Sec. 37.
A joint agency shall have the rights and powers necessary and convenient to effectuate this article, including, but not limited to, 1 or more of the following:
(a) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of the affairs and conduct of its business, and to prescribe rules, regulations, and policies in connection with the performance of its functions and duties.
(b) To adopt and alter an official seal.
(c) To maintain 1 or more offices.
(d) To sue and be sued.
(e) To receive, administer, and comply with the conditions and requirements respecting a gift, grant, or donation of property or money.
(f) To acquire by purchase, lease, gift, or otherwise or to obtain options for the acquisition of real or personal property, or any interest in real property.
(g) To sell, lease, exchange, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, or to grant options for the disposal of any real or personal property or an interest in such property.
(h) To pledge or assign money, rents, charges, or other revenues or the proceeds derived by the joint agency from the sales of real or personal property, insurance, or condemnation awards.
(i) To issue bonds of the joint agency for the purpose of providing funds for any of its corporate purposes.
(j) To study, plan, finance, construct, reconstruct, acquire, participate in by contract or otherwise, improve, enlarge, extend, better, own, operate, or maintain, 1 or more projects, and to pay all or a part of the costs of the projects from the proceeds of bonds of the joint agency or from other funds made available to the joint agency.
(k) To authorize the construction, operation, or maintenance of a project or projects by a person, firm, or corporation, including a political subdivision or agency of another state.
(l) To acquire by lease, purchase, or otherwise an existing project or a project under construction.
(m) To sell or otherwise dispose of a project or projects.
(n) To fix, charge, and collect rents, rates, fees, and charges for electric power or energy or other services, facilities, or commodities sold, furnished, or supplied through a project.
(o) To generate, produce, transmit, deliver, exchange, purchase or sell for resale electric power or energy.
(p) To negotiate and to enter into contracts for the generation, production, purchase, sale, exchange, interchange, wheeling, pooling, transmission, delivery, or use of electric power and energy with a power utility.
(q) To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers and functions of the joint agency under this article.
(r) To apply to and obtain from the appropriate state or federal agency the necessary permits, licenses, certificates, or approvals to construct, maintain, and operate projects.
(s) To employ engineers, architects, attorneys, real estate counselors, appraisers, financial advisors, and other persons as may be required by the joint agency.
(t) To do all acts and things necessary, convenient, or desirable to carry out the purposes, and to execute the powers granted to the joint agency under this act.
History: 1976, Act 448, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977 ;-- Am. 2008, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 2008