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Chapter 730 - Justice Courts and Municipal Courts
Act 5 of 1956 MICHIGAN UNIFORM MUNICIPAL COURT ACT (730.501 - 730.534)
AN ACT to establish and promote a uniform system of municipal courts in cities; to consolidate justice courts in cities into a system of municipal courts; to change the name of existing justice courts and justices of the peace in cities to municipal courts and municipal judges; to promote uniformity in practice and procedure in such courts; to prescribe the powers, duties and functions of such courts; and to provide for substitute municipal judges in cities in cases of death, absence, disability or removal of the regularly elected or appointed municipal judges and in cases where temporary judicial assistance is needed in such courts.
History: 1956, Act 5, Eff. Aug. 11, 1956 ;-- Am. 1957, Act 179, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957
- Section 730.501 Municipal courts; salaried judges; designation; adoption of act by ordinance or charter provision.
- Section 730.501a Uniform municipal court act; definitions.
- Section 730.502 Name of court; title of judges, entitlement of papers.
- Section 730.503 Candidates; designation; incumbency designation.
- Section 730.504 Incumbent judges or justices; nonapplication of act.
- Section 730.505 Incumbent judges or justices; continuation, vacancies.
- Section 730.506 Substitute judges; assistance of other judges.
- Section 730.507 Substitute judges; compensation.
- Section 730.508 Judges; qualifications, terms, election; compensation, jurisdiction, practice and procedure.
- Section 730.508a Municipal court judge; eligibility; requirements.
- Section 730.509 Files, records and dockets.
- Section 730.510 Jurisdiction of successor judges.
- Section 730.511 Set time for trial; hearing or action.
- Section 730.512 Judges; rule making power.
- Section 730.513 Presiding judge; designation, term, absence.
- Section 730.514 Presiding judge; powers and duties, motions, bonds, defaults, rule powers.
- Section 730.515 Motions; form, filing, hearing, notices.
- Section 730.516 Setting aside verdict or judgment; new trial; procedure.
- Section 730.517 Instructions to jury; requests to charge.
- Section 730.518 Directed verdicts; condition.
- Section 730.519 Directed verdicts; reserved decision in civil cases, judgment notwithstanding verdict.
- Section 730.520 Judgment in case of disagreement of jury.
- Section 730.521 Civil process; service anywhere in county.
- Section 730.522 Concurrent jurisdiction; replevin; jurisdictional amount.
- Section 730.523 Appeals in criminal cases.
- Section 730.523a Appeal in civil action or criminal case; effect of resolution.
- Section 730.524 Attorney fees taxable.
- Section 730.525 Matters returnable before presiding judge.
- Section 730.526 Conduct of trial by litigants or attorneys; contempt for violation.
- Section 730.527 Bail; setting date for examinations; recognizance in criminal cases.
- Section 730.528 Provisions applicable to municipal judges and municipal courts; fees.
- Section 730.529 Judgments; signing by judges.
- Section 730.530 Conciliation division; judges; clerks; jurisdictional amount.
- Section 730.531 Conciliation division; summons, default, hearings, adjournment.
- Section 730.532 Conciliation division; settlement; judgment, payment.
- Section 730.533 Conciliation division; transfer to regular division; costs.
- Section 730.534 Michigan uniform municipal court act; short title.
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