Title 211, TAXATION OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Sec. 78r. (1) A foreclosing governmental unit for a county other than this state may acquire property owned by this state, the federal government, or other governmental entity to facilitate the sale of tax reverted property under section 78m with the consent of this state, the fe…

Sec. 78s. (1) For insertion of a notice in a notice publication under sections 78a to 78r, this section and sections 78a to 78r apply, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary. (2) A requirement for insertion of a notice publication under sections 78a to 78r is satisfied by …

Sec. 78t. (1) A claimant may submit a notice of intention to claim an interest in any applicable remaining proceeds from the transfer or sale of foreclosed property under section 78m, subject to the following: (a) For foreclosed property transferred or sold under section 78m afte…

Sec. 79. (1) For taxes levied after December 31, 1998, certified abandoned property is subject to forfeiture, foreclosure, and sale for the enforcement and collection of the delinquent taxes as provided in this section and sections 78, 78a, and 78g to 78p. (2) As used in this act…

Sec. 79a. (1) A person who holds a tax deed issued on abandoned property may quiet title to that abandoned property in the circuit court of the county in which the abandoned property is located by doing all of the following: (a) The tax deed holder or his or her authorized agent …

Sec. 7a. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Exemption affidavit" means the form prescribed by the department of treasury upon which the owner certifies that the property is the homestead of the owner. The information which shall be required on an exemption affidavit shall include …

Sec. 7aa. Real property which would be exempt from taxation under this act if the property was used by the lessor and which is leased, loaned, or otherwise made available to a municipal water authority created under Act No. 196 of the Public Acts of 1952, being sections 124.251 t…

Sec. 7b. (1) Real property used and owned as a homestead by either of the following individuals is exempt from the collection of taxes under this act: (a) A disabled veteran. (b) A surviving spouse of a disabled veteran who, immediately before death, was eligible for the exemptio…

Sec. 7bb. (1) A nursery stock seasonal protection unit, but not the land on which it is located, is exempt from taxation under this act. (2) As used in this section, "nursery stock seasonal protection unit" means a structure that meets all of the following conditions: (a) For les…

Sec. 7c. An exemption granted under section 7b as to taxes levied on or after January 1, 2025 remains in effect, without subsequent reapplication, until it is rescinded by the individual who was granted the exemption or is denied by the assessor, as follows: (a) The individual sh…

Sec. 7cc. (1) A principal residence is exempt from the tax levied by a local school district for school operating purposes to the extent provided under section 1211 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1211, if an owner of that principal residence claims an exemption …

Sec. 7d. (1) Housing owned and operated by a nonprofit corporation or association, by a limited dividend housing corporation, or by this state, a political subdivision of this state, or an instrumentality of this state, for occupancy or use solely by elderly or disabled families …

Sec. 7dd. As used in sections 7cc and 7ee: (a) "Owner" means any of the following: (i) A person who owns property or who is purchasing property under a land contract. (ii) A person who is a partial owner of property. (iii) A person who owns property as a result of being a benefic…

Sec. 7e. (1) The value of deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, plants, bushes, and vines, whether annual or perennial, growing on agricultural land devoted to agricultural purposes shall be exempt from taxation. The assessment of agricultural real property shall be made without…

Sec. 7ee. (1) Qualified agricultural property is exempt from the tax levied by a local school district for school operating purposes to the extent provided under section 1211 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1211, according to the provisions of this section. (2) Q…

Sec. 7ff. (1) For taxes levied after 1996, except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3) and except as limited in subsections (4), (5), and (6), real property in a renaissance zone and personal property located in a renaissance zone is exempt from the collection of taxe…

Sec. 7g. The value of a seawall, jetty, groin, dike, or other structure whose primary purpose is to prevent or control erosion or prevent or control inundation or flooding on property affected by waters or levels of the Great Lakes or their connecting waters and tributaries as af…

Sec. 7gg. (1) Property, the title to which is held by a land bank fast track authority under the land bank fast track act, is exempt from the collection of taxes under this act. (2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), real property sold or otherwise conveyed by a land…

Sec. 7h. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Solar, wind, or water energy conversion device" means a mechanism or series of mechanisms designed primarily to collect, convert, transfer, or store for future use solar, wind, or water energy for the purposes of heating, cooling, or ele…

Sec. 7hh. (1) Notwithstanding the tax day provided in section 2 and except as limited in subsection (5) and otherwise provided in subsection (7), for taxes levied after December 31, 2004, real and personal property of a qualified start-up business is exempt from taxes levied unde…

Sec. 7i. (1) As used in this section, "existing facility" means a structure which has, or is being converted to have, as its primary purpose multifamily housing consisting of 5 or more units and is located in a downtown development district established pursuant to Act No. 197 of …

Sec. 7ii. (1) For taxes levied after December 31, 2004, except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), upon application for an exemption under this section by the administration of an innovations center, the governing body of a local tax collecting unit may adopt a resolution to…

Sec. 7j. A new facility or an existing facility for which a commercial housing facilities exemption certificate issued pursuant to Act No. 438 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 207.601 to 207.615 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, is in effect, but not the land on which the …

