Section 216. Location of county offices  


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  • The board of supervisors shall have
      power  to  select  and  change the site of any county office or building
      within the county except as hereinafter provided. No  site  or  location
      for  any  county  jail  shall  be  selected or acquired by such board of
      supervisors which shall not have been approved by the  state  commission
      of correction. No courthouse, civil office of the sheriff, office of the
      county  clerk,  county  treasurer,  clerk of the board of supervisors or
      board of elections, now or hereafter located in a city or village, shall
      be removed beyond the  limits  of  such  city  or  village  without  the
      approval of a proposition therefor by the affirmative vote of a majority
      of  the  qualified electors of the county voting thereon at a general or
      special election. The clerk of the board of supervisors  shall  cause  a
      notice  of such election to be published in the official newspapers once
      a week for six weeks previous to such election; and shall on  or  before
      the  first  day  of  publication cause such notice to be posted upon the
      bulletin board at the office of each city and town clerk in the  county.
      The  notice shall state the time of the election, the name of the office
      or building and the proposed site thereof by a  description  in  general
      terms  sufficient  for readily identifying the proposed site.  The clerk
      shall cause a certificate to  be  filed  with  the  board  of  elections
      stating  the  proposition  to  be  submitted  on  or  before  the  first
      publication. Nothing  herein  shall  be  deemed  to  dispense  with  any
      required  approval  of  a  site  or  building  by  any  state officer or
      department. In the event the board of supervisors proposes changing  the
      present  site  or sites, as the case may be, of two or more of the above
      specified offices or buildings from their present site or sites, as  the
      case  may  be,  to  one  site,  such  proposal  may  be contained in one
      proposition without the necessity of allowing a separate vote on each of
      the offices or buildings concerned, and in such  case,  the  proposition
      and  the  notice  of  such  election  shall  state, as to each office or
      building affected, the name of  the  office  or  building,  the  present
      location  thereof  by  reference to the city or village, as the case may
      be, and the proposed site thereof by  a  description  in  general  terms
      sufficient for readily identifying the proposed site.