HOUSE BILL NO. 6500
December 02, 2020, Introduced by Rep. Markkanen
and referred to the Committee on Transportation.
A bill to amend 1960 PA 124, entitled
"An act to create the Michigan highway reciprocity board; to prescribe its powers and duties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,"
by amending the title and sections 1 and 3 (MCL 3.161 and 3.163).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
An act to create the Michigan highway
reciprocity board; to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the
powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities;
to allow certain reciprocal compacts, agreements, and arrangements; and
to repeal certain acts and parts of acts.
Sec. 1. When used
in this act:
(a) "Person" means any individual, firm,
partnership, association, and
corporation.
(b) "Jurisdiction" means,
except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, other states of
the United States, the District of Columbia, territories and possessions of the
United States, foreign countries, or political
subdivisions of foreign countries. For purposes of a fuel tax
reciprocity agreement, jurisdiction includes only those states of the United
States that are members of the international fuel tax agreement.
(c) "Properly registered" as applied to place of
registration or licensing means the jurisdiction in which the board acting
under section 5 determines a vehicle must be registered or licensed in order to
be granted the privileges and benefits of this act when operating in this
state.
(d) "Board" means the Michigan
highway reciprocity board.department
of state or, with respect to a fuel tax reciprocity agreement, the department
of treasury.
(e) "Fuel
tax reciprocity agreement" means a compact, agreement, or arrangement that,
in exchange for reciprocal treatment for a motor carrier, or a class or
category of motor carrier, from this state in another jurisdiction, allows a motor
carrier, or a class or category of motor carrier, from the other jurisdiction to
operate or cause to be operated a qualified commercial motor vehicle on a
public highway in this state without doing any of the following:
(i) Carrying,
obtaining, or displaying a license, decal, permit, or other credentials
otherwise required by the international fuel tax agreement or the motor carrier
fuel tax act, 1980 PA 119, MCL 207.211 to 207.234.
(ii) Paying,
reporting, and filing returns for a road tax or other tax calculated based on
the amount of fuel used or consumed in or miles driven by a qualified
commercial motor vehicle in this state.
(f) "International
fuel tax agreement" means the agreement described in section 2a of the
motor carrier fuel tax act, 1980 PA 119, MCL 207.212a.
(g) Motor
carrier" means that term as defined in section 1(g)(i) of the motor carrier fuel tax act, 1980 PA 119, MCL
207.211.
(h) "Qualified commercial motor vehicle" means that term as defined in section 1 of the motor carrier fuel tax act, 1980 PA 119, MCL 207.211.
Sec. 3.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, both of the following apply:
(a)
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the board department
of state may enter into and
make such reciprocal compacts, agreements,
or arrangements as that the board
deems department of state considers
proper or expedient and in the interests of the people of this
state, with the proper authorities of other jurisdictions, either individually
or with a group of jurisdictions, concerning the fees, charges, taxation,
operation, and regulation of trucks,
tractors, trailers, automobiles, buses, and all other automotive equipment
engaged in international, interstate,
or intrastate commerce upon and over on the public highways.
(b) Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subdivision, the department of treasury may enter into fuel tax reciprocity agreements that the department of treasury considers proper or expedient and in the interests of the people of this state, with the proper authorities of other jurisdictions, either individually or with a group of jurisdictions. The department of treasury has the sole authority to enter into fuel tax reciprocity agreements.