Act No. 101

Public Acts of 1998

Approved by the Governor

May 28, 1998

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 28, 1998

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 28, 1998

STATE OF MICHIGAN

89TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1998

Introduced by Reps. Hanley, Prusi, Mans, Martinez, Cherry, Hale, Callahan, Bogardus, Schermesser, Goschka, Schauer, Dobb and Middleton

Reps. Anthony, Baird, Bodem, Brackenridge, DeHart, DeVuyst, Frank, Gagliardi, Gernaat, Gire, Jansen, Jellema, Kaza, Kilpatrick, Kukuk, LaForge, Law, McBryde and Tesanovich named co-sponsors

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4447

AN ACT to amend 1947 PA 359, entitled "An act to authorize the incorporation of charter townships; to provide a municipal charter therefor; and to prescribe the powers and functions thereof," by amending section 4 (MCL 42.4), as amended by 1990 PA 12.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 4. Candidates for township office in charter townships shall be nominated at the general primary election held in the township before each general election at which township officers are to be elected. The primary election shall be conducted, as near as may be, pursuant to the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 to 168.992. Duties of the county clerk in the conduct of primary elections shall be performed by the township clerk with respect to the nomination of township officers, and the duties of the county board of election commissioners shall be performed for each township by a board of township election commissioners to be composed of the township clerk and the 2 trustees appointed by the township board.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.