SENATE BILL No. 890

 

 

November 10, 2005, Introduced by Senators SANBORN, GARCIA, JELINEK, GILBERT, BASHAM, TOY, KUIPERS, GOSCHKA, HARDIMAN, CROPSEY and OLSHOVE and referred to the Committee on Local, Urban and State Affairs.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 59, entitled

 

"Condominium act,"

 

by amending section 56a (MCL 559.156a), as added by 1991 PA 183.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 56a. (1) A developer or association of co-owners shall

 

not prohibit a co-owner from displaying a single United States flag

 

or a flag representing the United States army, air force, navy,

 

marines, or coast guard of a size not greater than 3 feet by 5 feet

 

anywhere on the exterior of the co-owner's condominium unit. A

 

developer or association of co-owners shall not enforce a

 

prohibition in existence before  the effective date of this section  

 

December 27, 1991 on or after  that effective date  December 27,

 

1991.

 


     (2) A developer or association of co-owners shall not prohibit

 

a co-owner from displaying both a United States flag and an armed

 

forces branch flag identified in subsection (1) on any of the

 

following dates:

 

     (a) The commemoration date for a branch of the armed forces

 

under the armed forces commemoration act, 2004 PA 402, MCL 435.341

 

to 435.343.

 

     (b) Armed forces day.

 

     (c) Memorial day.

 

     (d) Flag day.

 

     (e) Independence day.

 

     (f) Veterans day.

 

     (3) A developer or association of co-owners shall not enforce

 

a prohibition against displays permitted by the amendatory act that

 

added this subsection in existence on the effective date of the

 

amendatory act that added this subsection on or after the effective

 

date of the amendatory act that added this subsection.