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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 280.222

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • drain: whenever used in this act , shall include the main stream or trunk and all tributaries or branches of any creek or river, any watercourse or ditch, either open or closed, any covered drain, any sanitary or any combined sanitary and storm sewer or storm sewer or conduit composed of tile, brick, concrete, or other material, any structures or mechanical devices, that will properly purify the flow of such drains, any pumping equipment necessary to assist or relieve the flow of such drains and any levee, dike, barrier, or a combination of any or all of same constructed, or proposed to be constructed, for the purpose of drainage or for the purification of the flow of such drains, but shall not include any dam and flowage rights used in connection therewith which is used for the generation of power by a public utility subject to regulation by the public service commission. See Michigan Laws 280.3
     The commissioner shall first let the section at the outlet of the drain and shall let each remaining section in its order up stream: Provided, That the commissioner may let the drain in sections or as a whole, whichever appears to him the most practical: Provided further, That the commissioner shall reserve the right to reject any and all bids or proposals and proceed to let said drain in its entirety, and may adjourn such letting in the whole or in part, from time to time, to such other time or place to be by him at the time of such adjournment publicly announced as shall to him seem proper, but not in all more than 40 days from and after the time of letting as first advertised.