Section 600.9928 - Municipal courts; retention in certain cities.
REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961
600.9928 Municipal courts; retention in certain cities.
Sec. 9928.
(1) The district court shall not function nor shall district judges be elected in any district of the third class in which 1 or more cities which maintain municipal or police courts and which contain, individually or in the aggregate, more than 50% of the population of the district elect to retain their municipal or police courts by resolution adopted by their respective governing bodies within 7 days after the effective date of this section.
(2) Municipal and police courts retained under the provisions of this section shall perform all duties and powers which by law may be performed by justices of the peace and the circuit court commissioners.
(3) The jurisdiction of such municipal or police courts is limited to their respective cities except that where the district contains 1 or more townships such courts shall exercise the same jurisdiction and powers in such townships as they exercise in their respective cities.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city shall not establish a municipal or police court after July 1, 1968.
(5) The city clerks of cities adopting resolutions under this section shall file copies of such resolutions with the court administrator within 30 days after the adoption of such resolutions.
History: Add. 1968, Act 154, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968