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Act No. 6
Public Acts of 2025
Approved by the Governor
June 27, 2025
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 27, 2025
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 27, 2025
STATE OF MICHIGAN
103RD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2025
Introduced by Rep. Farhat
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4090
AN ACT to authorize the state administrative board to convey state -owned property in Wayne County; to
prescribe conditions for the conveyance; to provide for powers and duties of state departments, agencies, and
officers regarding the property; and to provide for disposition of revenue derived from the conveyance.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1. As used in this act:
(a) “Fair market value” means the highest estimated price that the property will bring if offered for sale on
the open market, allowing a reasonable time to find a purchaser who would buy with knowledge of the property’s
possible uses.
(b) “Net revenue” means the proceeds from the sale of the property less reimbursement for any costs to the
department of technology, management, and budget associated with the sale, including, but not limited to,
administrative costs, including employee wages, salaries, an d benefits; costs of reports and studies and other
materials necessary to the preparation of sale; environmental remediation; legal fees; and any litigation costs
related to the conveyance.
(c) “Public use” means, subject to subdivision (d), actual use of the property by members of the public or actual
use by the unit of local government for any of the following:
(i) General government administration.
(ii) Publicly owned and operated correctional facilities.
(iii) Law enforcement purposes.
(iv) Emergency management response purposes.
(v) Public educational use.
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(vi) Public transportation.
(vii) Public parks and recreational areas.
(viii) Public health uses.
(ix) Wildlife conservation or restoration.
(d) Public use does not include use by a for-profit enterprise or any use that is closed to the public.
(e) “Unit of local government ” means a township, village, city, county, school district, intermediate school
district, or community college district.
Sec. 2. (1) The state administrative board, on behalf of this state, may convey by quitclaim deed in accordance
with this act all or portions of real property described in subsection (2) that is owned by this state, that is under
the jurisdiction of the de partment of corrections, and that was formerly the site of the Mound and
Ryan Correctional Facilities in the City of Detroit in Wayne County.
(2) The real property that may be conveyed under this act is described as follows:
A Parcel of Land situated in the City of Detroit, County of Wayne, State of Michigan, and described as follows
to wit: Commencing at the East One -quarter corner of Section 8, Town 1 South, Range 12 East, City of Detroit,
County of Wayne, State of Michigan; thence S00°09’59”E, along the East line of said Section 8, 339.20 feet; thence
N89°37’40”W 33.00 feet to the Westerly right -of-way line of Mound Road and the point of beginning; thence
S00°09’59”E, along said Westerly right-of-way line of Mound Road, 1019.85 feet to the Northerly right-of-way line
of the Detroit Terminal Railroad; thence along said Northerly railroad right -of-way line for the following
ten (10) courses: N63°31’31”W 155.37 feet; thence 244.55 feet along a curve to the left whose radius is 805.05 feet,
and chord bearing and distance are N72°13’39”W 243.61 feet; thence N80°55’48”W 361.00 feet; thence 142.03 feet
along a curve to the left whose radius is 913.13 feet, and curve bearing and distance are N85°23’10”W 141.89 feet;
thence N89°50’31”W 1689.10 feet to the North and South One-quarter line of said Section, as monumented; thence
continuing N89°50’31”W 158.96 feet; thence 63.55 feet along a curve to the left whose radius is 407.72 feet, and
chord bearing and distance are S85°41’34”W 63.49 feet; thence S81°13’39”W 447.44 feet; thence 81.99 feet along
a curve to the right whose radius is 526.04 feet, and chord bearing and distance are S85°41’34”W 81.91 feet; thence
N89°50’31”W 1840.16 feet to the Easterly line of Ryan Avenue; thence, along the Easterly line of Ryan Avenue,
N00°54’12”E 913.70 feet; thence N89°44 ’40”E 1288.52 feet; thence S00°26 ’31”W 10.59 feet; thence S89°35 ’47”E
9.94 feet; thence S00°50’23”W 17.74 feet; thence N88°56’46”E 100.58 feet; thence S60°38’37”E 197.07 feet; thence
S67°20’46”E 100.71 feet; thence S89°00 ’42”E 133.93 feet; thence S89°55 ’05”E 363.54 feet; thence S89°26 ’23”E
518.31 feet; thence N00°03 ’16”W 446.28 feet to the Southerly right -of-way line of Nevada Avenue; thence
S89°36’36”E, along said Southerly right-of-way line of Nevada Avenue, 100.19 feet to the East Line of the Detroit
Police Department Property; thence, along the said Detroit Police Department Property lin e the next following
(3) courses: S00°03’16”E 621.57 feet and S89°50 ’16”E 440.00 feet and N00°03 ’16”W 619.82 feet to the Southerly
right-of-way line of Nevada Avenue; thence S89°36 ’36”E 299.93 feet; thence S00°06 ’42”E 435.24 feet; thence
S89°31’49”E 256.51 feet; thence S89°31 ’50”E 375.10 feet; thence N00°03 ’16”W 133.61 feet; thence S89°37 ’40”E
975.93 feet to the point of beginning.
