2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 456 - CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Act 12 of 1869 - RURAL CEMETERY CORPORATIONS (456.101 - 456.119)
Section 456.106 - Board of directors; powers.

Sec. 6.

The board of directors shall have the general management of such corporation and shall have the power,—

To purchase land for the use of such association, but for no other purpose, and not exceeding in all 300 acres;

To levy assessments upon the subscribers to the articles of association, not exceeding the amount severally subscribed by them, payable at such times as the directors shall determine, and to enforce the collection thereof either by suit or forfeiture;

To cause to be prepared a plan or design for laying out such lands so purchased by them for cemetery purposes; and when such plan or design is adopted by them, it shall be their duty to cause the same to be recorded in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, and it shall not thereafter be altered or modified, unless by a 2/3 vote of all the directors, after a special notice of such proposed change shall have been given, and after said proposition shall have been submitted in writing to the board at a meeting thereof, to be held prior to the one at which the vote upon such proposed change shall be taken; Provided, That no such alteration shall be made which shall interfere with rights of burial already granted;

To dispose of rights of burial, fix the prices thereof, make conditions in relation to burials within the cemetery grounds, and guarantee to grantees of burial rights the care and preservation of the grounds;

To establish such rules and regulations for the control and management of the grounds and all matters and things incident thereto, as they shall deem for the best interests of the corporation;

To sell any part or portion of the lands owned by such corporation, in case the same shall not be occupied or required for burial purposes, or for the uses of such cemetery;

To invest the moneys received from the sale of burial rights, and to prescribe, from time to time the interest or dividends which shall be paid to holders of the scrip of such corporation, subject to the restrictions hereinafter named.

History: 1869, Act 12, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1869 ;-- CL 1871, 3413 ;-- How. 4768 ;-- CL 1897, 8404 ;-- CL 1915, 11165 ;-- CL 1929, 10445 ;-- CL 1948, 456.106