SB-0328, As Passed Senate, June 4, 2015

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 328

     A bill to amend 1935 PA 59, entitled

"An act to provide for the public safety; to create the Michigan

state police, and provide for the organization thereof; to transfer

thereto the offices, duties and powers of the state fire marshal,

the state oil inspector, the department of the Michigan state

police as heretofore organized, and the department of public

safety; to create the office of commissioner of the Michigan state

police; to provide for an acting commissioner and for the

appointment of the officers and members of said department; to

prescribe their powers, duties, and immunities; to provide the

manner of fixing their compensation; to provide for their removal

from office; and to repeal Act No. 26 of the Public Acts of 1919,

being sections 556 to 562, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1929,

and Act No. 123 of the Public Acts of 1921, as amended, being

sections 545 to 555, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1929,"

by amending section 8 (MCL 28.8).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 8. The grades and duties of the officers of the

department shall be are colonel, lieutenant colonel, major,

captain, inspector, lieutenant, sergeant, trooper, and policewoman.

recruit. The officers shall be authorized to may carry arms either

openly or concealed. Every member of the department shall be is

subject to orders at any time, and the officers shall of the

department at all times have the authority to apprehend criminals

and preserve law and order. Officers When traveling on duty,

officers and civilian employees of the department when traveling on

duty shall be are entitled to transportation upon on any railroad,

passenger steamboat line, airline, or passenger bus line , upon

presentation of a requisition for the transportation signed by the

director of the department and the those carriers shall be are

entitled to compensation for transportation furnished out of moneys

money appropriated for the department.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.