{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-20","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. VII, § 20","heading":"Townships, dissolution; villages as cities.","body":"Sec. 20.\n\nThe legislature shall provide by law for the dissolution of township government whenever all the territory of an organized township is included within the boundaries of a village or villages notwithstanding that a village may include territory within another organized township and provide by law for the classification of such village or villages as cities.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article VII"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20VII%20%C2%A7%2020","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"93c7b1414df04f33f5f5a3a3d7dfbe919b395a06d187c9ffae39dcbe26f989b0","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-2","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-21","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."}