Act No. 460

Public Acts of 2006

Approved by the Governor

December 19, 2006

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 20, 2006

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 20, 2006

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

Introduced by Reps. Elsenheimer, Casperson, Adamini and Brown

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6318

AN ACT to amend 1969 PA 306, entitled "An act to provide for the effect, processing, promulgation, publication, and inspection of state agency rules, determinations, and other matters; to provide for the printing, publishing, and distribution of certain publications; to provide for state agency administrative procedures and contested cases and appeals from contested cases in licensing and other matters; to create and establish certain committees and offices; to provide for declaratory judgments as to rules; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; and to repeal certain parts of this act on a specific date," by amending section 5 (MCL 24.205), as amended by 2004 PA 23.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 5. (1) "License" includes the whole or part of an agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or similar form of permission required by law, but does not include a license required solely for revenue purposes, or a license or registration issued under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923.

(2) "Licensing" includes agency activity involving the grant, denial, renewal, suspension, revocation, annulment, withdrawal, recall, cancellation, or amendment of a license.

(3) "Michigan register" means the publication described in section 8.

(4) "Notice" means a written or electronic record that informs a person of past or future action of the person generating the record.

(5) "Notice of objection" means the record adopted by the committee that indicates the committee's formal objection to a proposed rule.

(6) "Party" means a person or agency named, admitted, or properly seeking and entitled of right to be admitted, as a party in a contested case. In a contested case regarding an application for a license, party includes the applicant for that license.

(7) "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any kind other than the agency engaged in the particular processing of a rule, declaratory ruling, or contested case.

(8) "Processing of a rule" means the action required or authorized by this act regarding a rule that is to be promulgated, including the rule's adoption, and ending with the rule's promulgation.

(9) "Promulgation of a rule" means that step in the processing of a rule consisting of the filing of a rule with the secretary of state.

(10) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a paper or electronic medium.

Enacting section 1. Section 5 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.205, as amended by this amendatory act, is curative and intended to express the original intent of the legislature regarding the application of section 5 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.205, as amended by 2004 PA 23.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor