Villages: home rule; procedures to approve annexation petition; revise. Amends secs. 2, 3 & 5 of 1909 PA 278 (MCL 78.2 et seq.); adds sec. 2b & repeals sec. 5a of 1909 PA 278 (MCL 78.5a.). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5960'26

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