Bill Text: MI HB4532 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Elections: scheduling; reference to August primary election in 1851 PA 156; revise to June primary election. Amends sec. 16c of 1851 PA 156 (MCL 46.16c). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4530'21

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-10-11 - Referred To Committee Of The Whole With Substitute (s-1) [HB4532 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2021-HB4532-Engrossed.html

 

 

Substitute For

HOUSE BILL NO. 4532

A bill to amend 1851 PA 156, entitled

"An act to define the powers and duties of the county boards of commissioners of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local, administrative and legislative powers; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act,"

by amending section 16c (MCL 46.16c), as added by 1988 PA 37.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 16c. (1) The county clerk shall notify the clerk of each township affected by a consolidation petitioned for under section 16b of the date for the election and the question to be submitted. The date for the election on the issue of consolidation shall must be set on or before May 1 in the year of a general November election. Each township clerk shall arrange for an election on the question of the proposed consolidation.

(2) The ballot to be used in an election for consolidation shall must be substantially in the following form:

"For consolidation of the townships of __________ and __________ (naming each township) as the (charter) township of __________" (insert one of the following) (for a charter township) "that will be a municipal corporation subject to Act No. 359 of the Public Acts of 1947, being sections 42.1 to 42.34 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, the charter township act, 1947 PA 359, MCL 42.1 to 42.34, which act will constitute the charter of the municipal corporation, and that will have an authorized millage rate of _______.

[ ] Yes

[ ] No"

or

(For a general law township with extra voted millage) "with extra voted millage of _______ mills for _______ years.

[ ] Yes

[ ] No"

(3) A township proposed for consolidation shall bear its own election expenses. The county board of canvassers shall canvass an election held under this section and shall return the results to the county board of commissioners.

(4) If a majority of the electors voting on the question in each township counted separately approve the consolidation, the county board of commissioners shall approve the consolidation by resolution. An approved consolidation is effective at 12 p.m. on November 20 following the election.

(5) In the resolution approving the consolidation, the county board of commissioners shall call an election of the township board for the consolidated township at the next August June primary and November general elections, which elections replace the elections of the boards of the townships that are consolidated. The consolidated township board is composed of a supervisor, clerk, treasurer, and 2 or 4 trustees, as provided by law.

(6) If the consolidation is not approved by the electors in each township, the proceedings on the consolidation petition terminate.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January 1, 2023.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4530 (request no. 02140'21) of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.

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