November 10, 2005, Introduced by Reps. Elsenheimer, Jones, Gillard, Booher, Sheltrown, Hildenbrand, Pavlov, Green, Hansen and Marleau and referred to the Committee on House Oversight, Elections, and Ethics.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
by amending section 683 (MCL 168.683).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
683. (1) Each county clerk prior to Before
each primary
and election, each county clerk shall, by some reliable means,
notify the clerk of each township and city in the county of a
training school for election inspectors to be held at a place
designated
by the county clerk within 20 days prior to before
each primary, general, and special election. The township and city
clerks shall notify each election inspector appointed to serve at
that
election of the time and place of such the training school.
At
such meeting a training
school, the county clerk shall
instruct and demonstrate the manner in which the duties of election
inspectors
are required by law to be performed. It shall be the
duty
of the inspectors, so notified, to attend such meeting
(2) Except as provided in subsection (5), an election
inspector notified under subsection (1) shall attend the training
school
unless excused by the county clerk for
good cause.
Compensation
may be paid them therefor by their respective
municipalities
at such rate as may be determined by the governing
bodies.
No inspector of election shall serve in any election unless
he
shall have The municipality in which an election
inspector is
appointed may compensate the election inspector for attending a
training school at the rate determined by the municipality's
governing body.
(3) An election inspector shall not serve in an election
unless the election inspector has, within the last preceding 2
years,
either attended an election inspector
training school or
shall
have passed satisfactorily an
examination given by the
election commission of the city, township, or village in which
appointed.
The examination shall be is subject to the approval of
the secretary of state.
(4) This
section shall does not prevent the appointment of
an
election inspector
of election to
fill a vacancy.
(5)
This section shall does
not prohibit any city or any
township
having a population of 10,000 or more a city or township
from conducting its own training school for election inspectors of
that
city or township. in which case election inspectors who have
attended
such school shall not be An election inspector who
attends a city or township training school is not required to
attend the county training school.