Michigan Code — COUNTIES
Browse 173 sections in division COUNTIES of the Michigan code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 45.1. Counties; boundaries.
- § 45.2. Counties; powers, duties, privileges and immunities.
- § 45.3. County; body corporate, purposes.
- § 45.4. County property.
- § 45.5. County lands; sale and conveyance.
- § 45.6. Wayne and Monroe counties; common jurisdiction as to Lake Erie.
- § 45.8. Wayne, Macomb and St. Clair counties; common jurisdiction as to Lake St. Clair.
- § 45.10. Counties bordering on Lake Michigan; common jurisdiction.
- § 45.12. Counties bordering on Lake Huron; common jurisdiction.
- § 45.14. Counties bordering on Lake Superior; common jurisdiction.
- § 45.16. County courthouse, jail, offices, and other buildings; location, construction, maintenance, and expense thereof; examination of plan for jail.
- § 45.16a. County jails; contracts for use; lockup required.
- § 45.17. County prison limits.
- § 45.18. Escape due to insufficiency of county jail; liability of sheriff.
- § 45.19. Unorganized counties; annexation, effect.
- § 45.20. Division or alteration of county; lands within county limits.
- § 45.21. Division or alteration; apportionment of personalty.
- § 45.22. Division or alteration; settlement by meeting of county supervisors.
- § 45.23. Division or alteration; apportionment of debts.
- § 45.24. Disagreement over settlement; arbitration commissioners, appointment.
- § 45.25. Arbitration commissioners; meeting; determination, finality.
- § 45.41. Deputies of county officers in counties over 50,000; appointment, duties.
- § 45.51. Deputies and employees of county officers in counties over 500,000; appointment, compensation.
- § 45.52. Repeal; effect on veterans' preference act.
- § 45.81. County offices; departments or institutions; purchase of supplies.
- § 45.82. County purchasing agent; appointment, term, compensation; interest in contracts or bids prohibited, penalty.
- § 45.83. County purchasing agent; oath; bond; conditions; payment of premium; sales prohibited; accepting or receiving rebate, commission, or other thing of value.
- § 45.84. Purchasing agent; advice of county officers.
- § 45.85. Purchasing agent; duties; estimates of county officers; advertisement for bids; manner of purchase, criteria.
- § 45.86. Bids; bond or certified check required; acceptance.
- § 45.87. Bids; inspection by purchasing agent; quality of supplies, rejection; estimates, content, filing, public inspection.
- § 45.88. Invoices; transmittal, approval, payment; rejection of supplies, replacement.
- § 45.89. Bond of successful bidder; terms, filing, recoveries.
- § 45.90. Emergency order; approval, purchase, report, payment; limitation.
- § 45.91. Purchases to be in accordance with appropriations.
- § 45.92. Purchase of perishable supplies; rules and regulations.
- § 45.93. Clerks; appointment, compensation; annual report by purchasing agent to county supervisors.
- § 45.94. Purchasing agent and clerks; appropriation for compensation; personal use of county supplies, penalty.
- § 45.95. Accounts; condition of payment; purchasing agent, offices, supplies and equipment.
- § 45.96. Repeals; construction of act.
- § 45.97. Adoption of act by counties; scope.
- § 45.101. Adjustment of county boundaries; resolution or petition; placing question on ballot.
- § 45.101a. Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- § 45.102. Effective date of question; notice of submission; form; certifying result of vote and adjustment.
- § 45.201. Fiscal year for certain counties; annual reports; filing; report of county road commission.
- § 45.202. Inconsistent provisions of law superseded.
- § 45.203. “County” defined.
- § 45.318. County officers; oaths of office, deposit, filing.
- § 45.319. County officers; deposit, filing, and preservation of bond.
- § 45.320. County officers; neglect to deposit oath or bond, penalty.
- § 45.321. Neglect to deposit oath or bond; notice, effect.
- § 45.322. Prosecuting attorney; appointment, transmittal of commission, notice.
- § 45.323. Prosecuting attorney; oath of office, filing; delivery of commission.
- § 45.324. County officers; commencement of terms.
- § 45.381. Bond coverage for officers or employees of county; determination by county board of commissioners.
- § 45.382. Notification of surety companies; contract.
- § 45.383. Completion of bonding requirement; termination of honesty and faithful discharge of duty bonds.
- § 45.384. Repeal of MCL 45.351 and 45.371.
- § 45.385. Conditional effective date.
- § 45.401. Salaries of county officers; determination; exception; change in compensation.
- § 45.402. County officers; statement of fees collected, disposition, receipts.
- § 45.403. Salaries of county officers; payment, condition.
- § 45.404. Accounting of money received by county treasurer.
- § 45.405. Sheriffs; appointment of under-sheriff and deputies; contracts for board of prisoners; office supplies, claims of salaried officers for expenses, hearing.
- § 45.406. Sheriff; emergency appointment of additional deputies, compensation; report of expenses, official acts and fees; appointment of deputies to protect private interests.
- § 45.407. Sheriff, under-sheriff and deputy sheriff; duties.
- § 45.408. Violation of act; penalty.
- § 45.411. Members of county boards, departments, authorities, and commissions; compensation.
- § 45.421. Salaries of county officers; determination; change in compensation.
- § 45.451. Salaries of county officers of county having population of 1,000,000 or more; determination; fees or commissions payable to county; change in compensation.
- § 45.452. County officers; additional compensation for new duties prohibited.
- § 45.453. County officers; fees collected, payment to county treasurer, statement.
- § 45.454. County officers; record books and accounting forms for uniform system of accounts; audit of accounts; rules and regulations of board of county auditors for deposit and disbursement of funds; duties of county treasurer.
- § 45.455. Incumbent county officers; salaries and fees.
- § 45.456. Violation of act; penalty.
- § 45.457. Repeals.
- § 45.471. County officers compensation commission; establishment; purpose; resolution.
- § 45.472. County officers compensation commission; appointment, qualifications and terms of members.
- § 45.473. Compensation of elected officials; determination; expenses.
- § 45.474. County officers compensation commission; meetings; determination; quorum; concurrence of majority; chairperson; expenses.
- § 45.475. Conducting business at public meeting; notice.
- § 45.476. Resolution subject to referendum; petition; placing proposition on ballot; effect of defeat of proposition; effect of determination.
- § 45.476a. Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- § 45.477. Conditional effective date.
- § 45.491. Leased United States lands; appropriation of moneys received for flood control, navigation and allied purposes; payment to county treasurer.
- § 45.501. Charter county; body corporate.
- § 45.501a. Authority of emergency financial manager; authority and responsibilities of local emergency financial assistance loan board.
- § 45.502. Resolution for submission of question on election of charter commission; adoption by county board of supervisors.
- § 45.502a. Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- § 45.503. Submission of question to qualified electors.
- § 45.504. Number of charter commissioners to be elected; qualifications of candidate for election to office of charter commissioner; member of county board of commissioners as chief administrative officer.
- § 45.505. Partisan election of charter commission; nomination of candidates; petition or filing fee; primary election; composition and convening of county apportionment commission; rules of procedure; quorum; majority vote; establishment of charter commission districts; requirements for districts; use of census figures; apportionment; division; date of primary; election of charter commission; filing and availability of apportionment plan and copies thereof; judicial review; appeal; submission and filing of plan by registered voter; official apportionment plan; duration; election of 1 charter commissioner for each district; limitation on representation.
- § 45.506. Compensation for charter commissioner; appropriations to defray certain costs.
- § 45.507. Passage of resolution; transmittal of copies to city, village and township clerks; notice of election, publication, posting.
- § 45.508. Ballots; form, content, preparation.
- § 45.509. Charter commission members; oath of office; first meeting, notice; presiding officer.
- § 45.510. Charter commission; organization; quorum; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; record of meetings; journal of proceedings; availability of writings to public; prohibited action; duration of charter commission; ballot questions.
- § 45.511. Charter commission; draft of proposed charter, approval; dissolution upon failure to agree.
- § 45.511a. Submission of 2 alternative charter proposals; dissolution of charter commission; approval of proposed charters; differences between charter proposals; election of county executive; selection, term, and removal of chief administrative officer; declaration of charter adoption; votes; duties and responsibilities of county executive or chief administrative officer; veto of ordinance or resolution; contents of ballot.
- § 45.512. Charter commission; vacancies.
- § 45.513. Charter commission; employees and assistants, appointment, compensation; use of county departmental personnel; powers and duties; expenses.
- § 45.514. County charter; mandatory provisions; subsection(1)(d) inapplicable to certain counties; staggered terms of office.
- § 45.514a. Satisfaction of condition with respect to transportation employees; certification by county road agency; failure of county road agency to make certification; maintenance of website; posting information; definitions.
- § 45.515. County charter; permissible provisions.
- § 45.515a. Ordinance; designation of violation as civil infraction; civil fine; act or omission constituting crime.
- § 45.515b. Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of county charter or ordinance prohibited.
- § 45.515c. Retirement system subject to protecting local government retirement and benefits act.
- § 45.515d. Licensing requirements subject to the local government occupational licensing act.
