SENATE BILL No. 1044

 

 

March 27, 2012, Introduced by Senator PROOS and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled

 

"The management and budget act,"

 

by amending section 267 (MCL 18.1267), as amended by 1999 PA 8.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 267. (1) The department shall issue directives to provide

 

for the disclosure, transfer, and disposal of surplus , salvage,

 

and scrap material personal property of state agencies. The

 

department may dispose of surplus and of salvage or scrap personal

 

property by donating or selling the surplus personal property or

 

equipment to a nonprofit entity, or selling it to a unit of local

 

government, or selling it at a public sale. However, if a unit of

 

local government is not interested in the property or equipment,

 

the department may sell the surplus, salvage, or scrap at auction.

 

     (2) The department may sell surplus personal property at fair

 

market value. The department may also exchange surplus personal


 

property for goods and services at fair market value with a private

 

company that is contracted to provide state services, and the

 

surplus personal property is essential to providing those services.

 

     (3) (2) The department may pay necessary costs incurred in the

 

conduct of the transfers or auctions of the sale of surplus

 

personal property or equipment including the necessary warehousing

 

and reconditioning costs from the proceeds of the auction sale or

 

by assessing a handling fee for surplus personal property or

 

equipment being donated.