Title: 
Headings: 
SUMMARY
ACT
 
51
 
OF
 
THE
 
PUBLIC
 
ACTS
 
OF
 
1951,
 
AS
 
AMENDED
“ACT
 
51
 
MADE
 
SIMPLE”

August
 
2000

 
[Sec.
 
10]

Comprehensive
 
Transportation
 
Fund
 
[Sec.
 
10b
 
and
 
e]

Jurisdictional
 
Road
 
Networks

State
 
Trunklines
 
[Sec.
 
1]:

County
 
Primary
 
and
 
Local
 
Roads
 
[Sec.
 
2,
 
3,
 
4
 
and
 
5]:

Transfer
 
of
 
mileage
 
between
 
jurisdictions

Formulas
 
and
 
Priorities
 
of
 
Funding


Content: Act
 
51
establishes
 
jurisdictional
btedness
 
road
 
for
 
networks,
 
transportation
 
sets
 
priorities
 
improvements
 
for
 
the
 
 
and
use
 
 
of
guar
 
transportation
tees
 
repayment
 
revenues,
 
of
 
debt. and
allows
 
bonded
 
inde
The
 
Act
 
also
 
imposes
 
administrative
 
requirements
 
on
 
road
 
agencies,
 
and
 
creates
 
several
institutions
 
not
 
having
 
to
 
do
 
with
 
finance. Michigan
 
Transportation
 
Fund
 
[Sec. 10]
Act
 
51
 
creates
 
the
 
Michigan
 
Transportation
 
Fund
 
(MTF). Revenues
 
collected
 
through
 
highway
user
 
taxes–state
 
motor
 
fuels
ited
 
in
 
taxes,
 
MTF. vehicle
 
registration
 
fees,
 
and
 
other
 
miscellaneous
 
automobile-
related
 
taxes–are
 
depos
Interdepartmental
 
Transfers
 
—
 
In
 
accordance
 
with
 
the
 
state
 
Transportation
 
Department’s
appropriations
 
bill,
 
significant
 
payments
 
are
 
made
 
from
 
the
 
collected
 
funds
 
to
 
several
 
state
agencies
 
(the
 
Departments
 
of
 
State,
 
Treasury,
 
State
 
Police,
 
Natural
 
Resources,
 
Civil
 
Service,
 
and
the
 
Legislative
 
Auditor
 
General)
 
for
 
services
 
they
 
provide. These
 
payments
 
amounted
 
to
$108
 
million
 
in
 
Fiscal
 
Year
 
1996,
 
but
 
have
 
been
 
reduced
 
to
 
$64
 
million
 
in
 
recent
 
appropriations
bills. The
 
largest
 
interdepartmental
 
transfer
 
is
 
to
 
the
 
Secretary
 
of
 
State
 
for
 
administration
 
of
 
the
license-plate
 
system. Several
 
other
 
programs
 
receive
 
statutory
 
shares
 
of
 
the
 
MTF. Through
 
Public
 
Act
 
221
 
of
 
1987,
two
 
per
 
cent
 
of
 
the
 
gasoline
 
tax
 
goes
 
to
 
the
 
DNR’s
 
Recreation
 
Improvement
 
Fund,
 
almost
 
$18
million
 
in
 
Fiscal
 
1998.