SENATE BILL No. 1283
May 18, 2000, Introduced by Senator MC COTTER and referred to the Committee on
Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1966 PA 261, entitled
"An act to provide for the apportionment of county boards of com-
missioners; to prescribe the size of the board; to provide for
appeals; to prescribe the manner of election of the members of
the county board of commissioners; to provide for compensation of
members; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to
repeal acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 11 (MCL 46.411), as amended by 1982 PA 504.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 11. Candidates
A CANDIDATE
for the office of COUNTY
2 commissioner shall be
residents A
RESIDENT and registered
3 voters
VOTER of the district which
they seek THAT HE OR SHE
4 SEEKS to represent and shall remain
so
A RESIDENT AND REGIS-
5 TERED VOTER to hold
their HIS OR HER
office, if elected.
6 Nominations and elections for commissioners shall be by partisan
7 elections. To obtain the
printing of
IN ORDER FOR the name of
8 any person as
a candidate for
nomination for the office of
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1 COUNTY commissioner
upon TO APPEAR ON
the official primary
2 ballot, there
A NOMINATING PETITION OR
$100.00 FILING FEE shall
3 be filed with the county clerk.
of each
county a filing fee of
4 $100.00 or nomination
petitions THE
NOMINATING PETITION SHALL
5 HAVE BEEN signed by a number of qualified and registered electors
6 residing within the district
, equal to
not less than 1% nor
7 more than 4% of the
number of votes cast
in the district by such
8 party for the office of
secretary of
state at the last general
9 election in which a
secretary of state
was elected AS DETERMINED
10 UNDER SECTION 544F OF THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA 116, MCL
11 168.544F. The deadline for filing nomination petitions or filing
12 fees shall be
IS the same as
candidates FOR A CANDIDATE for
13 state representative. A person who has been convicted of a vio-
14 lation of section 12a(1) of
Act No. 370
of the Public Acts of
15 1941, being section
38.412a of the
Michigan Compiled Laws, shall
16 1941 PA 370, MCL 38.412A, IS not
be
eligible for election to
17 the office of
BE A county commissioner
for a period of 20
18 years after THE conviction.
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