SENATE BILL No. 386
April 18, 2001, Introduced by Senators MC COTTER, HAMMERSTROM, JOHNSON,
SIKKEMA and GARCIA and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1966 PA 261, entitled
"An act to provide for the apportionment of county boards of com-
missioners; to prescribe the size of the board; to provide for
appeals; to prescribe the manner of election of the members of
the county board of commissioners; to provide for compensation of
members; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to
repeal acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 11 (MCL 46.411), as amended by 1982 PA 504.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 11.
Candidates A
CANDIDATE for the
office of COUNTY
2 commissioner
shall be residents
A RESIDENT and
registered
3 voters
VOTER of
the district which
they seek THAT HE
OR SHE
4 SEEKS to
represent and shall
remain so A
RESIDENT AND REGIS-
5 TERED VOTER to
hold their HIS OR
HER office, if
elected.
6 Nominations and elections for commissioners shall be by partisan
7 elections. To
obtain the printing
of IN ORDER FOR the
name of
8 any person as
a
candidate for
nomination for the
office of
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2
1 COUNTY
commissioner upon
TO APPEAR ON the
official primary
2 ballot, there
A
NOMINATING PETITION
OR $100.00 FILING
FEE shall
3 be filed with the
county clerk. of
each county a filing
fee of
4 $100.00 or
nomination petitions
THE NOMINATING
PETITION SHALL
5 HAVE BEEN signed by a number of qualified and registered electors
6 residing within
the district ,
equal to not less
than 1% nor
7 more than 4% of
the number of votes
cast in the district
by such
8 party for the
office of secretary
of state at the last
general
9 election in which
a secretary of state
was elected AS
DETERMINED
10 UNDER SECTION 544F OF THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA 116, MCL
11 168.544F. The deadline for filing nomination petitions or filing
12 fees shall be
IS the same as
candidates FOR A
CANDIDATE for
13 state representative. A person who has been convicted of a vio-
14 lation of section
12a(1) of Act No.
370 of the Public
Acts of
15 1941, being
section 38.412a of
the Michigan
Compiled Laws, shall
16 1941 PA 370, MCL
38.412A, IS not be
eligible for
election to
17 the office of
BE A county
commissioner for a
period of 20
18 years after THE conviction.
19 Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect
20 January 1, 2002.
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