MCL - Index of Act 156 of 1851

NOTE: Dates reflect any modification to item, not necessarily a change in law.
Title Subject
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.
Section 46.1a Emergency financial manager; authority and responsibilities.
Section 46.2 Board of supervisors; authority to offer rewards; appointment of county paid attendants and county jail attendants; compensation; bonds.
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.
Section 46.3a Recording names and votes of members; exception; public inspection of record.
Section 46.4 County clerk; duties as clerk of board of supervisors.
Section 46.5 Deposit of books, records, and accounts with clerk; writings available to public; designating amounts audited and allowed, and charges therefor.
Section 46.6 Accounts of county treasurer; annual examination by board of supervisors.
Section 46.7 Repair of courthouse, jail, and public buildings and offices; financing.
Section 46.8 Convicts' cells; preparation, duty of board of supervisors.
Section 46.9 Report of board proceedings; report of receipts and expenditures; annual report; publication; public inspection and copying.
Section 46.10 Special meetings; request; notice.
Section 46.10b Violation of ordinances; penalty; designation as civil infraction; act or omission constituting crime.
Section 46.10c Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
Section 46.11 Powers of county board of commissioners.
Section 46.11a Armistice day celebration; appropriation by board of supervisors.
Section 46.11b Contract or agreement to purchase lands, property, or equipment; installment payments; limitations.
Section 46.11c Energy conservation improvements; acquisition or financing; resolution; payment; acquisition by contract, lease-purchase agreement, or notes; reports; forms; terms of lease-purchase agreement.
Section 46.11d Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of ordinance prohibited.
Section 46.11e Licensing requirements subject to the local government occupational licensing act.
Section 46.12 Repealed. 1998, Act 97, Imd. Eff. May 15, 1998.
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; pension or retirement benefit subject to protecting local government retirement and benefits act.
Section 46.12b Local councils of veterans' affairs; appropriation by board of supervisors for operation.
Section 46.12c Assessment of metallic mining properties; appointment of county representative by board of supervisors; information confidential.
Section 46.12d Transfer of functions of governmental unit to county; service credit for retirement benefit purposes.
Section 46.12e Transfer of county employee to state; employees' retirement benefits.
Section 46.13 Board of supervisors; division of county into state legislature representative districts.
Section 46.13a County purchasing agent and other county representatives, agents and employees; appointment by board of supervisors.
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.
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.
Section 46.15 Posting and publishing notice of intended application.
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.
Section 46.16a Definitions.
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.
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.
Section 46.16d Coordinating committee; duty; composition; election of members; eligibility.
Section 46.16e Coordinating committee; duties generally.
Section 46.16f Ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation of affected township.
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.
Section 46.16h Bonded indebtedness and pledge of full faith and credit or limited full faith and credit; special assessment district; millage levy.
Section 46.16i Charter township; charter; continuation of incorporated village.
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.
Section 46.17 County seat; removal; relocation.
Section 46.18, 46.19 Repealed. 2004, Act 85, Imd. Eff. Apr. 22, 2004.
Section 46.20 Money raising; referendum, notice, ballots.
Section 46.21 Construction of bridges over or across navigable streams; removal of obstructions; enforcement.
Section 46.22 Tax levy and remittance to conservation district.
Section 46.23 Construction of bridges; petition, contents; notice; proceedings.
Section 46.23a Reconstruction, renovation, or replacement of certain bridges; approval exception.
Section 46.24 Construction of bridges over unnavigable streams; authority of board of supervisors.
Section 46.25 Construction, alteration or discontinuance of state or territorial roads; authority of board of supervisors.
Section 46.26 Construction, alteration or discontinuance of roads; petition, road survey, declaration of board of supervisors.
Section 46.27 Construction, alteration or discontinuance of roads; road survey minutes, recording.
Section 46.28 Construction, alteration or discontinuance of roads; aggrieved landowner, petition, jury trial, proceedings; verdict, notice; apportionment of damages; bond, costs; resubmission.
Section 46.29 Board of supervisors; orders, resolutions and determinations; recording.
Section 46.30 Interest of member in contract or business transaction prohibited; prohibition inapplicable to appointments and employment.
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.
Section 46.30b County board of commissioners; compensation of chairperson; advancing funds to county officer for anticipated expenses; accounting; return of unused funds.
Section 46.31 Neglecting or refusing to perform duties; violations; penalties.
Section 46.32 Construction of act.