Bill Text: MI SB0533 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Courts; other; electronic access to courts; allow court or court funding unit to charge certain fees. Amends 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.101 - 600.9947) by adding sec. 1988. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5028'15, HB 5029'15, HB 5030'15, SB 0531'15, SB 0532'15

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0235'15 With Immediate Effect [SB0533 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0533-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 235

Public Acts of 2015

Approved by the Governor

December 22, 2015

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 22, 2015

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2016

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

Introduced by Senators Schuitmaker, Jones, Marleau and Stamas

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 533

AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 600.101 to 600.9947) by adding section 1988.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1988. A court or court funding unit shall not charge a fee to retrieve and inspect a document on site, including a document that was filed electronically, but may charge a fee to copy a document.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January 1, 2016.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 98th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 531.

(b) Senate Bill No. 532.

(c) House Bill No. 5028.

(d) House Bill No. 5029.

(e) House Bill No. 5030.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor