Bill Text: MI SB0640 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections; petitions; requirement for recall petition circulators to be registered electors; eliminate. Amends sec. 957 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.957).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-03 - Referred To Committee Of The Whole [SB0640 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0640-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 640
December 3, 2015, Introduced by Senator ROBERTSON and referred to the Committee on Elections and Government Reform.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
by amending section 957 (MCL 168.957).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
957. (1) A person circulating a recall petition
shall be
a
qualified and registered elector in the electoral district of the
official
sought to be recalled and shall attach thereto his
certificate
stating that he is a qualified and registered elector
in
the electoral district of the official sought to be recalled and
shall
state the city or the township wherein he resides and his
post-office
address; further, that state
in the certificate of
circulator his or her residence address and that he or she is 18
years of age or older and a United States citizen. In addition, the
certificate of circulator shall indicate all of the following:
(a) That signatures appearing upon the recall petition were
not obtained through fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation and that
he or she has neither caused nor permitted a person to sign the
recall petition more than once and has no knowledge of a person
signing
the recall petition more than once. ;
that
(b) That all signatures to the recall petition were affixed in
his
or her presence.
; and that
(c) That, to the best of his or her knowledge, information,
and belief, the signers of the recall petition are qualified and
registered
electors and the signatures appearing thereon on the
recall
petition are the genuine signatures of
the persons of whom
they
purport to be. signing the
recall petition.
(2) A person who knowingly makes a false statement in the
certificate
hereby required of
circulator is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