- § 45.516. Proposed charter; submission to governor; rejection, revision, resubmission; approval; referendum on adoption and election of officers; incumbent county officers, continuation.
- § 45.517. Proposed charter; publication; notice of election.
- § 45.518. Proposed charter; rejection, revision, resubmission to electorate; dissolution of charter commission.
- § 45.519. Second charter commission; election procedures; provisions governing; rejection; dissolution of commission.
- § 45.520. Home rule county status; when change occurs; incumbent officers.
- § 45.521. Home rule county; succession to and vesting of property; continuation of rights, liabilities, suits, or prosecutions; debts, liabilities, tax rates, and uncollected taxes and assessments.
- § 45.551. Optional unified form of county government; authorization; effect of adoption.
- § 45.552. Optional unified form of county government; alternate A; alternate B.
- § 45.553. Optional unified form of county government; procedure for adoption; effective date.
- § 45.553a. Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- § 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.
- § 45.554a. Annual certification that certain employee-related conditions satisfied; failure to make certification; withholding distributions to county road agency; website; definitions.
- § 45.555. Board of county commissioners as governing body of county; election, organization, and procedures.
- § 45.556. Board of county commissioners; powers.
- § 45.556a. Ordinance; designation of violation as certain civil infraction; civil fine; act or omission constituting crime.
- § 45.556b. Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of ordinance prohibited.
- § 45.556c. Licensing requirements subject to the local government occupational licensing act.
- § 45.557. County manager; appointment, qualifications, compensation, term, and removal.
- § 45.558. County manager or county executive; powers and duties.
- § 45.559. County executive; nomination, election, and term; vacancy; salary.
- § 45.559a. Death or resignation of elected county executive; successor.
- § 45.560. County executive; responsibility.
- § 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.
- § 45.562. Officials; powers; functions; manner of election or appointment; term.
- § 45.563. Departments; establishment; directors; functions.
- § 45.564. Departments; consolidation; transfer of functions; creation of additional departments; county manager or county executive as director.
- § 45.565. Deputy; appointment; department head and deputy exempt from civil service.
- § 45.566. Civil service commission; appeals; secretarial and clerical assistance; personnel and employee relations.
- § 45.567. Employee retirement and pension programs; retirement board.
- § 45.568. Title to property to be held in name of county.
- § 45.569. Ordinances previously enacted.
- § 45.570. Provisions of act controlling.
- § 45.571. Rights under civil service and merit system continued.
- § 45.572. Retirement and pension rights.
- § 45.572a. Retirement system subject to protecting local government retirement and benefits act; "retirement system" defined.
- § 45.573. Procedures for abolishing optional unified form of county government.
- § 45.581. Short title.
- § 45.582. Definitions.
- § 45.583. Department of solid waste management; establishment; function; control; annual budget; appointment of director.
- § 45.584. Solid waste system; acquisition, construction, improvement, enlargement, or extension; operation and maintenance; acquisitions outside corporate boundaries; consent; contract.
- § 45.585. Solid waste service; consent of public corporation.
- § 45.586. Financing and contracts; resolution; merger.
- § 45.587. Methods of financing.
- § 45.588. Bonds generally.
- § 45.589. Contract between county and public corporation; purpose; payment of obligations; tax levy; methods of raising money; pledge; powers.
- § 45.590. Special assessment roll; objection to special assessment district.
- § 45.591. Validity of bonds or notes.
- § 45.592. Acquisition of tangible or intangible property, rights, or processes.
- § 45.593. Contract for furnishing solid waste services to public corporation; charges subject to increase; contract for purchase or sale of solid waste services or acquisition, operation, management, or use of solid waste systems; term of contract; contract as general obligation of public corporation.
- § 45.594. Cost of system.
- § 45.595. Failure to pay county; notice; deduction or transfer of money; legal remedies for reimbursement.
- § 45.596. Proceedings to take private property.
- § 45.621. Short title.
- § 45.622. Definitions.
- § 45.623. County juvenile agency; resolution; approval; adoption; powers and duties of county.
- § 45.624. Resolution of approval; revocation by subsequent resolution.
- § 45.625. Request by county executive, chief executive officer, or manager required.
- § 45.626. Applicability of act; eligibility requirements.
- § 45.627. County juvenile agency; powers and duties.
- § 45.628. Maintenance of block grant account.
- § 45.629. Annual state audit.
- § 45.630. Placement of public wards and juveniles.
- § 45.630a. County as successor employer; conditions of employment.
- § 45.630b. Plan to aid displaced employees.
- § 45.631. Existing agreements between family independence agency and private providers.