Bill Text: MI HB5963 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Villages; general law; authority of general law villages to impose licensing requirements on certain occupations; clarify and limit. Amends sec. 2, ch. VII of 1895 PA 3 (MCL 67.2).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - Presented To The Governor 12/21/2018 @ 3:22 Pm [HB5963 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB5963-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5963
May 9, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Lilly and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1895 PA 3, entitled
"The general law village act,"
by amending section 2 of chapter VII (MCL 67.2), as amended by 1994
PA 16.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
CHAPTER VII--POWERS OF COUNCIL
Sec.
2. (1) The Except as
otherwise provided in this
subsection, the council may prescribe the terms and conditions upon
which
a license shall be is granted and may require payment of a
reasonable
and proper sum amount for a license. The person
receiving the license shall, if required by the council or an
ordinance of the village, before the issuing of the license,
execute
a bond to the village in a sum an
amount prescribed by the
council, with 1 or more sufficient sureties, conditioned for a
faithful performance of the laws relating to the village and the
ordinances of the council, and otherwise conditioned as the council
may prescribe. A license is revocable by the council. If a license
is revoked for noncompliance with the terms and conditions upon
which
it the license was granted, or on account of a violation of
an ordinance or regulation passed or authorized by the council, the
person holding the license shall, in addition to any other
sanctions imposed, forfeit payments made for the license. The
council may provide sanctions for a person who, without license,
does something for which a license is required by an ordinance of
the council. This subsection is subject to the local government
occupational licensing act.
(2) The council of a village may provide for the support and
relief of poor persons residing in the village and, for that
purpose, may provide, by ordinance or resolution, for the
appointment of a director of the poor for the village and may
prescribe the director's duties and vest him or her with authority
proper for the exercise of those duties.
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 Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5955 (request no.
03124'17) of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.
