Bill Text: MI HB4283 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Elections: filing fees; candidate filing fee in lieu of nominating petitions for the office of county commissioner; make nonrefundable. Amends secs. 11 & 11a of 1966 PA 261 (MCL 46.411 & 46.411a).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-15 - Assigned Pa 145'21 With Immediate Effect [HB4283 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2021-HB4283-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 145

Public Acts of 2021

Approved by the Governor

December 23, 2021

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 27, 2021

EFFECTIVE DATE:  December 27, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

state of michigan

101st Legislature

Regular session of 2021

Introduced by Reps. Sabo, Bollin, Koleszar, O’Neal, Calley and Hertel

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4283

AN ACT to amend 1966 PA 261, entitled “An act to provide for the apportionment of county boards of commissioners; to prescribe the size of the board; to provide for appeals; to prescribe the manner of election of the members of the county board of commissioners; to provide for compensation of members; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 11 and 11a (MCL 46.411 and 46.411a), section 11 as amended by 2002 PA 158.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 11. A candidate for the office of county commissioner must be a resident and registered voter of the district that he or she seeks to represent and must remain a resident and registered voter to hold his or her office, if elected. Nominations and elections for commissioners must be by partisan elections. In order for the name of a candidate for nomination for the office of county commissioner to appear on the official primary ballot, a nominating petition or a nonrefundable filing fee of $100.00 must be filed with the county clerk. The nominating petition must have been signed by a number of qualified and registered electors residing within the district as determined under section 544f of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.544f. The deadline for filing nomination petitions or filing fees is the same as for a candidate for state representative. An individual who has been convicted of a violation of section 12a(1) of 1941 PA 370, MCL 38.412a, is not eligible to be a county commissioner for 20 years after the conviction.

 

Sec. 11a. A nonrefundable filing fee paid to the county clerk in lieu of filing petitions under section 11 must be deposited in the general fund of the county and must be used only for the purchase and maintenance of voting equipment.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor