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Chapter 128
- CEMETERIES
Section 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.
Section 128.3 ‑ "Community foundation" and "municipality" defined.
Section 128.4 ‑ Irrevocable endowment and perpetual care fund; establishment as component fund within community foundation; powers and duties of community foundation; "fund" defined.
Section 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.
Section 128.13 ‑ Burial space; proceedings for termination of rights; forfeiture; city, village or township may re-sell; copy of order served on owner; redemption.
Act 55 of 1915 ‑ Repealed- ESTABLISHMENT OF CEMETERIES (128.21 - 128.21)
Section 128.31 ‑ Removal of private cemetery; complaint; grounds; proceedings to vacate; power of circuit court.
Section 128.32 ‑ Petition; filing; contents; notice; neglect or refusal to appoint attorney or agent; proceeding by freeholder resident; security for costs.
Section 128.34 ‑ Reinterment of dead bodies and remains; removal and erection of fences, tombstones, and monuments; removal during certain months prohibited; exception; costs.
Section 128.41 ‑ Vacation of cemetery; jurisdiction of chancery court.
Section 128.51 ‑ Circuit court in chancery; jurisdiction to vacate cemeteries.
Section 128.52 ‑ Contract for sale of private cemetery to city, village; contents.
Section 128.53 ‑ Petition of trustees or council to vacate; filing, notice.
Section 128.54 ‑ Compensation to objecting lot owners; credit on contract; condition precedent.
Section 128.55 ‑ Court proceedings; order to vacate, contents, recording; recorded under complete bar.
Section 128.61 ‑ Cemeteries; joint maintenance by municipalities; money deposited in trust, limitation, expenditure.
Section 128.71 ‑ Township board of trustees; taking, receiving, and holding property in trust; purpose; expenditure of funds.
Act 81 of 1903 ‑ CARE AND PRESERVATION OF CEMETERY LOTS (128.81 - 128.90)
Section 128.81 ‑ Cemetery lots; deposit for care with county treasurer.
Section 128.86 ‑ Annual report on money deposited, invested, and expended.
Section 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.
Section 128.103 ‑ Noncompliance with fencing requirement; erection by city council; expense.
Act 88 of 1875 ‑ EXEMPTION OF PRIVATE BURIAL GROUNDS FROM TAXATION OR ATTACHMENT (128.111 - 128.112)
Act 272 of 1909 ‑ ENLARGEMENT OF TOWNSHIP BURIAL GROUNDS (128.151 - 128.164)
Section 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.
Section 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.
Section 128.153 ‑ Notice to township board of trustees; publication; service of notice on owner.
Section 128.154 ‑ Judge; duties; jury summons, return, contents; empaneling.
Section 128.155 ‑ Jury sworn by judge; subpoenas for witnesses; visiting and examining premises; jurors' certificate; signatures and indorsement; judge's certificate.
Section 128.157 ‑ Incompetent or unknown owner; county treasurer, duties; funds subject to court order.