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.