Chapter 128. Cemeteries
Cemetery Or Burial Grounds
- MCL 128.1 Perpetual Care and Maintenance of Cemetery Or Burial Lot; Resolution Or Ordinance; Payment; Investment In Mutual Funds; Petition to Transfer Money to Municipality
- MCL 128.2 Joint Cemetery Authority; Formation and Purpose
- MCL 128.3 "Community Foundation" and "Municipality" Defined
- MCL 128.4 Irrevocable Endowment and Perpetual Care Fund; Establishment As Component Fund Within Community Foundation; Powers and Duties of Community Foundation; "Fund" Defined
Public Cemeteries
- MCL 128.11 Definitions
- MCL 128.12 Failing Or Neglecting to Care For and Maintain Burial Space; Proceedings For Termination and Forfeiture of Owner's Rights and Interest; Resolution; Petition; Service; Publication of Hearing Notice; Failure to Appear and Answer; Default
- MCL 128.13 Burial Space; Proceedings For Termination of Rights; Forfeiture; City, Village Or Township May Re-Sell; Copy of Order Served On Owner; Redemption
- MCL 128.14 Duty of Board
- MCL 128.15 Reconveyance; Perpetual Care Trust Fund
- MCL 128.16 Rights Not Forfeited; Conditions
Establishment of Cemeteries
Vacating Cemetery In Township
- MCL 128.31 Removal of Private Cemetery; Complaint; Grounds; Proceedings to Vacate; Power of Circuit Court
- MCL 128.32 Petition; Filing; Contents; Notice; Neglect Or Refusal to Appoint Attorney Or Agent; Proceeding By Freeholder Resident; Security For Costs
- MCL 128.33 Hearing; Burden of Proof; Order, Recording
- MCL 128.34 Reinterment of Dead Bodies and Remains; Removal and Erection of Fences, Tombstones, and Monuments; Removal During Certain Months Prohibited; Exception; Costs
- MCL 128.35 Reimbursement of Lot Owner
- MCL 128.36 Reversion to Original Owner; Conditions
Vacating Cemetery In City Or Village
- MCL 128.41 Vacation of Cemetery; Jurisdiction of Chancery Court
- MCL 128.42 Petition of Trustees Or Council to Vacate; Notice
- MCL 128.43 Court Proceedings; Order to Vacate; Recording
- MCL 128.44 Reinterment; Time of Year; Expenses, Payment
- MCL 128.45 Price of Lots Repaid
- MCL 128.51 Circuit Court In Chancery; Jurisdiction to Vacate Cemeteries
- MCL 128.52 Contract For Sale of Private Cemetery to City, Village; Contents
- MCL 128.53 Petition of Trustees Or Council to Vacate; Filing, Notice
- MCL 128.54 Compensation to Objecting Lot Owners; Credit On Contract; Condition Precedent
- MCL 128.55 Court Proceedings; Order to Vacate, Contents, Recording; Recorded Under Complete Bar
- MCL 128.56 Appeal; Bond
- MCL 128.57 [Repealed]
Care and Preservation of Cemetery Lots
- MCL 128.81 Cemetery Lots; Deposit For Care With County Treasurer
- MCL 128.81a Deposit of Money After June 30, 2018
- MCL 128.82 Investment of Money Deposited Under Mcl 12881
- MCL 128.83 Transfer of Earnings On Investment; Purpose
- MCL 128.84 [Repealed]
- MCL 128.85 Treasurer's Bond; Increase
- MCL 128.86 Annual Report On Money Deposited, Invested, and Expended
- MCL 128.87 Cemetery Deposits; County Liability
- MCL 128.88 Cemetery Deposits; Tax Exempt
- MCL 128.89 Transfer of Money After June 30, 2018; Inability to Identify Location of Cemetery Or Cemetery Lot; Certification of Abandoned Legal Interests Or Rights; Presumption; Requirements; Record of Certification
- MCL 128.90 Definitions
Fencing of Private Cemeteries
Exemption of Private Burial Grounds From Taxation Or Attachment
Memory Days
Enlargement of Township Burial Grounds
- MCL 128.151 Township Board of Trustees; Providing New Burying Ground Or Enlarging Limits of Existing Burying Ground; Providing Suitable Approaches Or Enlarging Limits of Existing Approach; Inability to Agree; Application For Jury; Determining Just Compensation and Necessity For Using Real Estate
- MCL 128.152 Summons Or Venire Facias Commanding County Sheriff Or Constable to Summon Freeholders to Appear As Jury; Application and Issuance; Ascertaining Just Compensation and Necessity For Using Real Estate; Notice to Owner Or Occupant; Service
- MCL 128.153 Notice to Township Board of Trustees; Publication; Service of Notice On Owner
- MCL 128.154 Judge; Duties; Jury Summons, Return, Contents; Empaneling
- MCL 128.155 Jury Sworn By Judge; Subpoenas For Witnesses; Visiting and Examining Premises; Jurors' Certificate; Signatures and Indorsement; Judge's Certificate
- MCL 128.156 Judgment; Collection
- MCL 128.157 Incompetent Or Unknown Owner; County Treasurer, Duties; Funds Subject to Court Order
- MCL 128.158 Vesting of Fee; Conditions; Writ of Possession
- MCL 128.159 Possession By Township; Writ of Possession
- MCL 128.160 Jury Disagreement; Adjournment, Limit
- MCL 128.161 Parties to Suit; Proof of Claims; Settlement
- MCL 128.162 Payment Order; Issuance, Receipt; Evidence
- MCL 128.163 Subsequent Proceedings
- MCL 128.164 Fees; Compensation