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Statutes > Michigan > Chapter-168 > Act-116-of-1954 > 116-1954-xxiii > Section-168-514MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW (EXCERPT)
Act 116 of 1954
168.514 Cancellation of registration.
Sec. 514.
If the registration of an elector is cancelled, the clerk shall make a proper entry on the original and duplicate registration cards, indicating the date and the cause for cancellation, and shall affix his or her signature to the entries. All copies of the cancelled registration cards shall be filed in the office of the clerk. All duplicates of the original registration cards so cancelled may be destroyed 2 years after the registrations are cancelled. The clerk may also destroy the original registration cards of an elector 10 years after the date of cancellation of the elector's registration, if the registration is not reinstated within that period. The clerk may also destroy any cancelled original registration cards 2 years after the date of cancellation if the cancelled registration cards are reproduced pursuant to the records media act and the reproductions are on file in the office of the clerk. The reproductions may be destroyed after the expiration of the statutory retention date of the reproduced records. The registration records, if combustible, shall be destroyed by burning.
History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1957, Act 183, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 195, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 1992
Popular Name: Election Code
