Michigan Compiled Laws Act 87 Of 1855 Cemetery Corporations (456.1 - 456.36)

• Section 456.1 Cemetery Corporation; Incorporators.
  That any 5 or more persons of lawful age, may organize themselves into a corporation, by such name as they shall adopt, for the...
• Section 456.2 Cemetery Corporation; Acquisition Of Land, Encumbrance, Payment; Lease, Restriction.
  Such corporation shall have power to acquire and hold in fee, or for a term of years, so much land as may be necessary...
• Section 456.3 Right Of Burial; Definition.
  A right of burial under this act shall be, in respect to any corporation organized under this act, the right to bury the dead...
• Section 456.3a Right Of Burial; Granting In Tax Delinquent Lands Prohibited.
  No rights of burial shall at any time be granted or sold by such corporation upon any lands which are delinquent for taxes or...
• Section 456.4 Right Of Burial; Disposal By Member.
  Any member of any corporation organized under this act, wishing to dispose of any right of burial owned by him, shall procure for the...
• Section 456.5 Member; Right To Vote.
  Any person owning a right of burial in ground controlled by a corporation organized under this act, and having the right to use the...
• Section 456.6 Meeting To Incorporate; Warrant.
  Upon application in writing of any 3 of the persons aforesaid to the district or municipal court of the judicial district or municipality in...
• Section 456.7 Meeting To Incorporate; Affidavit Of Notice.
  The person to whom the aforesaid warrant is directed shall, after having called said meeting, attach to said warrant a copy of the notice...
• Section 456.8 Board Of Trustees; Election; Terms.
  Any 7 or more persons who meet in pursuance of the notice described in section 7 may elect by ballot a board of trustees...
• Section 456.9 Officers; Election; Sexton Or Superintendent, Appointment.
  The board of trustees shall meet within 10 days after each annual meeting, and elect from their own number a president, vice-president, clerk, and...
• Section 456.10 Officers; Vacancies.
  A majority of the officers required to be chosen by ballot, in any corporation organized under this act, shall have power to fill any...
• Section 456.11 Officers; Acceptance Of Office, Bond.
  All persons elected or appointed to any office under any corporation organized under this act shall, within 10 days after such election or appointment,...
• Section 456.12 Officers; Notice Of Election.
  Any person attending any meeting for the election of officers of any corporation organized under this act, and elected thereat, to any office, shall...
• Section 456.13 Treasurer; Bond.
  The treasurer shall give a bond to the corporation, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the president thereof, for the faithful discharge of...
• Section 456.14 Officers; Compensation.
  The president, clerk, treasurer and superintendent of grounds of any corporation organized under this act shall receive such a compensation for their services as...
• Section 456.15 By-laws, Rules And Regulations.
  The board of trustees of any corporation organized under this act, shall have the power, by a 2/3 vote of the members elect, to...
• Section 456.16 Certificate Of Organization; Contents; Signature; Filing Certificate With Department Of Commerce.
  Within 1 week after the organization of any corporation organized under this act, the clerk shall make out a certificate of the organization of...
• Section 456.17 Laying Out Burial Grounds; Maps; Filing Map With Department Of Commerce; Certificate.
  Before any corporation organized under the provisions of this act shall issue certificates of rights of burial, they shall cause their burial ground to...
• Section 456.18 Actions And Suits; Common Seal.
  All corporations organized under this act, shall be capable in their corporate name, of suing and being sued, appealing, prosecuting, and defending, to final...
• Section 456.19 Reincorporation Under Act; Lot Owners In Public Burying Ground, Incorporation; Transfer Of Rights From Municipalities.
  Any burying ground corporation heretofore organized under any law of this state, upon complying with the provisions of the preceding sections of this act,...
• Section 456.20 Saving Clause.
  Any right that may have accrued to any member, stockholders or lot owner of any burial ground corporation, or public burying ground heretofore existing...
• Section 456.21 Vacation Of Burying Ground; Procedure.
  Whenever it may become necessary to vacate any burying ground, the property of any corporation organized under this act, such corporation may, by a...
• Section 456.22 Forfeited Right Of Burial; Disposal.
  It shall be lawful for any corporation organized under this act, to dispose of that part of any forfeited right of burial, which has...
• Section 456.23 Unused Burial Rights; Sale On Non-payment Of Assessment; Reconveyance.
  Any corporation organized under this act may be authorized by the circuit or district court of the county, upon the like petition as is...
• Section 456.24 Assessment; Voting; Notice Of Meeting.
  At any corporate meeting of the members, after notice as provided by its bylaws, those members present, when they deem it necessary, may vote...
• Section 456.25 Assessment; Record.
  After an assessment has been made, as provided for in the next preceding section, such corporation shall cause a record to be made of...
• Section 456.26 Assessment; Notice; Payment, Enforcement.
  Within 1 month from the time of making any assessment, the clerk of the corporation making the same, shall cause public notice of the...
• Section 456.27 Duties Of Officers Defined By By-laws.
  The powers and duties of all officers holding office under any corporation organized under this act, shall be defined by the by-laws of such...
• Section 456.28 Treasurer; Duties.
  It shall be the duty of the treasurer of any corporation organized under this act, to receive and safely keep all moneys belonging to...
• Section 456.29 Records Of Rights Of Burial; Form.
  A record shall be kept by each corporation organized under this act, of the rights of burial disposed of by such corporation, in the...
• Section 456.30 Records Of Rights Of Burial; Bound Blanks, Index.
  It shall be the duty of every corporation organized under this act, to procure a sufficient number of blanks of the form above prescribed,...
• Section 456.31 Price Of Lots Or Rights Of Burial.
  The price of lots or rights of burial in any grounds belonging to such corporation may be, from time to time, determined and fixed...
• Section 456.32 Price Of Lots Or Rights Of Burial; Payment Receipt.
  Upon payment to the treasurer of any corporation organized under this act, the price of any right of burial determined as above, it shall...
• Section 456.33 Certificate Of Right Of Burial.
  Upon presenting to the clerk of any corporation organized under this act, a receipt from the treasurer thereof, in the form prescribed in the...
• Section 456.34 Potter's Field.
  Any corporation organized under this act, shall have power to set off a part of their burial ground as a potter's field, and under...
• Section 456.34a Witness Fee; Prohibition.
  A corporation organized under this act shall not charge a fee for witnessing the lowering of a casket into the ground. History: Add. 1996,...
• Section 456.35, 456.35a Repealed. 2008, Act 478, Imd. Eff. Jan. 12, 2009.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed sections pertained to creation, use, and investment of endownment care funds.
• Section 456.35b Endowment Care Fund; Exemption From Care Fund Requirements.
  Earth interment cemeteries of 10 acres or less in size which are owned and operated exclusively by nonprofit entities existing prior to March 10,...
• Section 456.36 Additional Land; Taxation; Conveyance.
  Any corporation organized or to be organized under this act may own and hold land heretofore or hereafter acquired for additional burial grounds and...

Last modified: October 10, 2016