MICH. SHERIFFS' ASS'N v. DEPT. OF TREASURY

Docket No. 29369.

75 Mich. App. 516 (1977)

255 N.W.2d 666

MICHIGAN SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION v. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farhat, Burns & Story, P.C. (by E. Michael Stafford), for Michigan Sheriffs' Association, Jack P. Foster, Charles White, Rodney Lane, and Keith Wilhelm.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Thomas J. Emery and Norbert G. Jaworski, Assistants Attorney General, for defendants.

Before: D.F. WALSH, P.J., and ALLEN and N.J. KAUFMAN, JJ.


ALLEN, J.

Where funds are collected by the state pursuant to a statute designating a specific purpose for which the sums so collected may be spent, may the Legislature thereafter apply a portion of the sums so collected to another purpose? This question of apparent first impression is raised by the Ingham County Circuit Court ruling in defendants' favor on plaintiffs' action challenging the legality of the Legislature's transfer of $900,000 from the Marine Safety...

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