Sec. 1. Every county adopting a charter under the provisions of this act shall be a body corporate.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 45.501
Charter county; body corporate
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Wayne County v. Hathcock (2004)
Most recently applied in Wayne County Employees Retirement System v. Wayne County (May 2013)
1966, Act 293, Eff
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Michigan Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Michigan statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.