Bill Text: MI SB1196 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Higher education; governing boards; authority to set amount of civil fines for certain civil infractions; revise. Amends sec. 2a of 1967 PA 291 (MCL 390.892a).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-29 - Assigned Pa 0262'10 With Immediate Effect [SB1196 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB1196-Engrossed.html
SB-1196, As Passed Senate, September 16, 2010
SENATE BILL No. 1196
March 3, 2010, Introduced by Senator CROPSEY and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1967 PA 291, entitled
"An act to authorize state universities and colleges to enact
parking, traffic and pedestrian ordinances and to provide for the
enforcement of the ordinances; and to dispose of fines collected,"
by amending section 2a (MCL 390.892a), as amended by 1998 PA 441.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
2a. (1) If the violation of a particular provision of the
ordinance
is designated a civil infraction pursuant to section 1,
the
governing board may establish civil sanctions for those civil
infractions,
but a civil fine shall not be more than $25.00. If the
governing
board establishes civil sanctions for a violation of a
particular
provision of the ordinance designated a civil infraction
that
prohibits parking in a parking space reserved for use by
persons
with disabilities substantially corresponding to section
674(1)(s)
of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL
257.674,
the
governing board shall establish a civil fine of not less than
$50.00
or more than $100.00. The
governing board of a state
university or college that enacts an ordinance under section 1 may
establish a civil fine for any violation of the ordinance
designated as a civil infraction by the governing board.
(2) If a civil infraction included in an ordinance enacted by
the governing board of a state university or college under section
1 substantially corresponds to a provision of the Michigan vehicle
code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, a civil fine established
by the governing board for that infraction shall not exceed the
maximum civil fine for the substantially corresponding provision of
that act described in section 907 of the Michigan vehicle code,
1949
PA 300, MCL 257.907. A civil sanction fine
in excess of that
the amount prescribed in section 907 of the Michigan vehicle code,
1949
PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923 257.907,
is in conflict with that
act
and is void to the extent of the conflict. The ordinance
(3) An ordinance enacted under section 1 shall not impose a
misdemeanor
penalty for an act or omission which that is a civil
infraction under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1
to 257.923.
(4) Except as provided in section 3, the violation of a
provision
designated as a civil infraction in the an ordinance
enacted under section 1 shall be processed in the same manner as a
civil infraction under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL
257.1 to 257.923.
