{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-25","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. VII, § 25","heading":"Public utilities; acquisition, franchises, sale.","body":"Sec. 25.\n\nNo city or village shall acquire any public utility furnishing light, heat or power, or grant any public utility franchise which is not subject to revocation at the will of the city or village, unless the proposition shall first have been approved by three-fifths of the electors voting thereon. No city or village may sell any public utility unless the proposition shall first have been approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, or a greater number if the charter shall so provide.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article VII"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20VII%20%C2%A7%2025","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"09ea7cb4f087a6efedc94f9b2aecf5758ee935da24b88bcbc20616b690707e68","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-24","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-26","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."}