HB-5181, As Passed House, May 17, 2016
December 17, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Heise, Hughes, Santana, Plawecki, Darany, Yanez and Liberati and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled
"The code of criminal procedure,"
by amending section 2a of chapter IV (MCL 764.2a), as amended by
2002 PA 483.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
CHAPTER IV
Sec. 2a. (1) A peace officer of a county, city, village,
township, public airport authority, or university of this state may
exercise the authority and powers of a peace officer outside the
geographical boundaries of the officer's county, city, village,
township, public airport authority, or university under any of the
following circumstances:
(a) If the officer is enforcing the laws of this state in
conjunction with the Michigan state police.
(b) If the officer is enforcing the laws of this state in
conjunction with a peace officer of any other county, city,
village, township, public airport authority, or university in which
the officer may be.
(c) If the officer has witnessed an individual violate any of
the following within the geographical boundaries of the officer's
county, city, village, township, public airport authority, or
university and immediately pursues the individual outside of the
geographical boundaries of the officer's county, city, village,
township, public airport authority, or university:
(i) A state law or administrative rule.
(ii) A local ordinance.
(iii) A state law, administrative rule, or local ordinance,
the violation of which is a civil infraction, municipal civil
infraction, or state civil infraction.
(d) If a public airport authority officer has witnessed an
individual violate any of the following while the individual is
outside the geographical boundaries of the public airport authority
but the violation committed by the individual occurs within the
airspace above the public airport authority and immediately pursues
the individual:
(i) A state law or administrative rule.
(ii) A local ordinance.
(iii) A state law, administrative rule, or local ordinance,
the violation of which is a civil infraction, municipal civil
infraction, or state civil infraction.
(2) The officer pursuing an individual under subsection (1)(c)
or (d) may stop and detain the person outside the geographical
boundaries of the officer's county, city, village, township, public
airport authority, or university for the purpose of enforcing that
law, administrative rule, or ordinance or enforcing any other law,
administrative rule, or ordinance before, during, or immediately
after the detaining of the individual. If the violation or pursuit
involves a vessel moving on the waters of this state, the officer
pursuing the individual may direct the operator of the vessel to
bring the vessel to a stop or maneuver it in a manner that permits
the officer to come beside the vessel.
(3) As used in this section, "public airport authority" means
an authority created under section 110 of the aeronautics code of
the state of Michigan, 1945 PA 327, MCL 259.110, that is a
political subdivision and instrumentality of the local government
that owns the airport and is considered a public agency of the
local government for purposes of state and federal law.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.