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MI Comp L § 455.251 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 12 of 1901 - Summer Resort Associations; Extension of Corporate Life (455.251 - 455.252)|Section 455.251 - Continuance of Corporate Existence; Term; Resolution; Filing Copy of Resolution With Department of Commerce; Copy of Resolution or Record as Evidence of Passage and Extension of Corporate Life; Franchise Fee.

455.251 Continuance of corporate existence; term; resolution; filing copy of resolution with department of commerce; copy of resolution or record as evidence of passage and extension of corporate life; franchise fee. Sec. 1.  It shall be lawful for any summer resort association, whose term is about to expire by limitation, at any time within 8 years next preceding the expiration of such term, by a vote of 2/3 of its capital stock, at any annual meeting, to direct the continuance of its corporate existence for such further term not exceeding 30 years from the expiration of the existing term, as may be expressed in a resolution for that purpose. The president and secretary of such stockholders' meeting shall make and sign a copy of such resolution, and its passage shall be verified by the oath of such secretary attached to the copy. The copy shall be filed in the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce, and the copy so filed, or the record thereof or a certified copy of such record, shall be prima facie evidence of the passage of such resolution and of the extension of said corporate life: Provided, That the franchise fee, which may be provided by law for new corporations, shall be paid before such term shall be extended. History: 1901, Act 12, Imd. Eff. Feb. 26, 1901 ;-- CL 1915, 10060 ;-- CL 1929, 10383 ;-- CL 1948, 455.251 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 93, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982
MI Comp L § 455.252 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 12 of 1901 - Summer Resort Associations; Extension of Corporate Life (455.251 - 455.252)|Section 455.252 - Renewed Corporations; Time, Liabilities, Rights.

455.252 Renewed corporations; time, liabilities, rights. Sec. 2.  The renewal term of such corporation shall begin from the expiration of the former term, and the corporation whose term has thus been renewed shall be the same corporation, and own all its property, and be subject to all its liabilities, have the same stockholders and members and the same officers. The rights of all persons interested in said corporation shall continue as before such extension. The articles of association and by-laws shall continue the same until changed or amended by the corporation in the manner required by law. History: 1901, Act 12, Imd. Eff. Feb. 26, 1901 ;-- CL 1915, 10061 ;-- CL 1929, 10384 ;-- CL 1948, 455.252
MI Comp L § 455.281 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 55 of 1911 - Reorganization of Summer Resort Corporations (455.281 - 455.283)|Section 455.281 - Reorganization of Certain Corporations; Procedure, Evidence, Franchise Fee.

455.281 Reorganization of certain corporations; procedure, evidence, franchise fee. Sec. 1.  It shall be lawful for any corporation heretofore or hereafter organized or existing under the laws of this state for the purpose of owning, maintaining and improving lands and other property kept for the purposes of summer resorts or for ornament, recreation or amusement, whose corporate term has expired, or shall expire by limitation, at a special meeting of its stockholders called for that purpose, by a vote of at least 4/5 of its capital stock, to direct the reorganization of such corporation and the renewal, continuance and extension of its corporate term for such further period not exceeding 30 years from the expiration of its former term as may be expressed in a resolution for that purpose. Such meeting may be called by order of the directors de facto of such corporation, in accordance with the by-laws of such corporation and the laws of this state applicable to such class of corporations whose term has not expired. It shall be lawful to embrace in the call for such meeting a notice for the election of directors of such reorganized and renewed corporation. Upon the adoption of such resolution by a vote in person or by proxy duly filed, of a majority of at least 4/5 of the capital stock it shall be the duty of the president and secretary of such stockholders' meeting to certify under oath duplicate copies of such resolution and its adoption by at least 4/5 of the capital stock of such corporation, which copies shall be filed and recorded at the expense of said corporation in the same public offices wherein articles of association of the same class of corporations are required to be filed and recorded by the laws of this state, and the copies so filed or a certified copy of either of such records shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein recited. The franchise fee provided by law shall apply to and be paid by such corporations so reorganized and renewed. History: 1911, Act 55, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10057 ;-- CL 1929, 10385 ;-- CL 1948, 455.281
MI Comp L § 455.282 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 55 of 1911 - Reorganization of Summer Resort Corporations (455.281 - 455.283)|Section 455.282 - Reorganized Corporations; Rights, Obligations.

