Michigan Compiled Laws Act 156 Of 1851 County Boards Of Commissioners (46.1 - 46.32)

• Section 46.1 County Board Of Commissioners; Meetings; Time; Place; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Closed Sessions; Notice Of Meetings.
  (1) The commissioners of each county shall meet annually in that county for the transaction of business as a county board of commissioners. The...
• Section 46.1a Emergency Financial Manager; Authority And Responsibilities.
  Notwithstanding any provision of this act, if an emergency financial manager has been appointed under the local government fiscal responsibility act, Act No. 101...
• Section 46.2 Board Of Supervisors; Authority To Offer Rewards; Appointment Of County Paid Attendants And County Jail Attendants; Compensation; Bonds.
  The board of supervisors is hereby authorized to offer and pay out of the general fund of the county, not to exceed 1,000 dollars...
• Section 46.3 County Board Of Commissioners; Quorum; Voting; Electrical Roll Call System; Electing Chairperson And Vice-chairperson; Powers And Duties Of Chairperson; Signing Documents; Eligibility Of Member For Other Office.
  (1) A majority of the members of the county board of commissioners of a county constitutes a quorum for the transaction of the ordinary...
• Section 46.3a Recording Names And Votes Of Members; Exception; Public Inspection Of Record.
  The names and votes of members shall be recorded on an action taken by the board of county commissioners or by a committee of...
• Section 46.4 County Clerk; Duties As Clerk Of Board Of Supervisors.
  The county clerk of each county, or in his absence his deputy, shall be the clerk of the board of supervisors of such county....
• Section 46.5 Deposit Of Books, Records, And Accounts With Clerk; Writings Available To Public; Designating Amounts Audited And Allowed, And Charges Therefor.
  The books, records, and accounts of the county board of commissioners shall be deposited with its clerk. A writing prepared, owned, used, in the...
• Section 46.6 Accounts Of County Treasurer; Annual Examination By Board Of Supervisors.
  It shall be the duty of every such board of supervisors, as often as once in each year, to examine the accounts of the...
• Section 46.7 Repair Of Courthouse, Jail, And Public Buildings And Offices; Financing.
  It shall be the duty of the board, as often as shall be necessary, to cause the courthouse, jail, and all other public buildings...
• Section 46.8 Convicts' Cells; Preparation, Duty Of Board Of Supervisors.
  They shall also cause to be prepared within the jails of their respective counties, at the expense of such counties, so many cells for...
• Section 46.9 Report Of Board Proceedings; Report Of Receipts And Expenditures; Annual Report; Publication; Public Inspection And Copying.
  (1) The county board of commissioners shall cause to be made out immediately after each session a report of the proceedings of the board...
• Section 46.10 Special Meetings; Request; Notice.
  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...
• Section 46.10b Violation Of Ordinances; Penalty; Designation As Civil Infraction; Act Or Omission Constituting Crime.
  (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...
• Section 46.10c Violation Of Mcl 168.1 To 168.992 Applicable To Petitions; Penalties.
  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...
• Section 46.11 Powers Of County Board Of Commissioners.
  A county board of commissioners, at a lawfully held meeting, may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Purchase or lease for a...
• Section 46.11a Armistice Day Celebration; Appropriation By Board Of Supervisors.
  The board of supervisors is hereby authorized to appropriate such sum as they deem fit for the purpose of a public celebration on Armistice...
• Section 46.11b Contract Or Agreement To Purchase Lands, Property, Or Equipment; Installment Payments; Limitations.
  (1) A county, by resolution of the county board of commissioners, may enter into a contract or agreement for the purchase of lands, property,...
• Section 46.11c Energy Conservation Improvements; Resolution; Payment; Acquisition By Contracts Or Notes; Requirements; Reports; Forms.
  (1) A county board of commissioners may provide by resolution for energy conservation improvements to be made to county facilities and may pay for...
• Section 46.11d 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 46.12 Repealed. 1998, Act 97, Imd. Eff. May 15, 1998.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to vote required for exercise of certain powers.
• Section 46.12a Insurance; Pension Or Retirement Plan; Effect Of Collective Bargaining Agreement; Reemployment Of Retirant; Adjusted Pension Or Retirement Benefit; Payment Of Benefits Subject To Eligible Domestic Relations Order; Effect Of Divorce From Spouse Named As Retirant's Survivor Beneficiary On Election Of Reduced Retirement Allowance; Employee Of Credit Union As Member Of Plan; Written Policy.
  (1) A county board of commissioners at a lawfully held meeting may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Provide group life, health,...
• Section 46.12b Local Councils Of Veterans' Affairs; Appropriation By Board Of Supervisors For Operation.
  The board of supervisors may appropriate, from time to time, such sums of moneys as it may determine, for the operation of local councils...
• Section 46.12c Assessment Of Metallic Mining Properties; Appointment Of County Representative By Board Of Supervisors; Information Confidential.
  The board of supervisors of any county or the boards of several counties acting jointly may employ, upon such terms as they approve, any...
• Section 46.12d Transfer Of Functions Of Governmental Unit To County; Service Credit For Retirement Benefit Purposes.
  If the functions of a department, board or commission of the state or of any political subdivision of the state, herein called a governmental...
• Section 46.12e Transfer Of County Employees To State; Employees' Retirement Benefits.
  Whenever the employees of a county department of a county which has adopted a retirement system providing for the payment of benefits in the...
• Section 46.13 Board Of Supervisors; Division Of County Into State Legislature Representative Districts.
  The said respective boards of supervisors in each county, entitled to more than 1 representative in the state legislature, shall have power and it...
• Section 46.13a County Purchasing Agent And Other County Representatives, Agents And Employees; Appointment By Board Of Supervisors.
  The board of supervisors in each of the several counties may appoint a county purchasing agent and such other representatives, agents and employes for...
• Section 46.13b County Controller Or Board Of Auditors; Appointment By Board Of Supervisors, Compensation, Tenure, Removal; Controller As Chief Accounting Officer, Powers And Duties.
  The board of supervisors in any county other than counties operating under elected boards of auditors unless presently operating with a county controller, by...
• Section 46.14 Vacating, Dividing, Or Altering Township, Establishing New Township, Or Organizing Or Consolidating Townships; Application; Map; Certified Statement; Indebtedness To State; Tax Levy.
  (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...
• Section 46.15 Posting And Publishing Notice Of Intended Application.
  Notice in writing of an intended application under section 14 subscribed by those freeholders as required by section 14 shall be posted in 5...
• Section 46.16 Establishment Of New Township; Designating Name, First Annual Meeting, And Electors; Powers And Duties Of Electors; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice And Location Of First Township Meetings; Rights And Terms Of Township Officers.
  (1) If a county board of commissioners establishes a new township in the county, other than by consolidation as provided in sections 16a to...
• Section 46.16a Definitions.
  As used in this act: (a) “Consolidated township” means a general law or charter township formed by the consolidation of 2 or more townships...
• Section 46.16b Proceedings For Consolidation Of 2 Or More Townships; Petition; Rejection; Return Of Petition; Submission Of Proposition To Vote Of Electors; Date For Election.
  (1) Proceedings for consolidation of 2 or more townships within the same county may be initiated by filing a petition with the county board...
• Section 46.16c Notice Of Date For Election And Question To Be Submitted; Arrangement For Election; Form Of Ballot; Election Expenses; Canvass; Return Of Results; Approval Of Consolidation By Resolution; Effective Date; Election Of Township Board; Termination Of Proceedings.
  (1) The county clerk shall notify the clerk of each township affected by a consolidation petitioned for under section 16b of the date for...
• Section 46.16d Coordinating Committee; Duty; Composition; Election Of Members; Eligibility.
  (1) A coordinating committee shall assist in the planning and implementation of a consolidation under sections 16b and 16c. The coordinating committee is composed...
• Section 46.16e Coordinating Committee; Duties Generally.
  If a consolidation proposed under sections 16b and 16c is approved, the coordinating committee shall do all of the following: (a) Prepare and adopt...
• Section 46.16f Ordinance, Resolution, Rule, Or Regulation Of Affected Township.
  An ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation of an affected township in effect at the time a consolidation under sections 16b and 16c is effective...
• Section 46.16g Succession Of Consolidated Township To Property, Money, Rights, Credits, And Records, Files, Books, And Papers; Rights, Liabilities, Suits, Or Prosecutions; Tax Or Assessment.
  A township consolidated as provided in sections 16b and 16c succeeds to the real and personal property, money, rights, credits, and records, files, books,...
• Section 46.16h Bonded Indebtedness And Pledge Of Full Faith And Credit Or Limited Full Faith And Credit; Special Assessment District; Millage Levy.
