Act No. 330

Public Acts of 2005

Approved by the Governor

December 20, 2005

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 28, 2005

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 28, 2005

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2005

Introduced by Senators Allen, Bishop, Kuipers, George, Birkholz, Cassis, Stamas, Van Woerkom, Johnson, Garcia, Gilbert, Patterson, Cropsey, Sanborn, Brown, Jelinek, Hardiman and McManus

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 830

AN ACT to amend 1965 PA 380, entitled "An act to organize the executive and administrative agencies of state government; to establish principal departments and department heads; to define the powers and duties of the principal departments and their governing agents; to allocate executive and administrative powers, duties, functions, and services among the principal departments; to provide for a method for the gradual implementation of the provisions of this act and for the transfer of existing funds and appropriations of the principal departments herein created and established," by amending section 357 (MCL 16.457).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 357. (1) The Mackinac bridge authority created under 1950 (Ex Sess) PA 21, MCL 254.301 to 254.305, is transferred to the department of transportation.

(2) The authority shall exercise its prescribed statutory powers, duties, and functions independently of the director of the department of transportation. The budgeting, procurement, and related management functions of the authority shall be performed by the authority consistent with the requirements of generally applicable state law in consultation with the director of the department of transportation.

(3) Individuals employed by the department of transportation to provide services to the authority shall be employees of the department of transportation, members of the state classified service, but shall report to the executive secretary of the authority.

(4) As used in this section, "authority" means the Mackinac bridge authority created under 1950 (Ex Sess) PA 21, MCL 254.301 to 254.304.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 829.

(b) House Bill No. 5333.

(c) House Bill No. 5339.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor