Michigan § 120.110 - Port authority; additional powers.

An authority may do 1 or more of the following:

(a) Subject to the authority of the federal government and this state and with the agreement of the constituent units, all of the following:

(i) Provide for the preservation of navigation within its territorial jurisdiction, including the establishment by regulation of lines beyond which piers, bulkheads, wharves, pilings, structures, obstructions, or extensions of any character may not be built, erected, constructed, or extended.

(ii) Provide by regulation for the stationing, anchoring, and movement of vessels or other watercraft.

(iii) Adopt rules to prevent material, refuse, or matter of any kind from being thrown into, deposited, or placed where it may fall, or be washed, into navigable waters under its jurisdiction.

(iv) Ascertain the depth and course of the channels of those navigable waters.

(v) Erect and maintain, authorize the erection and maintenance of, and make rules respecting wharves, bulkheads, piers, and piling, and the keeping of the same in repair, to prevent injury to navigation or health.

(vi) Regulate the use of wharves, docks, piers, bulkheads, or pilings owned by it.

(vii) Lease or rent wharves, docks, piers, bulkheads, or pilings owned by it and impose and collect dockage from vessels and watercraft lying at or using these.

(viii) Collect wharfage and other charges on goods, wares, merchandise or other articles landed at, shipped from, stored on, or passed over wharves, docks, piers, bulkheads, or pilings owned by it.

(b) Make and enter into contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this act.

(c) Lay out, construct, acquire, operate, lease, sell, and convey planned industrial districts as a part of facilities within its jurisdiction, subject to the restrictions contained in this act on operation and ownership of facilities.

(d) Do all acts and things necessary or convenient to promote and increase commerce and recreation within its territorial jurisdiction and carry out the powers expressly granted and any powers implied or necessary for the exercise of the powers expressly granted in this act.