Bill Text: MI HB5835 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Counties; boards and commissions; number of county commissioner districts; modify. Amends secs. 1 & 2 of 1966 PA 261 (MCL 46.401 & 46.402).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-19 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/18/2018 [HB5835 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB5835-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5835
April 18, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Howrylak and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
A bill 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 1 and 2 (MCL 46.401 and 46.402), as amended by
2011 PA 280.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 1. (1) Within 60 days after the publication of the
latest
2 United States official decennial census figures, the county
3 apportionment commission in each county of this state shall
4 apportion the county into not less than 5 nor more than 21 15
5 county commissioner districts as nearly of equal population as is
6 practicable and within the limitations of section 2.
1 (2) If a county is not in compliance with section 2 on the
2 effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection,
3 the county apportionment commission of that county shall, within 30
4 days of the effective date of the amendatory act that added this
5 subsection, apportion the county in compliance with section 2. For
6 subsequent apportionments in a county that is apportioned under
7 this subsection, the county apportionment commission of that county
8 shall comply with the provisions of subsection (1).
9 Sec. 2.
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10 |
County Population |
Number of Commissioners |
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11 |
Under 5,001 |
Not more than 7 |
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12 |
5,001 to 10,000 |
Not more than 10 |
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13 |
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14 |
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Over 10,000 |
Not more than 15 |
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15 |
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