Act No. 248

Public Acts of 2006

Approved by the Governor

June 28, 2006

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 3, 2006

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 3, 2006

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

Introduced by Reps. Hildenbrand, Booher, Pearce, Green, Kooiman, Waters, Stewart, Zelenko, Kolb, Meyer, Vander Veen, Farrah, Pastor, LaJoy, Brandenburg, Acciavatti, Vagnozzi, DeRoche, Taub, Accavitti, Stakoe, Garfield, Hune, Gleason, Caswell, Shaffer, Hoogendyk, Nofs, Wenke, Byrum, Steil, Sak, Nitz, Stahl, Sheen, Moolenaar, Palsrok, Walker, Gillard, Dillon, Angerer, Ball, Baxter, Caul, Clemente, Cushingberry, Elsenheimer, Espinoza, Gonzales, Gosselin, Hansen, Jones, Kahn, David Law, Leland, Lemmons, Jr., Marleau, Moore, Mortimer, Palmer, Pavlov, Polidori, Proos, Schuitmaker, Sheltrown and Spade

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6110

AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled "An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state; to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment and natural resources of the state; to regulate the discharge of certain substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters, and other natural resources of the state; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and donations; to provide certain appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," (MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding section 74126.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 74126. (1) The state owned land containing the White Pine trail, which traverses an abandoned rail corridor between Comstock Park and Cadillac, shall be known as the "Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park".

(2) The department shall facilitate the establishment of a recreational trail that traverses, in part, the abandoned rail corridor that runs from White Lake drive, south of the city of Whitehall, to Lake avenue in the city of North Muskegon. This trail shall be known as the "Fred Meijer Berry Junction Trail".

(3) The department, in consultation with the committee, the commission, and the Michigan natural resources trust fund board established in section 1905, shall develop criteria for naming state parks and other state owned recreational facilities. Within 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, the department shall present to the standing committees of the senate and the house of representatives with jurisdiction primarily relating to natural resources and state parks the criteria it has developed under this section.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor