HOUSE BILL No. 4011


     January 13, 1999, Introduced by Rep. Shulman and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Urban Policy.


        A bill to amend 1905 PA 157, entitled

   "An act to provide for the acquisition, maintenance, management,
   and control of township parks, resorts, bathing beaches, and
   places of recreation; to provide for the creation of a township
   park commission; to provide for a board of commissioners to pro-
   vide for the issuance of bonds and the levy of taxes; to provide
   for the transfer of certain real property for parks; to authorize
   cities and villages to appropriate money for park purposes; to
   provide for the acquisition, construction, and use of wharves,
   piers, docks, and landing places in townships; and to provide the
   powers and duties of certain local units of government and cer-
   tain officials,"

   by amending section 6 (MCL 41.426), as added by 1989 PA 79.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 6.  (1) On receipt of a written petition signed by not

 2    less than 8% of the registered voters of a township, the township

 3    board of that township, at its first meeting after the receipt of

 4    the petition, shall submit the question of establishing a

 5    township park commission to the registered voters of the township

 6    at the next regular election to be held in the township.  If a


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 1    majority of the  electors  REGISTERED VOTERS voting on the

 2    question vote in favor of establishing a TOWNSHIP park commis-

 3    sion, the township board shall appoint  a township park commis-

 4     sion of 6 members.  THE FOLLOWING NUMBER OF MEMBERS TO A TOWNSHIP

 5    PARK COMMISSION:

 6         (A) BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE AMENDATORY ACT THAT

 7    ADDED SUBSECTION (3), 6 MEMBERS.

 8         (B) ON AND AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE AMENDATORY ACT

 9    THAT ADDED SUBSECTION (3), AN ODD NUMBER OF MEMBERS NOT FEWER

10    THAN 5 AS DETERMINED BY THE TOWNSHIP BOARD.

11         (2) The members APPOINTED PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (1) shall

12    serve until the next township election at which township officers

13    are elected.  At the next township election at which township

14    officers are elected,  6  THE NUMBER OF members of the township

15    park commission AS DETERMINED UNDER SUBSECTION (1) shall be

16    elected for terms of 4 years each.

17         (3) ON AND AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE AMENDATORY ACT

18    THAT ADDED THIS SUBSECTION, A TOWNSHIP BOARD SHALL INCREASE OR

19    DECREASE THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF AN EXISTING TOWNSHIP PARK COM-

20    MISSION IN CONFORMITY WITH SUBSECTION (1)(B).  IF THE TOWNSHIP

21    BOARD INCREASES THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE TOWNSHIP PARK COM-

22    MISSION BOARD, THE TOWNSHIP BOARD SHALL APPOINT THE ADDITIONAL

23    MEMBERS WHO SHALL SERVE UNTIL THE NEXT TOWNSHIP ELECTION AT WHICH

24    TOWNSHIP OFFICERS ARE ELECTED.  IF THE TOWNSHIP BOARD DECREASES

25    THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE TOWNSHIP PARK COMMISSION BOARD, THE

26    MEMBERS OF THE TOWNSHIP PARK COMMISSION THEN SERVING SHALL REMAIN





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 1    IN OFFICE UNTIL THE NEXT TOWNSHIP ELECTION AT WHICH TOWNSHIP

 2    OFFICERS ARE ELECTED.

 3         (4) A VACANCY IN THE TOWNSHIP PARK COMMISSION SHALL BE

 4    FILLED BY APPOINTMENT OF THE TOWNSHIP BOARD FOR THE UNEXPIRED

 5    PORTION OF THE TERM.














































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