Bill Text: MI HB4045 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Criminal procedure: other; authority of counties to offer reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction; increase maximum reward. Amends sec. 19, ch. XVI of 1927 PA 175 (MCL 776.19).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-10-06 - Referred To Committee Of The Whole With Substitute (s-1) [HB4045 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4045-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4045
January 15, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Hope, Brixie, Kennedy, Stone, Cherry, Anthony, Slagh, Frederick, Hammoud and Whitsett and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled
"The code of criminal procedure,"
by amending section 19 of chapter XVI (MCL 776.19).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
CHAPTER XVI
Sec.
19. (1) The board of supervisors commissioners of a
county
is hereby authorized to offer
and pay out of the general
fund
of the county not to exceed 2,000 dollars more than $20,000.00
as a reward for the arrest and conviction, or for information
leading to the arrest and conviction, of any person or persons
having committed a crime within the county or having escaped from
any
penal institution therein: Provided, That the within the
county.
(2)
The powers granted hereby in this section may be exercised
by
the finance committee of the board of supervisors commissioners
of
a county when said the board
of supervisors commissioners
of the
county is not in session upon the request of a reward by the
sheriff or the prosecuting attorney of the county.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
