December 13, 2017, Introduced by Senators PROOS, HERTEL and KNEZEK and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1917 PA 19, entitled
"An act to authorize and empower the public domain commission to
issue certificates of correction in certain cases, and to have the
same recorded in the office of the register of deeds in any county
wherein the lands affected by such certificate may be located,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 322.381).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1. Whenever it shall appear that a deed has been If the
department
of natural resources has executed and
issued by the
public
domain commission, purporting a
deed that purports to convey
title
to lands in which the this
state of Michigan held no
interest,
and such the deed has been recorded in the office of the
register
of deeds for the county in which such the lands are
located,
and, when in the an attempt
to correct such the erroneous
sale and transfer, a deed has been executed to this state by the
grantee
of the state to the state of Michigan, such deed original
deed,
the department of natural resources shall
be placed on record
the
corrective deed in the office of such
the register of deeds. ,
by
the public domain commission, and at At the same time, the
public
domain commission department
of natural resources shall
execute
issue a certificate wherein it shall be stated stating that
the
this state of Michigan has and claims no title in
or to the
lands
described in such the
corrective deed to the state of
Michigan,
and that such the certificate
is issued for the express
purpose
of removing to remove any cloud upon on the title in to the
lands
described in such deed by reason of that may have been caused
by
the original deed issued by
the state of Michigan in the first
place,
or by the corrective deed. so received from the grantee.
Such
certificate shall be issued under the seal of the public
domain
commission and shall be placed on record by such The
register
of deeds , who shall
at the same time enter in the record
of
deeds herein referred to a citation to the record of such the
certificate, of
correction.and is entitled to
the same fee as is
charged for recording a real estate mortgage under section 2567 of
the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.