Bill Text: MI SB0843 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Courts; judges; certain district court judgeships; reduce in number. Amends secs. 8125 & 8134 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.8125 & 600.8134).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-29 - Reassigned To Committee On Judiciary [SB0843 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0843-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 843

 

 

November 10, 2011, Introduced by Senator HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Redistricting.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

 

"Revised judicature act of 1961,"

 

by amending sections 8125 and 8134 (MCL 600.8125 and 600.8134),

 

section 8125 as amended by 1995 PA 112 and section 8134 as amended

 

by 2001 PA 253.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 8125. (1) The fifty-fourth-a district consists of the

 

city of Lansing, is a district of the third class, and has the

 

following number of judges:

 

     (a) Through December 31, 1995, 6 judges.Until the date

 

determined under subdivision (b) takes effect, this district has 5

 

judges.

 

     (b) Beginning January 1, 1996, 5 judges.Beginning on the

 

earlier of the following dates, the fifty-fourth-a district has 4

 

judges:

 

     (i) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of

 

district judge in the fifty-fourth-a district.

 

     (ii) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent

 

district judge in the fifty-fourth-a district no longer seeks

 

election or reelection to that office.

 

     (2) The fifty-fourth-b district consists of the city of East

 

Lansing, is a district of the third class, and has 2 judges.

 

     (3) The fifty-fifth district consists of the county of Ingham

 

except the cities of Lansing and East Lansing, is a district of the

 

second class, and has 2 judges.

 

     Sec. 8134. (1) The sixty-seventh district consists of the

 

county of Genesee except the city of Flint, is a district of the

 

second class, and is divided into the following election divisions:

 

     (a) The first division consists of the cities of Flushing and

 

Clio and the townships of Flushing, Flint, Montrose, Thetford, and

 

Vienna and has 1 judge.

 

     (b) The second division consists of the cities of Davison and

 

Burton and the townships of Davison, Forest, Richfield, and Atlas

 

and has 2 judges.

 

     (c) The third division consists of the city of Mt. Morris and

 

the townships of Mt. Morris and Genesee and has 1 judge.

 

     (d) The fourth division consists of the cities of Fenton,

 

Grand Blanc, and Swartz Creek and the townships of Fenton,

 

Argentine, Grand Blanc, Mundy, Gaines, and Clayton and has 2

 

judges.

 

     (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the

 

county board of commissioners may by resolution designate the

 

county seat as a place where the court for the sixty-seventh

 

district shall sit in a central court facility. The adoption of

 

such a resolution shall described in this subsection does not

 

require the approval of the majority of the judges of the district,

 

and shall bind binds the county to maintain a court facility in

 

each municipality in the sixty-seventh district where a court

 

facility exists on the date of the resolution.

 

     (3) The sixty-eighth district consists of the city of Flint,

 

is a district of the third class, and has the following number of

 

judges:

 

     (a) Until the date determined under subdivision (b) takes

 

effect, this district has 6 5 judges.

 

     (b) This district has 5 4 judges beginning on the earlier of

 

the following dates:

 

     (i) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of

 

district judge in this the sixty-eighth district.

 

     (ii) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent

 

district judge in this the sixty-eighth district no longer seeks

 

election or reelection to that office.