2023 Michigan Laws 54.272 – State survey and remonumentation fund; use of money; provisions applicable to deposited funds; limitation
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(1) Money in the fund shall be used by the department for the following purposes:
(a) Annual grants to the various counties to implement their monumentation and remonumentation plans described in section 8(2)(a).
(b) The implementation of county plans that are initiated and contracted for by the department under section 8(3).
(c) Annual grants to counties to implement their perpetual monument maintenance plans described in section 8(2)(d).
(d) The payment of contracts that are entered into by the department under section 10.
(e) Other activities necessary, incidental, or appropriate to implement this act.
(2) In addition to the purposes described in subsection (1), money in the fund shall be used to pay the costs of expediting a plan or to reimburse the cost described in section 8(4) for a county that has elected to expend or borrow money to expedite the implementation of the county’s plan.
(3) Expenditures by the department for a county for the following purposes shall be in an amount not less than the following percentages of the money collected in that county and remitted to the state treasurer for deposit in the fund under section 2567a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567a, during the state fiscal year that began 2 years before the beginning of the state fiscal year in which the expenditure is made:
(a) For an annual grant to the county under subsection (1)(a), 40%.
(b) To implement the county plan if the department initiates and contracts for the implementation of the county plan under section 8(3), 40%.
(c) For an annual grant to the county under subsection (1)(c), 20%.
(d) For purposes described in section 8(2)(d), if the department initiates and contracts for the implementation of the county plan for the county under section 8(3), 20%.
(4) In addition to the purposes described in subsections (1) and (2), to pay this state’s equitable share of the costs of the monumentation of the Michigan-Indiana state boundary line pursuant to the Michigan-Indiana state line monumentation act, the legislature may appropriate from the fund a total amount of not more than $500,000.00 that was appropriated or transferred to the fund after November 1, 2021.