Mich. Comp. Laws § 41.80
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Constables; bond required.
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Sec. 80.
Every person elected or appointed to the office of constable, before taking office and within the time prescribed by law for filing the official oath, shall execute, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the township board, an instrument in writing by which the constable and his or her sureties jointly and severally agree to pay to each person who may be entitled money that the constable becomes liable to pay on account of the neglect or default of the constable in the service or return of process that may be delivered to him or her for service or collection or on account of misfeasance of the constable in the discharge of, or failure of the constable to faithfully perform, the duties of his or her office.
History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 16; Am. 1855, Act 51, Eff. May 15, 1855; CL 1857, 572; CL 1871, 723; Am. 1881, Act 166, Eff. Sept. 10, 1881; How. 762; CL 1897, 2364; CL 1915, 2144; CL 1929, 1020; CL 1948, 41.80; Am. 1989, Act 77, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
Every person elected or appointed to the office of constable, before taking office and within the time prescribed by law for filing the official oath, shall execute, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the township board, an instrument in writing by which the constable and his or her sureties jointly and severally agree to pay to each person who may be entitled money that the constable becomes liable to pay on account of the neglect or default of the constable in the service or return of process that may be delivered to him or her for service or collection or on account of misfeasance of the constable in the discharge of, or failure of the constable to faithfully perform, the duties of his or her office.
History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 16; Am. 1855, Act 51, Eff. May 15, 1855; CL 1857, 572; CL 1871, 723; Am. 1881, Act 166, Eff. Sept. 10, 1881; How. 762; CL 1897, 2364; CL 1915, 2144; CL 1929, 1020; CL 1948, 41.80; Am. 1989, Act 77, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
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