Michigan Laws 730.530 – Conciliation division; judges; clerks; jurisdictional amount
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(1) Any municipal court affected by this act may provide for a conciliation division where civil actions in which the debt or damages claimed do not exceed the amount in subsection (2), excepting replevin suits, suits commenced by writ of attachment, and suits commenced by civil warrant, except as hereinafter provided, may be brought and settled in an informal manner. The judges of the municipal court are hereby constituted conciliators of the conciliation division, and shall act as such as part of their official duties. Any municipal judge may authorize any clerk or deputy clerk of the court to act as conciliator in any case.
(2) The jurisdictional amount for purposes of this section is $100.00, unless the city in which the municipal court is located increases the jurisdictional amount for that municipal court to $600.00 by resolution of the city’s legislative body. A resolution under this subsection shall be submitted to the state court administrative office, and the increase in the jurisdictional amount shall take effect January 1 of the year immediately following the year in which the resolution is received by the state court administrative office.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 730.530
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- municipal judge: whenever used in this act shall be deemed to include all municipal courts and judges heretofore or hereafter established or authorized under the provisions of Act No. See Michigan Laws 730.501a
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.