Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 45. Counties § 45.584

Sec. 4. (1) A county that establishes a department of solid waste management under this act may acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, or extend a solid waste system within 1 or more areas of the county, and may operate and maintain the system. A county and a public or private corporation may contract for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a solid waste system by the corporation on behalf of the county.

(2) A county may acquire outside its corporate boundaries any part of a solid waste system that is determined by the board of commissioners to be necessary for the purpose of collecting, transporting, recycling, processing, storing, or disposing, by treatment, incineration, or otherwise, of the county's solid waste, but only if the acquisition is consistent with the solid waste management plan for the county in which the portion of the solid waste management system being acquired is located.

(3) A county may acquire, for the purpose of providing solid waste disposal services, any part of a solid waste system in 1 or more public corporations outside its corporate boundaries. However, the acquisition shall be consistent with the solid waste management plan of the county in which the portion of the solid waste system being acquired is located. Before making an acquisition under this subsection, a county shall obtain the consent of each public corporation in the county where part of the system is to be located or that is to be served by part of the system through resolution of the governing body of the public corporation or through a contract with the public corporation.