Section 456.530 - Commissioner; auditing trust funds; registration of cemeteries; exemptions(1) The commissioner shall institute and maintain a system of auditing trust funds required by this act and of registering each cemetery authorized to be created, maintained, and operated in this state, as well as any other cemetery operating under state law or local ordinance. A cemetery owned and operated by a municipal corporation, church, or religious institution is exempt from this act. However, a municipal corporation may pass ordinances necessary for regulating that municipal corporation's cemeteries.(2) A cemetery for earth interment of 10 acres or less in size, which is owned and operated entirely and exclusively by an existing nonprofit entity and in which a burial has taken place before September 15, 1968, is exempt from the fee provisions of this act, shall have the trust fund required by this act audited at the discretion of the commissioner, and is exempt from the endowment care trust fund requirements of section 16, except for the report requirements if the cemetery maintains endowment and perpetual care trust funds.Amended by 2008, Act 478,s 7, eff. 1/12/2009.Amended by 2004, Act 22, s 4, eff. 1/1/2005.1968, Act 251, Eff. 9/15/1968 ;--Am. 1978, Act 102, Imd. Eff. 4/6/1978 ;--Am. 1982, Act 132, Imd. Eff. 4/20/1982 ;--Am. 1982, Act 289, Imd. Eff. 10/7/1982.