Bill Text: MI HB5057 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Counties; boards and commissions; changing the name of a township upon request of a township board; authorize. Amends 1851 PA 156 (MCL 46.1 - 46.32) by adding sec. 14a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5056'17

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-10-05 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/04/2017 [HB5057 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5057-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5057

 

 

October 4, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Phelps and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     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,"

 

(MCL 46.1 to 46.32) by adding section 14a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 14a. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a township submits

 

an application to the county board of commissioners of the county

 

in which that township is located requesting that the name of the

 

township be changed as provided in section 2a of 1846 RS 16, MCL

 

41.2a, and 3/5 of all the members elected to the county board of

 

commissioners of the county in which that township is located vote

 

to approve the application, the name of that township is authorized

 

to be changed by the township to the proposed name provided in the

 

application.

     (2) A township cannot be authorized to change its name more

 

than once every 25 years.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5056 (request no.

 

04215'17) of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.