(1) The articles may authorize an authority to propose standards, criteria, and regulations.
  (2) To the extent authorized in the articles, an authority may plan, promote, finance, issue bonds for, acquire, improve, enlarge, extend, own, lease, construct, replace, or contract for public improvements and services, including, but not limited to, the following:

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 324.905

  • Articles: means the articles of incorporation of an authority. See Michigan Laws 324.901
  • Authority: means a joint city-state environmental management authority created pursuant to section 902. See Michigan Laws 324.901
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • 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
  • Solid waste: means solid waste as defined in part 115. See Michigan Laws 324.901
  • State agency: means either the department or the governing body of the state park that is participating in an authority. See Michigan Laws 324.901
  (a) Water and sewer public improvements and services.
  (b) Solid waste collection, recycling, and disposal.
  (c) Other public improvements relating to environmental matters that the city and the state agency in writing agree to assume.