{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-328.213","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 328.213","heading":"Definitions; B to D.","body":"Sec. 3.\n\nAs used in this act:\n\n“Burial right” means a right of earth interment.\n\n“Casket” means any box or container consisting of 1 or more parts in which a dead human body is placed before interment, entombment, or cremation that may or may not be permanently interred, entombed, or cremated with the dead human body. Casket includes a permanent interment or entombment receptacle designed or intended for use without a vault.\n\n“Catafalque” means an ornamental or decorative object or structure placed beneath, over, or around a casket, vault, or a dead human body before final disposition of the dead human body.\n\n“Cemetery” means 1, or a combination of more than 1, of the following:\n\nA burial ground for earth interments.\n\nA mausoleum for crypt entombments.\n\nA crematory for the incineration of human remains.\n\nA columbarium for the inurnment of cremated remains.\n\n“Cemetery burial vault or other outside container” means a box or container used solely at the place of interment to permanently surround or enclose a casket and to support the earth above the casket after burial. Cemetery burial vault or other outside container does not include a catafalque, a combination unit, or any product designed or intended to be used with a catafalque or combination unit.\n\n“Cemetery merchandise” means merchandise described in section 4(1)(k)( i ).\n\n“Cemetery services” means cremations, grave openings and closings, and installation of grave memorials.\n\n“Columbarium” means a building or other aboveground structure that is affixed to land and is a permanent repository for cremated human remains.\n\n“Combination unit” means any product consisting of a unit or a series of units designed or intended to be used together as both a casket and as a permanent burial receptacle.\n\n“Consideration” or “contract price” means money and other property to be paid as total compensation to a contract seller or provider for the funeral or cemetery services or merchandise, or both, to be performed or furnished under a prepaid contract, late payment penalties, payments required to be made to a governmental agency at the time the contract is entered into, and income earned on the funds. Money paid for the services to be performed under a prepaid contract may be paid in a lump sum or in installments.\n\n“Contract beneficiary” means an individual specified or implied in a prepaid contract for whom the funeral or cemetery services or merchandise shall be performed or furnished after death.\n\n“Contract buyer” means an individual, including a contract beneficiary, who purchases merchandise or funeral or cemetery services pursuant to a prepaid contract.\n\n“Contract seller” means a person who sells, makes available, or provides prepaid contracts.\n\n“Crypt” means a chamber in a mausoleum of sufficient size to entomb the uncremated remains of a deceased person.\n\n“Department” means the department of labor and economic growth.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 328","Act Act-255-of-1986"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-328-213","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"847f161c54ea1482bbc31fdd54058093c4d46901a5bbeedf0edc4350aeb4572b","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-328.212","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-328.214"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}