Bill Text: MI HB6540 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Courts; other; time for filing of legal documents by prisoners not represented by counsel; modify. Amends sec. 1974 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.1974).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-10-27 - Printed Bill Filed 10/06/2010 [HB6540 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB6540-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 6540

 

October 20, 2010, Introduced by Rep. LeBlanc and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

 

"Revised judicature act of 1961,"

 

by amending section 1974 (MCL 600.1974).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1974. (1) The filing of pleadings and other papers

 

documents with the court shall be made by filing them with the

 

office of the clerk of the court, except that the judge may permit

 

the papers documents to be filed with him or her, in which event he

 

case the judge shall note thereon the filing date on the documents

 

and forthwith shall transmit them the documents to the office of

 

the clerk of the court.

 

     (2) In the case of a pleading or other document filed by a

 

prisoner who is incarcerated in a state correctional facility and

 

is representing himself or herself without legal counsel, the

 

document, if it pertains to the prisoner's appeal of his or her

 

criminal conviction or another criminal matter involving the

 

prisoner, shall be considered to be filed on the date that it is

 

posted with the United States postal service.