Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 456. Cemetery Associations § 456.201

Sec. 1. Five or more persons, who shall, by articles of agreement in writing, associate themselves according to the provisions of this act, under any name assumed by them, for the purpose of providing the necessary appliances for the disposal by cremation of the bodies of the dead, and for the purpose of purchasing land for a crematorium or columbarium, or both, in this state, and for fencing, laying out, improving, establishing and maintaining said land, and who shall comply with sections 2, 3 and 4 of this act,  1 shall, with their successors and assigns, constitute a body politic or corporate, under the name assumed by them in their articles of association: Provided, however, That no 2 corporations shall assume the same name.