December 6, 2007, Introduced by Senator KUIPERS and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to authorize local units of government to fingerprint
certain individuals for the purpose of receiving criminal history
record information from the department of state police and the
federal bureau of investigation; to prescribe the powers and duties
of certain state departments and officers; and to provide for the
collection of fees.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
contrary, a local unit of government may by ordinance require the
fingerprinting of door-to-door solicitors, taxicab drivers or other
drivers for hire, or street vendors or other transient merchants
for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information on
those individuals. Fingerprints obtained pursuant to this act may
be submitted by the local unit of government to the department of
state police for a state criminal history record check and, if
necessary, to the federal bureau of investigation for a national
criminal history record check.
(2) The department of state police shall serve as the sole
source for receiving fingerprint submissions from local units of
government and for receiving the responses to those fingerprint
submissions from the federal bureau of investigation. The criminal
history record check information obtained by the department of
state police shall be disseminated to the local unit of government.
(3) The appropriate fees for a state and national criminal
history record check shall be transmitted by the local unit of
government to the department of state police.
(4) As used in this act, "local unit of government" means a
county, city, village, township, or charter township.