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CITY OF MT. PLEASANT v. STATE TAX COM'N

Docket No. 129453. Calendar No. 6.

729 N.W.2d 833 (2007)

477 Mich. 50

CITY OF MT. PLEASANT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE TAX COMMISSION, Respondent-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 28, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by Mary Massaron Ross), Detroit, and Simen, Figura & Parker, P.L.C. (by Richard J. Figura), Flint, for the petitioner.

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Heidi L. Johnson-Mehney and Ross H. Bishop, Assistant Attorneys General, Lansing, for the respondent.

Edward M. Thomas, Corporation Counsel, Robert S. Gazall, Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Jeanne D' Arc Hanna, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Detroit, for Wayne County, amicus curiae.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C. (by William J. Danhof and Bree Popp Woodruff), Lansing, for Michigan Municipal League Legal Defense Fund, amicus curiae.

OPINION

MICHAEL F. CAVANAGH, J.

We granted leave to appeal in this case to determine whether MCL 211.7m exempts property from taxation on the basis that it is "used for public purposes" when a city acquires property and implements a plan to use the property for economic development purposes. Because the city of Mt. Pleasant used the property at issue for public purposes when it acquired and improved the land for resale for economic development, we hold that...

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