Section 125.2652 - Definitions.
BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT FINANCING ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 381 of 1996
125.2652 Definitions.
Sec. 2.
As used in this act:
(a) "Additional response activities" means response activities identified as part of a brownfield plan that are in addition to baseline environmental assessment activities and due care activities for an eligible property.
(b) "Authority" means a brownfield redevelopment authority created under this act.
(c) "Baseline environmental assessment" means that term as defined in section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(d) "Baseline environmental assessment activities" means those response activities identified as part of a brownfield plan that are necessary to complete a baseline environmental assessment for an eligible property in the brownfield plan.
(e) "Blighted" means property that meets any of the following criteria as determined by the governing body:
(i) Has been declared a public nuisance in accordance with a local housing, building, plumbing, fire, or other related code or ordinance.
(ii) Is an attractive nuisance to children because of physical condition, use, or occupancy.
(iii) Is a fire hazard or is otherwise dangerous to the safety of persons or property.
(iv) Has had the utilities, plumbing, heating, or sewerage permanently disconnected, destroyed, removed, or rendered ineffective so that the property is unfit for its intended use.
(v) Is tax reverted property owned by a qualified local governmental unit, by a county, or by this state. The sale, lease, or transfer of tax reverted property by a qualified local governmental unit, county, or this state after the property's inclusion in a brownfield plan shall not result in the loss to the property of the status as blighted property for purposes of this act.
(vi) Is property owned or under the control of a land bank fast track authority under the land bank fast track act, whether or not located within a qualified local governmental unit. Property included within a brownfield plan prior to the date it meets the requirements of this subdivision to be eligible property shall be considered to become eligible property as of the date the property is determined to have been or becomes qualified as, or is combined with, other eligible property. The sale, lease, or transfer of the property by a land bank fast track authority after the property's inclusion in a brownfield plan shall not result in the loss to the property of the status as blighted property for purposes of this act.
(vii) Has substantial subsurface demolition debris buried on site so that the property is unfit for its intended use.
(f) "Board" means the governing body of an authority.
(g) "Brownfield plan" means a plan that meets the requirements of section 13 and is adopted under section 14.
(h) "Captured taxable value" means the amount in 1 year by which the current taxable value of an eligible property subject to a brownfield plan, including the taxable value or assessed value, as appropriate, of the property for which specific taxes are paid in lieu of property taxes, exceeds the initial taxable value of that eligible property. The state tax commission shall prescribe the method for calculating captured taxable value.
(i) "Chief executive officer" means the mayor of a city, the village manager of a village, the township supervisor of a township, or the county executive of a county or, if the county does not have an elected county executive, the chairperson of the county board of commissioners.
(j) "Department" means the department of environmental quality.
(k) "Due care activities" means those response activities identified as part of a brownfield plan that are necessary to allow the owner or operator of an eligible property in the plan to comply with the requirements of section 20107a of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20107a.
(l) "Economic opportunity zone" means 1 or more parcels of property that meet all of the following:
(i) That together are 40 or more acres in size.
(ii) That contain a manufacturing facility that consists of 500,000 or more square feet.
(iii) That are located in a municipality that has a population of 30,000 or less and that is contiguous to a qualified local governmental unit.
(m) "Eligible activities" or "eligible activity" means 1 or more of the following:
(i) Baseline environmental assessment activities.
(ii) Due care activities.
(iii) Additional response activities.
(iv) For eligible activities on eligible property that was used or is currently used for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes that is in a qualified local governmental unit, that is owned or under the control of a land bank fast track authority, or that is located in an economic opportunity zone, and is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, and except for purposes of former section 38d of the single business tax act, 1975 PA 228, the following additional activities:
(A) Infrastructure improvements that directly benefit eligible property.
(B) Demolition of structures that is not response activity under section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(C) Lead or asbestos abatement.
(D) Site preparation that is not response activity under section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(E) Assistance to a land bank fast track authority in clearing or quieting title to, or selling or otherwise conveying, property owned or under the control of a land bank fast track authority or the acquisition of property by the land bank fast track authority if the acquisition of the property is for economic development purposes.
(v) Relocation of public buildings or operations for economic development purposes.
(vi) For eligible activities on eligible property that is a qualified facility that is not located in a qualified local governmental unit and that is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, the following additional activities:
(A) Infrastructure improvements that directly benefit eligible property.
(B) Demolition of structures that is not response activity under section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(C) Lead or asbestos abatement.
