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Michigan Supreme Court Lansing, Michigan

Opinion
COUNTY ROAD ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN and CHIPPEWA COUNTY ROAD COMMISSION, Plaintiffs-Appellees and MICHIGAN PUBLIC TRANSIT ASSOCIATION, ANN ARBOR TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, CAPITAL AREA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, and SUBURBAN MOBILITY AUTHORITY FOR REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION,

Chief Justice:

Justices:

Clifford W. Taylor

Michael F. Cavanagh Elizabeth A. Weaver Marilyn Kelly Maura D. Corrigan Robert P. Young, Jr. Stephen J. Markman

FILED NOVEMBER 8, 2005

Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellants, v GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, STATE BUDGET DIRECTOR, STATE TREASURER, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, SECRETARY OF STATE, and STATE OF MICHIGAN, Defendants-Appellees. _______________________________ PER CURIAM.  No. 125665

This exercised

case in

involves

the Order of

authority No.

of

the to

Governor, reduce to the the

Executive allocation

2001-9, sales

Legislature's

general

taxes

Comprehensive Transportation Fund (CTF) by $12,750,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and to transfer those revenues to the state's general fund. Appellants

claim that the general sales tax revenues allocated to the CTF are "constitutionally dedicated" funds within the

meaning of Const 1963, art 9,

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