STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Senators Hardiman, Sikkema and Cropsey

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 788

AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," by amending section 518 (MCL 600.518), as amended by 2001 PA 256.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 518. The seventeenth judicial circuit consists of the county of Kent and has 9 judges. Subject to section 550, this judicial circuit may have 1 additional judge effective January 1, 2007.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor