{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-3","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. VII, § 3","heading":"Reduction of size of county.","body":"Sec. 3.\n\nNo organized county shall be reduced by the organization of new counties to less than 16 townships as surveyed by the United States, unless approved in the manner prescribed by law by a majority of electors voting thereon in each county to be affected.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article VII"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20VII%20%C2%A7%203","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"8e4f2c477231f5e2e4c715dae5aa4e59ec29647db08db63115e089345bb734b0","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-29","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vii-30","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."}