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Michigan

Chapter 45 — Counties
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45.41 Deputies of county officers in counties over 50,000; appointment, duties.
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45.51 Deputies and employees of county officers in counties over 500,000; appointment, compensation.
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45.52 Repeal; effect on veterans' preference act.
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45.81 County offices; departments or institutions; purchase of supplies.
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45.82 County purchasing agent; appointment, term, compensation; interest in contracts or bids prohibited, penalty.
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45.83 County purchasing agent; oath; bond; conditions; payment of premium; sales prohibited; accepting or receiving rebate, commission, or other thing of value.
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45.84 Purchasing agent; advice of county officers.
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45.85 Purchasing agent; duties; estimates of county officers; advertisement for bids; manner of purchase, criteria.
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45.86 Bids; bond or certified check required; acceptance.
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45.87 Bids; inspection by purchasing agent; quality of supplies, rejection; estimates, content, filing, public inspection.
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45.88 Invoices; transmittal, approval, payment; rejection of supplies, replacement.
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45.89 Bond of successful bidder; terms, filing, recoveries.
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45.90 Emergency order; approval, purchase, report, payment; limitation.
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45.91 Purchases to be in accordance with appropriations.
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45.92 Purchase of perishable supplies; rules and regulations.
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45.93 Clerks; appointment, compensation; annual report by purchasing agent to county supervisors.
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45.94 Purchasing agent and clerks; appropriation for compensation; personal use of county supplies, penalty.
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45.95 Accounts; condition of payment; purchasing agent, offices, supplies and equipment.
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45.96 Repeals; construction of act.
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45.97 Adoption of act by counties; scope.
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45.101 Adjustment of county boundaries; resolution or petition; placing question on ballot.
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45.101a Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
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45.102 Effective date of question; notice of submission; form; certifying result of vote and adjustment.
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45.201 Fiscal year for certain counties; annual reports; filing; report of county road commission.
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45.202 Inconsistent provisions of law superseded.
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45.203 “County” defined.
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45.381 Bond coverage for officers or employees of county; determination by county board of commissioners.
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45.382 Notification of surety companies; contract.
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45.383 Completion of bonding requirement; termination of honesty and faithful discharge of duty bonds.
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45.384 Repeal of MCL 45.351 and 45.371.
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45.385 Conditional effective date.
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45.401 Salaries of county officers; determination; exception; change in compensation.
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45.402 County officers; statement of fees collected, disposition, receipts.
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45.403 Salaries of county officers; payment, condition.
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45.404 Accounting of money received by county treasurer.
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45.405 Sheriffs; appointment of under-sheriff and deputies; contracts for board of prisoners; office supplies, claims of salaried officers for expenses, hearing.
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45.406 Sheriff; emergency appointment of additional deputies, compensation; report of expenses, official acts and fees; appointment of deputies to protect private interes
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45.407 Sheriff, under-sheriff and deputy sheriff; duties.
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45.408 Violation of act; penalty.
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45.411 Members of county boards, departments, authorities, and commissions; compensation.
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45.421 Salaries of county officers; determination; change in compensation.
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45.451 Salaries of county officers of county having population of 1,000,000 or more; determination; fees or commissions payable to county; change in compensation.
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45.452 County officers; additional compensation for new duties prohibited.
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45.453 County officers; fees collected, payment to county treasurer, statement.
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45.454 County officers; record books and accounting forms for uniform system of accounts; audit of accounts; rules and regulations of board of county auditors for deposit
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45.455 Incumbent county officers; salaries and fees.
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45.456 Violation of act; penalty.
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45.457 Repeals.
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45.471 County officers compensation commission; establishment; purpose; resolution.
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45.472 County officers compensation commission; appointment, qualifications and terms of members.
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45.473 Compensation of elected officials; determination; expenses.
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45.474 County officers compensation commission; meetings; determination; quorum; concurrence of majority; chairperson; expenses.
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45.475 Conducting business at public meeting; notice.
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45.476 Resolution subject to referendum; petition; placing proposition on ballot; effect of defeat of proposition; effect of determination.
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45.476a Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
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45.477 Conditional effective date.
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45.491 Leased United States lands; appropriation of moneys received for flood control, navigation and allied purposes; payment to county treasurer.
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45.501 Charter county; body corporate.
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45.501a Authority of emergency financial manager; authority and responsibilities of local emergency financial assistance loan board.
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45.502 Resolution for submission of question on election of charter commission; adoption by county board of supervisors.
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45.502a Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
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45.503 Submission of question to qualified electors.
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45.504 Number of charter commissioners to be elected; qualifications of candidate for election to office of charter commissioner; member of county board of commissioners
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45.505 Partisan election of charter commission; nomination of candidates; petition or filing fee; primary election; composition and convening of county apportionment comm
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45.506 Compensation for charter commissioner; appropriations to defray certain costs.
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45.507 Passage of resolution; transmittal of copies to city, village and township clerks; notice of election, publication, posting.
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45.508 Ballots; form, content, preparation.
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45.509 Charter commission members; oath of office; first meeting, notice; presiding officer.
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45.510 Charter commission; organization; quorum; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; record of meetings; journal of proceedings; availability of wri
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45.511 Charter commission; draft of proposed charter, approval; dissolution upon failure to agree.
