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County responsibilities
Comments 0 | Recommend 0County governments have a wide range of responsibilities identified in the law. Among them are:
• Agriculture, such as adopting a plan to manage noxious weeds.
• District Attorney, including paying the elected official's salary and the costs of running the prosecutor's office.
• Finances, such as preparing an audit and a road budget. c Health and Human Services, such as administering the food stamps program and determining eligibility for the Medicaid program.
• Jails and law enforcement, including money to operate a county jail.
• Land use, including adopting a master plan, adopting and enforcing subdivision regulations.
• Transportation, such as maintaining bridges. In addition, county governments are responsible for keeping records of property, assessing property values, collecting property taxes and investigating deaths.





