Bill Text: MI HB4856 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Crimes; other; transporting medical marihuana in motor vehicle; allow under certain circumstances. Amends 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.1 - 750.568) by adding sec. 474.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 26-3)
Status: (Passed) 2012-12-31 - Assigned Pa 460'12 With Immediate Effect 2012 Addenda [HB4856 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB4856-Chaptered.html
Act No. 460
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
December 22, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 27, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 27, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Reps. Glardon, Haveman, Agema, Daley, Opsommer, Zorn, Rendon, Kurtz, Johnson, Ouimet, Roy Schmidt, Haines, Jenkins, Lori, Yonker, Horn, Heise, Tyler, Cavanagh, Olson, Outman, Goike, Cotter, Price, Bledsoe, Callton, Knollenberg, Lyons and Jacobsen
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4856
AN ACT to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, codify, and add to the statutes relating to crimes; to define crimes and prescribe the penalties and remedies; to provide for restitution under certain circumstances; to provide for the competency of evidence at the trial of persons accused of crime; to provide immunity from prosecution for certain witnesses appearing at criminal trials; to provide for liability for damages; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act,” (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 474.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 474. (1) A person shall not transport or possess usable marihuana as defined in section 26423 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.26423, in or upon a motor vehicle or any self-propelled vehicle designed for land travel unless the usable marihuana is 1 or more of the following:
(a) Enclosed in a case that is carried in the trunk of the vehicle.
(b) Enclosed in a case that is not readily accessible from the interior of the vehicle, if the vehicle in which the person is traveling does not have a trunk.
(2) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 93 days or a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
