{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-viii-7","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. VIII, § 7","heading":"Community and junior colleges; state board, members, terms, vacancies.","body":"Sec. 7.\n\nThe legislature shall provide by law for the establishment and financial support of public community and junior colleges which shall be supervised and controlled by locally elected boards. The legislature shall provide by law for a state board for public community and junior colleges which shall advise the state board of education concerning general supervision and planning for such colleges and requests for annual appropriations for their support. The board shall consist of eight members who shall hold office for terms of eight years, not more than two of which shall expire in the same year, and who shall be appointed by the state board of education. Vacancies shall be filled in like manner. The superintendent of public instruction shall be ex-officio a member of this board without the right to vote.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article VIII"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20VIII%20%C2%A7%207","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"5585282bc0916af84e5647891201f92597d1e59a03a1a4d33590f9e2f4c07504","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-viii-6","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-viii-8","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."}