Bill Text: MI SB0675 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Environmental protection; sewage; intermunicipal water and sewer authority act; add definition of Indian tribe. Amends sec. 1 of 1955 PA 233 (MCL 124.281).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-12-17 - Assigned Pa 0164'09 With Immediate Effect [SB0675 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0675-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 164

Public Acts of 2009

Approved by the Governor

December 11, 2009

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 14, 2009

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 14, 2009

STATE OF MICHIGAN

95TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

Introduced by Senators Barcia, Cropsey and Pappageorge

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 675

AN ACT to amend 1955 PA 233, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of certain municipal authorities to acquire, own, extend, improve, and operate sewage disposal systems, water supply systems, and solid waste management systems; to prescribe the rights, powers, and duties thereof; to authorize contracts between such authorities and public corporations; to provide for the issuance of bonds to acquire, construct, extend, or improve the systems; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 1 (MCL 124.281), as amended by 1981 PA 154.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1. As used in this act:

(a) “Authority”, unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, means an authority incorporated under section 2.

(b) “Constituent municipality” or “constituent municipalities” includes all of the municipalities that signed or became signatories of articles of incorporation of any authority incorporated under this act. However, if an authority is incorporated by 2 or more counties, each municipality within the respective territorial limits of the counties, whether the counties are original incorporators or subsequently became a constituent part of the authority under section 6, is a constituent municipality.

(c) “Indian tribe” means an Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians that is recognized as eligible for services by the United States secretary of the interior because of their status as Indians.

(d) “Municipality” means a county, township, city, or village.

(e) “Sewage disposal system” includes all interceptor sewers, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, combined sanitary and storm sewers, sewage treatment plants, and all other plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage or industrial wastes.

(f) “Solid waste management system” includes all plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with the collection, transportation, processing, or disposal of discarded or waste materials of any sort, including access roads and facilities for resource recovery. Solid waste management system does not include the storage or disposal of toxic materials.

(g) “Water supply system” includes all plants, works, instrumentalities, and properties used or useful in connection with obtaining a water supply, the treatment of water, or the distribution of water.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor