(1) A county may acquire tangible or intangible property, rights, or processes, within its corporate limits, for a solid waste system by purchase, grant, assignment, construction, lease, gift, devise, or condemnation and may hold, manage, control, sell, grant, assign, exchange, or lease the property, rights, or processes. For the purpose of condemnation, the county may proceed as provided in section 16.
  (2) A county may acquire tangible or intangible property, rights, or processes outside its corporate limits for a solid waste system by purchase, grant, assignment, construction, lease, gift, or devise, but only if the acquisition is consistent with the solid waste management plan of the county in which the property, rights, or processes are located. Following the acquisition, the county may hold, manage, control, sell, grant, assign, exchange, or lease the property, rights, or processes.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 45.592

  • Acquire: means acquisition by any method described in section 12 or by any other method permitted by law. See Michigan Laws 45.582
  • County: means a county organized under Act No. See Michigan Laws 45.582
  • 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.
  • Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
  • 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 putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, and includes garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residue, street cleanings, municipal and industrial sludges, commercial and industrial wastes, and any other wastes described in a solid waste management plan or an update of a solid waste management plan approved pursuant to part 115 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 45.582
  • Solid waste management plan: means the solid waste management plan of a county provided for in part 115 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 45.582
  • system: means all plants, works, instrumentalities, properties, rights, processes, and contracts used or useful in connection with the collection, transportation, recycling, processing, storing, or disposing, by treatment, incineration, or otherwise, of solid waste, or as may be provided in a solid waste management plan or update of a solid waste management plan approved for a county pursuant to part 115 (solid waste management) of the natural resources and environmental protection act, Act No. See Michigan Laws 45.582