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2012 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 45 — COUNTIES
Act 139 of 1973 — OPTIONAL UNIFIED FORM OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT (45.551 - 45.573)
- 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 45.555 — 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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