Michigan Laws 456.530 – Commissioner; auditing trust funds; registration of cemeteries; exemptions
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 456.530
- Cemetery: means 1 or a combination of more than 1 of the following:
(i) A burial ground for earth interments. See Michigan Laws 456.522commissioner: means the director of the department of labor and economic growth or a designee of the director. See Michigan Laws 456.522 Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name. Endowment and perpetual care: means all general work necessary to keep the cemetery property in a presentable condition at all times, including, but not limited to, the cutting of grass at reasonable intervals; the raking, cleaning, filling, seeding, and sodding of graves; the replacement, pruning, or removal of shrubs and trees in order to assure access to interment rights; and the repair and maintenance of enclosures, buildings, drives, walks, and the various memorial gardens. See Michigan Laws 456.522 Interment: means the disposition of human remains by earth interment, entombment, or inurnment. See Michigan Laws 456.522 Municipal corporation: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 456.522 state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
(1) The commissioner shall institute and maintain a system of auditing trust funds required by this act and of registering each cemetery authorized to be created, maintained, and operated in this state, as well as any other cemetery operating under state law or local ordinance. A cemetery owned and operated by a municipal corporation, church, or religious institution is exempt from this act. However, a municipal corporation may pass ordinances necessary for regulating that municipal corporation’s cemeteries.
(2) A cemetery for earth interment of 10 acres or less in size, which is owned and operated entirely and exclusively by an existing nonprofit entity and in which a burial has taken place before September 15, 1968, is exempt from the fee provisions of this act, shall have the trust fund required by this act audited at the discretion of the commissioner, and is exempt from the endowment care trust fund requirements of section 16, except for the report requirements if the cemetery maintains endowment and perpetual care trust funds.