Sec. 9.

If all or a portion of transitional qualified forest property is converted by a change in use and is no longer transitional qualified forest property, an owner shall immediately notify the local tax collecting unit, the assessor, and the department, on a form created by the department. The form shall include a legal description of that property. A copy of the form shall be filed with the register of deeds for the county in which the property is located. Upon notice that property is no longer transitional qualified forest property, the local tax collecting unit and assessor shall immediately rescind the exemption under this act and shall place the property on the tax roll as though the exemption under this act had not been granted for the immediately succeeding tax year and the department of treasury shall immediately begin collection of any applicable tax and penalty under the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.155. The department of treasury shall also begin collection of an amount equal to the application fee and penalty that would have been assessed under section 51108 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.51108, to withdraw that property from the operation of part 511 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.51101 to 324.51120, in the year in which the property is converted by a change of use, calculated as if the property had not been withdrawn from the operation of part 511 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.51101 to 324.51120, and the treasurer shall credit these proceeds to the private forestland enhancement fund created in section 51305 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.51305.

History: 2016, Act 260, Imd. Eff. June 28, 2016