Court Opinion

ID: 9689965
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:50:28.317151+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:52.918843
License: Public Domain

Murphy, J.
(dissenting). I respectfully dissent. I believe that MCL 45.514(1)©; MSA 5.302(14X1)© of the charter counties act restricted defendants’ power to make the modifications which I believe clearly infringed on plaintiffs’ rights and status under the civil service system. This Court in Gray v Wayne Co, 148 Mich App 247, 253; 384 NW2d 141 (1986), lv den 426 Mich 872 (1986), declared that a charter county’s freedom to adopt procedures remains limited by, and subject to, legislative enactments. Simply, I agree with plaintiffs’ contention that it would make little sense for the Legislature in the first three sentences of subsection © to require a charter county to maintain an existing civil service system, honor and recognize *199the rights and status of persons under that existing system and not infringe or derogate the rights of persons under the existing system, and then in the next sentence grant the county full power to modify the system in the future, even to the extent of abolishing the system. I would reverse.