Bill Text: MI SB0492 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Villages; general law; minimum staffing requirements for village employees; prohibit. Amends 1895 PA 3 (MCL 61.1 - 74.25) by adding sec. 1d to ch. I.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-09-14 - Assigned Pa 0140'11 With Immediate Effect [SB0492 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0492-Chaptered.html

Act No. 140

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 Booher

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 492

AN ACT to amend 1895 PA 3, entitled “An act to provide for the government of certain villages; to define their powers and duties; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes, borrowing of money, and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness by villages subject to this act; to define the powers and duties of certain state and local officers and entities; to define the application of this act and provide for its amendment by villages subject to this act; to validate prior amendments and certain prior actions taken and bonds issued by villages subject to this act; to provide for the disincorporation of villages; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” (MCL 61.1 to 74.25) by adding section 1d to chapter I.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

CHAPTER I

Sec. 1d. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a village shall not adopt a village charter or ordinance that includes any minimum staffing requirement for village employees. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any provision in a village 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 village 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