Sections amended. Judges, number of, how determined. Proviso. Referendum. [No. 3.] AN ACT to amend sections one, seven, and eight of act number three hundred sixty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to supplement existing laws providing for the establishment and maintenance of municipal courts of record and defining the jurisdiction of such courts; to fix the number of judges thereof; to provide a presiding judge; to define the privileges of such presiding judge; to modify the procedure in and extend the jurisdiction of said courts in certain respects, and to provide for the abolishing of any police courts or other courts not of record having exclusive criminal jurisdiction existing in any city in which the provisions of this act become operative," approved May thirteen, nineteen hundred nineteen, as amended by act number three hundred sixtyfour of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one, seven, and eight of act number three hundred sixty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to supplement existing laws providing for the establishment and maintenance of municipal courts of record and defining the jurisdiction of such courts; to fix the number of judges thereof; to provide a presiding judge; to define the privileges of such presiding judge; to modify the procedure in and extend the jurisdiction of said courts in certain respects, and to provide for the abolishing of any police courts or other courts not of record hav ing exclusive criminal jurisdiction existing in any city in which the provisions of this act become operative," as amended by act number three hundred sixty-four of the publie acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. Subject to the provisions hereof any municipal court of record now existing in any city of the state shall continue in accordance with the laws pertaining thereto. The number of judges of any such court shall be determined on the basis of one judge for each one hundred thousand population or majority fraction thereof, according to the last federal census. No person shall be eligible to the office of judge of any such court who does not possess the qualifications now prescribed by law for holding such office. Candidates for election for the office of judge of such court shall be nomi nated and elected in the manner now provided by law therefor: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to affect the tenure of any judge, clerk, deputy, or assistant clerk in said court holding office at the time this act becomes operative in such municipality. SEC. 7. This act, or any amendment thereto, other than this section shall not become operative in any municipality of the state unless and until it is submitted to a vote of the qualified electors thereof and ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon. The legislative body of any city now having a municipal court of record may by a majority vote thereof submit to the qualified electors the question of adopting the provisions of this act, or any amendment thereto, or said questions may be submitted by initiatory petition in the same manner and with like effect as is or may be provided by law for the proposal and submission of amendments to the charter of any such city. All proceedings with reference to the submission of the question shall conform as nearly as may be to the requirements of the state law governing the submission of charter amendments, and the votes cast on the question shall be counted, canvassed and returned and the result declared in the same manner. A recount of the votes so cast may also Recount. be had in the same manner as is or may be provided for a recount of the ballots cast on proposed charter amendments: Provided, however, That in any municipality wherein the act Proviso, of which this act is amendatory is now operative, this act when subshall be submitted to the qualified electors thereof at the election to be held on the first Monday in April, nineteen hundred twenty-five: Provided, however, That if for any reason this Proviso. act is not submitted at said election, it may be submitted at any regular municipal or primary election held thereafter. If the provisions of this act shall be ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon, as shown by the certification of the returns by the proper election officials of said city, then the provisions of this act shall become effective immediately following such certification of said returns. mitted. to make. SEC. 8. If in any city wherein the provisions of this act, Appointor any amendment thereto, may be adopted, as provided in ments, who the preceding sections, the number of judges of the municipal court of record now existing in such city is less than the number of judges hereby contemplated, such additional number of judges shall be appointed by the governor. Each judge so appointed shall assume office immediately following his appointment and shall hold the same until the next general election. Successors to the judges so appointed by the gov ernor shall be nominated and elected at the first general primary and election held following such appointment. and the judges so elected shall take office immediately following their election, and shall hold office until the expiration of the term of the sitting judges of said court. At the biennial spring primary and election next preceding the expiration of the term of offices of such judges, their successors shall be nominated and elected in the same manner as is or may be provided by law for the election of the sitting judges of said. court, and the judges so elected shall take office the first day of January following their election and shall hold office for a term of six years thereafter and until their successors are elected and qualified. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Extension of time for appeal. Proviso, limit of. Further proviso, extension. [No. 4.] AN ACT to amend section twenty of chapter fifty of act number three hundred fourteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, 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 such courts and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section thirteen thousand seven hundred fifty-five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty of chapter fifty of act number three hundred fourteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, 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 such courts and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section thirteen thousand seven hundred fifty-five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 20. The time for taking and perfecting any appeal may be extended for a longer period than said twenty days by stipulation in writing by the attorneys for the respective parties filed with the clerk of the court or by an order of the circuit court in which such decree or order was rendered or the judge of such court at chambers, or any justice of the supreme court may, upon cause shown and notice to the opposite party, extend the time for taking or perfecting any appeal: Provided. That the time for perfecting an appeal shall not be extended for more than one year from the entry of the order or decree appealed from: Provided further, That the time in which appeals may be taken and perfected may be extended, not exceeding six months from the expiration of the time herein specified, by the supreme court or one of the supreme court justices at chambers, when any party has been prevented from taking or perfecting such appeal by cir cumstances beyond his control. Such extension shall only be made on special motion and after a proper showing. Approved March 12, 1925. [No. 5.] AN ACT authorizing the purchase of M. A. C. union bonds by the state administrative board out of the sinking funds created by and existing under the provisions of act number one of the first extra session, public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and act number twenty-five of the extra session, public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: bonds. SECTION 1. The state administrative board may, when sat- May purisfied with the security offered, purchase not to exceed three chase certain hundred thousand dollars of M. A. C. union serial bonds, running not more than twenty years and drawing interest at not less than four per cent per annum, using for such purchase the moneys now in the sinking funds created by and existing under the provisions of act number one of the first extra session, public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and act number twenty-five of the extra session, public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. Such bonds, when purchased, where shall be credited to and made a part of each such sinking credited. fund in proportion to the amount of money used therefrom for such purchase. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. May levy [No. 6.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred sixtysix of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for a sinking fund in certain school districts and the investment thereof and to authorize the levy of taxes to pay principal and interest of bonds issued under the provisions of act number one hundred fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled 'An act to prescribe and limit the power of school districts having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than one hundred thousand to borrow money and issue bonds of such district therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith,' approved May seven, nineteen hundred fifteen, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The board of education or other legislative body of tax, purpose. any school district which shall have heretofore issued or shall hereafter issue bonds under the provisions of act number one hundred fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to prescribe and limit the power of school districts having [a] population of more than fifteen thousand and less than one hundred thousand to borrow money and issue bonds of such district therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," approved May seven, nineteen hundred fifteen, shall provide annually for the levy and collection of a direct tax upon all the taxable property in such school district sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within thirty years from the date of issue. Approved March 18, 1925. |