HOUSE BILL NO. 4588

May 15, 2019, Introduced by Rep. Webber and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

"Cemetery regulation act,"

by amending section 10 (MCL 456.530), as amended by 2008 PA 478.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 10. (1) The commissioner shall institute and maintain a system of auditing trust funds required by under 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.

(2) A cemetery that is owned and operated by a municipal corporation, church, or religious institution is exempt from this act. However, a municipal corporation may pass any ordinances that are necessary for regulating that municipal corporation's cemeteries.

(3) A columbarium that is owned and operated by a public land-grant university is exempt from this act.

(4) (2) A cemetery for earth interment of that is 10 acres or less in size, which that is owned and operated entirely and exclusively by an existing nonprofit entity, and in which a burial has taken took 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.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.