Bill Text: MI HB5075 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Courts; judges; certain circuit court and district court judgeships; reduce in number. Amends secs. 528 & 8144 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.528 & 600.8144).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-02-22 - Assigned Pa 18'12 With Immediate Effect [HB5075 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB5075-Chaptered.html
Act No. 18
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
February 21, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
February 22, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 22, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Rep. Pettalia
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5075
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 sections 528 and 8144 (MCL 600.528 and 600.8144), section 528 as amended by 1988 PA 134 and section 8144 as amended by 2002 PA 92.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 528. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the twenty-seventh judicial circuit consists of the counties of Newaygo and Oceana and has 2 judges.
(2) Beginning on the earlier of the following dates, the twenty-seventh judicial circuit has 1 judge:
(a) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of circuit judge in the twenty-seventh judicial circuit.
(b) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent circuit judge in the twenty-seventh judicial circuit no longer seeks election or reelection to that office.
Sec. 8144. (1) Until the date determined under subsection (2), the seventy-ninth district consists of the counties of Lake and Mason, is a district of the first class, and has 1 judge.
(2) Beginning on the date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of district judge in the seventy-ninth district or the beginning date of the term for which the incumbent district judge in the seventy-ninth district no longer seeks election or reelection to that office, whichever is earlier, the seventy-ninth district consists of the counties of Lake and Mason and is a district of the first class. Under section 810a, the probate judge for the county of Lake shall serve as judge of the seventy-ninth district within the county of Lake and the probate judge for the county of Mason shall serve as judge of the seventy-ninth district within the county of Mason.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
