Bill Text: MI HB5187 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Public employees and officers; duties; provision relating to the transfer of books and materials to successors; modify to remove obsolete language. Amends sec. 34 of 1899 PA 44 (MCL 24.34).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-19)
Status: (Passed) 2016-05-31 - Assigned Pa 134'16 With Immediate Effect [HB5187 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB5187-Chaptered.html
Act No. 134
Public Acts of 2016
Approved by the Governor
May 25, 2016
Filed with the Secretary of State
May 26, 2016
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 24, 2016
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Reps. Darany, Howrylak, Phelps, Yanez, Greig, Chirkun, Lane, Driskell, Rutledge, Plawecki, Faris, Singh, Hoadley, Talabi, Derek Miller, Glenn, Wittenberg, Schor, Moss, Guerra, Durhal, Santana, Sarah Roberts, Maturen, LaVoy, Zemke, Cochran, Irwin, Dianda, Brunner, Liberati, Gay-Dagnogo, Pagan, Neeley, Smiley, Callton, Graves, Price, Crawford, Hooker, Pagel, Bizon, Inman, Hughes, Lucido, Runestad, Vaupel, Garcia, Cox, LaFontaine and Aaron Miller
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5187
AN ACT to amend 1899 PA 44, entitled “An act to provide for the publication and distribution of publications, laws, and documents, reports of the several officers, boards of officers and public institutions of this state now or hereafter to be published; to provide for the replacing of publications lost by fire or otherwise; to provide for the publication and distribution of the Michigan manual; to provide for duties of certain state and local government departments and agencies; to establish certain funds; and to provide for certain penalties and remedies,” by amending section 34 (MCL 24.34).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 34. A person or officer who receives any of the books distributed by the secretary of state that this act requires the person to retain, and each city, village, township, and county officer, shall deliver to his or her successor in office all of those books. A person who does not do so is liable to his or her successor for the cost of replacing those books and costs of suit. An action shall, on request, be brought and prosecuted by the prosecuting attorney for the county. A person who knowingly and willfully retains those books or refuses to deliver them to the successor officer is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a fine of not more than $50.00, or both.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
