Title 46, COUNTY BOARDS OF COMMISSIONERS

Sec. 11. A county board of commissioners, at a lawfully held meeting, may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Purchase or lease for a term not to exceed 20 years, real estate necessary for the site of a courthouse, jail, clerk's office, or other county building in that county. (b)…

Sec. 11a. The board of supervisors is hereby authorized to appropriate such sum as they deem fit for the purpose of a public celebration on Armistice day. The board shall provide for the expenditure of this money in any way they see fit.

Sec. 11b. (1) A county, by resolution of the county board of commissioners, may enter into a contract or agreement for the purchase of lands, property, or equipment to be used for public purposes and, except as provided in subsection (6), to be paid for in installments over a per…

Sec. 11c. (1) A county board of commissioners may provide by resolution for the acquisition or financing of energy conservation improvements to be made to county facilities or infrastructure and may pay for the improvements or the financing or refunding of the improvements from t…

Sec. 11d. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a county board of commissioners shall not adopt an ordinance that includes any minimum staffing requirement for county employees. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any provision i…

Sec. 11e. Any occupational licensing requirements imposed under this act are subject to the local government occupational licensing act.

Sec. 12a. (1) Subject to subsection (34), a county board of commissioners at a lawfully held meeting may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Provide group life, health, accident and hospitalization, and disability coverage for a county employee, a retired employee, or an employee …

Sec. 12b. The board of supervisors may appropriate, from time to time, such sums of moneys as it may determine, for the operation of local councils of veterans' affairs.

Sec. 12c. The board of supervisors of any county or the boards of several counties acting jointly may employ, upon such terms as they approve, any person competent therefor, except any member of a local legislative body or city or village official, to represent such county or cou…

Sec. 12d. Subject to the protecting local government retirement and benefits act, if the functions of a governmental unit are transferred to the county, and if all or part of the employees of the functions are transferred from the employ of a governmental unit to the employ of th…

Sec. 12e. Subject to the protecting local government retirement and benefits act, if an employee of a county department of a county that has adopted a retirement system providing for the payment of benefits in the event of a nonduty disability or nonduty death is transferred to t…

Sec. 13. The said respective boards of supervisors in each county, entitled to more than 1 representative in the state legislature, shall have power and it shall be their duty, at their annual meeting in the year 1851, and at their annual meeting next after each subsequent apport…

Sec. 13a. The board of supervisors in each of the several counties may appoint a county purchasing agent and such other representatives, agents and employes for its county as may be deemed necessary by it, to carry out any of the powers granted by this act, or by any other law of…

Sec. 13b. The board of supervisors in any county other than counties operating under elected boards of auditors unless presently operating with a county controller, by a majority vote of its members-elect, may appoint a county controller or board of auditors and fix the salary, t…

Sec. 14. (1) By a vote of 3/5 of all the members elected, a county board of commissioners may vacate, divide, or alter a township within the county, whether the boundaries of the township were fixed by a special act of the legislature or by action of the county board of commissio…

Sec. 15. Notice in writing of an intended application under section 14 subscribed by those freeholders as required by section 14 shall be posted in 5 of the most public places in each of the affected townships during the 4 weeks before submission of the application to the county …

Sec. 16. (1) If a county board of commissioners establishes a new township in the county, other than by consolidation as provided in sections 16a to 16j, the board shall designate the name of the township, the time and place of holding the first annual township meeting in the tow…

Sec. 16a. As used in this act: (a) "Consolidated township" means a general law or charter township formed by the consolidation of 2 or more townships as prescribed by sections 16b to 16j. (b) "Coordinating committee" means the committee designated and elected as provided in secti…

Sec. 16b. (1) Proceedings for consolidation of 2 or more townships within the same county may be initiated by filing a petition with the county board of commissioners signed by a number of registered electors who are residents of the area to be consolidated equal to at least 5% o…

Sec. 16c. (1) The county clerk shall notify the clerk of each township affected by a consolidation petitioned for under section 16b of the date for the election and the question to be submitted. The date for the election on the issue of consolidation shall be set on or before May…

Sec. 16d. (1) A coordinating committee shall assist in the planning and implementation of a consolidation under sections 16b and 16c. The coordinating committee is composed of the supervisor, clerk, and treasurer of each affected township and a number of residents of each affecte…

Sec. 16e. If a consolidation proposed under sections 16b and 16c is approved, the coordinating committee shall do all of the following: (a) Prepare and adopt an interim budget for the consolidated township for the period commencing at the time the consolidation is effective and, …

Sec. 16f. An ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation of an affected township in effect at the time a consolidation under sections 16b and 16c is effective continues in full force as an ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation of the territory that comprised the former townsh…

