County responsibilities

County 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.