(D) Site preparation that is not response activity under section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(vii) For eligible activities on eligible property that is not located in a qualified local governmental unit and that is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, the following additional activities:
(A) Demolition of structures that is not response activity under section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(B) Lead or asbestos abatement.
(viii) Reasonable costs of developing and preparing brownfield plans and work plans.
(ix) For property that is not located in a qualified local governmental unit and that is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, that is a former mill that has not been used for industrial purposes for the immediately preceding 2 years, that is located along a river that is a federal superfund site listed under the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980, 42 USC 9601 to 9675, and that is located in a city with a population of less than 10,000 persons, the following additional activities:
(A) Infrastructure improvements that directly benefit the property.
(B) Demolition of structures that is not response activity under section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(C) Lead or asbestos abatement.
(D) Site preparation that is not response activity under section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(x) For eligible activities on eligible property that is located north of the 45th parallel, that is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, and the owner or operator of which makes new capital investment of $250,000,000.00 or more in this state, the following additional activities:
(A) Demolition of structures that is not response activity under section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(B) Lead or asbestos abatement.
(xi) Reasonable costs of environmental insurance.
(n) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, "eligible property" means property for which eligible activities are identified under a brownfield plan that was used or is currently used for commercial, industrial, public, or residential purposes, including personal property located on the property, to the extent included in the brownfield plan, and that is 1 or more of the following:
(i) Is in a qualified local governmental unit and is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted and includes parcels that are adjacent or contiguous to that property if the development of the adjacent and contiguous parcels is estimated to increase the captured taxable value of that property.
(ii) Is not in a qualified local governmental unit and is a facility, and includes parcels that are adjacent or contiguous to that property if the development of the adjacent and contiguous parcels is estimated to increase the captured taxable value of that property.
(iii) Is tax reverted property owned or under the control of a land bank fast track authority.
(iv) Is not in a qualified local governmental unit, is a qualified facility, and is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, if the eligible activities on the property are limited to the eligible activities identified in subdivision (m)(vi).
(v) Is not in a qualified local governmental unit and is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, if the eligible activities on the property are limited to the eligible activities identified in subdivision (m)(vii).
(vi) Is not in a qualified local governmental unit and is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, if the eligible activities on the property are limited to the eligible activities identified in subdivision (m)(ix).
(vii) Is located north of the 45th parallel, is a facility, functionally obsolete, or blighted, and the owner or operator makes new capital investment of $250,000,000.00 or more in this state. Eligible property does not include qualified agricultural property exempt under section 7ee of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.7ee, from the tax levied by a local school district for school operating purposes to the extent provided under section 1211 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1211.
(o) "Environmental insurance" means liability insurance for environmental contamination and cleanup that is not otherwise required by state or federal law.
(p) "Facility" means that term as defined in section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(q) "Fiscal year" means the fiscal year of the authority.
(r) "Functionally obsolete" means that the property is unable to be used to adequately perform the function for which it was intended due to a substantial loss in value resulting from factors such as overcapacity, changes in technology, deficiencies or superadequacies in design, or other similar factors that affect the property itself or the property's relationship with other surrounding property.
(s) "Governing body" means the elected body having legislative powers of a municipality creating an authority under this act.
(t) "Infrastructure improvements" means a street, road, sidewalk, parking facility, pedestrian mall, alley, bridge, sewer, sewage treatment plant, property designed to reduce, eliminate, or prevent the spread of identified soil or groundwater contamination, drainage system, waterway, waterline, water storage facility, rail line, utility line or pipeline, or other similar or related structure or improvement, together with necessary easements for the structure or improvement, owned or used by a public agency or functionally connected to similar or supporting property owned or used by a public agency, or designed and dedicated to use by, for the benefit of, or for the protection of the health, welfare, or safety of the public generally, whether or not used by a single business entity, provided that any road, street, or bridge shall be continuously open to public access and that other property shall be located in public easements or rights-of-way and sized to accommodate reasonably foreseeable development of eligible property in adjoining areas.
(u) "Initial taxable value" means the taxable value of an eligible property identified in and subject to a brownfield plan at the time the resolution adding that eligible property in the brownfield plan is adopted, as shown either by the most recent assessment roll for which equalization has been completed at the time the resolution is adopted or, if provided by the brownfield plan, by the next assessment roll for which equalization will be completed following the date the resolution adding that eligible property in the brownfield plan is adopted. Property exempt from taxation at the time the initial taxable value is determined shall be included with the initial taxable value of zero. Property for which a specific tax is paid in lieu of property tax shall not be considered exempt from taxation. The state tax commission shall prescribe the method for calculating the initial taxable value of property for which a specific tax was paid in lieu of property tax.
