SENATE BILL No. 489

 

 

June 16, 2011, Introduced by Senator HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Elections.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1947 PA 359, entitled

 

"The charter township act,"

 

(MCL 42.1 to 42.34) by adding section 1b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1b. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act

 

that added this section, a charter township shall not adopt a

 

township charter, ordinance, or resolution that includes any

 

minimum staffing requirement for charter township employees. Any

 

provision in a township charter, ordinance, or resolution adopted

 

on or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added

 

this section that contains a minimum staffing requirement for

 

charter township employees is void and unenforceable.