{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-16","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. VII, § 16","heading":"Highways, bridges, culverts, airports; road tax limitation.","body":"Sec. 16.\n\nThe legislature may provide for the laying out, construction, improvement and maintenance of highways, bridges, culverts and airports by the state and by the counties and townships thereof; and may authorize counties to take charge and control of any highway within their limits for such purposes. The legislature may provide the powers and duties of counties in relation to highways, bridges, culverts and airports; may provide for county road commissioners to be appointed or elected, with powers and duties provided by law. The ad valorem property tax imposed for road purposes by any county shall not exceed in any year one-half of one percent of the assessed valuation for the preceding year.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article VII"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20VII%20%C2%A7%2016","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"ec3c7670ce213462be292d66132152b6240a3a3ceeebc3f20e5314d73f9e515a","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-15","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-17","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."}