(v) "Land bank fast track authority" means an authority created under the land bank fast track act, 2003 PA 258, MCL 124.751 to 124.774.
(w) "Local taxes" means all taxes levied other than taxes levied for school operating purposes.
(x) "Municipality" means all of the following:
(i) A city.
(ii) A village.
(iii) A township in those areas of the township that are outside of a village.
(iv) A township in those areas of the township that are in a village upon the concurrence by resolution of the village in which the zone would be located.
(v) A county.
(y) "Owned or under the control of" means that a land bank fast track authority has 1 or more of the following:
(i) An ownership interest in the property.
(ii) A tax lien on the property.
(iii) A tax deed to the property.
(iv) A contract with this state or a political subdivision of this state to enforce a lien on the property.
(v) A right to collect delinquent taxes, penalties, or interest on the property.
(vi) The ability to exercise its authority over the property.
(z) "Qualified facility" means a landfill facility area of 140 or more contiguous acres that is located in a city and that contains a landfill, a material recycling facility, and an asphalt plant that are no longer in operation.
(aa) "Qualified local governmental unit" means that term as defined in the obsolete property rehabilitation act, 2000 PA 146, MCL 125.2781 to 125.2797.
(bb) "Qualified taxpayer" means that term as defined in former sections 38d and 38g of the single business tax act, 1975 PA 228, or section 437 of the Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1437.
(cc) "Response activity" means that term as defined in section 20101 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20101.
(dd) "Specific taxes" means a tax levied under 1974 PA 198, MCL 207.551 to 207.572; the commercial redevelopment act, 1978 PA 255, MCL 207.651 to 207.668; the enterprise zone act, 1985 PA 224, MCL 125.2101 to 125.2123; 1953 PA 189, MCL 211.181 to 211.182; the technology park development act, 1984 PA 385, MCL 207.701 to 207.718; the obsolete property rehabilitation act, 2000 PA 146, MCL 125.2781 to 125.2797; the neighborhood enterprise zone act, 1992 PA 147, MCL 207.771 to 207.786; the commercial rehabilitation act, 2005 PA 210, MCL 207.841 to 207.856; or that portion of the tax levied under the tax reverted clean title act, 2003 PA 260, MCL 211.1021 to 211.1026, that is not required to be distributed to a land bank fast track authority.
(ee) "Tax increment revenues" means the amount of ad valorem property taxes and specific taxes attributable to the application of the levy of all taxing jurisdictions upon the captured taxable value of each parcel of eligible property subject to a brownfield plan and personal property located on that property. Tax increment revenues exclude ad valorem property taxes specifically levied for the payment of principal of and interest on either obligations approved by the electors or obligations pledging the unlimited taxing power of the local governmental unit, and specific taxes attributable to those ad valorem property taxes. Tax increment revenues attributable to eligible property also exclude the amount of ad valorem property taxes or specific taxes captured by a downtown development authority, tax increment finance authority, or local development finance authority if those taxes were captured by these other authorities on the date that eligible property became subject to a brownfield plan under this act.
(ff) "Taxable value" means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.27a.
(gg) "Taxes levied for school operating purposes" means all of the following:
(i) The taxes levied by a local school district for operating purposes.
(ii) The taxes levied under the state education tax act, 1993 PA 331, MCL 211.901 to 211.906.
(iii) That portion of specific taxes attributable to taxes described under subparagraphs (i) and (ii).
(hh) "Work plan" means a plan that describes each individual activity to be conducted to complete eligible activities and the associated costs of each individual activity.
(ii) "Zone" means, for an authority established before June 6, 2000, a brownfield redevelopment zone designated under this act.
History: 1996, Act 381, Eff. Sept. 16, 1996 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 145, Imd. Eff. June 6, 2000 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 254, Imd. Eff. May 1, 2002 ;-- Am. 2003, Act 259, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2004 ;-- Am. 2003, Act 277, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 2004 ;-- Am. 2005, Act 101, Imd. Eff. July 22, 2005 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 32, Imd. Eff. Feb. 23, 2006 ;-- Am. 2007, Act 204, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2007