Title 123, LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Sec. 9. (1) A local government may adopt articles of incorporation by a majority vote of its governing body and incorporate an authority for the purpose of acquiring, owning, improving, enlarging, extending, constructing, operating, or maintaining a lighting system and providing …

Sec. 11. (1) An authority is a public municipal corporation. The authority is a public body corporate with the power to sue and be sued in any court of this state. The authority possesses all the powers necessary to carry out the purposes of its incorporation. The enumeration of …

Sec. 13. (1) An authority created under this act shall be directed and governed by a board of directors consisting of 5 members appointed as provided in this section. (2) The board shall be appointed as follows: (a) Two members who are residents of the local government appointed …

Sec. 15. (1) Within 30 days following the appointment of the last board member to the board, the board shall hold its first meeting. (2) At its first meeting, the board shall select a chairperson, treasurer, and any other officers as the board considers necessary. The board shall…

Sec. 17. (1) On or before March 15 after the creation of the authority, and on or before March 15 of every second year after the creation of the authority, the board shall prepare and submit to the governing body of the local government a plan for the next 3 succeeding fiscal yea…

Sec. 19. Unless the board, by resolution, establishes a different fiscal year, the fiscal year of the authority shall commence on July 1 of each year and end on the following June 30.

Sec. 20. (1) The local government has the responsibility, authority, and right to manage and direct on behalf of the public the services performed or exercised as provided in the articles of incorporation to the extent the articles of incorporation are consistent with, and not ot…

Sec. 21. (1) For the purpose of constructing, acquiring, improving, enlarging, or extending a lighting system, including the payment of engineering, legal, and financing expenses, and after the establishment of the initial service rates and the execution of contracts for the prov…

Sec. 23. (1) An authority may enter into, amend, or terminate, as it determines necessary or appropriate, any ancillary facility for any of the following purposes: (a) To facilitate the issue, sale, resale, purchase, repurchase, or payment of bonds, or the making or performance o…

Sec. 25. (1) An authority and the local government comprising the authority may enter into a contract providing for the construction, acquisition, improvement, enlargement, or extension of a lighting system, including the payment of engineering, legal, and financing expenses in c…

Sec. 27. (1) The property of an authority created under this act is public property devoted to an essential public and governmental purpose. Income of an authority is for a public and governmental purpose. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the property of an au…

Sec. 29. An authority may acquire property for a lighting system by purchase, construction, lease, gift, or devise, either within or outside its corporate limits. The authority may hold, manage, control, sell, exchange, or lease the property, except that if the property at issue …

Sec. 31. The governing body of the local government comprising the authority may advance or loan to the authority any money required for administrative expenses or for the purpose of obtaining maps, plans, designs, specifications, and cost estimates of a proposed lighting system.…

Sec. 33. The powers granted under this act are in addition to those granted by any charter or statute.

Sec. 35. This act shall be liberally construed in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare of the persons and property within an authority created under this act.