Section 600.8130 - Sixty-first to sixty-third district.
REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961
600.8130 Sixty-first to sixty-third district.
Sec. 8130.
(1) The sixty-first district consists of the city of Grand Rapids, is a district of the third class and has 5 judges. Subject to section 8175, this district may have 1 additional judge effective January 1, 1989.
(2) The sixty-second-a district consists of the city of Wyoming, is a district of the third class and has 2 judges.
(3) The sixty-second-b district consists of the city of Kentwood, is a district of the third class and has 1 judge.
(4) The sixty-third district consists of the county of Kent except the cities of Grand Rapids, Walker, Grandville, Wyoming and Kentwood, is a district of the second class and is divided into the following election divisions:
(a) The first division consists of the cities of Cedar Springs and Rockford and the townships of Tyrone, Solon, Nelson, Spencer, Sparta, Algoma, Courtland, Oakfield, Alpine, Plainfield, Cannon and Grattan and has 1 judge.
(b) The second division consists of the cities of East Grand Rapids and Lowell and the townships of Grand Rapids, Ada, Vergennes, Cascade, Lowell, Byron, Gaines, Caledonia and Bowne and has 1 judge.
History: Add. 1968, Act 154, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968 ;-- Am. 1970, Act 30, Imd. Eff. June 11, 1970 ;-- Am. 1977, Act 129, Imd. Eff. Oct. 21, 1977 ;-- Am. 1988, Act 135, Imd. Eff. May 27, 1988
Compiler's Notes: Section 2 of Act 135 of 1988 provides:“Any additional district judgeship to be added by election in 1988 shall not be authorized to be filled by election unless each district control unit of the district, by resolution adopted by the governing body of the district control unit, approves the creation of that judgeship and unless the clerk of each district control unit adopting such a resolution files a copy of the resolution with the state court administrator not later than 4 p.m. of the tenth Tuesday preceding the August primary for the election to fill the additional district judgeship.”