Section 436.2111 - Beer and wine; referendum as to Sunday sale; petition; form of ballot; taking, counting, and canvassing votes; prohibition.
MICHIGAN LIQUOR CONTROL CODE OF 1998 (EXCERPT)
Act 58 of 1998
436.2111 Beer and wine; referendum as to Sunday sale; petition; form of ballot; taking, counting, and canvassing votes; prohibition.
Sec. 1111.
(1) The sale of beer and wine between the hours of 2 a.m. and 12 midnight on Sunday may be prohibited in any county, city, village, or township by a majority vote of the electors voting at a regular state election. Not more often than once in every 4 years, upon the filing of a petition with the county, city, village, or township clerk, as applicable, requesting the submission of the question of the Sunday sale of beer and wine, the clerk shall submit that question to the electors of the county, city, village, or township at the next regular state election held in that county, city, village, or township. A petition filed under this subsection shall be filed not less than 60 days before the regular state election. A ballot question under this subsection shall not be submitted more often than once in any 4-year period.
(2) In the case of a county, city, or township, the petition shall be signed by a number of the registered and qualified electors of the county, city, or township that is not less than 35% of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for the office of secretary of state in that county, city, or township at the last general election held for that purpose and, in the case of a village the petition shall be signed by a number of the registered and qualified electors of the village that is less than 35% of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for the office of president of the village at the last village election held for that purpose.
(3) The question of the Sunday sale of beer and wine shall be submitted by ballot in substantially the following form:
“Shall the sale of beer and wine within (the county, city, village, or township as the case may be) between the hours of 2 a.m. and 12 midnight on Sunday be prohibited?
Yes .........
No .........”.
(4) All votes on the question submitted to the electors under this section shall be taken, counted, and canvassed in the same manner as votes cast in county, city, village, or township election, as applicable, are taken, counted, and canvassed. Ballots shall be furnished by the election commission or similar body of the respective county, city, village, or township. If a majority of the electors voting at an election conducted under this section vote in favor of the question submitted, the sale of beer and wine within that county, city, village, or township between the hours of 2 a.m. and 12 midnight on Sunday is prohibited.
History: 1998, Act 58, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1998