HOUSE BILL No. 5714


     February 21, 2002, Introduced by Rep. Julian and referred to the Committee on House Oversight and Operations.


        A bill to amend 1915 PA 294, entitled

   "An act to promote the public welfare; to create a commission to
   be known as the agricultural fair commission; to provide for the
   appointment of such a commission and to fix their terms of
   office; to prescribe their powers and duties; and to make an
   appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act,"

   by amending sections 2 and 8 (MCL 285.122 and 285.128).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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             Sec. 2.   Within 30 days after this act shall take effect

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        said commission shall meet in the office of the governor in the

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        capitol of the state when said commission shall organize by

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        taking and filing their respective constitutional oaths of

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        office, in the office of the secretary of state and the election

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        THE COMMISSION SHALL ELECT from their own members  of  a presi-

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        dent, a vice president, a secretary, and a treasurer.   Said  THE

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        commission  is hereby empowered to  MAY employ  such  THE agents

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        and  employes  EMPLOYEES as it may from time to time  deem


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        CONSIDER necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this

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        act.   Said  THE treasurer may, when  so  directed by 
    said  THE

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        commissioners, bring suit in his OR HER official name in any

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        court of competent jurisdiction for the protection of the inter-

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        ests of the state of Michigan or the rights of  said  THE

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        commission.   Said  THE treasurer, before he OR SHE enters upon

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        the duties of  said  THE office, shall file with the  auditor

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        general  STATE TREASURER a bond to the people of the state of

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        Michigan in the sum of  50,000 dollars  $50,000.00, to be

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        approved by the governor and the attorney general, conditioned

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        for the faithful performance of all his OR HER duties as  such

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        THE treasurer, and that he OR SHE will use all necessary and rea-

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        sonable diligence and care in the safekeeping and lawful disposal

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        of all sums of money and all other things appertaining to  said

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        THE office  which  THAT come to his  hands  OR HER POSSESSION, or

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        to the  hands  POSSESSION of any person or persons employed by

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        him OR HER, and that  said  THE treasurer shall upon reasonable

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        notice render a true account in the premises whenever he  shall

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        be thereunto  OR SHE IS required by any provisions of law and

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        shall deliver over to his OR HER successor in  said  THE office

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        or to any other person authorized by law to receive the same, all

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         moneys  MONEY, books, notes, papers, and all other things

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        belonging to  said  THE office.  Four members of  said  THE com-

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        mission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business

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        after it  shall be  IS duly organized.

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             Sec. 8.  All  moneys  MONEY drawn from the state treasury of

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        the sum appropriated by this act shall be upon the requisition of



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        the president and treasurer of  said  THE commission, approved by

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        the governor, on the warrant of the  auditor general of the

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        treasury  STATE TREASURER, and accompanied by estimates or state-

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        ments of the premiums and expenses to the payment of which the

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        money so drawn is to be applied.  All vouchers for expenses shall

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        be made in duplicate on the order of the president, countersigned

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        by the secretary of  said  THE commission, containing an itemized

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        statement of account and for what purpose the same is paid.  One

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        of each of all vouchers shall be kept by the treasurer in his OR

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        HER office and the duplicate together with the abstract of

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        accounts current, shall be by him OR HER filed with the  auditor

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        general  STATE TREASURER, as provided by law.
































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