SB-1184, As Passed Senate, September 30, 2004                               

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 1184

                                                                             A bill to amend 1909 PA 279, entitled                                             

"The home rule city act,"                                                   

by amending section 4i (MCL 117.4i), as amended by 1999 PA 55.              

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1       Sec. 4i.  Each city may provide in its charter for 1 or more                

2   of the following:                                                           

3       (a) Laying and collecting rents, tolls, and excises.                        

4       (b) Regulating and restricting the locations of oil and                     

5   gasoline stations.                                                          

6       (c) The establishment of districts or zones within which the                

7   use of land and structures, the height, area, size, and location            

8   of buildings, the required open spaces for light and ventilation            

9   of buildings, and the density of population may be regulated by             

10  ordinance.  The zoning ordinance provisions applicable to 1 or              

11  more districts may differ from those applicable to other                    

1   districts.  If a city is incorporated, or if territory is annexed           

2   to a city incorporated under this act, the zoning ordinance                 

3   provisions applicable to the territory within the newly                     

4   incorporated city or the annexed territory shall remain in effect           

5   for 2 years after the incorporation or annexation unless the                

6   legislative body of the city lawfully adopts other zoning                   

7   ordinance provisions.                                                       

8       (d) The regulation of trades, occupations, and amusements                   

9   within city boundaries, if the regulations are not inconsistent             

10  with state or federal law, and the prohibition of trades,                   

11  occupations, and amusements that are detrimental to the health,             

12  morals, or welfare of the inhabitants of that city.                         

13      (e) The regulation or prohibition of public nudity within                   

14  city boundaries.  As used in this subdivision, "public nudity"              

15  means knowingly or intentionally displaying in a public place, or           

16  for payment or promise of payment by any person including, but              

17  not limited to, payment or promise of payment of an admission               

18  fee, any individual's genitals or anus with less than a fully               

19  opaque covering or a female individual's breast with less than a            

20  fully opaque covering of the nipple and areola.  Public nudity              

21  does not include any of the following:                                      

22                                                                               (i) A woman's breastfeeding of a baby whether or not the                            

23  nipple or areola is exposed during or incidental to the feeding.            

24      (ii) Material as defined in section 2 of 1984 PA 343,                        

25  MCL 752.362.                                                                

26      (iii) Sexually explicit visual material as defined in section                

27  3 of 1978 PA 33, MCL 722.673.                                               

1       (f) Licensing, regulating, restricting, and limiting the                    

2   number and locations of billboards within the city.                         

3       (g) The initiative and referendum on all matters within the                 

4   scope of the powers of that city and the recall of city                     

5   officials.                                                                  

6       (h) A system of civil service for city employees, including                 

7   employees of that city's board of health, and employees of any              

8   jail operated or maintained by the city.  Charter provisions                

9   providing for a system of civil service for employees of a local            

10  health board are valid and effective.                                       

11      (i) A system of compensation for city employees and the                     

12  dependents of city employees in the case of disability, injury,             

13  or death of city employees.                                                 

14      (j) The enforcement of police, sanitary, and other ordinances               

15  that are not in conflict with the general laws.                             

16      (k) The punishment of persons who violate city ordinances                   

17  other than ordinances described in section 4l.  The penalty for a           

18  violation of such a city ordinance shall not exceed a fine of               

19  $500.00 $1,000.00 or imprisonment for 90 days, or both.                   

20  However, unless Unless otherwise provided by law, the ordinance           

21  may provide that a violation of the ordinance is punishable by a            

22  fine of not more than $1,000.00 or imprisonment for not more than           

23  93 days,  or a fine of not more than $500.00,  or both, if the              

24  violation substantially corresponds to a violation of state law             

25  that is a misdemeanor for which the maximum period of                       

26  imprisonment is 93 days.