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Water and Power Companies (Michigan Compiled Laws: Chapter 486)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
Michigan
Document type
Legislation
Date
1863 (2019)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Freshwater resources management Waterworks Inland waters Surface water Hydropower generation Water abstraction Water charges Water quality standards Water rights Water supply Basin/catchment/watershed Business/industry/corporations Expropriation Local government Property rights Offences/penalties
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This Chapter of the Michigan Compiled Laws provides for the incorporation of water power companies; and authorizes the formation of corporations for the purpose of damming, excavating, constructing and maintaining water courses with water power appurtenant thereto, for accumulating, storing, manufacturing, conducting, using, selling, furnishing and supplying water and water power, electricity and electric power, and all and every kind of power for mining, milling, manufacturing, domestic, municipal and agricultural purposes, and for the purpose of transportation and for all other purposes in the upper peninsula of Michigan. The Chapter further authorizes the formation of corporations for the purpose of generating, manufacturing, producing, gathering, storing, transmitting, distributing, transforming, selling and supplying electric energy or gas, either artificial or natural, or both electric energy and gas, to the public generally, or to public utilities or natural gas companies, and providing for and giving to such corporations and also to corporations heretofore lawfully organized, among other things, for such purposes; to corporations heretofore lawfully organized, or that may hereafter be lawfully organized and duly authorized to carry on the electric or gas business as a public utility in the state of Michigan; and to foreign corporations heretofore lawfully organized or that may hereafter be lawfully organized, among other things, for such purposes, and duly authorized to carry on business in the state of Michigan, the right to condemn private property for the uses provided for herein. The Chapter also authorizes the formation of companies for the introduction of water into towns, cities and villages, in the state of Michigan; certain water supply companies, now or hereafter organized, to also operate electrical plants in connection with their waterworks systems; the formation of corporations for the purpose of supplying to, distributing and selling water to a township or townships and giving to such corporations rights to take water from the Great Lakes, Lake St Clair, and the bays thereof; authorizing a township or townships to contract with such corporations for the purchase of water by said township or townships and authorizing any township to purchase waterworks, systems, installations and real and personal property of such corporations; authorizing such township or townships to pass ordinances with respect thereto; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies.

Full text
English
Website
www.legislature.mi.gov