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Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XI § 1 Oath of public officers.
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Sec. 1. All officers, legislative, executive and judicial, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the co…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XI § 2 Terms of office of state and county officers.
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Sec. 2. The terms of office of elective state officers, members of the legislature and justices and judges of courts of record shall begin at twelve o'clock noon on the first day of January next succeeding their election, except as otherwise provided in this constitution. The ter…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XI § 3 Extra compensation.
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Sec. 3. Neither the legislature nor any political subdivision of this state shall grant or authorize extra compensation to any public officer, agent or contractor after the service has been rendered or the contract entered into.
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XI § 4 Custodian of public moneys; eligibility to office, accounting.
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Sec. 4. No person having custody or control of public moneys shall be a member of the legislature, or be eligible to any office of trust or profit under this state, until he shall have made an accounting, as provided by law, of all sums for which he may be liable.
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XI § 5 Classified state civil service; scope; exempted positions; appointment and terms of members of state civil service commission; state personnel director; duties of commission; collective bargaining for state police troopers and sergeants; appointments, promotions, demotions, or removals; increases or reductions in compensation; creating or abolishing positions; recommending compensation for unclassified service; appropriation; reports of expenditures; annual audit; payment for personal services; violation; injunctive or mandamus proceedings.
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Sec. 5. The classified state civil service shall consist of all positions in the state service except those filled by popular election, heads of principal departments, members of boards and commissions, the principal executive officer of boards and commissions heading principal d…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XI § 6 Merit systems for local governments.
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Sec. 6. By ordinance or resolution of its governing body which shall not take effect until approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, unless otherwise provided by charter, each county, township, city, village, school district and other governmental unit or authority m…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XI § 7 Impeachment of civil officers.
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Sec. 7. The house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching civil officers for corrupt conduct in office or for crimes or misdemeanors, but a majority of the members elected thereto and serving therein shall be necessary to direct an impeachment. Prosecution by 3…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XI § 8 Convictions for certain felonies; eligibility for elective office or certain positions of public employment.
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Sec. 8. A person is ineligible for election or appointment to any state or local elective office of this state and ineligible to hold a position in public employment in this state that is policy-making or that has discretionary authority over public assets if, within the immediat…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XII § 1 Amendment by legislative proposal and vote of electors.
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Sec. 1. Amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate or house of representatives. Proposed amendments agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to and serving in each house on a vote with the names and vote of those voting entered in the respective journals …
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XII § 2 Amendment by petition and vote of electors.
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Sec. 2. Amendments may be proposed to this constitution by petition of the registered electors of this state. Every petition shall include the full text of the proposed amendment, and be signed by registered electors of the state equal in number to at least 10 percent of the tota…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XII § 3 General revision of constitution; submission of question, convention delegates and meeting.
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Sec. 3. At the general election to be held in the year 1978, and in each 16th year thereafter and at such times as may be provided by law, the question of a general revision of the constitution shall be submitted to the electors of the state. If a majority of the electors voting …
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article XII § 4 Severability.
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Sec. 4. If any section, subsection or part of Article 2, Section 10, Article 4, Section 54 or Article 5, Section 30 is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining sections, subsections or parts of those sections shall not be affected but will remain in fu…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule SigBlock Vote Record.
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Sec. 0. Adopted by the Constitutional Convention of nineteen hundred sixty-one at Constitution Hall in Lansing on the first day of August, nineteen hundred sixty-two. Stephen S. Nisbet, President Fred I. Chase, Secretary The vote on the constitution of 1963, as certified by the B…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 1 Recommendations by attorney general for changes in laws.
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Sec. 1. The attorney general shall recommend to the legislature as soon as practicable such changes as may be necessary to adapt existing laws to this constitution.
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 10 Boards controlling higher education institutions and state board of public community and junior colleges, terms.
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Sec. 10. The provisions of this constitution providing for members of boards of control of institutions of higher education and the state board of public community and junior colleges shall be implemented by law. The law may provide that the term of each member in office on the d…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 11 Michigan State University trustees and Wayne State University governors, terms.
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Sec. 11. The provisions of this constitution increasing the number of members of the Board of Trustees of Michigan State University and the Board of Governors of Wayne State University to eight, and of their term of office to eight years, shall be implemented by law. The law may …
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 12 Initial allocation of departments by law or executive order.
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Sec. 12. The initial allocation of departments by law pursuant to Section 2 of Article V of this constitution, shall be completed within two years after the effective date of this constitution. If such allocation shall not have been completed within such period, the governor, wit…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 13 State contracts, continuance.
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Sec. 13. Contractual obligations of the state incurred pursuant to the constitution of 1908 shall continue to be obligations of the state. Korean service bonus bonds, appropriation.For the retirement of notes and bonds issued under Section 26 of Article X of the 1908 constitution…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 14 Mackinac Bridge Authority; refunding of bonds, transfer of functions to highway department.
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Sec. 14. The legislature by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to and serving in each house may provide that the state may borrow money and may pledge its full faith and credit for refunding any bonds issued by the Mackinac Bridge Authority and at the time of refunding t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 15 Submission of constitution; time, notice.
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Sec. 15. This constitution shall be submitted to the people for their adoption or rejection at the general election to be held on the first Monday in April, 1963. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state forthwith to give notice of such submission to all other officers requ…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 16 Voters, ballots, effective date.
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Sec. 16. Every registered elector may vote on the adoption of the constitution. The board of election commissioners in each county shall cause to be printed on a ballot separate from the ballot containing the names of the nominees for office, the words: Shall the revised constitu…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 2 Existing public and private rights, continuance.
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Sec. 2. All writs, actions, suits, proceedings, civil or criminal liabilities, prosecutions, judgments, sentences, orders, decrees, appeals, causes of action, contracts, claims, demands, titles and rights existing on the effective date of this constitution shall continue unaffect…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 3 Officers, continuance in office.
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Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution, all officers filling any office by election or appointment shall continue to exercise their powers and duties until their offices shall have been abolished or their successors selected and qualified in accordance with thi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 4 Officers elected in spring of 1963, term.
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Sec. 4. All officers elected at the same election that this constitution is submitted to the people for adoption shall take office and complete the term to which they were elected under the 1908 constitution and existing laws and continue to serve until their successors are elect…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 5 State elective executive officers and senators, 2 and 4 year terms.
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Sec. 5. Notwithstanding any other provision in this constitution, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general and state senators shall be elected at the general election in 1964 to serve for two-year terms beginning on the first day of Janu…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 6 Supreme court, reduction to 7 justices.
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Sec. 6. Notwithstanding the provisions of this constitution that the supreme court shall consist of seven justices it shall consist of eight justices until the time that a vacancy occurs as a result of death, retirement or resignation of a justice. The first such vacancy shall no…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 7 Judges of probate, eligibility for re-election.
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Sec. 7. Any judge of probate serving on the effective date of this constitution may serve the remainder of the term and be eligible to succeed himself for election regardless of other provisions in this constitution requiring him to be licensed to practice law in this state.
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 8 Judicial officers, staggered terms.
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Sec. 8. The provisions of Article VI providing that terms of judicial offices shall not all expire at the same time, shall be implemented by law providing that at the next election for such offices judges shall be elected for terms of varying length, none of which shall be shorte…
Mich. Comp. Laws § Schedule § 9 State board of education; first election, terms.
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Sec. 9. The members of the state board of education provided for in Section 3 of Article VIII of this constitution shall first be elected at the first general election after the effective date of this constitution for the following terms: two shall be elected for two years, two f…