May 12, 2015, Introduced by Senator SCHUITMAKER and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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.