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45.511a Submission of 2 alternative charter proposals; dissolution of charter commission; approval of proposed charters; differences between charter proposals; election o
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45.512 Charter commission; vacancies.
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45.513 Charter commission; employees and assistants, appointment, compensation; use of county departmental personnel; powers and duties; expenses.
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45.514 County charter; mandatory provisions; subsection(1)(d) inapplicable to certain counties; staggered terms of office.
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45.514a Satisfaction of condition with respect to transportation employees; certification by county road agency; failure of county road agency to make certification; main
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45.515 County charter; permissible provisions.
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45.515a Ordinance; designation of violation as civil infraction; civil fine; act or omission constituting crime.
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45.515b Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of county charter or ordinance prohibited.
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45.515c Retirement system subject to protecting local government retirement and benefits act.
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45.515d Licensing requirements subject to the local government occupational licensing act.
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45.516 Proposed charter; submission to governor; rejection, revision, resubmission; approval; referendum on adoption and election of officers; incumbent county officers,
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45.517 Proposed charter; publication; notice of election.
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45.518 Proposed charter; rejection, revision, resubmission to electorate; dissolution of charter commission.
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45.519 Second charter commission; election procedures; provisions governing; rejection; dissolution of commission.
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45.520 Home rule county status; when change occurs; incumbent officers.
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45.521 Home rule county; succession to and vesting of property; continuation of rights, liabilities, suits, or prosecutions; debts, liabilities, tax rates, and uncollecte
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45.551 Optional unified form of county government; authorization; effect of adoption.
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45.552 Optional unified form of county government; alternate A; alternate B.
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45.553 Optional unified form of county government; procedure for adoption; effective date.
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45.553a Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
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45.554 Abolition of certain offices, boards, commissions, authorities, or departments; termination of tenure; former powers as general county government powers; powers an
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45.554a Annual certification that certain employee-related conditions satisfied; failure to make certification; withholding distributions to county road agency; website;
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45.555 Board of county commissioners as governing body of county; election, organization, and procedures.
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45.556 Board of county commissioners; powers.
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45.556a Ordinance; designation of violation as certain civil infraction; civil fine; act or omission constituting crime.
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45.556b Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of ordinance prohibited.
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45.556c Licensing requirements subject to the local government occupational licensing act.
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45.557 County manager; appointment, qualifications, compensation, term, and removal.
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45.558 County manager or county executive; powers and duties.
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45.559 County executive; nomination, election, and term; vacancy; salary.
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45.559a Death or resignation of elected county executive; successor.
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45.560 County executive; responsibility.
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45.561 County executive; veto of ordinance or resolution; certification; overriding veto; certain resolutions or motions not to be approved or disapproved; effective date
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45.562 Officials; powers; functions; manner of election or appointment; term.
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45.563 Departments; establishment; directors; functions.
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45.564 Departments; consolidation; transfer of functions; creation of additional departments; county manager or county executive as director.
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45.565 Deputy; appointment; department head and deputy exempt from civil service.
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45.566 Civil service commission; appeals; secretarial and clerical assistance; personnel and employee relations.
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45.567 Employee retirement and pension programs; retirement board.
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45.568 Title to property to be held in name of county.
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45.569 Ordinances previously enacted.
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45.570 Provisions of act controlling.
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45.571 Rights under civil service and merit system continued.
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45.572 Retirement and pension rights.
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45.572a Retirement system subject to protecting local government retirement and benefits act; "retirement system" defined.
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45.573 Procedures for abolishing optional unified form of county government.
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45.581 Short title.
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45.582 Definitions.
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45.583 Department of solid waste management; establishment; function; control; annual budget; appointment of director.
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45.584 Solid waste system; acquisition, construction, improvement, enlargement, or extension; operation and maintenance; acquisitions outside corporate boundaries; consen
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45.585 Solid waste service; consent of public corporation.
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45.586 Financing and contracts; resolution; merger.
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45.587 Methods of financing.
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45.588 Bonds generally.
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45.589 Contract between county and public corporation; purpose; payment of obligations; tax levy; methods of raising money; pledge; powers.
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45.590 Special assessment roll; objection to special assessment district.
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45.591 Validity of bonds or notes.
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45.592 Acquisition of tangible or intangible property, rights, or processes.
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45.593 Contract for furnishing solid waste services to public corporation; charges subject to increase; contract for purchase or sale of solid waste services or acquisiti
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45.594 Cost of system.
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45.595 Failure to pay county; notice; deduction or transfer of money; legal remedies for reimbursement.
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45.596 Proceedings to take private property.
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45.621 Short title.
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45.622 Definitions.
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45.623 County juvenile agency; resolution; approval; adoption; powers and duties of county.
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45.624 Resolution of approval; revocation by subsequent resolution.
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45.625 Request by county executive, chief executive officer, or manager required.
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45.626 Applicability of act; eligibility requirements.
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45.627 County juvenile agency; powers and duties.
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45.628 Maintenance of block grant account.
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45.629 Annual state audit.
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45.630 Placement of public wards and juveniles.
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45.630a County as successor employer; conditions of employment.
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45.630b Plan to aid displaced employees.
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45.631 Existing agreements between family independence agency and private providers.
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