2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 456 - CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Act 12 of 1869 - RURAL CEMETERY CORPORATIONS (456.101 - 456.119)

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

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• Section 456.107, 456.107a - Repealed. 2008, Act 478, Imd.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• Section 456.113 - Repealed. 1977, Act 67, Imd.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