The authority may:
  (a) Employ law enforcement officers, fire protection personnel, maintenance personnel, and other employees as necessary to protect and maintain real and personal property located on the military installation or contract for the procurement of any of these services.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 3.558

  • Authority: means a base conversion authority as provided for in this act. See Michigan Laws 3.551
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Department: means the department of commerce. See Michigan Laws 3.551
  • 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
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • 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
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  (b) Enter into contracts with the United States department of defense for the maintenance of buildings, grounds, water and sewage systems, heating and cooling systems, and other systems or property at the military installation until final disposition of the systems or property.
  (c) Sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign, subdivide, pledge by mortgage or deed of trust, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property or an interest in the property in cooperation and consultation with the local agency or organization created by the township in which the base is located and whose purpose is to determine appropriate utilization of military base property.
  (d) Rent, maintain, manage, operate, improve, and repair property under its control in cooperation and consultation with the local agency or organization created by the township in which the base is located and whose purpose is to determine appropriate utilization of military base property.
  (e) Receive funds from a local governmental unit, other state agencies, the federal government or its agency, or a private individual or group and spend those funds to the extent permitted under the powers granted to it pursuant to this section.