SENATE BILL No. 488

 

 

June 16, 2011, Introduced by Senator ROBERTSON and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Elections.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1973 PA 139, entitled

 

"An act to provide forms of county government; to provide for

county managers and county executives and to prescribe their powers

and duties; to abolish certain departments, boards, commissions,

and authorities; to provide for transfer of certain powers and

functions; to prescribe powers of a board of county commissioners

and elected officials; to provide organization of administrative

functions; to transfer property; to retain ordinances and laws not

inconsistent with this act; to provide methods for abolition of a

unified form of county government; and to prescribe penalties and

provide remedies,"

 

(MCL 45.551 to 45.573) by adding section 6b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 6b. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act

 

that added this section, a county board of commissioners shall not

 

adopt an ordinance or resolution that includes any minimum staffing

 

requirement for county employees. Any provision in an ordinance or

 

resolution adopted by a county board of commissioners on or after

 


the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section

 

that contains a minimum staffing requirement for county employees

 

is void and unenforceable.