2011 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 247 — HIGHWAYS
Act 51 of 1951 — STATE TRUNK LINE HIGHWAY SYSTEM (247.651 - 247.675)
Section 247.660l — Return of money as credit to cities, villages, and townships; expenditure of credit; use of unexpended credit; final decision; expenditure by county as condition prohibited; coordination of services; operating deficit defined.

Sec. 10l.

(1) For each 12-month period beginning October 1, 1987, and each 12-month period thereafter, $2,000,000.00 shall be returned from the distribution under section 10e (4)(a) by each multicounty authority created under the metropolitan transportation authorities act of 1967, Act No. 204 of the Public Acts of 1967, being sections 124.401 to 124.425 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, in terms of a credit to those cities, villages, and townships within each transportation district of the authority created under section 16a of Act No. 204 of the Public Acts of 1967, being section 124.416a of the Michigan Compiled Laws, which apply to the authority for the credit in accordance with procedures and standards established by the authority, except as provided by subsections (2) and (3). The return of money in terms of a credit shall be based upon the population of each city, village, or township within the authority.

(2) For each 12-month period described in subsection (1), a city, village, or township described in subsection (1) may apply to the authority to use its credit for public transportation purposes within the authority's jurisdiction. However, the money returned in terms of a credit to any city, village, or township which provides public transportation service for that city, village, or township shall be used exclusively toward reducing the operating deficit of that service. Moreover, any service provided by the city, township, or village utilizing the credit received pursuant to this section shall be operated by the authority returning the money in terms of a credit on a contractual basis with each city, village, or township or with a combination of cities, villages, and townships. If a city, township, or village has not applied to the authority to utilize its credit pursuant to this subsection by the last day of the 12-month period, that municipality's share of the money credited pursuant to subsection (1) shall be used by the authority for an expenditure within the county within which the city, village, or township lies.

(3) A city, village, or township which has applied for and received approval from the authority for use of its credit pursuant to subsection (2) shall have 1 year after the end of the period in which the application was made to actually expend that credit. A credit not actually expended by the city, village, or township by the last day of the year after the end of the period in which the application was made shall be used by the authority for an expenditure within the county within which the city, village, or township lies.

(4) Notwithstanding any other section of this or any other act, each authority authorized by this section to return money in terms of a credit shall have the final decision as to what constitutes a proper expenditure, a public transportation service, or a public transportation purpose under subsections (2) and (3).

(5) The expenditure of the amounts required to be expended under subsections (2) and (3) shall not be conditioned on an expenditure by a county in which the expenditure is required to be expended.

(6) The authority shall retain the ability to coordinate services between contracting cities, villages, and townships or groups of cities, villages, or townships.

(7) As used in this section, operating deficit means the operating cost of a public transportation service less the revenues generated by the service.

History: Add. 1982, Act 438, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983 ;-- Am. 1987, Act 234, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987
Compiler's Notes: Former MCL 247.660l, pertaining to operation of authority within transportation district, expired October 10, 1982.
Popular Name: McNitt Act
Popular Name: Michigan Transportation Fund Act