Section 456.21 - Vacation of burying ground; procedure. - Michigan Statutes

CEMETERY CORPORATIONS (EXCERPT)
Act 87 of 1855

456.21 Vacation of burying ground; procedure.

Sec. 21.

Whenever it may become necessary to vacate any burying ground, the property of any corporation organized under this act, such corporation may, by a majority of its members present at any corporate meeting, direct the president and clerk of such corporation to petition the circuit court for the county in which such burying ground is situated, for leave to vacate the same; and such circuit court may make such order in the premises as shall be just and proper: Provided, No final order shall be made within 6 months from the time of filing such petition, and without due proof of publication of notice of such petition, for 12 successive weeks, in such newspaper as may have been designated by said court for that purpose.

History: 1855, Act 87, Imd. Eff. Feb. 12, 1855 ;-- CL 1857, 1737 ;-- CL 1871, 3394 ;-- How. 4748 ;-- CL 1897, 8382 ;-- Am. 1903, Act 65, Eff. Sept. 17, 1903 ;-- CL 1915, 11142 ;-- CL 1929, 10421 ;-- CL 1948, 456.21