{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-29","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. VII, § 29","heading":"Highways, streets, alleys, public places; control, use by public utilities.","body":"Sec. 29.\n\nNo person, partnership, association or corporation, public or private, operating a public utility shall have the right to the use of the highways, streets, alleys or other public places of any county, township, city or village for wires, poles, pipes, tracks, conduits or other utility facilities, without the consent of the duly constituted authority of the county, township, city or village; or to transact local business therein without first obtaining a franchise from the township, city or village. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution the right of all counties, townships, cities and villages to the reasonable control of their highways, streets, alleys and public places is hereby reserved to such local units of government.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article VII"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20VII%20%C2%A7%2029","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"900efedd1374ab8fe42c4e879dbee6c7987acc607b23bb2a20162edd9074f82c","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-28","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-3","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."}