Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on September 16, 2003, to require the county executives of Oakland and Bay Counties to appoint a chief deputy, and establish that if the county executive office becomes vacant due to death or resignation of the executive, the chief deputy will assume the office until until the county board of commissioners appoints a successor to the elected county executive, or until a special election was held. The bill authorizes the county commission to call a special election if it chooses. Currently, a replacement may only be selected by the county commission

The vote was 37 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 504 at Senate Journal 89)

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The last line of the bill states that the language only applies to counties of 1,000,000 or more which would only qualify Oakland & Wayne Counties. Thus the veto should not be necessary because Bay County has a population of some 400k+.

The sentence referred to by "Veto not necessary" is in Section 9a, but the bill contains another section as well. Frankly, I don't understand the need for the veto, but the issue you cite does not mean it is not needed. See Senate Bill 881 and House Bill 5351, which correct the defect in the bill that caused the veto