MCL - Act 139 of 1973
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
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Am. 1998, Act 201, Eff. Mar. 23, 1999
| Document | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Section 45.551 | Section | Optional unified form of county government; authorization; effect of adoption. |
| Section 45.552 | Section | Optional unified form of county government; alternate A; alternate B. |
| Section 45.553 | Section | Optional unified form of county government; procedure for adoption; effective date. |
| Section 45.553a | Section | Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties. |
| Section 45.554 | Section | 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 | Section | Annual certification that certain employee-related conditions satisfied; failure to make certification; withholding distributions to county road agency; website; definitions. |
| Section 45.555 | Section | Board of county commissioners as governing body of county; election, organization, and procedures. |
| Section 45.556 | Section | Board of county commissioners; powers. |
| Section 45.556a | Section | Ordinance; designation of violation as certain civil infraction; civil fine; act or omission constituting crime. |
| Section 45.556b | Section | Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of ordinance prohibited. |
| Section 45.556c | Section | Licensing requirements subject to the local government occupational licensing act. |
| Section 45.557 | Section | County manager; appointment, qualifications, compensation, term, and removal. |
| Section 45.558 | Section | County manager or county executive; powers and duties. |
| Section 45.559 | Section | County executive; nomination, election, and term; vacancy; salary. |
| Section 45.559a | Section | Death or resignation of elected county executive; successor. |
| Section 45.560 | Section | County executive; responsibility. |
| Section 45.561 | Section | 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 | Section | Officials; powers; functions; manner of election or appointment; term. |
| Section 45.563 | Section | Departments; establishment; directors; functions. |
| Section 45.564 | Section | Departments; consolidation; transfer of functions; creation of additional departments; county manager or county executive as director. |
| Section 45.565 | Section | Deputy; appointment; department head and deputy exempt from civil service. |
| Section 45.566 | Section | Civil service commission; appeals; secretarial and clerical assistance; personnel and employee relations. |
| Section 45.567 | Section | Employee retirement and pension programs; retirement board. |
| Section 45.568 | Section | Title to property to be held in name of county. |
| Section 45.569 | Section | Ordinances previously enacted. |
| Section 45.570 | Section | Provisions of act controlling. |
| Section 45.571 | Section | Rights under civil service and merit system continued. |
| Section 45.572 | Section | Retirement and pension rights. |
| Section 45.572a | Section | Retirement system subject to protecting local government retirement and benefits act; "retirement system" defined. |
| Section 45.573 | Section | Procedures for abolishing optional unified form of county government. |