Title 46, COUNTY BOARDS OF COMMISSIONERS

Sec. 1. The board of supervisors in any county owning its own fair grounds is hereby authorized to make appropriations for the construction and maintenance of buildings, fences and driveways on said fair grounds.

Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of each county, or the board of county auditors in counties having a board of county auditors, to adjust, allow and authorize the payment of all claims against the particular county, and any claims not adjusted and ordered …

Sec. 2. When the claim of any person, firm or corporation against a county shall be disallowed in whole or in part by the board of supervisors or board of county auditors, such person, firm or corporation may appeal from the decision of such board to the circuit court for the sam…

Sec. 3. The county clerk upon being served with such notice of appeal shall immediately give notice thereof to the prosecuting attorney, and make out a brief return of the proceedings of the board of supervisors or board of county auditors relating to such claim, with the decisio…

Sec. 4. The county clerk shall, as soon as the said return is filed in his office, enter in the circuit court record an action in which the claimant shall be plaintiff and the particular county defendant. The claimant shall not be permitted to file any amended or different claim …

Sec. 5. When an appeal is taken by a person, firm or corporation not a party to the proceeding before the board of supervisors or board of county auditors, such appeal may upon motion be dismissed, unless such person, firm or corporation shall file with the clerk of said circuit …

Sec. 6. When the appellant shall be granted any sum in addition to the amount allowed by the auditing board, the circuit judge may authorize the clerk of the court to enter a judgment in favor of the claimant for the amount, which judgment when properly entered shall authorize th…

Sec. 7. It is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorney to represent the board of supervisors or board of county auditors in any such appeal, but he shall not receive or be entitled to any additional compensation therefor.

Sec. 1. (1) The county board of commissioners of a county may maintain and regulate parking lots on land owned by the county and enact regulations for the safe and proper use of those parking lots for the general public, including the charging of fees for parking; the placing of …

Sec. 1. That the board of supervisors of the several counties of this state, be and they are hereby authorized, at any regular meeting, to cancel and destroy all orders drawn on any of the funds of the county, which may have remained uncalled for and on file for the period of 6 y…

Sec. 2. Said boards, before destroying any such orders, shall cause to be entered in the minutes of their proceedings, a brief description thereof, containing the name of the payee, the number, date, and amount of each order.

Sec. 1. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the county board of commissioners of a county may levy a special tax on the taxable property within that county for the purpose of creating a fund; or appropriate out of the general fund an amount to be used for advertising agricult…

Sec. 1. The board of supervisors of any county holding in trust the property of any agricultural society organized under any law of this state for the purpose of the holding and maintaining of agricultural, industrial and mechanical fairs, is hereby authorized and empowered in co…

Sec. 1. In any county now or hereafter having a population of not less than 5,000 inhabitants, as determined by the last federal decennial census or by any federal decennial census hereafter taken, where there are areas outside of incorporated cities for which adequate fire prote…

Sec. 2. The board of supervisors thereafter may appropriate annually from the general fund of such county such funds as may be required for the housing, maintenance, care and operation of such fire extinguishing apparatus and equipment, or to carry out contracts for such fire pro…

Sec. 3. This act is declared to be necessary for the public good and welfare of the people of this state and for the protection of property and is enacted to meet an emergency created by the state of war.

Sec. 1. (1) The commissioners of each county shall meet annually in that county for the transaction of business as a county board of commissioners. The county board of commissioners may also hold special meetings, when necessary, at the times and places it finds convenient, and m…

Sec. 10. A special meeting of the county board of commissioners of a county shall be held only when requested by at least 1/3 of the members of the county board of commissioners of the county. The request shall be in writing, shall be addressed to the county clerk, and shall spec…

Sec. 10b. (1) Except for an ordinance described in subsection (2) or (3), the violation of an ordinance adopted pursuant to section 11(j) shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00 or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both. (2) Consistent with 1945 PA 58, MCL…

Sec. 10c. A petition under section 11(m) asking that an ordinance or act of incorporation be submitted to electors or under section 16b, including the circulation and signing of the petition, is subject to section 488 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.488. A pers…

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…