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<br /> authorized by law to perform, provided that such contract shall be authorized by the governing
<br /> body of each party to the contract(See 28E.12); and
<br /> WHEREAS, for the purposes of Chapter 28E of the State Code of Iowa, the term"public
<br /> agency" means any political subdivision of the State of Iowa; any agency of Iowa's government
<br /> or of the United States; and any political subdivision of another state(See 28E.2); and
<br /> WHEREAS, the Constitution of the State of Michigan, 1963, Article VII, Section 28,
<br /> authorizes units of local government to contract as provided by law; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the Urban Cooperation Act of 1967, 1967 PA 7, MCL 124.501, et seq.,
<br /> provides that any political subdivision of Michigan or of another state may enter into interfocal
<br /> agreements for joint exercise of power, privilege, or authority that agencies share in common and
<br /> might each exercise separately; and
<br /> WHEREAS, Minnesota Statute 471.59 authorizes two or more governmental units, by
<br /> agreement entered into through action of their governing bodies, to jointly or cooperatively
<br /> exercise any power common to the contracting parties or any similar powers, including those
<br /> which are the same except for the territorial limits within which they may be exercised; and
<br /> WHEREAS,the term"governmental unit"in Minnesota Statute 471.59 includes every city,
<br /> county, town, school district,and other political subdivision of this or another state;another state;
<br /> the University of Minnesota; licensed nonprofit hospitals; and any agency of the state of
<br /> Minnesota or the United States. The term also includes any instrumentality of a governmental
<br /> unit if that unit has independent policy-making and appropriating authority; and
<br /> WHEREAS, Article VI, Section 16 of the Constitution of Missouri and Sections 70.210,
<br /> 70.320,and 70.220.1,of the Revised Statutes of Missouri,provide that any municipality or political
<br /> subdivision of the state of Missouri may contract and cooperate with other municipalities or
<br /> political subdivisions thereof, or with other states or their municipalities or political subdivisions,
<br /> or with the United States,to provide a common service as provided by law so long as the subject
<br /> and purpose of such are within the scope of the powers of such municipality or political
<br /> subdivision; and
<br /> WHEREAS, for the purposes of Sections 70.210, 70.320, and 70.220.1 of the Revised
<br /> Statutes of Missouri, "municipality" means municipal corporations, political corporations, and
<br /> other public corporations and agencies authorized to exercise governmental functions; and
<br /> "political subdivision" means counties, townships, cities, towns, villages, school, county library,
<br /> city library, city-county library, road, drainage, sewer, levee and fire districts, soil and water
<br /> conservation districts,watershed subdistricts, county hospitals,and any board of control of an art
<br /> museum, and any other public subdivision or public corporation having the power to tax;and
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