Bill Text: MI SB0844 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Courts; judges; certain circuit court and district court judgeships; reduce in number. Amends secs. 504, 8123 & 8136 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.504 et seq.).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-29 - Reassigned To Committee On Judiciary [SB0844 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0844-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 844

 

 

November 10, 2011, Introduced by Senator EMMONS and referred to the Committee on Redistricting.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

 

"Revised judicature act of 1961,"

 

by amending sections 504, 8123, and 8136 (MCL 600.504, 600.8123,

 

and 600.8136), section 504 as amended by 2002 PA 715 and section

 

8123 as amended by 2000 PA 448.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 504. (1) The third judicial circuit consists of the

 

county of Wayne and has the following number of judges:

 

     (a) Until 12 noon, January 1, 2003, 2013, 64 61 judges.

 

     (b) Beginning 12 noon, January 1, 2003, 2013, 63 60 judges. ;

 

however, if, after 12 noon, January 1, 2003, a vacancy occurs in a

 

judgeship held by an incumbent judge of this circuit who would be

 

ineligible to seek reelection to that office in 2004, that

 

judgeship is eliminated unless the total number of judgeships in

 

this circuit has been reduced to 61 before that vacancy occurred.

 

     (c) Beginning 12 noon, January 1, 2005, 61 judges.

 

     Sec. 8123. (1) The forty-third district consists of the cities

 

of Madison Heights, Ferndale, and Hazel Park, is a district of the

 

third class, and has 3 judges.

 

     (2) The forty-fourth district consists of the city of Royal

 

Oak, is a district of the third class, and has 2 judges.

 

     (3) The forty-fifth-a district consists of the city of

 

Berkley, is a district of the third class, and has 1 judge.

 

     (4) The forty-fifth-b district consists of the cities of

 

Huntington Woods, Oak Park, and Pleasant Ridge and the township of

 

Royal Oak in the county of Oakland, is a district of the third

 

class, and has 2 judges.

 

     (5) The forty-sixth district consists of the cities of

 

Southfield and Lathrup Village and the township of Southfield in

 

the county of Oakland, is a district of the third class, and has 3

 

judges.

 

     (6) The forty-seventh district consists of the cities of

 

Farmington and Farmington Hills, is a district of the third class,

 

and has 2 judges. Subject to section 8175, this district may have 1

 

additional judge subject to review and recommendation by the state

 

court administrator to the legislature and subsequent legislation,

 

if and when a district court judgeship is eliminated within the

 

state of Michigan.

 

     (7) The forty-eighth district consists of the cities of

 

Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Sylvan Lake, Keego Harbor, and

 

Orchard Lake Village and the townships of Bloomfield and West

 

Bloomfield in the county of Oakland, is a district of the third

 

class, and has 3 judges.

 

     (8) The fiftieth district consists of the city of Pontiac, is

 

a district of the third class, and has 4 judges.

 

     (9) The fifty-first district consists of the township of

 

Waterford in the county of Oakland, is a district of the third

 

class, and has 2 judges.

 

     (10) The fifty-second district consists of the county of

 

Oakland except the cities of Madison Heights, Ferndale, Hazel Park,

 

Royal Oak, Berkley, Huntington Woods, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge,

 

Southfield, Lathrup Village, Farmington, Farmington Hills,

 

Northville, Sylvan Lake, Keego Harbor, Orchard Lake Village,

 

Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Pontiac and the townships of

 

Royal Oak, Southfield, West Bloomfield, Bloomfield, and Waterford,

 

is a district of the second class, and is divided into the

 

following election divisions:

 

     (a) The first division consists of the cities of Novi, South

 

Lyon, Wixom, and Walled Lake and the townships of Milford,

 

Highland, Commerce, Lyon, and Novi and has 3 judges. Until January

 

1, 2003, the first division also includes the townships of Rose and

 

White Lake. The first division has 3 judges. Subject to section

 

8175, this division may have 1 additional judge effective January

 

1, 2003. If the Oakland county board of commissioners approves that

 

additional judgeship, the judgeship in the first division that is

 

filled by the district judge of the first division whose term

 

expires January 1, 2005 is transferred to the second division,

 

effective January 1, 2003.

 

     (b) The second division consists of the city of the village of

 

Clarkston and the townships of Springfield, Independence, Holly,

 

Groveland, and Brandon, . Beginning January 1, 2003, the second

 

division also includes the townships of Rose, and White Lake and

 

has 2 judges. The second division has 1 judge; however, effective

 

January 1, 2003, this division shall have 2 judges if a judgeship

 

is transferred to this division from the first division pursuant to

 

subdivision (a).

 

     (c) The third division consists of the cities of Rochester,

 

Auburn Hills, Rochester Hills, and Lake Angelus and the townships

 

of Oxford, Addison, Orion, and Oakland and has 3 judges.

 

     (d) The Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, the

 

fourth division consists of the cities of Troy and Clawson and has

 

3 judges. Beginning 12 noon, January 1, 2013, the fourth division

 

has 2 judges.

 

     Sec. 8136. (1) The seventy-first-A district consists of the

 

county of Lapeer, is a district of the first class, and has 2

 

judges. Beginning 12 noon, January 1, 2013, the seventy-first-A

 

district has 1 judge.

 

     (2) The seventy-first-B district consists of the county of

 

Tuscola, is a district of the first class, and has 1 judge.