Bill Text: MI SB0488 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Counties; other; minimum staffing requirements for employees of an optional unified form of county government; prohibit. Amends 1973 PA 139 (MCL 45.551 - 45.573) by adding sec. 6b.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-09-14 - Assigned Pa 0136'11 With Immediate Effect [SB0488 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0488-Chaptered.html

Act No. 136

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 Robertson

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 488

AN ACT to amend 1973 PA 139, entitled “An act to provide forms of county government; to provide for county managers and county executives and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain departments, boards, commissions, and authorities; to provide for transfer of certain powers and functions; to prescribe powers of a board of county commissioners and elected officials; to provide organization of administrative functions; to transfer property; to retain ordinances and laws not inconsistent with this act; to provide methods for abolition of a unified form of county government; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” (MCL 45.551 to 45.573) by adding section 6b.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 6b. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a county board of commissioners shall not adopt an ordinance that includes any minimum staffing requirement for county employees. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any provision in an ordinance adopted by a county board of commissioners 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