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Chapter 45 - Counties
Act 139 of 1973 OPTIONAL UNIFIED FORM OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT (45.551 - 45.573)
AN ACT to provide forms of county government; to provide for county managers and county executives and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain departments, boards, commissions, and authorities; to provide for transfer of certain powers and functions; to prescribe powers of a board of county commissioners and elected officials; to provide organization of administrative functions; to transfer property; to retain ordinances and laws not inconsistent with this act; to provide methods for abolition of a unified form of county government; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies.
History: 1973, Act 139, Eff. Mar. 29, 1974 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 201, Eff. Mar. 23, 1999
- Section 45.551 Optional unified form of county government; authorization; effect of adoption.
- Section 45.552 Optional unified form of county government; alternate A; alternate B.
- Section 45.553 Optional unified form of county government; procedure for adoption; effective date.
- Section 45.553a Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- Section 45.554 Abolition of certain offices, boards, commissions, authorities, or departments; termination of tenure; former powers as general county government powers; powers and duties of excepted boards or commissions; certain powers neither minimized nor divested; method of appointing veterans; powers vested in county department of veterans' affairs administrative committee or soldiers' relief commission.
- Section 45.554a Annual certification that certain employee-related conditions met; failure to make certification; withholding distributions to county road agency; website; definitions.
- Section 45.555 Board of county commissioners as governing body of county; election, organization, and procedures.
- Section 45.556 Board of county commissioners; powers.
- Section 45.556a Ordinance; designation of violation as certain civil infraction; civil fine; act or omission constituting crime.
- Section 45.556b Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of ordinance prohibited.
- Section 45.557 County manager; appointment, qualifications, compensation, term, and removal.
- Section 45.558 County manager or county executive; powers and duties.
- Section 45.559 County executive; nomination, election, and term; vacancy; salary.
- Section 45.559a Death or resignation of elected county executive; successor.
- Section 45.560 County executive; responsibility.
- Section 45.561 County executive; veto of ordinance or resolution; certification; overriding veto; certain resolutions or motions not to be approved or disapproved; effective date of ordinance or resolution.
- Section 45.562 Officials; powers; functions; manner of election or appointment; term.
- Section 45.563 Departments; establishment; directors; functions.
- Section 45.564 Departments; consolidation; transfer of functions; creation of additional departments; county manager or county executive as director.
- Section 45.565 Deputy; appointment; department head and deputy exempt from civil service.
- Section 45.566 Civil service commission; appeals; secretarial and clerical assistance; personnel and employee relations.
- Section 45.567 Employee retirement and pension programs; retirement board.
- Section 45.568 Title to property to be held in name of county.
- Section 45.569 Ordinances previously enacted.
- Section 45.570 Provisions of act controlling.
- Section 45.571 Rights under civil service and merit system continued.
- Section 45.572 Retirement and pension rights.
- Section 45.573 Procedures for abolishing optional unified form of county government.
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