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Mich. Comp. Laws § 401.1 Definitions.
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Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) “Poor person” means a person who does not have property, exempt or otherwise, and who is unable, because of physical or mental disability or age, to earn a livelihood, or a person who has some means but is eligible to receive relief or assistance …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 401.3 Failure of relative to provide support; application for order to compel relief; notice.
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Sec. 3. Upon the failure of any relative of a poor person to relieve and maintain the poor person, the county department of social services in the county in which the poor person resides, shall apply with the advice and assistance of the prosecuting attorney to the probate court …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 401.4 Failure of relatives to provide support; hearing, order.
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Sec. 4. The court to which such application may be made, shall proceed in a summary way to hear the proofs and allegations of the parties, and shall order such of the relatives aforesaid of such poor person, as appear to be of sufficient ability and as appear to owe a duty of sup…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 401.5 Court order to perform duty of support.
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Sec. 5. The court shall order the relative or relatives to perform the duty of support, in the following order: The husband or wife shall be first required to maintain the poor person, if of sufficient ability; if a husband or wife does not exist, or he or she is not of sufficien…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 401.6 Direction of proportionate liability.
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Sec. 6. If it shall appear that any such relative is unable wholly to maintain such poor person, but is able to contribute towards his support, the court may, in its discretion, direct 2 or more relatives of different degrees to maintain such poor person, and shall prescribe the …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 401.7 Duration of order; change in terms.
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Sec. 7. Such order may specify the time during which the relatives aforesaid shall maintain such poor person, or during which any of the said sums so directed by the court shall be paid, or it may be indefinite, or until the further order of the court; and the said court may from…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 401.8 Cost of application; enforcement of orders.
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Sec. 8. The costs and expenses of any application under the provisions of this chapter, shall be ascertained by the court, and paid by the relatives against whom any order may be made, and the payment thereof, and obedience to the order of maintenance, and to any order of such co…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 401.9 Failure to obey order; civil action by department of social welfare; contempt of court, penalty.
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Sec. 9. If any relative, who shall have been required by such order to relieve or maintain any poor person, shall neglect to do so, and shall neglect to pay the sum prescribed by the court for the support of such poor person, the county department of social welfare or the bureau …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 402.18 Bringing poor or indigent person from outside state into county; intent; penalties.
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Sec. 18. Any person who shall bring or remove, or cause to be brought or removed, any poor or indigent person, from outside this state, into any county within it, with intent to make such county chargeable with the support of the poor person, shall forfeit and pay $50.00, to be r…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 402.19 Conviction for violation of MCL 402.18; security; penalty.
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Sec. 19. It shall be lawful for the court before whom the person shall be convicted for a violation of the provisions of the section 18, to require of the person satisfactory security that he or she will, within a reasonable time, to be named by the court, transport the person ou…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 402.39 Semi-annual report of township and city supervisors on expense of support; neglect to file, falsification, penalty.
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Sec. 39. It shall be the duty of the supervisors of townships and cities in those counties where the townships and cities are made liable for their respective poor, on or before the first day of April and October in each year, to report to the county superintendents of the poor, …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 402.41 Reports of local poor officer; contents, form; failure to make, penalty.
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Sec. 41. It shall be the duty of any director or overseer of the poor authorized by law to furnish relief to poor persons and of the supervisor of each township, district, or ward in this state on the last day of September and on the last day before his term of office shall expir…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 402.42 Reports of local poor officer; compensation.
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Sec. 42. Every supervisor, director, or overseer of the poor who shall make the reports herein provided for shall receive as full compensation therefor the sum of 5 cents each for the first 25 families and persons not members of any family so relieved, and the sum of 3 cents for …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 402.43 Annual report of county superintendent of poor; contents.
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Sec. 43. That it shall be the duty of the county superintendents of the poor, annually, between the first and tenth days of November, to consolidate on blanks to be furnished by the secretary of state for that purpose, all said reports received by them during the year ending the …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 402.5 Superintendents of poor; powers and duties.
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Sec. 5. They shall have the general superintendence of all the poor who may be in their respective counties, and shall have power, and it shall be their duty: First, To have charge of the county infirmary that has been or shall be erected, and to provide suitable places for the k…