Michigan Code — CEMETERIES
Browse 63 sections in division CEMETERIES of the Michigan code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 128.1. Perpetual care and maintenance of cemetery or burial lot; resolution or ordinance; payment; investment in mutual funds; petition to transfer money to municipality.
- § 128.2. Joint cemetery authority; formation and purpose.
- § 128.3. "Community foundation" and "municipality" defined.
- § 128.4. Irrevocable endowment and perpetual care fund; establishment as component fund within community foundation; powers and duties of community foundation; "fund" defined.
- § 128.11. Definitions.
- § 128.12. Failing or neglecting to care for and maintain burial space; proceedings for termination and forfeiture of owner's rights and interest; resolution; petition; service; publication of hearing notice; failure to appear and answer; default.
- § 128.13. Burial space; proceedings for termination of rights; forfeiture; city, village or township may re-sell; copy of order served on owner; redemption.
- § 128.14. Duty of board.
- § 128.15. Reconveyance; perpetual care trust fund.
- § 128.16. Rights not forfeited; conditions.
- § 128.31. Removal of private cemetery; complaint; grounds; proceedings to vacate; power of circuit court.
- § 128.32. Petition; filing; contents; notice; neglect or refusal to appoint attorney or agent; proceeding by freeholder resident; security for costs.
- § 128.33. Hearing; burden of proof; order, recording.
- § 128.34. Reinterment of dead bodies and remains; removal and erection of fences, tombstones, and monuments; removal during certain months prohibited; exception; costs.
- § 128.35. Reimbursement of lot owner.
- § 128.36. Reversion to original owner; conditions.
- § 128.41. Vacation of cemetery; jurisdiction of chancery court.
- § 128.42. Petition of trustees or council to vacate; notice.
- § 128.43. Court proceedings; order to vacate; recording.
- § 128.44. Reinterment; time of year; expenses, payment.
- § 128.45. Price of lots repaid.
- § 128.51. Circuit court in chancery; jurisdiction to vacate cemeteries.
- § 128.52. Contract for sale of private cemetery to city, village; contents.
- § 128.53. Petition of trustees or council to vacate; filing, notice.
- § 128.54. Compensation to objecting lot owners; credit on contract; condition precedent.
- § 128.55. Court proceedings; order to vacate, contents, recording; recorded under complete bar.
- § 128.56. Appeal; bond.
- § 128.61. Cemeteries; joint maintenance by municipalities; money deposited in trust, limitation, expenditure.
- § 128.62. Cemetery day.
- § 128.71. Township board of trustees; taking, receiving, and holding property in trust; purpose; expenditure of funds.
- § 128.72. Trust fund; investment.
- § 128.73. Trust fund; not transferable.
- § 128.74. Treasurer and custodian; bond.
- § 128.81. Cemetery lots; deposit for care with county treasurer.
- § 128.81a. Deposit of money after June 30, 2018.
- § 128.82. Investment of money deposited under MCL 128.81.
- § 128.83. Transfer of earnings on investment; purpose.
- § 128.85. Treasurer's bond; increase.
- § 128.86. Annual report on money deposited, invested, and expended.
- § 128.87. Cemetery deposits; county liability.
- § 128.88. Cemetery deposits; tax exempt.
- § 128.89. Transfer of money after June 30, 2018; inability to identify location of cemetery or cemetery lot; certification of abandoned legal interests or rights; presumption; requirements; record of certification.
- § 128.90. Definitions.
- § 128.101. Private cemeteries in cities; fencing.
- § 128.102. Private cemeteries in cities; notice to build or repair.
- § 128.103. Noncompliance with fencing requirement; erection by city council; expense.
- § 128.111. Private burial grounds; laying out; deed.
- § 128.112. Private burial grounds; exemptions.
- § 128.121. Memory days; purpose.
- § 128.151. Township board of trustees; providing new burying ground or enlarging limits of existing burying ground; providing suitable approaches or enlarging limits of existing approach; inability to agree; application for jury; determining just compensation and necessity for using real estate.
- § 128.152. Summons or venire facias commanding county sheriff or constable to summon freeholders to appear as jury; application and issuance; ascertaining just compensation and necessity for using real estate; notice to owner or occupant; service.
- § 128.153. Notice to township board of trustees; publication; service of notice on owner.
- § 128.154. Judge; duties; jury summons, return, contents; empaneling.
- § 128.155. Jury sworn by judge; subpoenas for witnesses; visiting and examining premises; jurors' certificate; signatures and indorsement; judge's certificate.
- § 128.156. Judgment; collection.
- § 128.157. Incompetent or unknown owner; county treasurer, duties; funds subject to court order.
- § 128.158. Vesting of fee; conditions; writ of possession.
- § 128.159. Possession by township; writ of possession.
- § 128.160. Jury disagreement; adjournment, limit.
- § 128.161. Parties to suit; proof of claims; settlement.
- § 128.162. Payment order; issuance, receipt; evidence.
- § 128.163. Subsequent proceedings.
- § 128.164. Fees; compensation.