HB-6002, As Passed Senate, July 6, 2004                                     

SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 6002

                                                                             A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled                                             

"Michigan election law,"                                                    

by amending section 699 (MCL 168.699).                                      

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1       Sec. 699.  At the general November election, the names of                   

2   the several nonpartisan offices to be voted for shall be placed             

3   on a separate  judicial portion of the ballot containing no                

4   party designation in the following order:  justices of the                  

5   supreme court, judges of the court of appeals, judges of the                

6   circuit court, judges of the probate court,  and circuit court              

7   commissioners in the years in which they are elected judges of             

8   the district court, the following village officers in                       

9   substantially the following order in the year in which elections            

10  for the offices are held:  president, clerk, treasurer, and                 

11  trustees, and in a year in which an election for the office is              

1   held, school board member.