(1) Within 30 days after a marketing program notice is filed, the director shall approve or disapprove the marketing program. The director shall not disapprove a marketing program unless the program violates this act.
    (2) Within 40 days after approval of a marketing program, the director shall require a written referendum to be held by mail or in person, as determined by the director, among all owners of transient facilities in each municipality in the proposed assessment district. For the purpose of the referendum, each owner shall have 1 vote for each room in an owner’s transient facility.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 141.873a

  • Assessment: means the amount levied against an owner of a transient facility within an assessment district, computed by application of the applicable percentage against aggregate room charges with respect to that transient facility during the applicable assessment period. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • Assessment district: means a municipality or combination of municipalities as described in a marketing program. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • Bureau: means a nonprofit corporation existing to promote convention business or tourism within this state or a portion of this state. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • Director: means the president of the Michigan strategic fund or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • Marketing program: means a program established by a bureau to develop, encourage, solicit, and promote convention business or tourism within this state or a portion of this state within which the bureau operates. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • Marketing program notice: means the notice described in section 3. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
  • Municipality: means a county with a population of less than 650,000 or a city, village, or township within a county with a population of less than 650,000. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • Owner: means the owner of a transient facility to be served by the bureau or, if the transient facility is operated or managed by a person other than the owner, then the operator or manager of that transient facility. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Room: means a room or other space provided for sleeping that can be rented independently, including the furnishings and other accessories in the room. See Michigan Laws 141.872
  • Transient facility: means a building or combination of buildings under common ownership, operation, or management that contains 10 or more rooms used in the business of providing dwelling, lodging, or sleeping to transient guests, whether or not membership is required for the use of the rooms. See Michigan Laws 141.872
    (3) The marketing program and assessment set forth in the notice shall become effective on the first day of the month that is more than 30 days after certification by the director that the program was approved by a majority of the votes actually cast in each municipality in the assessment district. If a majority of the votes actually cast in any municipality counted separately is not in favor of the program and assessment, the program and assessment shall not go into effect in the assessment district. However, for purposes of tabulating the votes in the referendum for a marketing program proposed on or after April 12, 1984, each municipality in the proposed assessment district requiring a majority of votes cast in favor of the proposed assessment district shall be defined in the marketing program notice required under section 3. A bureau may file and serve another marketing program notice not less than 60 days after certification of the results of a referendum.
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