Bill Text: MI HB5073 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Courts; judges; certain district court judgeships; reduce in number. Amends secs. 8125 & 8134 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.8125 & 600.8134).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-02-22 - Assigned Pa 16'12 With Immediate Effect [HB5073 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB5073-Chaptered.html
Act No. 16
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
February 21, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
February 22, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 22, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Rep. Cotter
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5073
AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 8125 and 8134 (MCL 600.8125 and 600.8134), section 8125 as amended by 1995 PA 112 and section 8134 as amended by 2001 PA 253.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 8125. (1) The fifty-fourth-a district consists of the city of Lansing, is a district of the third class, and has the following number of judges:
(a) Until the date determined under subdivision (b) takes effect, this district has 5 judges.
(b) Beginning on the earlier of the following dates, the fifty-fourth-a district has 4 judges:
(i) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of district judge in the fifty-fourth-a district.
(ii) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent district judge in the fifty-fourth-a district no longer seeks election or reelection to that office.
(2) The fifty-fourth-b district consists of the city of East Lansing, is a district of the third class, and has 2 judges.
(3) The fifty-fifth district consists of the county of Ingham except the cities of Lansing and East Lansing, is a district of the second class, and has 2 judges.
Sec. 8134. (1) The sixty-seventh district consists of the county of Genesee except the city of Flint, is a district of the second class, and is divided into the following election divisions:
(a) The first division consists of the cities of Flushing and Clio and the townships of Flushing, Flint, Montrose, Thetford, and Vienna and has 1 judge.
(b) The second division consists of the cities of Davison and Burton and the townships of Davison, Forest, Richfield, and Atlas and has 2 judges.
(c) The third division consists of the city of Mt. Morris and the townships of Mt. Morris and Genesee and has 1 judge.
(d) The fourth division consists of the cities of Fenton, Grand Blanc, and Swartz Creek and the townships of Fenton, Argentine, Grand Blanc, Mundy, Gaines, and Clayton and has 2 judges.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the county board of commissioners may by resolution designate the county seat as a place where the court for the sixty-seventh district shall sit in a central court facility. The adoption of a resolution described in this subsection does not require the approval of the majority of the judges of the district, and binds the county to maintain a court facility in each municipality in the sixty-seventh district where a court facility exists on the date of the resolution.
(3) The sixty-eighth district consists of the city of Flint, is a district of the third class, and has the following number of judges:
(a) Until the date determined under subdivision (b) takes effect, this district has 5 judges.
(b) This district has 4 judges beginning on the earlier of the following dates:
(i) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of district judge in the sixty-eighth district.
(ii) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent district judge in the sixty-eighth district no longer seeks election or reelection to that office.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
