Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 18. Department of Management and Budget § 18.1267

Sec. 267. (1) The department shall issue directives to provide for the disclosure, transfer, and disposal of surplus personal property of state agencies.Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), the department may dispose of surplus personal property by donating the surplus personal property to a nonprofit entity, or selling it to a unit of local government, or selling it at a public sale.

(2) The department may sell surplus personal property at fair market value. The department may also exchange surplus personal property for goods and services at fair market value with a private company that is contracted to provide state services, and the surplus personal property is essential to providing those services.

(3) The department may pay necessary costs incurred in the conduct of the transfers or sale of surplus personal property including the necessary warehousing and reconditioning costs from the proceeds of the sale or by assessing a handling fee for surplus personal property being donated.

(4) Beginning October 1, 2016, prior to donating, disposing of, or selling surplus snow removal equipment or surplus road construction or maintenance equipment that was owned by the state transportation department, the department shall make that equipment available for sale at fair market value to local road agencies in this state. The department shall issue directives to implement this subsection. As used in this subsection, “local road agencies” means a local road agency as that term is defined in section 9a of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.659a.