Bill Text: MI SB0328 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Law enforcement; state police; grade and duties of state law enforcement officers; modify. Amends sec. 8 of 1935 PA 59 (MCL 28.8).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-02-17 - Assigned Pa 0012'16 With Immediate Effect [SB0328 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0328-Chaptered.html
Act No. 12
Public Acts of 2016
Approved by the Governor
February 16, 2016
Filed with the Secretary of State
February 16, 2016
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 16, 2016
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Senator Schuitmaker
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 328
AN ACT to amend 1935 PA 59, entitled “An act to provide for the public safety; to create the Michigan state police, and provide for the organization thereof; to transfer thereto the offices, duties and powers of the state fire marshal, the state oil inspector, the department of the Michigan state police as heretofore organized, and the department of public safety; to create the office of commissioner of the Michigan state police; to provide for an acting commissioner and for the appointment of the officers and members of said department; to prescribe their powers, duties, and immunities; to provide the manner of fixing their compensation; to provide for their removal from office; and to repeal Act No. 26 of the Public Acts of 1919, being sections 556 to 562, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1929, and Act No. 123 of the Public Acts of 1921, as amended, being sections 545 to 555, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1929,” by amending section 8 (MCL 28.8).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 8. The grades and duties of the officers of the department are colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, inspector, lieutenant, sergeant, trooper, and recruit. The officers may carry arms either openly or concealed. Every member of the department is subject to orders at any time, and the officers of the department at all times have the authority to apprehend criminals and preserve law and order. When traveling on duty, officers and civilian employees of the department are entitled to transportation on any railroad, passenger steamboat line, airline, or passenger bus line upon presentation of a requisition for the transportation signed by the director of the department and those carriers are entitled to compensation for transportation furnished out of money appropriated for the department.
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.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
