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Section 730.530 - Conciliation division; judges; clerks; jurisdictional amount.

MICHIGAN UNIFORM MUNICIPAL COURT ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 5 of 1956

730.530 Conciliation division; judges; clerks; jurisdictional amount.

Sec. 30.

(1) Any municipal court affected by this act may provide for a conciliation division where civil actions in which the debt or damages claimed do not exceed the amount in subsection (2), excepting replevin suits, suits commenced by writ of attachment, and suits commenced by civil warrant, except as hereinafter provided, may be brought and settled in an informal manner. The judges of the municipal court are hereby constituted conciliators of the conciliation division, and shall act as such as part of their official duties. Any municipal judge may authorize any clerk or deputy clerk of the court to act as conciliator in any case.

(2) The jurisdictional amount for purposes of this section is $100.00, unless the city in which the municipal court is located increases the jurisdictional amount for that municipal court to $600.00 by resolution of the city's legislative body. A resolution under this subsection shall be submitted to the state court administrative office, and the increase in the jurisdictional amount shall take effect January 1 of the year immediately following the year in which the resolution is received by the state court administrative office.


History: Add. 1957, Act 101, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 367, Imd. Eff. Oct. 20, 1998

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