Bill Text: MI SB0679 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmental protection; sewage; Indian tribe contracting with intermunicipal water and sewer authority; authorize to discontinue service to users violating authority rules. Amends sec. 4e of 1955 PA 233 (MCL 124.284e).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-12-17 - Assigned Pa 0168'09 With Immediate Effect [SB0679 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0679-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 679

 

 

June 25, 2009, Introduced by Senators CROPSEY, BARCIA and PAPPAGEORGE and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Regulatory Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill 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 4e (MCL 124.284e), as added by 1985 PA 178.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4e. (1) The authority may authorize the discontinuance of

 

service to a user who violates a rule or regulation adopted and

 

promulgated under this act if the authority determines that

 

discontinuance of service to that user is necessary to protect the

 

integrity of the affected system.

 

     (2) The authority shall authorize restoration of service to

 

that user when the authority determines that the threat to the

 

affected system no longer exists and that the cause of or events

 

resulting in the violation will not recur.

 

     (3) The municipality or Indian tribe that maintains and

 

operates the affected system or part of that system, or the

 

authority, pursuant to that municipality's or Indian tribe's

 

authorization, shall effect discontinuance of discontinue service

 

as authorized under subsection (1) and shall effect restoration of

 

restore service as authorized under subsection (2).