March 12, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Price, Jacobsen, Rutledge, Talabi, Stallworth, Lyons, Haveman, MacGregor and Victory and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled
"Revised judicature act of 1961,"
by amending section 1427 (MCL 600.1427).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1427. All writs, process, proceedings and records in any
court
within this state , shall
be in the English language, (
except that the proper and known names of process, and technical
words, may be expressed in the language heretofore and now commonly
used, ),
and shall be made out on paper,
in a fair, legible
character,
in words at length, and not abbreviated; but such
abbreviations
as are now commonly used in the English language may
be
used, and numbers may be expressed by Arabic figures, or Roman
numerals,
in the customary manner.in
the manner and on any medium
authorized by supreme court rules. If a signature is required on
any document filed with or created by a court, that requirement is
satisfied by an electronic signature as prescribed by supreme court
rules.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4416(request no.
00298'13).
(b) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4415(request no.
00299'13).
(c) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4413(request no.
00301'13).
(d) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4417(request no.
00302'13).
(e) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4414(request no.
00303'13).