Title 121, CHARTER WATER AUTHORITY

Sec. 1. As used in this act, “water supply and transmission system” means plants, works, instrumentalities and properties used or useful in connection with obtaining a water supply and the treatment thereof, and necessary transmission mains and appurtenances for the distribution …

Sec. 10. After the establishment of initial rates and charges as required by section 9 of this act, the authority and the governmental units within its corporate limits may contract for the sale and purchase of water from any such system for a period of not exceeding 50 years.

Sec. 11. On or before February 1 of each year, the board of commissioners shall prepare and submit to the governing bodies of each governmental unit comprising the authority, a proposed budget covering its anticipated expenses of administration, operation and maintenance, plus an…

Sec. 12. The fiscal year of the authority shall commence on July 1 of each year and end on June 30 of each year, unless the board of commissioners, by resolution, establishes a different fiscal year.

Sec. 13. For the purpose of constructing, acquiring, improving, enlarging or extending a water supply and transmission system, including the payment of engineering, legal and financing expenses in connection therewith, and after the establishment of the initial rates and the exec…

Sec. 14a. (1) The resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds by the authority shall be published in full in a newspaper of general circulation within the corporate limits of the authority within 1 week after its adoption. If, within 30 days from the publication of the resolutio…

Sec. 15. Bonds issued by any authority under the provisions of this act are subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821.

Sec. 16. The authority shall levy each year a sufficient tax, taking into account the probable delinquency in tax collections, to pay the principal and interest on all bonds lawfully issued by the authority under the provisions of this act, maturing prior to the next tax collecti…

Sec. 18. The authority may levy in any year, in addition to the tax required for the payment of bonded indebtedness, a tax for the purpose of providing funds for administration expenses of the authority and such other purposes of the authority as may be determined to be necessary…

Sec. 19. Any city, township or village which is located in a township which is not a part of the authority, within 30 days after certification of the tax rate by the authority as required by section 16 of this act, in lieu of the levy and collection thereof, may pay to the author…

Sec. 2. Any 2 or more cities, villages or townships, or any combination thereof, having a combined current state equalized valuation of not less than $200,000,000.00, by vote of their respective electors, may incorporate an authority comprising the territory within their respecti…

Sec. 20. The legislative body of each city, village or township which is a part of the authority may raise by tax, pay from its general funds, or from its revenues derived from operation of its water system not earmarked or pledged for other purposes, any moneys required to be pa…

Sec. 21. The authority shall be a municipal corporation, and a public body corporate with power to sue and be sued in any court of this state. This act shall be considered to be its charter, and it shall possess all powers necessary to carry out the purposes of its incorporation …

Sec. 22. The authority may acquire property for a water supply and transmission system by purchase, construction, lease, gift, devise or condemnation, either within or without its corporate limits, and may hold, manage, control, sell, exchange or lease such property. For the purp…

Sec. 23. No change in municipal jurisdiction over any territory within an authority shall affect in any manner the authority or its boundaries. If a new city is incorporated from a township in the authority, then the new city shall be deemed to be a part of the authority, and a c…

Sec. 24. The legislative body of each municipality which is a part of the authority may advance or loan to the authority any moneys required for administrative expenses or for the purpose of obtaining maps, plans, designs, specifications and cost estimates of a proposed water sup…

Sec. 25. The authority and any municipality which is not a part thereof, may enter into a contract for the furnishing of water service from any water supply and transmission system owned or operated by the authority. The contract shall provide for reasonable charges or rates for …

Sec. 26. (1) Any municipality which did not join in the incorporation of an authority may become a part thereof by: (a) The adoption of a resolution by the legislative body of the municipality indicating its intent to become a part of the authority, a certified copy of which reso…

Sec. 27. The powers herein granted shall be in addition to those granted by any charter or other statute.

Sec. 28. The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed in the interest of the public health and welfare and the safety of persons and property within the authority incorporated under the provisions of this act.

Sec. 29. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “charter water authority act”.

Sec. 3. Each city, village or township desiring to become a part of the authority shall indicate, by resolution of its legislative body, its desire to become a part thereof, and shall submit the proposition of becoming a part of the authority to a vote of its qualified electors a…

Sec. 4. Any city, village or township shall become a member of the authority when a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor thereof. The proposition to incorporate the authority shall be submitted at a general or special election held simultaneously in ea…

Sec. 5. If on the vote being canvassed in each city, village or township, the result is determined to be in favor of the incorporation, the city clerk in the case of cities, the village clerk in the case of villages, and the township clerk in the case of townships, each shall fil…

Sec. 6. The incorporated authority shall be directed and governed by a board of commissioners appointed as herein provided. The legislative body of each city, village or township constituting a part of the authority, within 30 days after the incorporation of the authority, shall …

Sec. 7. The board of commissioners shall hold their first meeting within 1 month after their selection, on the call of the mayor of the most populous city of the authority, or if no city is a part of the authority, the mayor or president of the most populous village, or if no cit…

Sec. 8. The board of commissioners shall keep a written record of every session of the board, which record shall be public. It shall also provide for a system of accounts to conform to any uniform system required by law, and for the auditing at least once yearly of the accounts o…

Sec. 9. The board of commissioners, by resolution adopted by a 2/3 majority of the total authorized votes, prior to the acquisition or construction of a water supply and transmission system, and prior to the issuance of any bonds for such purposes, shall establish an initial sche…