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2012 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 1 — Constitution of the State of Michigan of 1963
CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 — STATE CONSTITUTION (Article I § 1 - § 0)
CONSTITUTION-VII — ARTICLE VII LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Article VII § 1...§ 34)
- Article VII § 1 — Counties; corporate character, powers and immunities.
- Article VII § 2 — County charters.
- Article VII § 3 — Reduction of size of county.
- Article VII § 4 — County officers; terms, combination.
- Article VII § 5 — Offices at county seat.
- Article VII § 6 — Sheriffs; security, responsibility for acts, ineligibility for other office.
- Article VII § 7 — Boards of supervisors; members.
- Article VII § 8 — Legislative, administrative, and other powers and duties of boards.
- Article VII § 9 — Compensation of county officers.
- Article VII § 10 — Removal of county seat.
- Article VII § 11 — Indebtedness, limitation.
- Article VII § 12 — Navigable streams, permission to bridge or dam.
- Article VII § 13 — Consolidation of counties, approval by electors.
- Article VII § 14 — Organization and consolidation of townships.
- Article VII § 15 — County intervention in public utility service and rate proceedings.
- Article VII § 16 — Highways, bridges, culverts, airports; road tax limitation.
- Article VII § 17 — Townships; corporate character, powers and immunities.
- Article VII § 18 — Township officers; term, powers and duties.
- Article VII § 19 — Township public utility franchises.
- Article VII § 20 — Townships, dissolution; villages as cities.
- Article VII § 21 — Cities and villages; incorporation, taxes, indebtedness.
- Article VII § 22 — Charters, resolutions, ordinances; enumeration of powers.
- Article VII § 23 — Parks, boulevards, cemeteries, hospitals.
- Article VII § 24 — Public service facilities.
- Article VII § 25 — Public utilities; acquisition, franchises, sale.
- Article VII § 26 — Cities and villages, loan of credit.
- Article VII § 27 — Metropolitan governments and authorities.
- Article VII § 28 — Governmental functions and powers; joint administration, costs and credits, transfers.
- Article VII § 29 — Highways, streets, alleys, public places; control, use by public utilities.
- Article VII § 30 — Franchises and licenses, duration.
- Article VII § 31 — Vacation or alteration of roads, streets, alleys, public places.
- Article VII § 32 — Budgets, public hearing.
- Article VII § 33 — Removal of elected officers.
- Article VII § 34 — Construction of constitution and law concerning counties, townships, cities, villages.
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