Section 600.9938 - Twenty-third and fifty-ninth districts; commencement of district courts and abolition of municipal courts; municipal judges as district court judges; election to district court; affidavit of candidacy; designation on ballot; terms of district judges; election and term of district judge in fifty-ninth district(1) Effective January 1, 1980, the district court shall commence to function in the twenty-third district and as of that date, the municipal court within that district shall be abolished. Effective January 1, 1981, the district court shall commence to function in the fifty-ninth district and as of that date, the municipal courts within that district shall be abolished.(2) Effective January 1, 1980, the elected incumbent attorney municipal judges of the city of Taylor shall become judges of the district court within the twenty-third district as provided in section 8121(8) and shall serve as district judges until 12 noon of January 1 of the odd numbered year next following the date on which their terms as municipal judges would normally have expired. In seeking election to the district court after January 1, 1980, each municipal judge becoming a judge of the district court pursuant to this subsection may file an affidavit of candidacy in like manner as other incumbent judges of the district court and shall be entitled to designation on the ballot as a judge of the district court. In the first election of district judges in the twenty-third district to be held in the even numbered year preceding the expiration of the incumbents' terms as provided in this subsection, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes in the general election to fill those offices shall serve a term of 6 years and the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes shall serve a term of 4 years.(3) In the fifty-ninth district, the district judge provided in section 8128a shall be elected in 1980 as provided in chapter 21A of Act No. 116 of the Public Acts of 1954, as amended, for a term of 6 years.Add. 1977, Act 129, Imd. Eff. 10/21/1977.