Act No. 33

Public Acts of 2013

Approved by the Governor

May 20, 2013

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 20, 2013

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 20, 2013

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

Introduced by Senator Jones

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 43

AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 530 and 8132 (MCL 600.530 and 600.8132), section 8132 as amended by 2012 PA 624.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 530. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the twenty-ninth judicial circuit consists of the counties of Clinton and Gratiot and has 2 judges.

(2) Beginning on the earlier of the following dates, the twenty-ninth judicial circuit has 1 judge:

(a) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of circuit judge in the twenty-ninth judicial circuit.

(b) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent circuit judge in the twenty-ninth judicial circuit no longer seeks election or reelection to that office.

Sec. 8132. (1) The sixty-fifth-a district consists of the county of Clinton, is a district of the first class, and has 1 judge.

(2) The sixty-fifth-b district consists of the county of Gratiot, is a district of the first class, and has 1 judge.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor