HOUSE BILL No. 5706


     May 2, 2000, Introduced by Reps. Cameron Brown, Middaugh and Vander Roest and referred to the Committee on Local
Government and Urban Policy.


        A bill to amend 1929 PA 199, entitled

   "An act to authorize and empower villages and townships of this
   state having a population not exceeding 10,000 inhabitants, to
   levy a tax for the maintenance or the purchase of lands and main-
   tenance of property for a community center for the benefit of the
   public, provided the question of such purchase or maintenance, or
   both purchase and maintenance, as the case may be, is submitted
   to the duly qualified voters of such villages or townships and is
   adopted by a majority vote of those participating in said elec-
   tion; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"

   by amending sections 3 and 5 (MCL 123.43 and 123.45).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           Sec. 3.  (1) After  any  A village or township  shall have

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      voted  VOTES to establish a community center, the governing body

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      of  such  THE village or township shall appoint 6 directors

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       which  WHO shall hold office until their successors are elected

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      and qualified.  , and at  AT the next regular election there

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      shall be elected a community board of 6 directors, 2 for 1 year,

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      2 for 2 years, and 2 for 3 years,  ;  and THEN annually


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       thereafter  there shall be elected 2 directors who shall hold

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       their  office for 3 years or until their successors are elected

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      and qualified.  ALTERNATIVELY, THE GOVERNING BODY OF A VILLAGE OR

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      TOWNSHIP MAY BY RESOLUTION PROVIDE THAT AT THE NEXT REGULAR ELEC-

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      TION, AND THEN EVERY 2 YEARS, THERE SHALL BE ELECTED A COMMUNITY

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      BOARD OF 6 DIRECTORS, WHO SHALL HOLD OFFICE FOR 2 YEARS OR UNTIL

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      THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE ELECTED AND QUALIFIED.

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           (2) IF A VILLAGE OR TOWNSHIP INITIALLY ELECTED DIRECTORS FOR

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      3-YEAR TERMS AS DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (1), ITS GOVERNING BODY

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      MAY SUBSEQUENTLY ADOPT A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION

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      EVERY 2 YEARS OF DIRECTORS FOR 2-YEAR TERMS.  THE RESOLUTION

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      SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSITION OF THE ELECTIVE TERMS FROM 3 TO

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      2 YEARS AS FOLLOWS:

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           (A) THE OFFICES OF THE 2 DIRECTORS WHOSE TERMS FIRST EXPIRE

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      AFTER THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION SHALL BE FILLED AT THE NEXT

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      SCHEDULED LOCAL, STATE, OR FEDERAL ELECTION BY THE ELECTION OF 2

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      DIRECTORS WHO SHALL HOLD OFFICE FOR 2 YEARS, AND THEN EVERY 2

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      YEARS FOR 2 YEARS OR UNTIL THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE ELECTED AND

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      QUALIFIED.

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           (B) THE OFFICES OF THE 2 DIRECTORS WHOSE TERMS NEXT EXPIRE

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      AFTER THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION SHALL BE FILLED IN THE YEAR

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      FOLLOWING THE ELECTION IN SUBDIVISION (A) BY THE ELECTION OF 2

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      DIRECTORS WHO SHALL HOLD OFFICE FOR 1 YEAR, AND THEN EVERY 2

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      YEARS FOR 2 YEARS OR UNTIL THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE ELECTED AND

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      QUALIFIED.







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           (C) THE OFFICES OF THE 2 DIRECTORS WHOSE TERMS LAST EXPIRE

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      AFTER THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION SHALL BE FILLED AS DESCRIBED

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      IN SUBDIVISION (A).

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           (3) The  said  directors shall  receive no  SERVE
   WITHOUT

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      compensation.  as such.  Vacancies  A VACANCY in the board of

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      directors occasioned by  removals  A REMOVAL,  resignations
    A

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      RESIGNATION, or otherwise  ,  shall be reported to the governing

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      body of the village or township,  who  WHICH shall proceed to

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      appoint a director to fill  said  THE vacancy.

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           Sec. 5.  Every community center established under this act

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      shall be  free to the use of the inhabitants where located,

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      always  subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the

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      community board may adopt.  ; and said  THE board may exclude

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      from the use of  said  THE community building and grounds any

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       and all persons who shall wilfully  INDIVIDUALS WHO WILLFULLY

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      violate  such  THESE rules.

























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