Mich. Comp. Laws § 791.222 (2026)
Probation officers; appointment, supervision, and removal; grounds for removal of probation employee; receipt of compensation, gift, or gratuity as misdemeanor; powers and duties of commission.
CORRECTIONS CODE OF 1953
Act 232 of 1953
791.222 Probation officers; appointment, supervision, and removal; grounds for removal of probation employee; receipt of compensation, gift, or gratuity as misdemeanor; powers and duties of commission.
Sec. 22.
(1) The commission shall appoint, supervise, and remove probation officers for the circuit court and recorder's court of this state, in the manner provided by the laws of this state.
(2) The commission may remove a probation employee for incompetency, misconduct, or failure to carry out the orders of the department, or for neglect of duty.
(3) A probation employee who receives compensation from public funds under this act, and receives any compensation, gift, or gratuity from a person under probation or from a person, partnership, association, or corporation for doing or refraining from doing an official act connected with his or her work as a probation employee, or connected with a proceeding pending or about to be instituted in the circuit court or recorder's court is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(4) The commission shall be vested with the powers and duties prescribed by the law with respect to probation recovery camps.
History: 1953, Act 232, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953 ;-- Am. 1979, Act 89, Eff. Apr. 1, 1980
Compiler's Notes:
Sections 2, 3, and 4 of Act 210 of 1979 provide:
“P.A. 1979, No. 89, section 4, amended; effective date.
“Section 2. The enacting section of Act No. 89 of the Public Acts of 1979, is amended to read as follows:
“Section 4. This amendatory act shall take effect April 1, 1980.
“Effective date of P.A. 1979, Nos. 81 and 89, in certain counties; funds for probation services.
“Section 3. The provisions of Act Nos. 81 and 89 of the Public Acts of 1979 shall not take effect in a county with a population of 1.5 million or more prior to a majority vote of the elected members of the county's board of commissioners to place the question of the creation of a charter commission under the terms of enacted Senate Bill No. 652 before the county electorate. Subsequent to the above action by the board of commissioners, funds appropriated for probation services for a county with a population of 1.5 million or more shall become immediately effective, and shall be retroactive to the extent of the funds provided.
“Implementation of P.A. 1979, Nos. 81 and 89; effect of refusal to provide probation support costs.
“Section 4. Implementation of Act Nos. 81 and 89 of the Public Acts of 1979 shall not be effective in counties which refuse to provide probation support costs as required in those acts.”
PopularName Notes:
Department of Corrections Act