Where it is currently I have no clue... But one question they are asking there is no answer for...
First, they never met with the commissioners. The might have met with a committee.
Second, if it is not answerable, then move on to the next issue. It can't be used for or against the ORV park.
Third, Look to see how many ORV's are titled in the county:
324.81114 Records available to the public; commercial lookup service; disposition of fees; computerized central file; purging records; providing records to nongovernmental person or entity; payment; admissibility in evidence.
Sec. 81114.
(1) Records maintained under this part, other than those declared to be confidential by law or that are restricted by law from disclosure to the public, shall be available to the public under procedures prescribed in this part and in the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.
(2) The secretary of state may provide a commercial lookup service of ORV operation, title, and registration records maintained under this part. For each individual record looked up, the secretary of state shall charge a fee specified annually by the legislature, or if none, a market-based price established by the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall process a commercial lookup request only if the request is in a form or format prescribed by the secretary of state. Fees collected under this subsection on and after October 1, 2005 shall be credited to the transportation administration collection fund created in section 810b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.810b, through October 1, 2015.
(3) The secretary of state shall create and maintain a computerized central file that includes the information contained on application forms received under this part and the name of each person who is convicted of an offense, who fails to comply with an order or judgment issued, or against whom an order is entered under this part. The computerized central file shall be interfaced with the law enforcement information network as provided in the C.J.I.S. policy council act, 1974 PA 163, MCL 28.211 to 28.215.
(4) The secretary of state may purge a record of an ORV certificate of title and any record pertaining to it 7 years after the title was issued or the record was made or received.
(5) The secretary of state shall not provide an entire computerized central or other file of records maintained under this part to a nongovernmental person or entity unless the purchaser pays the prescribed fee or price for each individual record contained within the computerized file.
(6) A certified copy of an order, record, or paper maintained under this part is admissible in evidence in the same manner as the original and is prima facie proof of the facts stated in the original.
FOURTH:
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013
Introduced by Reps. Bumstead, Genetski and Franz
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No.
4299
AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state; to
codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment and natural resources of the state; to regulate
the discharge of certain substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters, and other natural
resources of the state; to protect the people’s right to hunt and fish; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state
and local agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and donations; to provide certain
appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending
section
81131 (MCL 324.81131), as amended by 2011 PA 107.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 81131. (1) A municipality may pass an ordinance allowing a permanently disabled person to operate an ORV in
that municipality.
(2) Subject to subsection (4)
, a county board of commissioners may adopt an ordinance authorizing the operation of
ORVs on 1 or more county roads located within the county. Not less than 45 days before a public hearing on the
ordinance, the county clerk shall send notice of the public hearing, by certified mail, to the county road commission, to
the legislative body of each township and municipality located within the county, to the state transportation department
if the road intersects a highway, and, if state forestland is located within the county, to the department. If the county is
a southern county, before adopting an ordinance under this subsection, the county board of commissioners shall consult
with the board of county road commissioners.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), the legislative body of a township or municipality may adopt an ordinance authorizing
the operation of ORVs on 1 or more county roads located within the township or municipality, respectively. Not less
than 28 days before a public hearing on the ordinance, the clerk of the township or municipality shall send notice of the
public hearing, by certified mail, to the county road commission, to the county board of commissioners, to the legislative
body of every other township and municipality located within the county, to the state transportation department if the
road intersects a highway, and, if state forestland is located within the township or municipality, to the department. If
the township or municipality is located in a southern county, before adopting an ordinance under this subsection, the
legislative body of the township or municipality shall consult with the board of county road commissioners. This
subsection does not apply to a township or municipality until 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that
first authorized the county in which that township or municipality is located to adopt an ordinance under subsection (2).
(4) The board of county road commissioners may close a county road to the operation of ORVs otherwise authorized
pursuant to subsection (2) or (3). A county road commission shall not under this subsection close more than 30% of the
linear miles of county roads located within the county to the operation of ORVs otherwise authorized pursuant to
subsection (2) or (3). The legislative body of a township or municipality may adopt an ordinance to close a county road
located in the township or municipality to the operation of ORVs otherwise authorized pursuant to subsection (2). The
legislative body of a village may adopt an ordinance to close a county road located in the village to the operation of
ORVs otherwise authorized by the township pursuant to subsection (3). A county road may be closed to the operation
of ORVs under this subsection only to protect the environment or if the operation of ORVs poses a particular and
demonstrable threat to public safety.
