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RESOLUTiON
BY: WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
IN RE: COUNTY LEGISLATION
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Your Ways and Means Committee brings to the attention of the
Board the following matters which it recommends be studied further by the Legislative
Committee:
1, Under Act 310 of the Public Acts of 1957, as amended, fines and penalties
collected for the violation of the State Marine Law are placed in the Library Fund. The
County as..-well as local units of government incur expenses in connection with the enforcement
of this Law. There is no reimbursement for such expenses. A claim has 1.:,con filed under the
Act with the Michigan State Waterways Commission for partial reimbursement as the Board
has directed. Your Committee feels that the present Law should be amended so that fines
collected are returned to the County and other local units of government who ma y have
expenses in connection with the enforcement.
2, Under the present mental health laws of the State, the County assumes cost for
the first year of hospitalization. The law assumes that a bed will be available as soon as a
commitment order is issued. No provision is made for the care of the person involved between
commitiy::ent and admittance to the hospital, even though this is a State responsibility. In
many instances when a bed is not available expensive emergency care is a necessity and the
expense for this care must be borne solely by the County. Your Ways and Means Committee
recommends that amendatory legislation be considered whereby the County will receive
credit for the number of days a mentally ill patient is hospitalized in a private hospital or
general hospital and also that credit be given for the number of days a mentally handicapped
child is cared for in a nursing home or hospital after an emergency order, dia.;;:ir...:,Istic order or
commitment order has been issued.
February 9,
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MR. CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the Ways and Means Committee, I move that the
foregoing matters be referred to the Legislative Committee for further study and possible
amendments to the appropriate State laws.
I/Vays and Me.:ans Committee