue; thence southerly 233.00 feet parallel with the west line of said block 1; thence westerly 186.95 feet parallel with the centerline of Michigan Avenue to the point of beginning, containing 1.00 acre, more or less.

Sec. 5a. (1) The veterans memorial park is established.

(2) The veterans memorial park consists of a 2.50-acre parcel of land measuring approximately 260.17 feet in an east-west direction and approximately 419.75 feet in a north-south direction, the westerly boundary being the easterly right of way of Butler Street and the southerly boundary being the northerly right of way of Allegan Street, also being a part of Bush, Butler and Sparrow's Addition to the City of Lansing and a part of Claypool's Subdivision, City of Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan.

This parcel being more particularly described as beginning at the southwest corner of block 1, Bush, Butler and Sparrow's Addition, City of Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan; thence northerly 330.00 feet on the west line of said block 1 extended to a point on the E-W 1/4 line of section 17, T4N, R2W, Lansing Township, City of Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan and a point in the center of Michigan Avenue; thence northerly 89.75 feet on the extended west line of block 6, Claypool's Subdivision, City of Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan; thence easterly 260.17 feet, parallel with the south line of said block 6; thence southerly 89.75 feet, parallel with the west line of said block 6 to a point on the E-W 1/4 line of said section 17; thence southerly 330.00 feet parallel to the west line of said block 1, Bush, Butler and Sparrow's Addition to a point on the south line of said block 1; thence westerly 260.17 feet on said south line to the point of beginning, containing 2.50 acres, more or less.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.