Bill Text: MI SB0487 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Counties; charter; minimum staffing requirements for county employees; prohibit. Amends 1966 PA 293 (MCL 45.501 - 45.521) by adding sec. 15b.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-09-14 - Assigned Pa 0135'11 With Immediate Effect [SB0487 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0487-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 135

Public Acts of 2011

Approved by the Governor

September 13, 2011

Filed with the Secretary of State

September 13, 2011

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 13, 2011

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

Introduced by Senator Brandenburg

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 487

AN ACT to amend 1966 PA 293, entitled “An act to provide for the establishment of charter counties; to provide for the election of charter commissioners; to prescribe their powers and duties; to prohibit certain acts of a county board of commissioners after the approval of the election of a charter commission; to prescribe the mandatory and permissive provisions of a charter; to provide for the exercise by a charter county of certain powers whether or not authorized by its charter; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” (MCL 45.501 to 45.521) by adding section 15b.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 15b. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a charter county shall not adopt a county charter or ordinance that includes any minimum staffing requirement for county employees. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any provision in a county charter or ordinance adopted on or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section that contains a minimum staffing requirement for county employees is void and unenforceable.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor