Act No. 119

Public Acts of 1997

Approved by the Governor

October 24, 1997

Filed with the Secretary of State

October 24, 1997

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 24, 1997

STATE OF MICHIGAN

89TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1997

Introduced by Senator Rogers

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 118

AN ACT to amend 1984 PA 192, entitled "An act to regulate the use, installation, alteration, and servicing of specified heating, cooling, ventilating, and refrigerating equipment and systems; to create a board of mechanical rules; to provide for the licensing of installing contractors and of servicing contractors of heating, cooling, ventilating, and refrigerating equipment and systems; to prescribe fees; to provide for the promulgation of rules; and to prescribe penalties," by amending section 10 (MCL 338.980), as amended by 1989 PA 105.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 10. (1) The examination fee for a contractor's license is $25.00. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), the initial and per-year fee for the issuance of a contractor's license is $75.00.

(2) Beginning January 1, 1998, an initial or renewal contractor's license issued under this act expires on August 31, 2001. Beginning January 1, 1998, the board shall charge a license fee of $200.00 for the years 1998 through 2000 as well as a pro rata license fee of $44.00 representing the time between January 1, 2001 and August 31, 2001. The applicant's license expires every third year after August 31, 2001 and is renewable not later than October 31 upon application and payment of the $200.00 license fee. In the case of a person applying for an initial or reinstatement contractor's license at a time other than between August 31 and October 31 of the year in which the department issues renewal licenses, the department shall compute and charge the license fee on a yearly pro rata basis beginning in the year of the application until the last year of the 3-year license cycle. All licenses not renewed are void and may be reinstated only upon application for reinstatement and the payment of the license fee. A person who renews his or her license within 3years after the license is voided pursuant to this section is not subject to reexamination for the license.

(3) All fees and money received by the department for the licensing of persons under this act, and any other income received under this act, shall be paid into the state construction code fund created by section 22 of the state construction code act of 1972, 1972 PA 230, MCL 125.1522.

(4) The department shall annually submit to the members of the legislature a comprehensive report detailing the expenditure of additional money resulting from the 1989 amendatory act that increased the fees contained in this section.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Approved

Governor.