Michigan Code — CEMETERY.ASSOCIATIONS
Browse 104 sections in division CEMETERY.ASSOCIATIONS of the Michigan code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 456.1. Cemetery corporation; incorporators.
- § 456.2. Cemetery corporation; acquisition of land, encumbrance, payment; lease, restriction.
- § 456.3. Right of burial; definition.
- § 456.3a. Right of burial; granting in tax delinquent lands prohibited.
- § 456.4. Right of burial; disposal by member.
- § 456.5. Member; right to vote.
- § 456.6. Meeting to incorporate; warrant.
- § 456.7. Meeting to incorporate; affidavit of notice.
- § 456.8. Board of trustees; election; terms.
- § 456.9. Officers; election; sexton or superintendent, appointment.
- § 456.10. Officers; vacancies.
- § 456.11. Officers; acceptance of office, bond.
- § 456.12. Officers; notice of election.
- § 456.13. Treasurer; bond.
- § 456.14. Officers; compensation.
- § 456.15. By-laws, rules and regulations.
- § 456.16. Certificate of organization; contents; signature; filing certificate with department of commerce.
- § 456.17. Laying out burial grounds; maps; filing map with department of commerce; certificate.
- § 456.18. Actions and suits; common seal.
- § 456.19. Reincorporation under act; lot owners in public burying ground, incorporation; transfer of rights from municipalities.
- § 456.20. Saving clause.
- § 456.21. Vacation of burying ground; procedure.
- § 456.22. Forfeited right of burial; disposal.
- § 456.23. Unused burial rights; sale on non-payment of assessment; reconveyance.
- § 456.24. Assessment; voting; notice of meeting.
- § 456.25. Assessment; record.
- § 456.26. Assessment; notice; payment, enforcement.
- § 456.27. Duties of officers defined by by-laws.
- § 456.28. Treasurer; duties.
- § 456.29. Records of rights of burial; form.
- § 456.30. Records of rights of burial; bound blanks, index.
- § 456.31. Price of lots or rights of burial.
- § 456.32. Price of lots or rights of burial; payment receipt.
- § 456.33. Certificate of right of burial.
- § 456.34. Potter's field.
- § 456.34a. Witness fee; prohibition.
- § 456.35b. Endowment care fund; exemption from care fund requirements.
- § 456.36. Additional land; taxation; conveyance.
- § 456.51. Continuance of corporate existence.
- § 456.52. Extension of term of existence of corporation.
- § 456.101. Cemetery corporations; incorporators, name.
- § 456.102. Articles; signing, acknowledgment, contents.
- § 456.103. Payment by subscribers to articles of association.
- § 456.104. Annual meeting; election of board of directors; right to vote; special meetings.
- § 456.105. Board of directors; selection of officers.
- § 456.106. Board of directors; powers.
- § 456.106a. Conveyance of land.
- § 456.108. Tax exemption.
- § 456.109. Burial rights; granting in lands subject to lien or tax delinquent lands prohibited.
- § 456.110. Highways, sewers or other public thoroughfares through grounds; right to purchase additional property.
- § 456.111. Saloons and amusements prohibited.
- § 456.112. Burial rights; transfer, rights of surviving spouse and next of kin.
- § 456.114. Use of firearms in cemetery; entering over fence; penalty.
- § 456.114a. Witness fee; prohibition.
- § 456.115. Perpetual care fund; receipts; investment; bond; account.
- § 456.116. Non-profit corporation.
- § 456.117. Charter not deemed forfeited; filing articles; affidavit, report.
- § 456.118. Corporate name.
- § 456.119. List of corporations; compilation; forwarding to corporation and securities commission.
- § 456.151. Continuance of corporate existence.
- § 456.181. Cemetery corporations; sale to municipal corporation; definitions.
- § 456.182. Resolution of directors; special meeting; transfer of cemetery to municipal corporation.
- § 456.183. Notice of special meeting; publication.
- § 456.184. Legal rights and privileges unaffected by sale; duties of municipal corporation.
- § 456.201. Cremation companies; incorporators, purposes.