Sec. 16g. A township consolidated as provided in sections 16b and 16c succeeds to the real and personal property, money, rights, credits, and records, files, books, and papers belonging to each affected township as it formerly existed. A right or liability of a former township th…

Sec. 16h. (1) Bonded indebtedness and a pledge of full faith and credit or limited full faith and credit by a former township consolidated as provided in sections 16b and 16c continue as obligations of the consolidated township and of the taxable territory of the former township …

Sec. 16i. (1) If a consolidated township is a charter township, the election under section 16c shall be considered the election required under section 2 of Act No. 359 of the Public Acts of 1947, being section 42.2 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and Act No. 359 of the Public Acts…

Sec. 16j. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), an employee of a township whose duties are transferred to a consolidated township shall be given a comparable position of employment with the consolidated township and shall maintain his or her seniority status and all other ben…

Sec. 17. The county seat may be relocated to a new location if the removal and new location are approved by a 2/3 vote of the elected county board of commissioners and by the majority of the qualified electors within the county. The election required under this section shall be c…

Sec. 1a. Notwithstanding any provision of this act, if an emergency financial manager has been appointed under the local government fiscal responsibility act, Act No. 101 of the Public Acts of 1988, being sections 141.1101 to 141.1118 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, with respect t…

Sec. 2. The board of supervisors is hereby authorized to offer and pay out of the general fund of the county, not to exceed 1,000 dollars as a reward for the arrest and conviction or for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons having committed a …

Sec. 20. Whenever it shall become necessary, under the provisions of this act, to submit to a vote of the electors of any county, the question of raising any sum of money by loan or by tax, the said board, after having determined the sum necessary to be raised, whether the same s…

Sec. 21. A county board of commissioners may permit or prohibit within that county the construction of any bridge over or across any navigable stream. They shall also have power to provide for the removal of any obstruction arising from the erection of booms or the collecting of …

Sec. 22. (1) As provided in this section, a county may levy a tax and remit the proceeds of that tax to a conservation district. (2) A county described in subsection (1), by resolution of the county board of commissioners, may place on the ballot at a regular or primary election …

Sec. 23. Whenever any person or persons, township officers or corporation, shall wish to construct any bridge across any stream at a point where the same is navigable for boats or vessels of 15 tons burden or more, they shall apply to the board of supervisors by petition, and sha…

Sec. 23a. Notwithstanding sections 21 and 23, if a county board of commissioners previously approved the construction of a bridge across a navigable stream in the county in compliance with section 23, then any reconstruction, renovation, or replacement of that bridge that continu…

Sec. 24. Every such board of supervisors shall have power to make general rules and regulations as to the kind of bridges, and the mode of constructing the same over any such stream, as mentioned in section 21 of this act, when such stream shall not be navigable for boats or vess…

Sec. 25. That the board of supervisors of the several counties within this state, are hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be laid out, established, altered, discontinued or opened all state and territorial roads heretofore or now laid out, or hereafter to be laid through …

Sec. 26. Whenever the board of supervisors of any county are petitioned to by at least 12 freeholders of each of the townships through which any such road or roads may pass, they shall upon such petition authorize the commissioners of highways of such townships to cause the line …

Sec. 27. Whenever said road or roads shall be surveyed, laid out, altered or established under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to whom such petition and report may have been made as aforesaid, to notify and require the commissioners of…

Sec. 28. Any person feeling himself aggrieved by the action of the board of supervisors by the laying out, altering or discontinuing any road designated by this act, may have his damage assessed by a jury composed of 12 freeholders residing in the township where the land through …

Sec. 29. Every order, resolution and determination of such board of supervisors, made in pursuance of this act, shall be recorded in the records of such board, and signed by the chairman and clerk of such board.

Sec. 3. (1) A majority of the members of the county board of commissioners of a county constitutes a quorum for the transaction of the ordinary business of the county. (2) The county board of commissioners of a county shall act by the votes of a majority of the members present. H…

Sec. 30. A member of the county board of commissioners shall not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract or other business transaction with the county, or a board, office, or commission thereof, during the time for which he is elected or appointed, nor for one year t…

Sec. 30a. (1) A member of the county board of commissioners of any county shall not be eligible to receive, or shall not receive, an appointment from, or be employed by an officer, board, committee, or other authority of that county except as otherwise provided by law. (2) In cas…

Sec. 30b. (1) The county board of commissioners by resolution adopted by an affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members, may provide a per diem rate of compensation for the chairperson in an amount larger than the amount established for other members of the board. (2) Notwithstanding …

Sec. 31. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), if a member of the county board of commissioners neglects or refuses to perform the duties which are required of the member by law, without just cause, the member shall for each offense forfeit $100.00. (2) A member of t…