{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-40","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. IV, § 40","heading":"Alcoholic beverages; age requirement; liquor control commission; excise tax; local option.","body":"Sec. 40.\n\nA person shall not sell or give any alcoholic beverage to any person who has not reached the age of 21 years. A person who has not reached the age of 21 years shall not possess any alcoholic beverage for the purpose of personal consumption. An alcoholic beverage is any beverage containing one-half of one percent or more alcohol by volume.\n\nExcept as prohibited by this section, (t)he legislature may by law establish a liquor control commission which, subject to statutory limitations, shall exercise complete control of the alcoholic beverage traffic within this state, including the retail sales thereof. The legislature may provide for an excise tax on such sales. Neither the legislature nor the commission may authorize the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages in any county in which a majority of the electors voting thereon shall prohibit the same.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article IV"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20IV%20%C2%A7%2040","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"6450548ab4122e9cbd694116f1a4ee1bed038321bdad6b30533a40fe3b9e5cbb","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-4","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-41","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}