{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-339.1812","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.1812","heading":"Owning or conducting cemetery or burial ground and owning or maintaining funeral establishment prohibited; exception; owning or conducting funeral establishment on property owned or leased by cemetery prohibited; owner of private burial ground owning or maintaining funeral establishment.","body":"Sec. 1812.\n\nAn individual, partnership, association, municipal corporation, body politic, or corporation which owns or conducts, either directly or indirectly, a cemetery or burial ground in this state shall not own, manage, supervise, operate, or maintain, either directly or indirectly, a funeral establishment, or permit an officer, agent, or employee to own or maintain a funeral establishment. This subsection shall not apply to an elected official of a city, village, township, or county who serves as an ex officio member of a local cemetery board as a result of holding that office.\n\nAn individual, partnership, association, municipal corporation, body politic, or corporation which owns or conducts a cemetery in this state shall not allow a funeral establishment to be owned or conducted on property owned or leased by the cemetery and used for cemetery purposes or designated as a cemetery.\n\nThis section shall not prohibit the owner of a private burial ground used for the interment of the owner's family or the owner's descendents to own or maintain a funeral establishment under this article.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 339","Act Act-299-of-1980"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-339-1812","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"91ded858feac7283348ff5a9b60269f9816f0b57c469ff7dbb1735e1004acf89","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-339.1811","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-339.1851"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}