455.282 Reorganized corporations; rights, obligations. Sec. 2.  Upon the filing of such duplicate certificates in said public offices, such corporation shall be deemed reorganized and its term renewed, continued and extended as of the time of the expiration of the former term thereof, and such reorganized and renewed corporation and as well the stockholders thereof shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and franchises and be seized and possessed of all of the property and of the same estate and interest therein, which said corporation and its stockholders or their assigns had or were seized or possessed of before the expiration of said corporate term, and as well all property acquired by or in the name of such corporation since the expiration of said corporate term in all respects without change, diminution or prejudice by reason of the expiration of said corporate term or lapse of time thereafter, as fully and absolutely as if said corporate term had not expired; and said reorganized and renewed corporation shall be subject to and liable for all of the debts, obligations and liabilities of such corporation in all respects as if said corporate term had not expired. History: 1911, Act 55, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10058 ;-- CL 1929, 10386 ;-- CL 1948, 455.282
MI Comp L § 455.283 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 55 of 1911 - Reorganization of Summer Resort Corporations (455.281 - 455.283)|Section 455.283 - Reorganized Corporations; Time Limit.

455.283 Reorganized corporations; time limit. Sec. 3.  Any such corporation whose term has already expired may take advantage of this act at any time within 5 years of the date of such expiration, and any such corporation whose term shall hereafter expire may be so reorganized and renewed within 3 years of such expired term. History: 1911, Act 55, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10059 ;-- CL 1929, 10387 ;-- CL 1948, 455.283
MI Comp L § 455.301 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.301 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives and Boulevards; Incorporation, Purpose.

455.301 Parks, playgrounds, drives and boulevards; incorporation, purpose. Sec. 1.  Any number of persons, not less than 5, who shall desire to form a corporation for the purpose of acquiring, owning, controlling, maintaining and improving lands for the purposes of parks, playgrounds, drives and boulevards, or any 1 or more such purposes, and holding the same in trust for any 1 or more municipal corporations of this state, may, by articles of agreement in writing under their hands and seals, associate for such purposes under a name to be assumed by them in their articles of association: Provided, That no 2 corporations shall assume the same name. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10130 ;-- CL 1929, 10388 ;-- CL 1948, 455.301
MI Comp L § 455.302 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.302 - Articles of Association; Acknowledgment, Contents.

455.302 Articles of association; acknowledgment, contents. Sec. 2.  Such articles of association shall be signed by the persons associating in the first instance, and be duly acknowledged before some officer authorized by the laws of this state to take acknowledgment of deeds, and shall set forth:  (1) The name by which the corporation shall be known in law;  (2) The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is formed;  (3) The city, village or township where the office of the corporation shall be located;  (4) The municipality or municipalities for which the corporation is to hold property in trust;  (5) The names of those incorporating and their respective residences;  (6) The number of directors of the corporation. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10131 ;-- CL 1929, 10389 ;-- CL 1948, 455.302
MI Comp L § 455.303 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.303 - Filing Articles of Association With Department of Commerce.

455.303 Filing articles of association with department of commerce. Sec. 3.  The articles of association shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10132 ;-- CL 1929, 10390 ;-- CL 1948, 455.303 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 105, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982
MI Comp L § 455.304 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.304 - Body Corporate; Powers.

455.304 Body corporate; powers. Sec. 4.  Upon the recording of such articles of association the persons who have signed and acknowledged the same, their associates and successors, shall thereupon become a body politic and corporate and shall have power:  (1) To sue and be sued;  (2) To appoint and employ such officers, managers and agents as the affairs of the corporation may require;  (3) To make rules and by-laws for the regulation and management of its affairs, and alter and repeal the same;  (4) To acquire, hold, sell and convey all real and personal property suitable or necessary for the transaction of the business of the corporation, and to do all things in relation thereto in the same manner and to the same extent as a natural person. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10133 ;-- CL 1929, 10391 ;-- CL 1948, 455.304
MI Comp L § 455.305 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.305 - Corporation; Shares of Stock; Directors, Election, Terms, Powers.

455.305 Corporation; shares of stock; directors, election, terms, powers. Sec. 5.  The corporation shall not have any shares of stock or be for pecuniary profit. It shall have not less than 5 directors to be chosen annually from and by the members at the time and place fixed by the by-laws, they to hold office for 1 year and until their successors are elected. The directors shall manage the affairs of the corporation. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10134 ;-- CL 1929, 10392 ;-- CL 1948, 455.305
MI Comp L § 455.306 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.306 - Membership.

455.306 Membership. Sec. 6.  There shall be 2 classes of members, life and annual. Any person may become a life member by paying to the corporation $100.00 or more in cash, or donating property or services of that value, which the corporation is willing to accept. Any person over 18 years of age may become an annual member by the payment of $1.00 or more. His membership shall terminate if he fails to pay dues for any year of at least $1.00 before the election of directors for the ensuing year. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10135 ;-- CL 1929, 10393 ;-- CL 1948, 455.306 ;-- Am. 1972, Act 41, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1972
MI Comp L § 455.307 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.307 - Corporation; Powers; Condemnation.

455.307 Corporation; powers; condemnation. Sec. 7.  Corporations organized under this act shall have power to govern, manage, control, lay out and improve parks, playgrounds, boulevards and pleasure drives over which their powers and jurisdiction extend, and shall have the right to purchase and by voluntary grants, bequests and donations to receive, take, hold and use all such lands and other property as may be necessary for carrying out its purposes, and if the corporation shall at any time be unable to make a reasonable agreement with the owners of land needed as herein provided for the purchase thereof, or with any railroad company as to crossing its railroad, or with any municipal corporation as to crossing or changing highways, streets or streams, then in all such cases upon the vote of its board of directors, such corporation shall have the power to take such property, within the limits of the state constitution, as it may require in carrying out its purposes, and may bring suit therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction, and the laws of Michigan providing for the condemnation of lands for public use shall govern and be the rule of procedure so far as the same may be practicable and applicable thereto. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10136 ;-- CL 1929, 10394 ;-- CL 1948, 455.307
MI Comp L § 455.308 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.308 - Municipal Corporation; Transfer of Realty, Revocation.

455.308 Municipal corporation; transfer of realty, revocation. Sec. 8.  Any municipal corporation, by vote of its governing body, may transfer to any such corporation in trust as hereinbefore provided, the management and control of any real property held by it, for the purpose of laying out, maintaining or carrying on parks, playgrounds, boulevards or pleasure drives, and may by like vote revoke the said transfer to such corporation and re-vest the management and control of said property in its own officers, at any time it shall be for the public benefit so to do. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10137 ;-- CL 1929, 10395 ;-- CL 1948, 455.308
MI Comp L § 455.309 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.309 - Municipal Corporation; Aid.

455.309 Municipal corporation; aid. Sec. 9.  It shall be lawful for any such municipal corporation to appropriate, by a vote of its common council, or other governing body, to any such corporation, moneys for the uses and purposes of such corporation. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10138 ;-- CL 1929, 10396 ;-- CL 1948, 455.309
MI Comp L § 455.310 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.310 - Lands Held in Trust; Free Access, Tax Exemption.

455.310 Lands held in trust; free access, tax exemption. Sec. 10.  All lands acquired by any corporation organized under this act or subject to its control and management shall be held in trust as aforesaid for public parks, playgrounds, boulevards and pleasure drives for the recreation, health, welfare and benefit of the public and shall be free to all persons, subject to such necessary and reasonable rules and regulations as shall, from time to time, be adopted for the well-ordering and government thereof. And all such lands and personal property so held in trust for such purposes shall be exempt from taxation. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10139 ;-- CL 1929, 10397 ;-- CL 1948, 455.310
MI Comp L § 455.311 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.311 - Trustees; Court Appointment.

455.311 Trustees; court appointment. Sec. 11.  If any corporation organized under this act shall at any time fail, from any cause, to perform the duties of trustee as herein provided, and by reason of such failure injury may result to any of the drives, parks, playgrounds, boulevards or other property held by such corporation as trustee, or shall make unreasonable rules and regulations regarding the same, or do other acts to the permanent injury of the public, then upon petition to the circuit court in chancery of the county in which said corporation shall be located of any 5 citizens and freeholders residing within said county, said court may, upon notice to such corporation, appoint a day for hearing said petition, and if upon such hearing it shall appear that damage has resulted to, or is likely to result to, the public or to any of the property held by such corporation, said court may appoint such number of trustees ad interim as shall be deemed necessary to protect the interests of the public in said trust, until such time as the disability of said corporation as trustee shall have been removed. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10140 ;-- CL 1929, 10398 ;-- CL 1948, 455.311
MI Comp L § 455.312 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.312 - Vesting of Property in Municipality.

455.312 Vesting of property in municipality. Sec. 12.  If any such corporation fail at any time to have members and no trustees ad interim shall have been appointed, then until such time as the disability of such corporation as trustee shall have been removed, the title to the property thus held in trust shall vest in the municipality or municipalities for which the corporation has held the same in trust. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10141 ;-- CL 1929, 10399 ;-- CL 1948, 455.312
MI Comp L § 455.313 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 455 - Summer Resort and Park Associations|Act 161 of 1911 - Parks, Playgrounds, Drives, and Boulevards (455.301 - 455.313)|Section 455.313 - Construction of Act.

