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6.8 Impeachment; acquittal.

Sec. 8.

If 2/3 of all the members elected to the senate shall not assent to a conviction, the person impeached shall be declared acquitted.

History: 1872, Act 62, Imd. Eff. Mar. 30, 1872 ;– How. 57 ;– CL 1897, 25 ;– CL 1915, 39 ;– CL 1929, 66 ;– CL 1948, 6.8