HOUSE BILL No. 4708

 

June 7, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Tlaib, Bauer and Santana and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

 

     A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

 

"Revised judicature act of 1961,"

 

by amending section 8831 (MCL 600.8831), as added by 1995 PA 54.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 8831. (1) A Except as provided in section 8905e of the

 

natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451,

 

MCL 324.8905e, a civil fine which that is ordered under section

 

8827 for a violation of state statute shall be exclusively applied

 

to the support of public libraries and county law libraries in the

 

same manner as is provided by law for penal fines assessed and

 

collected for violation of a penal law of the state.

 

     (2) Subsection (1) is intended to maintain a source of revenue

 

for public libraries which previously received penal fines for

 

misdemeanor violations of state statute which that are now

 


designated as state civil infractions.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4709(request no.

 

02339'11) of the 96th Legislature is enacted into law.