HOUSE BILL No. 5515


     January 28, 1998, Introduced by Rep. Profit and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.


        A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

   "Revised judicature act of 1961,"

   by amending section 1621 (MCL 600.1621), as amended by 1995 PA

   161, and by adding section 1619.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 1619.  IN A CIVIL ACTION BROUGHT BY A CREDITOR AGAINST

 2    A DEBTOR TO COLLECT ON A DEBT THAT IS DUE AND OWING, VENUE SHALL

 3    BE IN THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE TRANSACTION GIVING RISE TO THE

 4    CLAIMED INDEBTEDNESS WAS EXECUTED BY THE PARTIES.

 5         Sec. 1621.  Except for actions  provided for  DESCRIBED in

 6    sections 1605, 1611, 1615, 1619, and 1629, venue is determined as

 7    follows:

 8         (a) The county in which a defendant resides, has a place of

 9    business, or conducts business, or in which the registered office




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 1    of a defendant corporation is located, is a proper county in

 2    which to commence and try an action.

 3         (b) If none of the defendants meet 1 or more of the criteria

 4    in subdivision (a), the county in which a plaintiff resides or

 5    has a place of business, or in which the registered office of a

 6    plaintiff corporation is located, is a proper county in which to

 7    commence and try an action.

 8         (c) An action against a fiduciary appointed by court order

 9    shall be commenced in the county in which the fiduciary was

10    appointed.




































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