  (1) Bonded indebtedness and a pledge of full faith and credit or limited full faith and credit by a former township consolidated as provided...
• Section 46.16i Charter Township; Charter; Continuation Of Incorporated Village.
  (1) If a consolidated township is a charter township, the election under section 16c shall be considered the election required under section 2 of...
• Section 46.16j Rights Of Township Employees; Layoff Status; Determination Of Necessary Positions; Collective Bargaining; Labor Agreements; Pension Or Retirement System; Representative Of Employees Or Group Of Employees; Effect Of Military Service.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), an employee of a township whose duties are transferred to a consolidated township shall be given a...
• Section 46.17 County Seat; Removal; Relocation.
  The county seat may be relocated to a new location if the removal and new location are approved by a 2/3 vote of the...
• Section 46.18, 46.19 Repealed. 2004, Act 85, Imd. Eff. Apr. 22, 2004.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed sections pertained to removal of county seat.
• Section 46.20 Money Raising; Referendum, Notice, Ballots.
  Whenever it shall become necessary, under the provisions of this act, to submit to a vote of the electors of any county, the question...
• Section 46.21 Construction Of Bridges Over Or Across Navigable Streams; Removal Of Obstructions; Enforcement.
  A county board of commissioners may permit or prohibit within that county the construction of any bridge over or across any navigable stream. They...
• Section 46.22 Tax Levy And Remittance To Conservation District.
  (1) As provided in this section, a county may levy a tax and remit the proceeds of that tax to a conservation district. (2)...
• Section 46.23 Construction Of Bridges; Petition, Contents; Notice; Proceedings.
  Whenever any person or persons, township officers or corporation, shall wish to construct any bridge across any stream at a point where the same...
• Section 46.24 Construction Of Bridges Over Unnavigable Streams; Authority Of Board Of Supervisors.
  Every such board of supervisors shall have power to make general rules and regulations as to the kind of bridges, and the mode of...
• Section 46.25 Construction, Alteration Or Discontinuance Of State Or Territorial Roads; Authority Of Board Of Supervisors.
  That the board of supervisors of the several counties within this state, are hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be laid out, established,...
• Section 46.26 Construction, Alteration Or Discontinuance Of Roads; Petition, Road Survey, Declaration Of Board Of Supervisors.
  Whenever the board of supervisors of any county are petitioned to by at least 12 freeholders of each of the townships through which any...
• Section 46.27 Construction, Alteration Or Discontinuance Of Roads; Road Survey Minutes, Recording.
  Whenever said road or roads shall be surveyed, laid out, altered or established under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty...
• Section 46.28 Construction, Alteration Or Discontinuance Of Roads; Aggrieved Landowner, Petition, Jury Trial, Proceedings; Verdict, Notice; Apportionment Of Damages; Bond, Costs; Resubmission.
  Any person feeling himself aggrieved by the action of the board of supervisors by the laying out, altering or discontinuing any road designated by...
• Section 46.29 Board Of Supervisors; Orders, Resolutions And Determinations; Recording.
  Every order, resolution and determination of such board of supervisors, made in pursuance of this act, shall be recorded in the records of such...
• Section 46.30 Interest Of Member In Contract Or Business Transaction Prohibited; Prohibition Inapplicable To Appointments And Employment.
  A member of the county board of commissioners shall not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract or other business transaction with the...
• Section 46.30a County Board Of Commissioners; Member Ineligible For Other County Appointment Or Employment; Liability For Compensation; Action For Recovery Of Compensation; Disposition Of Moneys Recovered; Duty Of Prosecuting Attorney; Violation; Penalty; Certain Offices Or Appointments Not Prohibited.
  (1) A member of the county board of commissioners of any county shall not be eligible to receive, or shall not receive, an appointment...
• Section 46.30b County Board Of Commissioners; Compensation Of Chairperson; Advancing Funds To County Officer For Anticipated Expenses; Accounting; Return Of Unused Funds.
  (1) The county board of commissioners by resolution adopted by an affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members, may provide a per diem rate...
• Section 46.31 Neglecting Or Refusing To Perform Duties; Violations; Penalties.
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), if a member of the county board of commissioners neglects or refuses to perform the...
• Section 46.32 Construction Of Act.
  Nothing in this act contained shall abridge the powers or duties of any board of supervisors, which they now or hereafter may possess under...

Last modified: October 10, 2016