Terms Used In Michigan Laws 123.1289

  • Authority: means a lighting authority incorporated under this act. See Michigan Laws 123.1263
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Local government: means a city with a population of more than 600,000. See Michigan Laws 123.1263
  • system: means plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with providing lighting and necessary resources and appurtenances for the system. See Michigan Laws 123.1263
  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 was purchased, constructed, gifted, devised, leased, or otherwise came into the authority’s ownership or control from the local government, the authority may not sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the property unless the other party to the transaction is the local government that previously owned the property so that the property will return to the ownership of the local government that owned the property before the transfer to the authority.