Bill Text: MI SB0679 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered
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-Chaptered.html
Act No. 168
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 Cropsey, Barcia and Pappageorge
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 679
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 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 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 discontinue service as authorized under subsection (1) and restore service as authorized under subsection (2).
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor