Act No. 10

Public Acts of 2009

Approved by the Governor

April 9, 2009

Filed with the Secretary of State

April 9, 2009

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 9, 2009

STATE OF MICHIGAN

95TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

Introduced by Rep. LeBlanc

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4096

AN ACT to amend 1966 PA 189, entitled “An act to provide procedures for making complaints for, obtaining, executing and returning search warrants; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 2 (MCL 780.652).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 2. (1) A warrant may be issued to search for and seize any property or other thing that is 1 or more of the following:

(a) Stolen or embezzled in violation of a law of this state.

(b) Designed and intended for use, or that is or has been used, as the means of committing a crime.

(c) Possessed, controlled, or used wholly or partially in violation of a law of this state.

(d) Evidence of crime or criminal conduct.

(e) Contraband.

(f) The body or person of a human being or of an animal that may be the victim of a crime.

(g) The object of a search warrant under another law of this state providing for the search warrant. If there is a conflict between this act and another search warrant law, this act controls.

(2) A warrant may be issued to search for and seize a person who is the subject of either of the following:

(a) An arrest warrant for the apprehension of a person charged with a crime.

(b) A bench warrant issued in a criminal case.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 188 of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor