Bill Text: MI HB4588 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Cemeteries and funerals; other; columbarium owned and operated by a public land-grant university; exempt from cemetery regulation act. Amends sec. 10 of 1968 PA 251 (MCL 456.530).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/16/2019 [HB4588 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4588-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4588
May 15, 2019, Introduced by Rep. Webber and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1968 PA 251, entitled
"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.
