Michigan
Chapter 128 — Cemeteries
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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.
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128.2 Joint cemetery authority; formation and purpose.
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128.3 "Community foundation" and "municipality" defined.
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128.4 Irrevocable endowment and perpetual care fund; establishment as component fund within community foundation; powers and duties of community foundation; "fund" define
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128.11 Definitions.
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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; servi
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128.13 Burial space; proceedings for termination of rights; forfeiture; city, village or township may re-sell; copy of order served on owner; redemption.
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128.14 Duty of board.
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128.15 Reconveyance; perpetual care trust fund.
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128.16 Rights not forfeited; conditions.
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128.31 Removal of private cemetery; complaint; grounds; proceedings to vacate; power of circuit court.
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128.32 Petition; filing; contents; notice; neglect or refusal to appoint attorney or agent; proceeding by freeholder resident; security for costs.
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128.33 Hearing; burden of proof; order, recording.
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128.34 Reinterment of dead bodies and remains; removal and erection of fences, tombstones, and monuments; removal during certain months prohibited; exception; costs.
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128.35 Reimbursement of lot owner.
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128.36 Reversion to original owner; conditions.
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128.41 Vacation of cemetery; jurisdiction of chancery court.
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128.42 Petition of trustees or council to vacate; notice.
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128.43 Court proceedings; order to vacate; recording.
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128.44 Reinterment; time of year; expenses, payment.
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128.45 Price of lots repaid.
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128.51 Circuit court in chancery; jurisdiction to vacate cemeteries.
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128.52 Contract for sale of private cemetery to city, village; contents.
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128.53 Petition of trustees or council to vacate; filing, notice.
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128.54 Compensation to objecting lot owners; credit on contract; condition precedent.
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128.55 Court proceedings; order to vacate, contents, recording; recorded under complete bar.
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128.56 Appeal; bond.
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128.57 Repealed.
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128.61 Cemeteries; joint maintenance by municipalities; money deposited in trust, limitation, expenditure.
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128.62 Cemetery day.
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128.71 Township board of trustees; taking, receiving, and holding property in trust; purpose; expenditure of funds.
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128.72 Trust fund; investment.
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128.73 Trust fund; not transferable.
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128.74 Treasurer and custodian; bond.
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128.81 Cemetery lots; deposit for care with county treasurer.
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128.81a Deposit of money after June 30, 2018.
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128.82 Investment of money deposited under MCL 128.81.
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128.83 Transfer of earnings on investment; purpose.
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128.84 Repealed.
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128.85 Treasurer's bond; increase.
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128.86 Annual report on money deposited, invested, and expended.
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128.87 Cemetery deposits; county liability.
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128.88 Cemetery deposits; tax exempt.
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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; presumptio
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128.90 Definitions.
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128.101 Private cemeteries in cities; fencing.
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128.102 Private cemeteries in cities; notice to build or repair.
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128.103 Noncompliance with fencing requirement; erection by city council; expense.
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128.111 Private burial grounds; laying out; deed.
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128.112 Private burial grounds; exemptions.
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128.121 Memory days; purpose.
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128.151 Township board of trustees; providing new burying ground or enlarging limits of existing burying ground; providing suitable approaches or enlarging limits of exis
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128.152 Summons or venire facias commanding county sheriff or constable to summon freeholders to appear as jury; application and issuance; ascertaining just compensation
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128.153 Notice to township board of trustees; publication; service of notice on owner.
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128.154 Judge; duties; jury summons, return, contents; empaneling.
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128.155 Jury sworn by judge; subpoenas for witnesses; visiting and examining premises; jurors' certificate; signatures and indorsement; judge's certificate.
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128.156 Judgment; collection.
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128.157 Incompetent or unknown owner; county treasurer, duties; funds subject to court order.
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128.158 Vesting of fee; conditions; writ of possession.
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128.159 Possession by township; writ of possession.
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128.160 Jury disagreement; adjournment, limit.
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128.161 Parties to suit; proof of claims; settlement.
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128.162 Payment order; issuance, receipt; evidence.
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128.163 Subsequent proceedings.
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128.164 Fees; compensation.