Sec. 7jj. Beginning December 31, 2004, real and personal property of a federally-qualified health center is exempt from the collection of taxes under this act. As used in this section, "federally-qualified health center" means that term as defined in section 1396d(l)(2)(B) of the…

Sec. 7jj. (1) Except as otherwise limited in this subsection, qualified forest property is exempt from the tax levied by a local school district for school operating purposes to the extent provided under section 1211 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1211, accordin…

Sec. 7k. A facility for which an industrial facilities exemption certificate issued under Act No. 198 of the Public Acts of 1974, being sections 207.551 to 207.572 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, is in effect, but not the land on which the facility is located or to be located, is …

Sec. 7kk. (1) Before December 31, 2014, the governing body of a local tax collecting unit may adopt a resolution to exempt from the collection of taxes under this act eligible nonprofit housing property. The clerk of the local tax collecting unit shall notify in writing the asses…

Sec. 7l. Public property belonging to the state, except licensed homestead lands, part-paid lands held under certificates, and lands purchased at tax sales, and still held by the state is exempt from taxation under this act. This exemption shall not apply to lands acquired after …

Sec. 7m. Property owned by, or being acquired pursuant to, an installment purchase agreement by a county, township, city, village, or school district used for public purposes and property owned or being acquired by an agency, authority, instrumentality, nonprofit corporation, com…

Sec. 7mm. Beginning December 31, 2009, real and personal property of a charitable nonprofit housing organization that is used for a retail store operated by that charitable nonprofit housing organization and that is engaged exclusively in the sale of donated items suitable for re…

Sec. 7n. Real estate or personal property owned and occupied by nonprofit theater, library, educational, or scientific institutions incorporated under the laws of this state with the buildings and other property thereon while occupied by them solely for the purposes for which the…

Sec. 7nn. (1) Beginning December 31, 2008, supportive housing property is exempt from the tax levied by a local school district for school operating purposes to the extent provided under section 1211 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1211, if an owner of that suppo…

Sec. 7o. (1) Real or personal property owned and occupied by a nonprofit charitable institution while occupied by that nonprofit charitable institution solely for the purposes for which that nonprofit charitable institution was incorporated is exempt from the collection of taxes …

Sec. 7oo. Low grade iron ore and low grade iron ore mining property subject to taxation under 1951 PA 77, MCL 211.621 to 211.626, or iron ore or ore property subject to taxation under 1963 PA 68, 207.271 to 207.279, are exempt from the collection of taxes under this act.

Sec. 7p. Real estate or personal property owned and occupied as memorial homes or posts is exempt from taxation under this act. As used in this section, memorial homes includes real estate and buildings owned and occupied solely by any veterans association, organization, or insti…

Sec. 7pp. Beginning December 31, 2012, any mineral and any right, claim, lease, or option in or of a mineral is exempt from the collection of taxes under this act. Beginning December 31, 2012, any shaft, incline, adit, or value of overburden stripping located at an open mine is e…

Sec. 7q. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3), real property owned by a boy or girl scout or camp fire girls organization, a 4-H club or foundation, or a young men's Christian association or young women's Christian association is exempt from the collection …

Sec. 7qq. Any mineral-producing property subject to the mineral severance tax under the nonferrous metallic minerals extraction severance tax act is exempt from the collection of taxes under this act. As used in this section, "mineral-producing property" and "mineral severance ta…

Sec. 7r. The real estate and building of a clinic erected, financed, occupied, and operated by a nonprofit corporation or by the trustees of health and welfare funds is exempt from taxation under this act, if the funds of the corporation or the trustees are derived solely from pa…

Sec. 7s. Houses of public worship, with the land on which they stand, the furniture therein and all rights in the pews, and any parsonage owned by a religious society of this state and occupied as a parsonage are exempt from taxation under this act. Houses of public worship inclu…

Sec. 7ss. (1) For taxes levied after November 1, 2012 through December 30, 2013, new construction on development property is eligible for exemption from the collection of the tax levied under section 1211 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1211, for 3 years or until…

Sec. 7t. Land used exclusively as burial grounds, the rights of burial, and the tombs and monuments in the land, while reserved and in use for that purpose is exempt from taxation under this act. The stock of a corporation owning a burial ground shall not be exempt.

Sec. 7tt. (1) The governing body of a local tax collecting unit may adopt a resolution to exempt from the collection of taxes under this act specifically identified real and personal property owned by an eligible economic development group as provided in this section. (2) A resol…

Sec. 7u. (1) The principal residence of a person who, in the judgment of the supervisor and board of review, by reason of poverty, is unable to contribute toward the public charges is eligible for exemption in whole or in part from the collection of taxes under this act. This sec…

Sec. 7uu. This act does not apply to real or personal property owned by a nonprofit street railway.

Sec. 7v. The real property of corporations exempt under the laws of this state, by reason of paying specific taxes instead of all other taxes for the support of the state is exempt from taxation under this act. Tracks, right of way, depot grounds and buildings, machine shops, rol…