Section 4.803 - Maps and legal descriptions of districts; conveyance by secretary of state to legislature and governor; supplemental appropriation for costs; appropriations and expenditures subject to - Michigan Statutes

SENATORIAL AND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS (EXCERPT)
Act 256 of 1983

4.803 Maps and legal descriptions of districts; conveyance by secretary of state to legislature and governor; supplemental appropriation for costs; appropriations and expenditures subject to MCL 21.501 to 21.531.

Sec. 3.

(1) The secretary of state shall prepare a map and a legal description of each senatorial and representative district. The legal description shall be in terms of political subdivisions, such as counties, cities, and townships; man-made features, such as streets, roads, highways, and railroads; and natural features, such as waterways, which political subdivisions and man-made and natural features form the boundaries of the senatorial or representative district. The maps and the legal descriptions shall be conveyed by the secretary of state to the legislature and the governor.

(2) There is appropriated for the department of state from the state general fund to supplement former appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, the sum of $30,000.00 for the costs incurred by the secretary of state in complying with subsection (1).

(3) The appropriations made and the expenditures authorized under this act and the departments, agencies, commissions, boards, offices, and programs for which an appropriation is made under this act are subject to Act No. 18 of the Public Acts of 1981, being sections 21.501 to 21.531 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: 1983, Act 256, Eff. Mar. 29, 1984
Constitutionality: This act violates the second sentence of Const 1963, art 4, § 24, and is therefore unconstitutional. Anderson v Oakland County Clerk, 419 Mich 142, 350 NW2d 232 (1984).