Opinion
Docket No. 5,750.
Decided July 2, 1968.
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 Supervisors 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.
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,
HURON
15 Districts
(Approved by Huron County Board of Supervisors
on April 6, 1967).
--------------------------------------- District | | 5 1925 | Maximum Population | 1:1.56 | 1 2026 | Variance Ratio | | 3 2070 |---------------------|-----------------| 12 2078 | Minimum Population | | 13 2099 | Electing a Majority | 49.4% | 11 2140 |---------------------|-----------------| 9 2165 | | | 15 2282 | Average Population | 2267 | ____ 16,785 | of District | Total = 34,006 | or | | | 49.4% |---------------------|-----------------| 2 2290 | Deviation of | | 8 2296 | Largest District | 731 or 32.25% | 4 2321 | from Average | Total = 2998 | 7 2359 | | | 10 2442 |---------------------|-----------------| 6 2515 | Deviation of | | 14 2998 | Smallest District | 342 or 15.09% | ____ 17,221 | from Average | Total = 1925 | 34,006 | | | ====== | | | ---------------------------------------
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.
HURON
7 Districts
(Adopted by Huron County Board of Supervisors
on July 2, 1968).
District ---------------------------------------- 1 4443 | Maximum Population | 1:1.19 | 2 4475 | Variance Ratio | | 6 4529 |---------------------|------------------| 3 4849 | Minimum Population | 53.8% | ____ 18,296 | Electing a Majority | | or |---------------------|------------------| 53.8% | Average Population | 4858 | 7 5167 | of District | Total = 34,006 | 4 5249 |---------------------|------------------| 5 5294 | Deviation of | 436 or 8.97% | ____ 15,710 | Largest District | Total = 5294 | 34,006 | from Average | | ====== |---------------------|------------------| | Deviation of | 415 or 8.54% | | Smallest District | Total = 4443 | | from Average | | ----------------------------------------
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 be candidates for the district within which they reside under the plan approved by this Court this day.
PA 1968, No 153.
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 be controlled by the requirements that would have been necessary under the plan filed with the county clerk on April 6, 1967.
This order shall be delivered to the State Reporter and published in the official reports of the Court of Appeals.
LESINSKI, C.J., and J.H. GILLIS and LEVIN, JJ., concurred.