Act No. 33

Public Acts of 2012

Approved by the Governor

February 28, 2012

Filed with the Secretary of State

February 28, 2012

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 28, 2012

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

Introduced by Rep. Walsh

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5071

AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 8151 (MCL 600.8151), as amended by 2000 PA 38.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 8151. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the eighty-sixth district consists of the counties of Grand Traverse, Antrim, and Leelanau, is a district of the first class, and has 3 judges.

(2) Beginning on the earlier of the following dates, the eighty-sixth district has 2 judges:

(a) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of district judge in the eighty-sixth district.

(b) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent district judge in the eighty-sixth district no longer seeks election or reelection to that office.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor