HOUSE BILL No. 4905


     September 29, 1999, Introduced by Rep. Bisbee and referred to the Committee on
Constitutional Law and Ethics.


        A bill to amend 1919 PA 232, entitled

   "An act to supplement the laws of the state relating to the
   powers and duties of the attorney general and the institution and
   prosecution of actions thereby on behalf of the state, to autho-
   rize intervention in pending litigation on behalf of the people
   in certain cases, and to permit the bringing of any suit at law
   in which the state is a party plaintiff in the circuit court of
   Ingham county,"

   by amending section 1 (MCL 14.101).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 1.  (1)  The  EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE
             PROVIDED IN SUBSEC-

 2    TION (2), THE attorney general of  the  THIS state
             is  hereby 

 3    authorized and empowered to intervene in any action 
             heretofore

 4     or hereafter  commenced in any court of 
                       the  THIS state whenever

 5     such  THE intervention is necessary in order to
             protect any

 6    right or interest of  the  THIS state, or of the
             people of  the 

 7    THIS state.  Such  THE right of intervention shall
             exist at any

 8    stage of the proceeding, and the attorney general shall have the


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 1    same right to prosecute an appeal, or to apply for a  re-hearing 

 2    REHEARING or to take any other action or step whatsoever that is

 3    had or possessed by any of the parties to  such 
             THE litigation.

 4         (2) THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR ANY PERSON EMPLOYED BY THE

 5    ATTORNEY GENERAL ON BEHALF OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SHALL NOT

 6    INTERVENE IN OR BRING ANY ACTION AGAINST THIS STATE.












































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