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IN SB0191
Bill
Status
1/6/2015
Primary Sponsor
James Arnold
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AI Summary
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Allows individuals to simultaneously serve as full-time or volunteer firefighters for a fire department and as members of a township's legislative and fiscal body, notwithstanding other state law provisions.
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Specifies that township employees serving as full-time firefighters are not considered to have resigned from township employment when assuming or holding office as a township board member.
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Permits individuals who were serving as township board members on January 1, 2013, to continue serving as both firefighters and board members, and allows them to run for reelection to their board positions.
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Applies the grandfather provision to individuals whose terms had not expired as of January 1, 2013, and specifies that township employee firefighters do not resign upon reelection to the board.
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The grandfather provision in Section 7.1 expires July 1, 2017, while the general authority to serve in both roles under Section 3.5 remains permanent.
Legislative Description
Firefighters serving on township boards. Allows an individual to serve as a member of a township board and also serve as a volunteer firefighter or full-time firefighter of a fire department that provides fire services to the township. Specifies that an individual who serves as a firefighter and was serving as a township board member on January 1, 2013, and whose term has not expired, may continue to: (1) serve as a firefighter and member of the township board; and (2) run for reelection and assume office as a member of the township board.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
1/6/2015