Bill Text: MI HB5106 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Courts; judges; certain circuit court judgeship; reduce in number. Amends sec. 526 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.526).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-02-22 - Assigned Pa 22'12 With Immediate Effect [HB5106 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB5106-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 22

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. Cavanagh

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5106

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 section 526 (MCL 600.526).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 526. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the twenty-fifth judicial circuit consists of the county of Marquette and has 2 judges.

(2) Beginning on the earlier of the following dates, the twenty-fifth judicial circuit has 1 judge:

(a) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of circuit judge in the twenty-fifth judicial circuit.

(b) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent circuit judge in the twenty-fifth judicial circuit 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