Michigan Laws 141.123 – Appropriation and use of revenues for payment of operation and maintenance expenses; appropriation and use of moneys raised by tax levy
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 141.123
- Borrower: means a public corporation exercising the power to issue bonds as provided in this act or a county treasurer exercising the power to issue notes as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 141.103
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Public corporation: means a county, city, village, township, school district, port district, or metropolitan district of the state or a combination of these if authorized by law to act jointly; an authority created by or under an act of the legislature; or a municipal health facilities corporation or subsidiary municipal health facilities corporation incorporated as provided in the municipal health facilities corporations act, 1987 PA 230, MCL 331. See Michigan Laws 141.103
- public improvement: means the whole or a part of any of these improvements or of any combination of these improvements or any interest or participation in these improvements, as determined by the governing body. See Michigan Laws 141.103
- Revenues: means the income derived from the rates charged for the services, facilities, and commodities furnished by a public improvement. See Michigan Laws 141.103
The borrower may appropriate and use, and may covenant to appropriate and use, any part of its available income or revenues derived from any source other than from the operation of the public improvement in paying any expenses of operation or maintenance of the public improvement, but nothing in this act shall be construed to require the borrower to do so. Where the borrower is an authority incorporated under Act No. 31 of the Public Acts of the First Extra Session of 1948, as amended, being section 123.951 to 123.965 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, any public corporation to which the public improvement or other property is leased by the authority may appropriate and use, and may covenant to appropriate and use, any part of its available income or revenues derived from any source other than from the operation of the public improvement or other property in paying any expenses of operation or maintenance of the public improvement or other property, but this act shall not be construed to require the public corporation to do so. The provisions of this act requiring the production, setting aside, and use of revenues for payment of operation and maintenance expenses shall be deemed to refer to such expenses, if any, which are in excess of any income or revenue appropriated and used as authorized in this section. Moneys raised by levy of taxes without limitation as to rate or amount in fulfillment of the pledge by a public corporation of its full faith and credit shall be appropriated only to the bond and interest redemption fund, and used only to pay principal of and interest on bonds.