Section 600.1511 - Terms of court; Ingham county circuit court; place of sitting.
REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961
600.1511 Terms of court; Ingham county circuit court; place of sitting.
Sec. 1511.
(1) Regular terms of the circuit court for the county of Ingham in the thirtieth judicial circuit may be designated and held both in the city of Lansing and at the county seat of Ingham county in each calendar year, and special or adjourned terms of the court may be designated or ordered and held at either the county seat of the county of Ingham or the city of Lansing. Any hearings, trials or proceedings of the circuit court of the thirtieth judicial circuit may be held at either the county seat of Ingham county or the city of Lansing.
(2) The common council of the city of Lansing, or the citizens thereof, shall furnish and provide, free of expense to Ingham county, a suitable place for holding court within the city, and transacting the business thereof, and a suitable and sufficient jail for the incarceration of prisoners during the sittings of the circuit court in Lansing.
(3) A deputy clerk shall be appointed by the county clerk of Ingham county, as provided by law, who shall attend upon each session of the court held in the city of Lansing, and shall maintain an office at the city of Lansing in the place appointed for holding court.
(4) There shall be furnished by the secretary of state to the deputy clerk to be used by him in his official capacity and for the use of the court at Lansing, 1 copy of the compiled laws of the state of Michigan, and 1 copy each of the public and local acts of the state of Michigan as published.
History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963 ;-- Am. 1970, Act 49, Imd. Eff. Jan. 1, 1971