HOUSE BILL No. 4765


     May 8, 1997, Introduced by Reps. McNutt, Voorhees, London, Cropsey, Goschka, Martinez and Oxender and referred to the Committee on Transportation.


        A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

   "Michigan vehicle code,"

   by amending section 207 (MCL 257.207), as amended by 1996

   PA 102.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 207.  (1) An officer or employee designated by the sec-

 2    retary of state for the purpose of administering the motor vehi-

 3    cle laws shall administer oaths and acknowledge signatures with-

 4    out CHARGING A fee.

 5         (2)  The  UPON REQUEST, THE secretary of state  and the

 6     officers designated by the secretary of state  may prepare under

 7    the seal of the secretary of state and deliver  upon request,  a

 8    certified copy of a record maintained under this act.  and  THE

 9    SECRETARY OF STATE MAY charge a fee as  set forth  PROVIDED in

10    this act OR AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW FOR A COPY OF THE


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 1    RECORD.  THE SECRETARY OF STATE SHALL NOT CHARGE A FEE TO AN

 2    ORGANIZATION EXEMPT FROM TAXATION UNDER SECTION 501(c)(3) OF THE

 3    INTERNAL REVENUE CODE IF THE ORGANIZATION ONLY REQUESTS A RECORD

 4    CHECK BUT DOES NOT REQUEST AN ACTUAL COPY OF THE RECORD.  AN

 5    ORGANIZATION EXEMPT FROM TAXATION UNDER SECTION 501(c)(3) OF THE

 6    INTERNAL REVENUE CODE THAT RECEIVES AN ACTUAL COPY OF A RECORD

 7    SHALL PAY THE SAME FEE AS ANY OTHER REQUESTOR OF A RECORD COPY.

 8         (3) A certified computer-generated or paper copy of a record

 9     maintained under this act  PREPARED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE

10    shall be admissible in a proceeding in a court in the same manner

11    as the original record and shall be prima facie evidence of the

12    contents of and the facts stated on the record.

13         (4) An order, record, or paper generated by the computerized

14    central file of the secretary of state may be certified electron-

15    ically by the generating computer.  The certification shall be a

16    certification of the order, record, or paper as it appeared on a

17    specific date.

18         (5) A court or the office of the clerk of a court of this

19    state that is electronically connected by a terminal device to

20    the computerized central file of the secretary of state may

21    receive into and use as evidence in any case the

22    computer-generated certified information obtained by the terminal

23    device from the file.  A duly authorized employee of a court of

24    record of this state may order a record for an individual from a

25    secretary of state computer terminal device located in, and under

26    the control of, the court, and certify in writing that the





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 1    document was produced from the terminal and that the document was

 2    not altered in any way.




















































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