Michigan Laws 324.32609 – Sawlog stumpage value; reservation of payments; “sawlog stumpage value” defined; report and payments due; disposition of payments; overdue payment
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 324.32609
- Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.32601
- Fund: means the submerged log recovery fund created in section 32610. See Michigan Laws 324.32601
- in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- Submerged log: means a portion of the trunk of a felled tree that has not been further processed for any end use and is located on, in, over, or under bottomlands. See Michigan Laws 324.32601
- Unpatented lands: means all bottomlands except patented lands. See Michigan Laws 324.32601
(1) The state reserves a payment of 15% of the sawlog stumpage value of each submerged log that is removed from unpatented lands. As used in this subsection, “sawlog stumpage value” means the price received from recovered submerged logs.
(2) The holder of a submerged log removal permit under this part shall provide the department with a detailed report and all payments due under this section within 30 days after the close of each calendar quarter. The report shall include an accurate scaling at dockside of all submerged logs removed, by species. The permittee shall provide for an independent agent, approved by the department in writing, to conduct the scaling and species determination.
(3) All payments received under this section shall be forwarded to the state treasurer for deposit into the fund.
(4) After a permittee is notified in writing that a payment under this section is overdue, the department may order suspension of the submerged log removal permit until the payment is submitted in full. The permittee shall not resume submerged log removal operations until the department provides written authorization for the operations to resume.