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Chapter 254 - Bridges
Act 99 of 1954 INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE AUTHORITY (254.221 - 254.240)
AN ACT authorizing the international bridge authority of Michigan to construct, maintain, repair, and operate a bridge or tunnel project from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to the province of Ontario, Canada, and to provide for the acquisition and operation of the existing ferry system and buses in connection with the project; to prescribe the powers and duties of the authority including, but not limited to, the power to acquire necessary real and personal property and to exercise the power of condemnation; to provide for financing the project by the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority payable solely from tolls and other revenues; to provide that no debt of the state shall be incurred in the exercise of any such powers; to provide for the collection of tolls and other revenues to pay the bonds, the interest on the bonds, and the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of the project; to exempt from taxes and assessments the project and the bonds and the income from the bonds; to authorize the issuance of revenue refunding bonds; to prescribe the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds issued under this act; to make an appropriation; to provide for the state transportation department to assume the powers and duties of the authority upon retirement of the outstanding bonds including, but not limited to, the power to enter into interlocal agreements; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
History: 1954, Act 99, Imd. Eff. Apr. 12, 1954 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 243, Imd. Eff. June 29, 2000
- Section 254.221 International bridge authority; definitions.
- Section 254.222 Revenue bonds; statement, expenses.
- Section 254.223 International bridge authority; powers and duties; value of assets; efficiencies.
- Section 254.223a Expenditure from bridge revenues; purposes; payment.
- Section 254.224 Real property; purchase and conveyance by city of Sault Ste. Marie; condemnation proceedings; title; removal of property.
- Section 254.225 Revenue bonds; issuance, principal and interest payments, date, form, signatures, coupon or registered, sale, approval, proceeds, use; interim receipts or temporary bonds.
- Section 254.226 Revenue bonds; secured by trust agreement, pledge, provisions, indemnifying bonds, expenses, approval.
- Section 254.227 Tolls; collection; contracts with public utilities; appropriation of revenue; supervision and regulation; sinking fund; pledge.
- Section 254.228 Trust funds; depository acting as trustee.
- Section 254.229 Trust agreement or resolution; enforcement.
- Section 254.230 Bonds; negotiable instruments.
- Section 254.231 Purpose of project; taxation.
- Section 254.232 Bonds made securities.
- Section 254.233 Revenue refunding bonds; purpose, regulation.
- Section 254.234 Vehicular traffic facilities; covenant with bondholders; limitations.
- Section 254.235 Authorization for action; project maintenance and operation, report to governor, failure to pay tolls, surveying.
- Section 254.236 Bonds; final payment; disposition of property; dissolution of authority; assumption of powers and responsibilities; use of property and funds; surveys and studies; availability of data.
- Section 254.237 Powers; supplemental and additional.
- Section 254.238 Construction of act.
- Section 254.239 Repealed. 2000, Act No. 243, Imd. Eff. June 29, 2000.
- Section 254.240 Repeal.
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