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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 123.961d

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • incorporating unit: as used in this act shall be deemed to mean a county, city, village, township, intermediate school district or other school district incorporating an authority or joining in such incorporation. See Michigan Laws 123.953
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
   There shall be created in the authorizing ordinance or resolution a lien by this act made a statutory lien upon the cash rental payments required to be paid by the contract of lease which are pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds to and in favor of the holders of the bonds and the interest coupons pertaining thereto. The amounts so pledged shall be and remain subject to the statutory lien until the payment in full of the principal of and interest on the bonds. The holder or holders of bonds representing in the aggregate not less than 20% of the entire issue then outstanding may by suit, action, or other proceedings protect and enforce such statutory lien and enforce and compel the performance of all duties of the officials of the authority, including, but not limited to, compelling the incorporating unit or units by proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction or other appropriate forum to make the cash rental payments required to be made by the contract of lease, and requiring the incorporating unit or units to certify, levy, and collect appropriate taxes as herein authorized and as may be required by the contract of lease to be so certified, levied, and collected by the incorporating unit or units for the payment of the cash rental required to be paid by the contract of lease.