Michigan Laws 380.1911 – School and child care center clean drinking water fund
Current as of: 2024 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 380.1911
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Child care center: means that term as defined in section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- Department: means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy or its authorized agent or representative. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Fund: means the school and child care center clean drinking water fund created in section 11. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- Plan: means a drinking water management plan created under section 5. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- School: means a public school or nonpublic school as those terms are defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
(1) The school and child care center clean drinking water fund is created within the state treasury.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year remains in the fund and does not lapse into the general fund.
(4) The department is the administrator of the fund for auditing purposes.
(5) The department shall expend money from the fund, upon appropriation, only to create and operate a program to assist child care centers and schools with all of the following:
(a) The 1-time acquisition and installation of filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets, in compliance with the plan.
(b) Maintenance of filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets and replacement of filter cartridges, in compliance with the plan.
(c) Costs associated with water sampling and testing.
(d) Costs associated with mailing or delivering any water collected for water sampling and testing.
(6) The department may award grants to operate the program under subsection (5). If it will achieve cost savings over independent purchases, the department may, for the purposes of subsection (5)(a), purchase and provide to program beneficiaries filtered bottle-filling stations, filtered faucets, point-of-use filters, or filter cartridges.