Section 486.101 - Water power and supply corporations; incorporators; powers. - Michigan Statutes

WATER POWER COMPANIES (EXCERPT)
Act 202 of 1887

486.101 Water power and supply corporations; incorporators; powers.

Sec. 1.

That any number of persons not less than 5 may form themselves into a corporation for the purpose of damming any stream and of excavating and constructing, maintaining, repairing and improving any canal already existing or which they may wish to excavate and construct with water power appurtenant thereto and may own, lease, use and control the same for the purpose of accumulating, storing, conducting, selling, furnishing and supplying upon an agreed rental water and water power, for mining, milling, manufacturing, domestic, municipal and agricultural purposes and for purposes of navigation, and may acquire, hold, lease and convey lands or water power as may be necessary or convenient for the purposes above specified by complying with the following requirements.

History: 1887, Act 202, Imd. Eff. June 18, 1887 ;-- How. 3895r ;-- CL 1897, 6806 ;-- CL 1915, 8904 ;-- CL 1929, 11839 ;-- CL 1948, 486.101