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(5) The legislative body of a municipality may adopt an ordinance authorizing the operation of ORVs on 1 or more
streets within the municipality.
(6) The legislative body of a local unit of government may request the state transportation department to authorize
the local unit of government to adopt an ordinance authorizing the operation of ORVs on a highway, other than an
interstate highway, located within the local unit of government. The request shall describe how the authorization would
meet the requirements of subsection (7). The state transportation department shall solicit comment on the request from
the department, ORV clubs, and local units of government where the highway is located. The state transportation
department shall consider comments received on the request before making a decision on the request. The state
transportation department shall grant the request in whole or in part or deny the request not more than 60 days after
the request is received. If the state transportation department grants a request in whole or in part under this subsection,
the local unit of government that submitted the request may adopt an ordinance authorizing the operation of ORVs on
the highway that was the subject of the request. A county may submit a request for authorization under this subsection
on behalf of 1 or more local units of government located within that county if requested by those local units of
government. Before January 1, 2015, the state transportation department may authorize the operation of ORVs on a
highway as provided in this subsection and subsection (7) on the department’s initiative and without having received a
request from a local unit of government.
(7) The state transportation department shall authorize operation of an ORV under subsection (6) only on a highway
that is not an interstate highway and that meets 1 or more of the following requirements:
(a) Serves as a connector between ORV areas, routes, or trails designated by the department or an ORV user group.
(b) Provides access to tourist attractions, food service establishments, fuel, motels, or other services.
(c) Serves as a connector between 2 segments of the same county road that run along discontinuous town lines and
on which ORV use is authorized pursuant to subsection (2) or (3).
(d) Includes a bridge or culvert that allows an ORV to cross a river, stream, wetland, or gully that is not crossed by
a street or county road on which ORVs are authorized to operate under subsection (2), (3), or (5).
(8) The state transportation department may close a highway to the operation of ORVs otherwise authorized
pursuant to subsection (6) after written notice to the clerk of each local unit of government where the highway is located
and the senate and house committees with primary responsibility for natural resources, recreation, and transportation.
The notice shall be in writing and sent by first-class United States mail or personally delivered not less than 30 days
before the adoption of the rule or order closing the highway. The notice shall set forth specific reasons for the closure.
(9) Subject to subsection (4), if a local unit of government adopts an ordinance pursuant to subsection (2), (3), or (5),
a person may operate an ORV with the flow of traffic on the far right of the maintained portion of the street or county
road covered by the ordinance. If the operation of ORVs on a highway is authorized pursuant to subsection (6), a person
may operate an ORV with the flow of traffic as follows:
(a) On the right shoulder of the highway.
(b) If there is not a right shoulder or the right shoulder is not of adequate width, on the right unmaintained portion
of the highway.
(c) On the far right of the right traffic lane of the highway, if necessary to cross a bridge or culvert and if the
operator brings the ORV to a complete stop before entering and yields the right-of-way to an approaching vehicle on
that traffic lane.
(10) A person shall not operate an ORV as authorized pursuant to subsection (2), (3), (5), or (6) at a speed greater
than 25 miles per hour or a lower posted ORV speed limit or in a manner that interferes with traffic on the street,
county road, or highway.
(11) Unless the person possesses a license as defined in section 25 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300,
MCL
257.25, a person shall not operate an ORV as authorized pursuant to subsection (2), (3), (5), or (6) if the ORV is
registered as a motor vehicle under chapter II of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.201 to 257.259, and
either is more than 65 inches wide or has 3 wheels. ORVs operated as authorized pursuant to subsection (2), (3), (5), or
(6) shall travel single file, except that an ORV may travel abreast of another ORV when it is overtaking and passing,
or being overtaken and passed by, another ORV.
(12) A person shall not operate an ORV as authorized pursuant to this section without displaying a lighted headlight
and lighted taillight.
(13) A person under 18 years of age shall not operate an ORV as authorized pursuant to this section unless the
person is in possession of a valid driver license or under the direct supervision of a parent or guardian and the person
has in his or her immediate possession an ORV safety certificate issued pursuant to this part or a comparable ORV
safety certificate issued under the authority of another state or a province of Canada. A person under 12 years of age
shall not operate an ORV as authorized pursuant to this section. The requirements of this subsection are in addition to
any applicable requirements of section 81129.
