Bill Text: MI HB5959 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Townships; charter; authority of charter townships to impose licensing requirements on certain occupations; clarify and limit. Amends sec. 15 of 1947 PA 359 (MCL 42.15).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - Presented To The Governor 12/21/2018 @ 3:14 Pm [HB5959 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB5959-Chaptered.html
Act No. 497
Public Acts of 2018
Approved by the Governor
December 26, 2018
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 27, 2018
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 27, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Rep. Albert
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5959
AN ACT to amend 1947 PA 359, entitled “An act to authorize the incorporation of charter townships; to provide a municipal charter therefor; to prescribe the powers and functions thereof; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 15 (MCL 42.15).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 15. (1) The township board of any charter township may enact ordinances considered necessary to provide for the public peace and health and for the safety of persons and property in the charter township, and may, except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), by ordinance prescribe the terms and conditions upon which licenses may be granted, suspended, or revoked. The charter township board may in those ordinances require and exact payment of reasonable amounts for any licenses considered proper. A person receiving a license shall, before the license is issued, execute a bond to the charter township if required by any ordinance in an amount and with those securities as prescribed by the ordinance, conditioned for the faithful observance of this act and the ordinance under which the license is granted.
(2) This section is subject to the local government occupational licensing act.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act is retroactive and takes effect January 1, 2018.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5955 of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
