Act No. 550

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

January 3, 2005

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 3, 2005

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 3, 2005

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Senators Patterson, Cherry, Hardiman, Switalski, Hammerstrom, Kuipers, Garcia, Thomas, Schauer, Olshove and Goschka

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1409

AN ACT to amend 1992 PA 116, entitled "An act to designate and regulate certain records media; and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain governmental entities and officials," by amending section 3 (MCL 24.403) and by adding section 6.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3. With respect to a reproduction created by a person other than a governmental entity or a governmental official acting in his or her official capacity, a law that references this act incorporates by reference any reproduction method or medium approved by this act.

Sec. 6. A record reproduced under this act shall have the same force and effect as a true paper copy of a record. All copies produced under this act, when certified as true by the officer in whose office the original was filed or recorded, shall have the same force and effect as an original for all legal purposes and is admissible in court, administrative proceedings, and elsewhere as evidence in the same manner as an original.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5550.

(b) House Bill No. 5657.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor