Michigan Compiled Laws 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.
A county which has not adopted a charter, or elected a charter commission which has not been dissolved pursuant to Act No. 293 of...
Section 45.552 Optional Unified Form Of County Government; Alternate A; Alternate B.
(1) An optional unified form of county government shall include either: (a) An appointed county manager, who shall comply with the qualifications and exercise...
Section 45.553 Optional Unified Form Of County Government; Procedure For Adoption; Effective Date.
(1) An optional unified form of county government shall be adopted and become effective in the following manner: (a) The county board of commissioners,...
Section 45.553a Violation Of Mcl 168.1 To 168.992 Applicable To Petitions; Penalties.
A petition under section 3 or 23, including the circulation and signing of the petition, is subject to section 488 of the Michigan election...
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.
(1) On the date the optional unified form of county government becomes effective, all appointed boards, commissions, and authorities except the apportionment commission, airport...
Section 45.554a Annual Certification That Certain Employee-related Conditions Met; Failure To Make Certification; Withholding Distributions To County Road Agency; Website; Definitions.
(1) Beginning September 30, 2014, each county road agency shall annually certify to the department that it satisfies 1 of the following conditions with...
Section 45.555 Board Of County Commissioners As Governing Body Of County; Election, Organization, And Procedures.
Upon the date an optional unified form of county government becomes effective, the board of county commissioners shall be the governing body of the...
Section 45.556 Board Of County Commissioners; Powers.
The board may: (a) Establish policies to be followed by the government of the county in the conduct of its affairs and exercise all...
Section 45.556a Ordinance; Designation Of Violation As Certain Civil Infraction; Civil Fine; Act Or Omission Constituting Crime.
(1) Consistent with Act No. 58 of the Public Acts of 1945, being section 46.201 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, the county board of...
Section 45.556b Minimum Staffing Requirement; Adoption Of Ordinance Prohibited.
Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a county board of commissioners shall not adopt an ordinance that...
Section 45.557 County Manager; Appointment, Qualifications, Compensation, Term, And Removal.
Within 60 days after an optional unified form of county government containing alternate A becomes effective, the board of county commissioners by a majority...
Section 45.558 County Manager Or County Executive; Powers And Duties.
(1) A county manager or county executive shall: (a) Supervise, direct, and control the functions of the departments of the county except those headed...
Section 45.559 County Executive; Nomination, Election, And Term; Vacancy; Salary.
(1) A county executive who is a qualified elector in the county shall be elected on a partisan basis for a term of 4...
Section 45.559a Death Or Resignation Of Elected County Executive; Successor.
(1) For counties with a population of more than 1,000,000, if a vacancy occurs in the office of the elected county executive due to...
Section 45.560 County Executive; Responsibility.
The county executive shall be responsible for the overall supervision of all county departments not headed by other elected officials. History: 1973, Act 139,...
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.
(1) Except as provided in this section, the county executive may veto an ordinance or resolution adopted by the board, including items of an...
Section 45.562 Officials; Powers; Functions; Manner Of Election Or Appointment; Term.
(1) Upon the date an optional unified form of county government becomes effective, the following officials shall exercise the powers and functions as provided...
Section 45.563 Departments; Establishment; Directors; Functions.
An optional unified form of county government shall have all functions, except when otherwise allocated by this act, performed by 1 or more departments...
Section 45.564 Departments; Consolidation; Transfer Of Functions; Creation Of Additional Departments; County Manager Or County Executive As Director.
Except as to a department headed by elected county officials or the board of county road commissioners, the board of county commissioners may: (a)...
Section 45.565 Deputy; Appointment; Department Head And Deputy Exempt From Civil Service.
(1) Each department head may appoint 1 deputy. (2) A department head and any deputy appointed thereunder is exempt from civil service. History: 1973,...
Section 45.566 Civil Service Commission; Appeals; Secretarial And Clerical Assistance; Personnel And Employee Relations.
The civil service commission, if existing, shall hear and decide appeals from any disciplinary action, suspension, or removal of county employees who are within...
Section 45.567 Employee Retirement And Pension Programs; Retirement Board.
The board of county commissioners shall continue, without diminution of function or authority, any board previously established to administer employee retirement and pension programs...
Section 45.568 Title To Property To Be Held In Name Of County.
Upon the date an optional unified form of county government becomes effective, title to all property, real or personal, formerly held in the name...
Section 45.569 Ordinances Previously Enacted.
When an optional unified form of county government becomes effective all ordinances previously enacted by the board of county commissioners and unrepealed, to the...
Section 45.570 Provisions Of Act Controlling.
When an optional unified form of county government becomes effective, this act is controlling as to all matters to which it relates, and provisions...
Section 45.571 Rights Under Civil Service And Merit System Continued.
Under an optional unified form of county government all rights secured employees by existing civil service and merit system legislation are continued in full...
Section 45.572 Retirement And Pension Rights.
Under an optional unified form of county government all retirement and pension rights of employees provided by existing law remain in full force and...
Section 45.573 Procedures For Abolishing Optional Unified Form Of County Government.
An optional unified form of county government may be abolished in the following manner: (a) After a period of 4 years from the date...

Last modified: October 10, 2016