HOUSE BILL No. 6304


     September 17, 2002, Introduced by Rep. Wojno and referred to the Committee on Family and Children Services.


        A bill to amend 1947 PA 261, entitled

   "An act to authorize the board of supervisors in each of the
   counties of this state, now or hereafter having a population of
   1,000,000 or more, to provide for and fix the compensation and
   prescribe the powers and duties of certain officers and employees
   of such county; and to provide for the deposit of funds by all
   county officers and officials with the county treasurer,"

   by amending section 4 (MCL 45.454).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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             Sec.  4.  The board of auditors of said county shall prepare

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        and provide said county treasurer, county clerk, register of

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        deeds, circuit court commissioners, prosecuting attorney, friend

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        of the  court  CHILD, clerk of the common pleas court, sheriff,

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        and every other officer or official whose salary in whole or in

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        part is paid by the county and who, in the course of his OR HER

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        official duties, receives any funds either public or private,

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        with the proper books, blanks, and forms for the regular and



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        systematic accounting of all  moneys  MONEY received by them from

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        whatever source, in order that every officer and official shall

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        maintain a system of accounting as nearly uniform as may be

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        practicable.  Said board shall provide each of said officers with

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        blanks, each having a stub attached, bound in book form and con-

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        secutively numbered, for all certificates or certified copies of

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        records on which a fee is collectible.  Said blanks shall have

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        entered on their face the amount of the fee collected and for

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        what purpose paid, and shall be a record of the amounts collected

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        by the officer issuing the same.  Said board of county auditors

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        shall also have the power and they are hereby authorized at least

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        once each year or more frequently if necessary to examine the

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        books and accounts of the county treasurer and other county offi-

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        cers, and they shall on demand be exhibited to them by said

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        officers.  And as often as said board may require, the accounts

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        and vouchers of the said county officers shall be audited and

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        allowed by them, and after the same shall have been audited by

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        said board it shall not be requisite that such accounts and

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        vouchers be again audited by the board of supervisors.

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             The board of auditors may, by resolution, provide rules and

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        regulations for:  (1) the regular deposit of funds with the

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        county treasurer or other recognized depositories approved by the

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        board of auditors; and (2) for the method of disbursing or dis-

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        tributing private funds, by every officer or official whose

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        salary in whole or in part is paid by the county and who, in the

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        course of his OR HER official duties, receives any funds either

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        public or private.  Whenever any  moneys are  MONEY IS paid to



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        the county treasurer by any officer or agent of said county, such

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        officer or agent shall take a duplicate receipt therefor, which

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        shall be filed in the office of said board.  Said treasurer shall

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        on each day report to said board the  moneys  MONEY received by

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        him OR HER on that day, and after making his OR HER last report.

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        They shall keep an account of all  moneys  MONEY which may be

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        chargeable against the county treasurer and any other officer who

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        may receive any  moneys  MONEY belonging to the county, and shall

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        keep an account with said officers showing the amounts with which

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        they should be credited, and their accounts shall be so kept that

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        the financial affairs of the county may at any time be ascer-

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        tained by inspection of the books of said board.

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             Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

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        effect unless Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 6317

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        (request no. 07684'02) of the 91st Legislature is enacted into

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        law.

























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