Michigan Laws 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
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(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.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 791.222
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
(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.