Section 95.1 - City ownership of cemetery; regulation. - Michigan Statutes

THE FOURTH CLASS CITY ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 215 of 1895

95.1 City ownership of cemetery; regulation.

Sec. 1.

Any city may acquire, hold and own such cemetery or public burial place or places, either within or without the limits of the corporation, as in the opinion of the council shall be necessary for the public welfare, and suitable for the convenience of the inhabitants, and may prohibit the interment of the dead within the city, or may limit such interments therein to such cemetery or burial place as the council may prescribe; and the council may cause any bodies buried within the city in violation of any rule or ordinance made in respect to such burials to be taken up and buried elsewhere.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895 ;-- CL 1897, 3132 ;-- CL 1915, 3046 ;-- CL 1929, 1970 ;-- CL 1948, 95.1