HOUSE BILL No. 5822

 

September 17, 2014, Introduced by Reps. Rendon, MacGregor, Price, Pscholka, Pettalia, Franz, Nesbitt, Glardon, Yonker, Lyons, Bumstead, Hooker, Victory, Schmidt and Knezek and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     A bill to amend 1895 PA 161, entitled

 

"An act to require county treasurers to furnish transcripts and

abstracts of records, and fixing the fees to be paid therefor,"

 

by amending section 1 (MCL 48.101), as amended by 1984 PA 291.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. (1) A Except as provided in subsection (6), a county

 

treasurer shall make upon request a transcript of any paper or

 

record on file in the treasurer's office for the following fees:

 

     (a) For an abstract of taxes on any description of land, 25

 

cents for each year covered by the abstract.

 

     (b) For an abstract with statement of name and residence of

 

taxpayers, 25 cents per year for each description of land covered

 

by the abstract.

 

     (c) For a list of state tax lands or state bids, 25 cents for


 

each description of land on the list.

 

     (d) For 1 copy of any paper or document at the rate of 25

 

cents per 100 words.

 

     (e) For each certificate, 25 cents.

 

     (2) For statements in respect to the payment of taxes required

 

by section 135 of the general property tax act, Act No. 206 of the

 

Public Acts of 1893, as amended, being section 211.135 of the

 

Michigan Compiled Laws, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.135, except as

 

provided in subsection (6), the county treasurer shall receive 20

 

cents for each description of land contained in the certificate but

 

the total amount paid shall not be less than $1.00.

 

     (3) In no case shall any An abstract, list, copy, or statement

 

made as required by this act , shall not be furnished for a sum

 

less than 50 cents.

 

     (4) All moneys money collected under the provisions of this

 

act shall be retained by the collecting county treasurer,

 

collecting the same, except in counties in which the except that a

 

county treasurer who receives a salary in lieu of all fees , in

 

which counties such moneys shall be placed, by the treasurers

 

collecting the same, to the credit of shall credit all money

 

collected under this act to the general fund of the county.

 

     (5) A charter county with a population of more than 2,000,000

 

may impose by ordinance a different amount for the fees prescribed

 

by this section. A charter county shall not impose a fee which that

 

is greater than the cost of the service for which the fee is

 

charged.

 

     (6) The maximum charge shall be $0.10 per record, not to


 

exceed $500.00 for each request under this section, if the request

 

is for an electronic copy of a transcript or record that is

 

maintained on file with the county treasurer in electronic format.

 

A response to a request for an electronic copy of a transcript or

 

record shall be transmitted electronically using a format, such as

 

extensible markup language (XML), comma separated values (CVS), or

 

JavaScript object notation (JSON), that is documented by an open

 

standards organization and that has defined, delimited fields.