Act No. 137

Public Acts of 2011

Approved by the Governor

September 13, 2011

Filed with the Secretary of State

September 13, 2011

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 13, 2011

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

Introduced by Senator Hildenbrand

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 489

AN ACT to amend 1947 PA 359, entitled “An act to authorize the incorporation of charter townships; to provide a municipal charter therefor; to prescribe the powers and functions thereof; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” (MCL 42.1 to 42.34) by adding section 1b.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1b. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a charter township shall not adopt an ordinance that includes any minimum staffing requirement for charter township employees. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any provision in an ordinance adopted on or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section that contains a minimum staffing requirement for charter township employees is void and unenforceable.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor