Article IV
Sec. 55: The legislature shall enact no law on or after March 1, 2000, that intervenes, or increases the scope of its intervention, in the municipal concerns, property or government of a city, village, county, township or any municipal authority without the approval of two-thirds of the members elected to and serving in each house of the legislature. In addition, no condition imposed upon receipt of any appropriation of unrestricted aid contained in a law enacted on or after March 1, 2000, that intervenes, or increases the scope of the legislature’s intervention, in the municipal concerns, property or government of a city, village, county, township or municipal authority shall be effective unless the law imposing the condition is approved by two-thirds of the members elected to and serving in each house of the legislature.
Municipal concerns, property or government of a city, village, county, township, or municipal authority are all matters over which a city, village, county, township, or municipal authority could exercise its powers, under the constitution or law effective as of March 1, 2000, by adoption of appropriate charter provisions, ordinances, resolutions or contracts, whether exercised or not. A law enacted on or after March 1, 2000, does not intervene in the municipal concerns, property or government of a city, village, county, township, or municipal authority if the city, village, county, township, or municipal authority has the option to apply that specific law, in the manner provided by law.
