Michigan Compiled Laws
Article 18 - (339.1801...339.1812)
Section 339.1812 - Owning or Conducting Cemetery or Burial Ground and Owning or Maintaining Funeral Establishment Prohibited; Exception; Owning or Conducting Funeral Establishment on Property Owned or Leased by Cemetery Prohibited; Owner of Private B...

Sec. 1812.
(1) An individual, partnership, association, municipal corporation, body politic, or corporation which owns or conducts, either directly or indirectly, a cemetery or burial ground in this state shall not own, manage, supervise, operate, or maintain, either directly or indirectly, a funeral establishment, or permit an officer, agent, or employee to own or maintain a funeral establishment. This subsection shall not apply to an elected official of a city, village, township, or county who serves as an ex officio member of a local cemetery board as a result of holding that office.
(2) An individual, partnership, association, municipal corporation, body politic, or corporation which owns or conducts a cemetery in this state shall not allow a funeral establishment to be owned or conducted on property owned or leased by the cemetery and used for cemetery purposes or designated as a cemetery.
(3) This section shall not prohibit the owner of a private burial ground used for the interment of the owner's family or the owner's descendents to own or maintain a funeral establishment under this article.
History: 1980, Act 299, Imd. Eff. Oct. 21, 1980 Popular Name: Act 299

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