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MICHIGAN STATUTES AND CODES
Section 722.501 - Care of children; agreements by county board of commissioners; maximum expenditure; county expense.
Act 137 of 1921
722.501 Care of children; agreements by county board of commissioners; maximum expenditure; county expense.
Sec. 1.
A county board of commissioners may enter into an agreement or agreements for a period not exceeding 1 year with any agency, institution, or hospital, or agencies, institutions, or hospitals which have been and are for the current year licensed by the department of consumer and industry services to receive aid, care for, support, maintain, treat, cure, or relieve in or by the agency, institution, or hospital, any poor, sick, distressed, abandoned, needy, or crippled child or children residing within the county who may be referred to such agency, institution, or hospital by a judge of the family division of circuit court for the county in accordance with the provisions of this act, whether the aid, care, support, maintenance, treatment, cure, or relief is furnished wholly or in part by such agency, institution, or hospital. The proper charges under the contract or contracts shall be audited and paid from time to time by the board of auditors, or by the county board of commissioners of the county in counties not having a board of auditors. However, a county board of commissioners, before entering into a contract under this section shall fix the maximum amount to be expended for the purposes described in this section during any 1 year, which shall be raised, levied, and collected as part of the general expense of the county.
History: 1921, Act 137, Eff. Aug. 18, 1921 ;-- CL 1929, 12877 ;-- CL 1948, 722.501 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 411, Eff. Jan. 1, 1998
Compiler's Notes: The board of corrections and charities, referred to in this section, was abolished and its powers and duties transferred to the department of social welfare by MCL 400.19. The department of social welfare was subsequently transferred to the department of social services by MCL 16.552.