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RURAL CEMETERY CORPORATIONS

Act 12 of 1869

AN ACT to authorize and encourage the formation of corporations to establish rural cemeteries; to provide for the care and maintenance thereof; to provide for the revision and codification of the laws relating to cemeteries, mausoleums, crypts, vaults, crematoriums, and other means of disposing of the dead; to make an appropriation therefor; and to impose certain duties upon the department of commerce.


History: 1869, Act 12, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1869 ;-- Am. 1929, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 110, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982




The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Document Type Description
Section 456.101 Section Cemetery corporations; incorporators, name.
Section 456.102 Section Articles; signing, acknowledgment, contents.
Section 456.103 Section Payment by subscribers to articles of association.
Section 456.104 Section Annual meeting; election of board of directors; right to vote; special meetings.
Section 456.105 Section Board of directors; selection of officers.
Section 456.106 Section Board of directors; powers.
Section 456.106a Section Conveyance of land.
Section 456.107, 456.107a Section Repealed. 2008, Act 478, Imd. Eff. Jan. 12, 2009.
Section 456.108 Section Tax exemption.
Section 456.109 Section Burial rights; granting in lands subject to lien or tax delinquent lands prohibited.
Section 456.110 Section Highways, sewers or other public thoroughfares through grounds; right to purchase additional property.
Section 456.111 Section Saloons and amusements prohibited.
Section 456.112 Section Burial rights; transfer, rights of surviving spouse and next of kin.
Section 456.113 Section Repealed. 1977, Act 67, Imd. Eff. July 20, 1977.
Section 456.114 Section Use of firearms in cemetery; entering over fence; penalty.
Section 456.114a Section Witness fee; prohibition.
Section 456.115 Section Perpetual care fund; receipts; investment; bond; account.
Section 456.116 Section Non-profit corporation.
Section 456.117 Section Charter not deemed forfeited; filing articles; affidavit, report.
Section 456.118 Section Corporate name.
Section 456.119 Section List of corporations; compilation; forwarding to corporation and securities commission.