HOUSE BILL No. 4660


     May 11, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Ruth Johnson, Woodward, Gosselin, Switalski, Pappageorge, Bishop, LaSata, Godchaux, Jacobs, Minore, Jansen and Jamnick and referred to the Committee on Transportation.


        A bill to amend 1909 PA 283, entitled

   "An act to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws relating to
   the establishment, opening, discontinuing, vacating, closing,
   altering, improvement, maintenance, and use of the public high-
   ways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel
   therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges;
   maintaining public access to waterways under certain conditions;
   setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, and cutting weeds
   and brush within this state; providing for the election or
   appointment and defining the powers, duties, and compensation of
   state, county, township, and district highway officials; and to
   prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"

   by amending section 7 (MCL 224.7).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 7.  (1)  Any  A person elected or appointed TO THE

 2    OFFICE OF county road commissioner shall, within 10 days after

 3    being notified in writing by the clerk of  such  THE county of

 4    his OR HER election or appointment, take and subscribe the

 5    constitutional oath of office and file  the same  IT with  said 

 6    THE COUNTY clerk.  Each and every  A county road commissioner


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 1    shall  be required to  execute and give AN official bond in

 2     such  THE amount  as  THAT the COUNTY board of  supervisors of

 3     such  COMMISSIONERS OF THE county  may determine, the 

 4    DETERMINES.  THE expense of securing  such  THE bond, if any,

 5     to  SHALL be paid from the county road fund.  The term of office

 6    of the first commissioners elected or appointed in  any  A county

 7    under this act  ,  shall commence immediately upon filing  such 

 8    THE oath of office and bond.  , and shall continue as herein

 9     provided.  The successor to each such commissioner shall be

10     elected at the general election on the first Tuesday after the

11     first Monday in November preceding the expiration of his term.

12     They  THE FIRST COMMISSIONERS shall hold office for 2, 4, and 6

13    years respectively, from the  said  first day of January.  ; and

14     thereafter  SUBSEQUENTLY, 1 commissioner shall be elected or

15    appointed biennially BEFORE THE EXPIRATION OF A TERM, for the

16    full term of 6 years, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (2).  No

17     member of the board of supervisors shall be eligible to  A MEMBER

18    OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR the

19    office of county road commissioner, and  such  THOSE offices

20    shall not be held by the same person at the same time.

21         (2) AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE AMENDATORY ACT THAT

22    ADDED THIS SUBSECTION, A COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONER SHALL BE

23    ELECTED OR APPOINTED TO A TERM OF 4 YEARS.

24         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

25    effect unless Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. _____

26    (request no. 02503'99 a) of the 90th Legislature is enacted into

27    law.



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