Case Name: APPORTIONMENT OF HURON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1968-07-02
Citations: 12 Mich. App. 326
Docket Number: Docket No. 5,750
Parties: APPORTIONMENT OF HURON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Judges: Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Emms and Levin, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 12
Pages: 326–329

Head Matter:
APPORTIONMENT OF HURON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
1. Counties — Board of Supervisors — Apportionment.
Apportionment plan for county board of supervisors which conforms with constitutional requirements is approved for filing with the county clerk and secretary of State.
2. Elections — Counties—Board of Supervisors.
Candidates for office of supervisor who filed their candidacy under an apportionment plan originally filed with county clerk in 1967, and filed pursuant to filing deadline of July 2, 1968, and are otherwise qualified under the laws of this State, shall be candidates for the district within which they reside under new apportionment plan filed July 2, 1968 (PA 1968, No 153).
3. Same — Candidacy—County Board of Supervisors — Sufficiency of Petitions.
The sufficiency of petitions and other qualifications for the candidacy of office of supervisor under supervisor apportionment plan filed and approved July 2, 1968, for the 1968 elections ordered to be controlled by requirements that would have been necessary under a plan filed with the county clerk in April 1967.
References for Points in Headnotes
[1] 25 Am Jur 2d, Elections § 16.
[2, 3] 25 Am Jur 2d, Elections § 170.
Original statutory action in Court of Appeals to review apportionment plan.
Submitted Division 2 July 1, 1968, at Lansing.
(Docket No. 5,750.)
Decided July 2, 1968.
Petition by Clarence Broomfield for review of apportionment plans for Huron County Board of Su pervisors and for new plan conforming with constitutional requirement.
Revised and stipulated plan approved.
Donald R. Clark, for petitioner.
John Schubel, Prosecuting Attorney, for Huron County.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
In this cause a petition for review of the apportionment plan for the Huron County Board of Supervisors having been filed pursuant to PA 1966, No 261 [MCLA § 46.406 (Stat Ann 1968 Cum Supp § 5.359 [6])]; and oral arguments having been presented before this Court on July 1, 1968; and the parties having agreed on the same date to file a new apportionment plan more in conformance with the constitutional requirement for districts of substantially equal population; and the parties having filed such agreed apportionment plan on July 2, 1968; therefore,
It is ordered that the plan adopted and filed with this Court by the Huron County Board of Supervisors on July 2, 1968, be, and the same hereby is, the approved apportionment plan under which elections for the office of county board of supervisors in Huron county shall be conducted for the primary and general elections of 1968, and the approved plan shall be the official apportionment plan for Huron county until the next United States official decennial census figures are available.
It is further ordered that the approved plan shall be filed with the county clerk who shall forthwith file such plan with the secretary of State pursuant to the requirement of PA 1966, No 261.
It is further ordered that those candidates for the office of supervisor who have filed their candidacy under the apportionment plan originally filed with the county clerk on April 6, 1967, and filed pursuant to the filing deadline of Enrolled Senate Bill No 23 of the regular session of 1968, and are otherwise qualified under the laws of this State, shall he candidates for the district within which they reside under the plan approved by this Court this day.
It is further ordered that the sufficiency of the petitions and other qualifications for the candidacy of the office of supervisor for the 1968 elections only shall he controlled by the requirements that would have been necessary under the plan filed with the county clerk on April 6, 1967.
This order shall he delivered to the State Reporter and published in the official reports of the Court of Appeals.
Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Emms and Levin, JJ., concurred.
SVSON
HURON
7 Districts (Adopted by Huron County Board of Supervisors District 1 4443 2 4475 6 4529 3 4849 - 18,296 or 53.8% 7 5167 4 5249 5 5294 - 15,710 34,006 on July 2, 1968). Maximum Population Variance Batió 1:1.19 Minimum Population Electing a Majority 53.8% Average Population of District 4858 Total = 34,006 Deviation of Largest District from Average 436 or 8.97% Total = 5294 Deviation of Smallest District from Average 415 or 8.54% Total = 4443
PA 1968, No 153.