The State, acting through the board, may in relation to the facilities of the State:

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1.  Acquire office space, equipment, services, supplies, fire and extended coverage insurance, use and occupancy insurance, workers’ compensation insurance, property damage insurance, public liability insurance for the State, the county and their respective officers, agents and employees, and other types of insurance, as the board may determine, but no provision herein authorizing the acquisition of insurance waives any immunity of the State, the county or any director, officer or agent otherwise existing under the laws of the State.

2.  Pay or otherwise defray the cost of any project.

3.  Establish, operate and maintain facilities within the county across or along any public street, highway, bridge, viaduct or other public right-of-way, or in, upon, under or over any vacant public lands, which public lands now are or may become the property of the State, the county, or a public body, without first obtaining a franchise from the county or the public body having jurisdiction over the same, but the State shall cooperate with the county and any public body having such jurisdiction, shall promptly restore any such street, highway, bridge, viaduct or other public right-of-way to its former state of usefulness as nearly as may be, and shall not use the same in such manner as permanently to impair completely or unnecessarily the usefulness thereof.

4.  Adopt, amend, repeal, enforce and otherwise administer such reasonable rules, regulations and orders as the board determines necessary or convenient for the operation, maintenance, management, government and use of the State’s facilities and any other like facilities under its control.

5.  Adopt, amend, repeal, enforce and otherwise administer under the police power within the territorial limits of the county such reasonable rules, regulations and orders in relation to the collection, disposal or treatment of sewage and wastewater after a public hearing thereon is held by the board, in connection with which any public body in the area involved or otherwise exercising powers affecting the functions and services therein of the State and persons of interest have an opportunity to be heard, after mailed notice of the hearing is given by the clerk of the board to each such public body and after notice of such hearing is given by publication by the clerk to persons of interest, both known and unknown.

6.  Sell and otherwise dispose of any by-products resulting from the operation of the facilities.