Section 168.208 - County clerk; removal from office; service of charges, notice, hearing. - Michigan Statutes

MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW (EXCERPT)
Act 116 of 1954

168.208 County clerk; removal from office; service of charges, notice, hearing.

Sec. 208.

The judge of the circuit court and the circuit court commissioner shall have authority, in term or vacation, to remove the county clerk when in their opinion he is incompetent to execute properly the duties of his office, or when, on charges and evidence, they shall be satisfied that he has been guilty of official misconduct or habitual or wilful neglect of duty, if in their opinion such misconduct or neglect shall be a sufficient cause for such removal; but no such clerk shall be removed for such misconduct or neglect unless charges thereof shall have been preferred to said judge or commissioner, and notice of the hearing with a copy of the charges delivered to such clerk, and a full opportunity given him to be heard in his defense. (All expense on the part of the prosecution for examination of charges, provided for in the preceding section of this act shall be paid by the counties in which the officer to be examined holds his office.)

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955
Popular Name: Election Code