Parcel contains 96.14 acres of land, more or less.
(3) The description of the property in subsection (2) is approximate and, for purposes of a conveyance under
this act, may be adjusted as the state administrative board or the department of attorney general considers
necessary because of a survey or another legal description.
Sec. 3. The director of the department of technology, management, and budget shall first offer the property
described in section 2 to the City of Detroit , which will have the first right to purchase the property for 2 years
after the effective date of this act. The City of Detroit may acquire the property for $1.00 or, if approved by the
director of the department of technology, management, and budget, any portion of the property for $1.00.
Conveyance of the property or any portion of the property for $1.00 is subject to the conditions prescribed in
section 5.
Sec. 4. (1) Except as provided in section 3, the department of technology, management, and budget may take
the necessary steps for the conveyance of the real property described in section 2 using any of the following means:
(a) Competitive bidding, designed to realize the best value to this state, as determined by the department of
technology, management, and budget.
(b) A public auction designed to realize the best value to this state, as determined by the department of
technology, management, and budget.
(c) The use of real estate brokerage services designed to realize the best value to this state, as determined by
the department of technology, management, and budget.
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(d) A value for value conveyance negotiated by the department of technology, management, and budget
designed to realize the best value to this state. In determining whether value for value consideration for the
property represents the best value, the department of technology, management, and budget may consider the fair
market value, or the total value based on any positive economic impact to this state likely to be generated by the
proposed use of the property, especially economic impact resulting in the c reation of jobs or increased capital
investment in this state.
(e) Offering the property for sale for fair market value to 1 or more units of local government in which the
property is located.
(f) Offering the property for sale for less than fair market value to the units of local government in which the
property is located.
(g) Conveying the property to a land bank authority created under the land bank fast track act, 2003 PA 258,
MCL 124.751 to 124.774.
(2) If real property is to be sold for fair market value under this section, the fair market value must be
determined by a fee appraisal prepared for the department of technology, management, and budget by an
independent appraiser.
Sec. 5. A sale to a unit of local government under section 3 or 4(1)(f) must be subject to all of the following
conditions:
(a) The property must be used exclusively for public use. If a fee, term, or condition is imposed on members of
the public for use of the property, or if the fee, term, or condition for use is waived, all members of the public must
be subject to the same fees, terms, conditions, and waivers. The public use restriction must be included in the deed.
(b) If the unit of local government intends to convey the property, the unit must provide notice to the
department of technology, management, and budget of its intent to offer the property for sale. The department of
technology, management, and budget retains a right to first purchase the property at the original sale price within
1 year after the notice. If this state waives its first refusal right, the unit of local government must pay to this
state 100% of the difference between the sale price of the conveyance from this state and the sale price of the unit
of local government’s subsequent sale or sales to third parties.
(c) The unit of local government must reimburse this state at closing for costs demonstrably incurred by this
state that were necessary to prepare the property for conveyance.
(d) The department of technology, management, and budget may require the unit of local government to record
the deed of conveyance with the office of register of deeds for the county in which the property is located at the
unit of local government’s expense.
Sec. 6. (1) A deed authorized by this act must be approved as to legal form by the department of attorney
general.
(2) Real property conveyed under this act includes all surplus, salvage, and scrap property or equipment
remaining on the property on the date of the conveyance.
(3) This state shall not reserve oil, gas, or mineral rights to property conveyed under this act. However, the
conveyance authorized under this act must provide that, if the grantee or any successor develops any oil, gas, or
minerals found on, within, or under the conveyed property, the grantee or any successor must pay this state 1/2 of
the gross revenue generated from the development of the oil, gas, or minerals. A payment under this subsection
must be deposited in the general fund.
(4) A conveyance under this act must reserve to this state all aboriginal antiquities, including mounds,
earthworks, forts, burial and village sites, mines, or other relics lying on, within, or under the property, with
power to this state and all others ac ting under its authority to enter the property for any purpose related to
exploring, excavating, and taking away the aboriginal antiquities.
(5) If property conveyed under this act is used in a manner that violates any of the restrictions imposed under
section 5 or subsection (3) or (4), this state may reenter and take the property, terminating the grantee ’s or any
successor’s estate in the property.
(6) If a grantee or successor disputes this state ’s exercise of its right of reentry under subsection (5) and fails
to promptly deliver possession of the property to this state, the attorney general, on behalf of this state, may bring
an action to quiet title to, and regain possession of, the property.
(7) If this state reenters and repossesses property under subsection (5) or (6), this state is not liable to
reimburse any person for any improvements made on the property.
Sec. 7. The state administrative board shall deposit the net revenue received from the sale of property under
this section in the state treasury. The state treasurer shall credit the money deposited to the general fund.
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This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor