Constable

MCL 168.341: Elective township offices shall consist of a supervisor, township clerk, township treasurer, not to exceed 4 constables, and not to exceed 4 trustees. Elective township officers may include library directors and park commission members.

MCL 168.358: [Up to a maximum of 4], the number of constables to be elected at the 1992 general November election and each general November election at which township offices are regularly to be elected after 1992 shall be determined by the township board by resolution not less than 6 months before the township primary election preceding the general November election.

The resolution that specifies the number of constables to be elected applies in that township until a subsequent resolution is adopted altering that number.

If a determination as to the number of constables to be elected is not made by the township board by the deadline under this subsection for the 1992 general election, the number of constables to be elected shall be the same number that was elected in that township in the 1988 general November election until a resolution is adopted to provide for the election of a different number of constables.

MCL 168.370: If a vacancy occurs in the office of township constable, the township board shall determine if and when the vacancy shall be filled by appointment. If the township board does not fill the vacancy by appointment, the office of township constable shall remain vacant until the next general or special election in which township offices are filled.
SAMPLE NUMBER OF CONSTABLES RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the office of Constable is (whatever the township wants to say about why it wants or doesn’t want constables); and

WHEREAS, MCL 168.358(3) authorizes the township board to determine the number of constables to be elected at least six (6) months prior to the primary election;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Township of ____________ does hereby resolve to elect _____(insert appropriate number: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4) constables, and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the ____________ County Clerk within three (3) days.

The foregoing resolution offered by ______________.

Seconded by _________________.

Roll Call as follows: . . .
Adopted.