Bill Text: MI SB0861 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Law enforcement; local police; quotas for making specified number of stops or contacts or issuing specified number of traffic citations; prohibit. Amends sec. 750 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.750).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-22 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [SB0861 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0861-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 861

 

 

March 22, 2016, Introduced by Senator SHIRKEY and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 750 (MCL 257.750), as amended by 2010 PA 226.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 750. (1) A police officer shall not make or be required

 

to issue make a predetermined or specified number of stops or

 

contacts or issue a predetermined or specified number of citations

 

for violations of this act or of local ordinances substantially

 

corresponding to provisions of this act, including parking or

 

standing violations. A police officer's performance evaluation

 

system shall not require a predetermined or specified number of

 

stops or contacts to be made or citations to be issued. Section 901

 

does not apply to a violation of this subsection.

 

     (2) A police officer shall is not be entitled to any fees for

 

issuing a citation. A police officer, judge, district court

magistrate, or other person employed by the state or by a local

 

governmental unit who violates section 749 or this subsection is

 

guilty of misconduct in office and subject to removal from office.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.