Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 331.202 (2026)

County hospitals for contagious diseases, indigent and mentally ill; board of supervisors, construction, appropriation.

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HOSPITALS AND SANATORIA

Act 109 of 1945

331.202 County hospitals for contagious diseases, indigent and mentally ill; board of supervisors, construction, appropriation.

Sec. 2.

Hereafter it shall be competent and lawful for the board of supervisors of any county in this state now or hereafter having a population of more than 100,000 as determined by the last federal decennial census or by any federal decennial census hereafter taken, to acquire, own, construct, establish, maintain and operate a hospital for the treatment of persons suffering from contagious and infectious diseases and for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from any physical ailment or impairment, and may contain a psychiatric ward for mentally ill patients, both non-indigent and indigent, provided that such a ward has been approved by the state department of mental health. Said board of supervisors, in the case of construction of such hospital, shall designate the site on which such hospital shall be placed. The board of supervisors shall also determine the sum or sums of money to be appropriated for the acquisition, ownership, construction, establishment, maintenance, operational and equipment purposes.

History: 1945, Act 109, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1945 ;-- CL 1948, 331.202 ;-- Am. 1956, Act 168, Imd. Eff. Apr. 16, 1956

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1984–2020 · leading case: Berrien Cnty. v. Michigan, 357 N.W.2d 764 (Mich. Ct. App. 1984).

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Berrien Cnty. v. Michigan, 357 N.W.2d 764 (Mich. Ct. App. 1984). · cites it 2× “) Relevant here is MCL 331.202; MSA 14.1150(2), which provides that "it shall be competent and lawful for the board of supervisors of any county * * * to acquire, own, construct, establish, maintain, and operate a hospital * * *.”

in Re Certified Question (Midwest Inst of Health V (Mich. 2020). “9621 (allowing local health departments, state institutions, and physicians to require microbiological examinations in locations “where there is an outbreak of a communicable disease or epidemic requiring the examination or analysis to protect the public health”); MCL 331.202…”

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