(1) The governing body of any
municipality or other public body, upon its behalf and in its name, for the purpose of
aiding and cooperating in any project authorized in this part 5, upon the terms and
with or without consideration and with or without an election, as the governing body
determines, has power under this part 5:
(a) To sell, lease, loan, donate, grant, convey, assign, transfer, and otherwise
dispose to the district of sewers, sewage facilities, and sewer improvements, or any
combination thereof;
(b) To make available for temporary use or otherwise dispose of to the
district any machinery, equipment, facilities, and other property, and any agents,
employees, persons with professional training, and any other persons, to effect the
purposes of this part 5. Any such property owned and persons in the employ of any
public body while engaged in performing for the district any service, activity, or
undertaking authorized in this part 5, pursuant to contract or otherwise, shall have
all the powers, privileges, immunities, rights, and duties of, and shall be deemed to
be engaged in the service and employment of, such public body, notwithstanding
such service, activity, or undertaking is being performed in or for a district.
(c) To enter into any agreement or joint agreement between or among the
federal government, the district, and any other public body, or any combination
thereof, which is mutually agreed thereby, notwithstanding any law to the contrary,
respecting action or proceedings appertaining to any power granted in this part 5,
and the use or joint use of any facilities, project, or other property authorized in this
part 5;
(d) To sell, lease, loan, donate, grant, convey, assign, transfer, or pay over to
a district any facilities or any project authorized in this part 5, or any part thereof, or
any interest in real or personal property, or any funds available for acquisition,
improvement, or equipment purposes, including the proceeds of any securities
issued for acquisition, improvement, or equipment purposes which may be used by
the district in the acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance, or operation
of any facilities or project authorized in this part 5;
(e) To transfer, grant, convey, or assign and set over to a district any
contracts which have been awarded by the public body for the acquisition,
improvement, or equipment of any project not begun, or if begun, not completed;
(f) To budget and appropriate, and each municipality or other public body is
required and directed to budget and appropriate, from time to time, general ad
valorem tax proceeds, service charges, and other revenues legally available
therefor to pay all obligations arising from the exercise of any powers granted in
this part 5 as such obligations accrue and become due, including, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, service charges fixed by the district;
(g) To prescribe and enforce reasonable rules and regulations, not in conflict
with any such rule or regulation of the district, for the availability of service from,
the connection with, the use of, and the disconnection from the sewer system of the
public body or other sanitation or sewer facilities thereof;
(h) To provide for an agency, by any agreement authorized in this part 5, to
administer or execute that or any collateral agreement, which agency may be one
of the parties to the agreement, or a commission or board constituted pursuant to
the agreement;
(i) To provide that any such agency shall possess the common power
specified in the agreement, and may exercise it in the manner or according to the
method provided in the agreement. Such power is subject to the restrictions upon
the manner of exercising the power of any one of the contracting parties, which
party shall be designated by the agreement.
(j) To continue any agreement authorized in this part 5 until rescinded or
terminated, which agreement may provide for the method by which it may be
rescinded or terminated by any party.
(2) All of the powers, privileges, immunities, and rights, exemptions from
laws, ordinances, and rules and all pension, relief, disability, workers' compensation,
and other benefits which apply to the activity of officers, agents, or employees of
any such district or public body when performing their respective functions within
the territorial limits of their respective public agencies shall apply to them to the
same degree and extent while engaged in the performance of any of their functions
and duties extraterritorially under this part 5.