PEOPLE v. SWARTZENTRUBER

Docket Nos. 98543, 98544, 98545.

170 Mich. App. 682 (1988)

429 N.W.2d 225

PEOPLE v. SWARTZENTRUBER VILLAGE OF BEAVERTON v. TROYER CITY OF GLADWIN v. GINGERICH

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Douglas A. Jacobson, Prosecuting Attorney, for the State of Michigan and the City of Gladwin.

Paul J. Pemberton, for Village of Beaverton.

Dreyer & McLaughlin (by David J. Dreyer), and William Bentley Ball, for defendants.

Before: SHEPHERD, P.J., and SAWYER and K. MacDONALD, JJ.


SHEPHERD, P.J.

Defendants appeal an opinion and order of the Gladwin Circuit Court enforcing traffic violation tickets issued to defendants for failure to display the slow-moving vehicle (SMV) emblem on their horse-drawn vehicles pursuant to statute. MCL 257.688; MSA 9.2388. We reverse.

Defendants are all members of the Old Order Amish religion. Defendants were ticketed in October, 1980, for failure to display a SMV emblem. The statute requires that all vehicles...

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