§ 5.5. Delivery Of Effects Of Office To Successor Or Superior When Officer Or Employee Ceases To Hold Office.

Whenever any officer or employee shall cease to hold such office or employment for any reason whatsoever, he or she shall within five (5) days, or sooner on demand, deliver to his or her successor in office or to that officer’s or employee’s superior all the books, papers, money, equipment and effects in his or her custody that in any manner pertain to that office. Any officer violating this provision may be proceeded against in the same manner as public officers generally for a like offense under the laws of the State of Michigan.