HOUSE BILL No. 4971

 

 

September 19, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Cochran, Chirkun, Zemke, Faris, Sneller, Leutheuser, Wittenberg, Peterson, Dianda, Sabo, Marino, LaGrand, Elder, Lucido, Lasinski, Love, Schor and Green and referred to the Committee on Law and Justice.

 

     A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled

 

"The code of criminal procedure,"

 

by amending section 19 of chapter XVI (MCL 776.19).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

CHAPTER XVI

 

     Sec. 19. (1) The board of supervisors commissioners of a

 

county is hereby authorized to offer and pay out of the general

 

fund of the county not to exceed 2,000 dollars more than $20,000.00

 

as a reward for the arrest and conviction, or for information

 

leading to the arrest and conviction, of any person or persons

 

having committed a crime within the county or having escaped from

 

any penal institution therein: Provided, That the within the

 

county.

 

     (2) The powers granted hereby in this section may be exercised

 

by the finance committee of the board of supervisors commissioners

 

of a county when said the board of supervisors commissioners of the

 

county is not in session.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.