Consumers Power Co. v. Attorney General

In this declaratory judgment action brought by Consumers Power Company and the Detroit Edison Company, the Ingham Circuit Court and the Court of Appeals have determined that MCL 168.472a; MSA 6.1472(1) is constitutional. We affirm the judgments of those courts.

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In 1973, the Legislature enacted 1973 PA 112 which provides:

It shall be rebuttably presumed that the signature on a petition which proposes an amendment to the constitution or is to initiate legislation, is stale and void if it was made more than 180 days before the petition was filed with the office of the secretary of state.

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