Bill Text: MI HB4809 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Elections; candidates; candidate filing fee for the office of county commissioner; increase, and make nonrefundable. Amends sec. 11 of 1966 PA 261 (MCL 46.411). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4745'17, HB 4746'17, HB 4747'17, HB 4748'17, HB 4749'17, HB 4750'17, HB 4810'17
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-06 - Referred To Committee On Elections And Government Reform [HB4809 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4809-Engrossed.html
HB-4809, As Passed House, June 5, 2018
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4809
A bill to amend 1966 PA 261, entitled
"An act to provide for the apportionment of county boards of
commissioners; to prescribe the size of the board; to provide for
appeals; to prescribe the manner of election of the members of the
county board of commissioners; to provide for compensation of
members; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal
acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 11 (MCL 46.411), as amended by 2002 PA 158.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 11. A candidate for the office of county commissioner
shall
must be a resident and registered voter of the district
that
he
or she seeks to represent and shall must remain a resident and
registered voter to hold his or her office, if elected. Nominations
and
elections for commissioners shall must be by partisan
elections. In order for the name of a candidate for nomination for
the office of county commissioner to appear on the official primary
ballot,
a nominating petition or $100.00 a nonrefundable filing fee
shall
of $100.00 must be filed with the county clerk. The
nominating
petition shall must have been signed by a number of
qualified and registered electors residing within the district as
determined under section 544f of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA
116, MCL 168.544f. The deadline for filing nomination petitions or
filing fees is the same as for a candidate for state
representative. A person who has been convicted of a violation of
section 12a(1) of 1941 PA 370, MCL 38.412a, is not eligible to be a
county commissioner for 20 years after the conviction.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) House Bill No. 4745.
(b) House Bill No. 4747.
(c) House Bill No. 4748.
(d) House Bill No. 4749.
(e) House Bill No. 4750.
(f) House Bill No. 4810.
