Mich. Comp. Laws § 87.6: City clerk; powers, duties.

Sec. 6.

The city clerk shall keep the corporate seal, and all the documents, official bonds, papers, files and records of the city, not by this act or the ordinances of the city entrusted to some other officer; he shall be clerk of the council; shall attend its meetings, record all its proceedings, ordinances and resolutions, and shall countersign and register all licenses granted; he shall, when required, make and certify under the seal of the city copies of the papers and records filed and kept in his office; and such copies shall be evidence in all places of the matters therein contained, to the same extent as the original would be; he shall possess and exercise the powers of a township clerk, so far as the same are required to be performed within the city; and he shall have authority to administer oaths and affirmations.