Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 456. Cemetery Associations § 456.251

Sec. 1. That any 5 or more persons desirous to organize an association for the purpose of preserving and protecting bodies of deceased persons before burial, may execute under their hands and acknowledge before some person authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, the duplicate articles of agreement, as hereinafter specified, 1 copy whereof shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce, and upon the execution and acknowledgment of such articles and the filing thereof, the signers thereof, and those who may hereafter become associated with them, shall become a body politic and corporate for the purpose set forth in said articles.