Sec. 7.
(1) The negotiating partnership may provide for 1 or more of the following:
(a) Study and analyze the need for public facilities within the negotiated benefit area and identify other potential negotiated benefit areas.
(b) That the administering agency shall plan and propose the construction, renovation, repair, remodeling, rehabilitation, restoration, preservation, or reconstruction of a public facility in a negotiated benefit area. The administering agency is encouraged to develop a plan that reasonably conserves the natural features of the site and reduces impervious surfaces.
(c) That the administering agency shall implement any plan of development of a public facility in the negotiated benefit area necessary to achieve the purposes of this act in accordance with the powers granted by this act.
(d) That the administering agency shall make and enter into contracts necessary or incidental to the exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties.
(e) That the administering agency shall acquire by purchase or otherwise, on terms and conditions and in a manner the administrative agency considers proper, or own, convey, or otherwise dispose of, or lease as lessor or lessee, land and other property, real or personal, or rights or interests in the property, that the administrative agency determines are reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes of this act, and to grant or acquire licenses, easements, and options.
(f) That the administering agency shall improve land and construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, restore and preserve, equip, clear, improve, maintain, and repair any public facility, building, and any necessary or desirable appurtenances to those buildings provided in the negotiating partnership to be reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes of this act, within the negotiated benefit area for the use, in whole or in part, of any public or private person or corporation, or a combination thereof.
(g) That the administering agency shall fix, charge, and collect fees, rents, and charges for the use of any facility, building, or property under its control or any part of the facility, building, or property, and pledge the fees, rents, and charges for the payment of any debts incurred pursuant to the negotiating partnership. Fees, rents, and charges shall not include the adding of a toll or employment of new user fees for any motor vehicle access to a new or existing highway, road, street, highway ramp, or bridge.
(h) That the administering agency may lease, in whole or in part, any facility, building, or property under its control.
(i) That the administering agency may accept grants and donations of property, labor, or other things of value from a public or private source.
(j) That the administering agency may acquire and construct public facilities.
(k) That the negotiating partnership may add reasonable administrative costs for the administering agency as a result of any agreement.
(2) The construction and operation of a public facility authorized in subsection (1) shall be in conformity with all laws relating to the use of state and federal funds.
History: 2010, Act 250, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 2010
Last modified: October 10, 2016