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Olsen, Chairperson
Miscellaneous Resolution 84153 May 10, 1984
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: DECLARATION THAT THE 1915 "RAT BOUNTY LAW" IS NO
LONGER OPERATIVE 1N OAKLAND COUNTY
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen;
WHEREAS, in the early years of this century when garbage pickup
standards and regulations against potential animal harborage were lax, rats
became a problem in some parts of Michigan; and
WHEREAS, to combat this problem the Michigan Legislature passed Act 50
of the Public Acts of 1915 allowing a bounty on rats of 10 cents per head; and
WHEREAS. Section 3 of the so-called Rat Bounty Law (being 433.253
of the Michigan Compiled Laws) further provided that a county could terminate
liability for payment of a rat bounty only when the Board of Commissioners by
resolution declares this law to be no longer operative; and
WHEREAS, present day sanitation controls mandating cleanliness, prompt
garbage pickup, anti-harborage standards and other regulations have eliminated
any serious rat problems in Oakland County; and
WHEREAS, the motivation to go rat hunting with guns, clubs and poison
circa 1915 to reduce the rat population and at the same time collect some bounty
money belongs to the past.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners hereby declares that Act 50 of the Public Acts of 1915 is no
longer operative in Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to
all city, village and township clerks in Oakland County.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
May 10th day of 19 84
ALLEN
#84153 May 10, 1984
Moved by Olsen supported by Moore the resolution be adopted.
At the Chairperson's request, Civil Counsel' read the 1915 Rat
Bounty Law.
Discussion followed.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Jackson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen,
Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron, Calandra, Fortino,
Hobart. (18)
NAYS: McDonald. (1)
PASS: Foley. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was
adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that 1 have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #84153 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on May IC, 1984
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
Counity Clerk/Register of Deeds
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