Section 141.1218 - Assigning responsibility for managing local government financial emergency; appointment, qualifications, and term of emergency financial manager; compensation and expenses; staff an - Michigan Statutes

LOCAL GOVERNMENT FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 72 of 1990

141.1218 Assigning responsibility for managing local government financial emergency; appointment, qualifications, and term of emergency financial manager; compensation and expenses; staff and professional assistance.

Sec. 18.

(1) If the governor determines that a financial emergency exists under section 15, the governor shall assign the responsibility for managing the local government financial emergency to the local emergency financial assistance loan board created under the emergency municipal loan act, Act No. 243 of the Public Acts of 1980, being sections 141.931 to 141.942 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. The local emergency financial assistance loan board shall appoint an emergency financial manager. The emergency financial manager shall be chosen solely on the basis of his or her competence and shall not have been either an elected or appointed official or employee of the local government for which appointed for not less than 5 years before the appointment. The emergency financial manager need not be a resident of the local government for which he or she is appointed. The emergency financial manager shall serve at the pleasure of the local emergency financial assistance loan board. The emergency financial manager shall be entitled to compensation and reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses from the local government as approved by the local emergency financial assistance loan board. In addition to staff otherwise authorized by law, with the approval of the local emergency financial assistance loan board, the emergency financial manager may appoint additional staff and secure professional assistance considered necessary to implement this article.

(2) An emergency financial manager appointed under the local government fiscal responsibility act, former Act No. 101 of the Public Acts of 1988, and serving on the effective date of this act, except as provided in subsection (1), shall continue under this act to fulfill his or her powers and duties.

History: 1990, Act 72, Imd. Eff. May 15, 1990