Michigan Compiled Laws 3-1895-xi Chapter XI Water Works. (71.1...71.14)

• Section 71.1 Water Works; Establishment; Maintenance.
  Any village may purchase or construct and may maintain water works to provide the village with pure water. History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff....
• Section 71.2 Water Works Or Filtration Plant; Authorized Acquisitions, Construction, And Maintenance.
  The village may acquire, purchase, erect, and maintain the reservoirs, canals, aqueducts, sluices, buildings, engines, water wheels, pumps, hydraulic machines, distributing pipes, and other...
• Section 71.3 Borrowing; Purpose; Limitations.
  It shall be lawful for any village, subject to the provisions of this act, to borrow any sum of money, that will not make...
• Section 71.4 Estimate Of Expense; Specially Assessing Cost Of Certain Water Improvements.
  Before any money shall be borrowed, appropriated, raised, or expended for the purchase, construction, repairing, rebuilding, or extending of water works or filtration plants...
• Section 71.5 Private Connections; Manner; Permit; Repairs At Owner's Expense.
  The connecting or supplying pipes, leading from buildings or yards to the distributing pipes, shall be inserted and kept in repair at the expense...
• Section 71.6 Water Rates; Ordinance; Terms.
  The council shall establish just and equitable water rates to be charged and paid for water supply. The council shall periodically either modify, amend,...
• Section 71.7 Water Works; Ordinances.
  The council may enact such ordinances, and adopt such resolutions, as may be necessary for the care, protection, preservation, and control of the water...
• Section 71.8 Water Works; Location Outside Corporate Limits; Control By Council.
  If the council considers it in the public interest, the village may purchase or construct and may maintain a water works beyond the corporate...
• Section 71.9 Water Works; Use Of Street Or Highway.
  For the purpose of operating or constructing and maintaining such water works, the village may, after obtaining appropriate rights as provided by law, use...
• Section 71.10 Water Works; Condemnation.
  If it shall be necessary, in the judgment of the council, to appropriate private property for the construction, maintenance, or operation of water works,...
• Section 71.11 Water Supply Contract; Use Of Streets, Wharves, And Public Grounds.
  The council may contract from year to year, or for a period not exceeding 10 years, with a person to supply the village with...
• Section 71.12 Street Administrator; Duties.
  Unless otherwise provided by ordinance adopted under section 8 of chapter V, as directed by the council, the street administrator designated under section 13...
• Section 71.13 Street Administrator; Report.
  The street administrator shall provide the council, in writing and on oath once in each month, an exact report of all labor performed by...
• Section 71.14 Department Of Public Works; Performance Of Duties Of Administrator; Director.
  The council by ordinance may establish a department of public works to perform the duties of the street administrator and other duties authorized by...

Last modified: October 10, 2016