Bill Text: MI HB6169 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Courts; municipal court; residential qualification for candidates for municipal judge; revise for multicity jurisdictions. Amends 1956 PA 5 (MCL 730.501 - 730.534) by adding sec. 8a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6168'10

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-12-15 - Assigned Pa 252'10 With Immediate Effect [HB6169 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB6169-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 252

Public Acts of 2010

Approved by the Governor

December 14, 2010

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 14, 2010

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 14, 2010

STATE OF MICHIGAN

95TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2010

Introduced by Rep. Bledsoe

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6169

AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 5, entitled “An act to establish and promote a uniform system of municipal courts in cities; to consolidate justice courts in cities into a system of municipal courts; to change the name of existing justice courts and justices of the peace in cities to municipal courts and municipal judges; to promote uniformity in practice and procedure in such courts; to prescribe the powers, duties and functions of such courts; and to provide for substitute municipal judges in cities in cases of death, absence, disability or removal of the regularly elected or appointed municipal judges and in cases where temporary judicial assistance is needed in such courts,” (MCL 730.501 to 730.534) by adding section 8a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 8a. (1) Notwithstanding section 8, and except as provided in subsection (2), a person is not eligible for the office of judge of municipal court unless the person is a registered and qualified elector of the city in which election is sought by the filing deadline or the date the person files the affidavit of candidacy.

(2) For purposes of an election or special election for the office of judge of a municipal court that exercises jurisdiction over another city pursuant to section 9928(3) of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.9928, a person is eligible for that office if he or she meets all other requirements for that office and has resided for 30 days or more in the other city over which municipal court jurisdiction is exercised.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 6168 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