Section 776.19 - Reward for criminal or escaped prisoner; authority to offer and pay. - Michigan Statutes

THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (EXCERPT)
Act 175 of 1927

776.19 Reward for criminal or escaped prisoner; authority to offer and pay.

Sec. 19.

The board of supervisors is hereby authorized to offer and pay out of the general fund of the county not to exceed 2,000 dollars as a reward for the arrest and conviction, or for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons having committed a crime within the county or having escaped from any penal institution therein: Provided, That the powers granted hereby may be exercised by the finance committee of the board of supervisors when said board of supervisors is not in session.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17509 ;-- CL 1948, 776.19
Former Law: See section 2 of Act 156 of 1851, being CL 1857, § 336; CL 1871, § 468; How., § 474; and Act 262 of 1925.