SB-0487, As Passed Senate, August 24, 2011

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 487

(as amended June 30, 2011)

     A bill to amend 1966 PA 293, entitled

"An act to provide for the establishment of charter counties; to

provide for the election of charter commissioners; to prescribe

their powers and duties; to prohibit certain acts of a county board

of commissioners after the approval of the election of a charter

commission; to prescribe the mandatory and permissive provisions of

a charter; to provide for the exercise by a charter county of

certain powers whether or not authorized by its charter; and to

prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"

(MCL 45.501 to 45.521) by adding section 15b.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 15b. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory

act that added this section, a charter county shall not adopt a

county charter [or ordinance            ] that includes any minimum

staffing requirement for county employees. Except as otherwise

provided in this section, any provision in a county charter [or      

ordinance               ] adopted on or after the effective date of

Senate Bill No. 487 (S-1) as amended June 30, 2011

the amendatory act that added this section that contains a minimum

staffing requirement for county employees is void and

unenforceable. [

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