2011 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 28 — MICHIGAN STATE POLICE
Act 59 of 1935 — MICHIGAN STATE POLICE (28.1 - 28.16)
Section 28.6e — Law enforcement officer of Michigan Indian tribal police force; appointment; compensation; participation in pension or insurance plan; definitions.
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE (EXCERPT)
Act 59 of 1935
28.6e Law enforcement officer of Michigan Indian tribal police force; appointment; compensation; participation in pension or insurance plan; definitions.
Sec. 6e.
(1) The director may appoint a law enforcement officer of a Michigan Indian tribal police force to act as a police officer for a Michigan Indian tribe upon Indian country of the tribe.
(2) The department of state police and the director are not liable for the acts of a law enforcement officer of a Michigan Indian tribal police force who is appointed under this section.
(3) The Michigan Indian tribe to which the law enforcement officer of a Michigan Indian tribal police force is appointed shall pay compensation to the officer.
(4) A law enforcement officer of a Michigan Indian tribal police force appointed under this section is not eligible to participate in any state pension, disability, or life insurance plan or any hospitalization or other medical insurance plan of the department solely on the basis of his or her employment under this section.
(5) As used in this section:
(a) Law enforcement officer of a Michigan Indian tribal police force means a regularly employed member of a police force of a Michigan Indian tribe who is appointed pursuant to 25 C.F.R. 12.100 to 12.103.
(b) Michigan Indian tribe means a federally recognized Indian tribe that has trust lands located within this state.
(c) Indian country means all of the following:
(i) All land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including rights-of-way running through the reservation.
(ii) All dependent Indian communities within the borders of the United States whether within the original or subsequently acquired territory of the dependent Indian community, and whether within or without the limits of a state.
(iii) All Indian allotments, the Indian titles to which have not been extinguished, including rights-of-way.
History: Add. 1995, Act 203, Imd. Eff. Nov. 29, 1995
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