Act No. 38
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
February 28, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
February 28, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 28, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Rep. Somerville
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5104
AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 519 (MCL 600.519).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 519. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the eighteenth judicial circuit consists of the county of Bay and has 3 judges.
(2) Beginning on the earlier of the following dates, the eighteenth judicial circuit has 2 judges:
(a) The date on which a vacancy occurs in the office of circuit judge in the eighteenth judicial circuit.
(b) The beginning date of the term for which an incumbent circuit judge in the eighteenth judicial circuit no longer seeks election or reelection to that office.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor