pa012298

Act No. 122

Public Acts of 1998

Approved by the Governor

June 9, 1998

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 10, 1998

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 10, 1998

STATE OF MICHIGAN

89TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1998

Introduced by Reps. Varga, Frank, Schermesser, Freeman, Lowe, Raczkowski, Profit, Alley, Mathieu, Anthony, Kelly, Thomas, Scott, Quarles, Murphy, Griffin, Wallace, Brewer, Harder, Baade, Curtis, Walberg, Nye, Law, Kukuk, Whyman, Godchaux, Cropsey, Geiger, Dobronski, Scranton, Richner, Kilpatrick, Crissman, LaForge, Emerson, Olshove, Wojno, Brater, Owen, DeHart, Llewellyn, Middaugh, Rhead, Price, Jaye, Fitzgerald, Schauer, Cherry, Vaughn, Gagliardi, Rocca, Prusi, Brackenridge, Bankes, Leland, Hammerstrom, Byl, Jellema, Horton, Goschka, Perricone, Jansen, Johnson, Dobb, Basham, Jelinek, Gernaat, Gubow, Oxender, Bobier, Gilmer, Schroer, Palamara, Bogardus, McManus, Rison, Parks, Tesanovich, Gire, McBryde, Voorhees, Mans, London, Wetters, Agee, Hale, Hanley, Ciaramitaro, Callahan and Hood

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5289

AN ACT to amend 1986 PA 32, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of emergency telephone districts; to provide for the installation, operation, modification, and maintenance of universal emergency number service systems; to provide for the imposition and collection of certain charges; to provide the powers and duties of certain state agencies, local units of government, public officers, telephone service suppliers, and others; to create an emergency telephone service committee; to provide remedies; to provide penalties; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," by amending sections 320 and 703 (MCL 484.1320 and 484.1730), section 320 as added and section 703 as amended by 1994 PA 29.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 320. (1) The county shall create an emergency telephone district board if a county creates a consolidated dispatch within an emergency telephone district after March 2, 1994.

(2) The membership of the board and the board's powers and duties shall be determined by the county board of commissioners. However, the membership of the board shall include a representative of the county sheriff or his or her designated representative, a representative of the Michigan state police designated by the director of the Michigan state police, and a firefighter. If the emergency telephone district consists of more than 1 county, the sheriff representative shall be appointed by the president of the Michigan sheriffs' association.

(3) A county or other public agency may make appropriations to the emergency telephone district board.

(4) A public agency may contract with the emergency telephone district board, and persons who are both members of the board and of the governing body of the public agency may vote both on the board and the body if approved by the contract.

(5) The basis under which a consolidated dispatch meets the requirement for being a dispatch under section 102(c) shall determine the system to be used in dispatching participating service units.

Sec. 703. (1) The committee shall consist of 20 members as follows:

(a) The director of the department of state police or his or her designated representative.

(b) The director of the department of consumer and industry services or his or her designated representative.

(d) The president of the Michigan sheriffs' association or his or her designated representative.

(e) The president of the Michigan association of chiefs of police or his or her designated representative.

(f) The president of the Michigan fire chiefs association or his or her designated representative.

(g) The executive director of the Michigan association of counties or his or her designated representative.

(h) The executive director of the deputy sheriffs association of Michigan or his or her designated representative.

(i) Three members of the general public, 1 member to be appointed by the governor, 1 member to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and 1 member to be appointed by the majority leader of the senate. The 3 members of the general public shall have expertise relating to emergency radio communications, dispatching, and services or to telephone systems. The members of the general public shall serve for terms of 2 years. One member appointed pursuant to this subdivision shall be a representative of the Michigan center of rural health.

(j) The executive director of the Michigan fraternal order of police or his or her designated representative.

(k) The president of the Michigan state police troopers association or his or her designated representative.

(l) The president of the Michigan chapter of the associated public safety communications officers or his or her designated representative.

(m) The president of the Michigan chapter of the national emergency number association or his or her designated representative.

(n) The president of the telephone association of Michigan or his or her designated representative.

(o) The executive director of the Upper Peninsula emergency medical services corporation or his or her designated representative.

(p) The president of the Michigan state firefighters union or his or her designated representative.

(q) The president of the Michigan communications directors association or his or her designated representative.

(r) One representative of commercial mobile radio service, to be appointed by the governor.

(2) The committee shall elect 1 of its members who is not a member of the wireline or commercial mobile radio service industry to serve as chairperson. The chairperson of the committee shall serve for a term of 1 year.

(3) The committee may adopt, amend, and rescind bylaws, rules, and regulations for the conduct of its business.

(4) Members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties under this chapter.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.