455.313 Construction of act. Sec. 13.  In all proceedings of suits that may arise or be brought in any of the courts of this state touching or concerning corporations under this act, all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall be interpreted and construed in such manner as to give full force and effect to all the provisions of this act and to all the rights and privileges hereby granted. History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 10142 ;-- CL 1929, 10400 ;-- CL 1948, 455.313
MI Comp L § 456.1 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 456 - Cemetery Associations|Act 87 of 1855 - Cemetery Corporations (456.1 - 456.36)|Section 456.1 - Cemetery Corporation; Incorporators.

456.1 Cemetery corporation; incorporators. Sec. 1.  That any 5 or more persons of lawful age, may organize themselves into a corporation, by such name as they shall adopt, for the purpose of acquiring land for a burial ground for the dead, to dispose of rights of burial therein, and to fence, improve, ornament and keep the same in suitable condition, in the manner hereinafter provided. History: 1855, Act 87, Imd. Eff. Feb. 12, 1855 ;-- CL 1857, 1717 ;-- CL 1871, 3373 ;-- How. 4728 ;-- CL 1897, 8362 ;-- CL 1915, 11122 ;-- CL 1929, 10401 ;-- CL 1948, 456.1
MI Comp L § 456.2 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 456 - Cemetery Associations|Act 87 of 1855 - Cemetery Corporations (456.1 - 456.36)|Section 456.2 - Cemetery Corporation; Acquisition of Land, Encumbrance, Payment; Lease, Restriction.

456.2 Cemetery corporation; acquisition of land, encumbrance, payment; lease, restriction. Sec. 2.  Such corporation shall have power to acquire and hold in fee, or for a term of years, so much land as may be necessary for their burying ground: Provided, That no land thus held shall be in any way encumbered by such corporation: And provided further, That the purchase price thereof, and interest thereon, or the rent reserved therefor, and the costs of fencing, improving and platting the same, shall be paid out of the funds first realized from the sale of rights of burial: And provided, further, That any lease of land to such corporations, shall contain a covenant on the part of the lessor, that the land thus leased shall never be used by him, his heirs or assigns, for any other than burial purposes, and that all rights of burial acquired under such corporation, shall remain unimpaired, although such lease may expire, or such corporation may forfeit the rights acquired under such lease, by reason of non-compliance with the conditions thereof. History: 1855, Act 87, Imd. Eff. Feb. 12, 1855 ;-- CL 1857, 1718 ;-- Am. 1865, Act 282, Imd. Eff. Mar. 20, 1865 ;-- CL 1871, 3374 ;-- How. 4729 ;-- CL 1897, 8363 ;-- CL 1915, 11123 ;-- CL 1929, 10402 ;-- CL 1948, 456.2
MI Comp L § 456.3 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 456 - Cemetery Associations|Act 87 of 1855 - Cemetery Corporations (456.1 - 456.36)|Section 456.3 - Right of Burial; Definition.

456.3 Right of burial; definition. Sec. 3.  A right of burial under this act shall be, in respect to any corporation organized under this act, the right to bury the dead in and upon a parcel of land of the size specified in the by-laws of any corporation organized under this act. History: 1855, Act 87, Imd. Eff. Feb. 12, 1855 ;-- CL 1857, 1719 ;-- CL 1871, 3375 ;-- How. 4730 ;-- CL 1897, 8364 ;-- CL 1915, 11124 ;-- CL 1929, 10403 ;-- CL 1948, 456.3
MI Comp L § 456.3a (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 456 - Cemetery Associations|Act 87 of 1855 - Cemetery Corporations (456.1 - 456.36)|Section 456.3a - Right of Burial; Granting in Tax Delinquent Lands Prohibited.

456.3a Right of burial; granting in tax delinquent lands prohibited. Sec. 3a.  No rights of burial shall at any time be granted or sold by such corporation upon any lands which are delinquent for taxes or special assessments. History: Add. 1941, Act 168, Eff. Jan. 10, 1943 ;-- CL 1948, 456.3a
MI Comp L § 456.4 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 456 - Cemetery Associations|Act 87 of 1855 - Cemetery Corporations (456.1 - 456.36)|Section 456.4 - Right of Burial; Disposal by Member.

456.4 Right of burial; disposal by member. Sec. 4.  Any member of any corporation organized under this act, wishing to dispose of any right of burial owned by him, shall procure for the purchaser a grant of such right from said corporation; and at the same time such member shall also relinquish to such corporation all claim he may have to such right of burial. History: 1855, Act 87, Imd. Eff. Feb. 12, 1855 ;-- CL 1857, 1720 ;-- CL 1871, 3376 ;-- How. 4731 ;-- CL 1897, 8365 ;-- Am. 1903, Act 65, Eff. Sept. 17, 1903 ;-- CL 1915, 11125 ;-- CL 1929, 10404 ;-- CL 1948, 456.4