Bill Text: MI SB0700 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Courts; district court; fee charged by district judges and magistrates to perform marriages; authorize state court administrative office to set fee and require fee to be paid to district court in the district where wedding is performed. Amends sec. 8316 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.8316). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0698'11

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-18 - Assigned Pa 0267'12 With Immediate Effect [SB0700 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0700-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 267

Public Acts of 2012

Approved by the Governor

June 25, 2012

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 3, 2012

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 3, 2012

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

Introduced by Senators Hansen, Jones, Booher and Gleason

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 700

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,” by amending section 8316 (MCL 600.8316).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 8316. (1) District judges and magistrates may perform marriages and shall charge a fee of $10.00 that shall be deposited in the treasury of the district control unit at the end of each month. A fee paid under this section shall be remitted to the district court in which the district judge or magistrate performing the marriage serves.

(2) A district judge or magistrate may waive the fee for performing a marriage ceremony if the parties to the marriage are indigent.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 698 of the 96th Legislature is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor