Bill Text: MI HB6563 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections; scheduling; reference to August primary election in 1851 PA 156; revise to June primary election. Amends sec. 16c of 1851 PA 156 (MCL 46.16c). TIE BAR WITH: HB 6562'18
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-12-05 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 12/04/2018 [HB6563 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB6563-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 6563
December 4, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Whiteford, Rendon and Crawford and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
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,"
by amending section 16c (MCL 46.16c), as added by 1988 PA 37.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 16c. (1) The county clerk shall notify the clerk of each
township affected by a consolidation petitioned for under section
16b of the date for the election and the question to be submitted.
The
date for the election on the issue of consolidation shall must
be set on or before May 1 in the year of a general November
election. Each township clerk shall arrange for an election on the
question of the proposed consolidation.
(2) The ballot to be used in an election for consolidation
shall
must be substantially in the following form:
"For consolidation of the townships of __________ and
__________ (naming each township) as the (charter) township of
__________" (insert one of the following) (for a charter township)
"that
will be a municipal corporation subject to Act No. 359 of the
Public
Acts of 1947, being sections 42.1 to 42.34 of the Michigan
Compiled
Laws, the charter township
act, 1947 PA 359, MCL 42.1 to
42.34, which act will constitute the charter of the municipal
corporation, and that will have an authorized millage rate of
_______.
[ ] Yes
[ ] No"
or
(For a general law township with extra voted millage) "with
extra voted millage of _______ mills for _______ years.
[ ] Yes
[ ] No"
(3) A township proposed for consolidation shall bear its own
election expenses. The county board of canvassers shall canvass an
election held under this section and shall return the results to
the county board of commissioners.
(4) If a majority of the electors voting on the question in
each township counted separately approve the consolidation, the
county board of commissioners shall approve the consolidation by
resolution. An approved consolidation is effective at 12 p.m. on
November 20 following the election.
(5) In the resolution approving the consolidation, the county
board of commissioners shall call an election of the township board
for
the consolidated township at the next August June primary
and
November general elections, which elections replace the elections
of the boards of the townships that are consolidated. The
consolidated township board is composed of a supervisor, clerk,
treasurer, and 2 or 4 trustees, as provided by law.
(6) If the consolidation is not approved by the electors in
each township, the proceedings on the consolidation petition
terminate.
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. 6562 (request no.
07225'18) of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.