- § 456.202. Articles of agreement; signing, acknowledgment, contents.
- § 456.203. Certificate of organization; signatures; filing certificate with department of commerce.
- § 456.205. Tax exemption; exception.
- § 456.206. Encumbrance of certain property prohibited; surety bond and cash bond.
- § 456.207. Annual meeting; election of directors, term; right to vote; special meetings.
- § 456.208. Officers; selection.
- § 456.209. Directors; powers.
- § 456.210. Records of cremations; contents.
- § 456.211. Records of niches.
- § 456.212. Grounds; laying out, improvement.
- § 456.213. Sale of niches; trust fund, investment and use.
- § 456.251. Articles of agreement; execution, acknowledgment, and filing; signers of articles and associates as body politic and corporate.
- § 456.252. Vault associations; articles of association, contents.
- § 456.253. Vault associations; corporate powers.
- § 456.521. Cemetery regulation act; short title.
- § 456.522. Definitions.
- § 456.522a. Commissioner, spouse, or child; financial interest in cemetery, cemetery operations, supplier, or funeral establishment prohibited.
- § 456.528. Commissioner; rules.
- § 456.529. Commissioner; hearings; investigations; oaths; testimony; witnesses; production of books and records; subpoena; abandoned cemeteries; failure to obey subpoena; perjury; violation of act, rule, or order; powers of commissioner; injunction or restraining order; appointment of receiver or conservator; powers; sale of cemetery; notice to creditors and filing of claims; denial of application; suspension or revocation of permit or registration.
- § 456.529a. Performance of duties of commissioner; assistance from all departments, state agencies, public bodies corporate, committees, commissioners, officers of state, and any political subdivision.
- § 456.529b. Consultants; contracts.
- § 456.530. Commissioner; auditing trust funds; registration of cemeteries; exemptions.
- § 456.531. Commissioner; registration fee; renewal blank and notice.
- § 456.532. Permit for registration required; acquisition of controlling interest in cemetery company; application for certificate of approval; contents; issuance; fee; noncompliance; escrow of endowment and perpetual care trust fund; prohibited use of funds; “controlling interest” defined.
- § 456.532a. Examining affairs of cemetery or person; inspection or audit of books, papers, records, and documents; audit charges.
- § 456.533. Establishment of cemetery; application for permit; investigation fee; conduct of investigation; notice to commissioner of certain changes; order to void certain appointments.
- § 456.533a. Circumstances causing person to be ineligible as cemetery owner or holder of controlling interest; factors for determining eligibility.
- § 456.534. Granting or refusing to grant permit; denial of application; procedures.
- § 456.535. Registration of cemetery; date; application; form; fee; expiration; procedure for denying registration; late penalty filing fee.
- § 456.535a. Witness fee; prohibition.
- § 456.536. Irrevocable endowment and perpetual care trust fund; establishment and maintenance; commingling prohibited; annual report; application for modification or waiver; expenses; bundling of funds with common ownership; pooling of trust or escrow funds for investment purposes; agreement with regulated financial institutions with trust powers; deposits; agent or seller; deposit requirements; use of interest or income; merchandise trust account; deposit for sale of burial vaults or containers; repayment; installation of vault; contents of cemetery merchandise and services contract; annual reports; deficit in amount of required deposits; penalty; hearing; additional penalty; powers and jurisdiction of attorney general and courts; disposition of fees, charges, and penalties; notice of financial transaction or investment; failure to submit reports under subsections (12) and (13); civil actions.
- § 456.536a. Preconstruction sales of crypts or niches.
- § 456.537. Right to possess space within cemetery; presumption of abandonment; certification; notice; record; remedies; transfer; sale; contract; publication on internet website; exception; intent of section; definitions.
- § 456.538. Denial, suspension, or revocation of permit or registration, and other disciplinary action; grounds; effect; fulfillment of contractual obligations and agreements; administrative fine.
- § 456.539. Denial, suspension, or revocation of permit or registration; notice of intent; hearing; decision.
- § 456.540. Appeal.
- § 456.541. Violations; penalties.
- § 456.542. Repeal.
- § 456.543. Effective date of act.