Chapter 65 - Cemeteries.

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Chapter 65
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Article 1 - Care of Rural Cemeteries.
Article 2 - Care of Confederate Cemetery.
G.S. 65-4
§ 65-4. State Division of Prisons of the Department of Adult Correction to furnish labor.
Article 3 - Cemeteries for Inmates of County Homes.
G.S. 65-5
§ 65-5. County commissioners may establish new cemeteries.
G.S. 65-6
§ 65-6. Removal and reinterment of bodies.
Article 4 - Trust Funds for the Care of Cemeteries.
Article 5 - Removal of Graves.
G.S. 65-13
§ 65-13: Repealed by Session Laws 2007-118, s. 4, effective July 1, 2007, and applicable to all trusts created on or after that date.
G.S. 65-14 through 65-15
§§ 65-14 through 65-15. Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 797, s. 2.
Article 6 - Cemetery Associations.
G.S. 65-16
§ 65-16. Land holdings.
G.S. 65-17
§ 65-17. Change of name of association or corporation.
G.S. 65-17.1
§ 65-17.1. Quorum at stockholders' meeting of certain nonprofit cemetery corporations; calling meeting; amendment of charter.
Article 7 - Cemeteries Operated for Private Gain.
G.S. 65-18 through 65-36
§§ 65-18 through 65-36: Recodified as §§ 65-46 through 65-72.
Article 7A - Funeral and Burial Trust Funds.
G.S. 65-36.1 through 65-36.8
§§ 65-36.1 through 65-36.8: Recodified as §§ 90-210.30 through 90-210.37, by Session Laws 1985, c. 12, s. 1.
Article 8 - Municipal Cemeteries.
G.S. 65-37
§ 65-37: Repealed by Session Laws 2007-118, s. 5, effective July 1, 2007, and applicable to all trusts created on or after that date.
G.S. 65-38
§ 65-38. Repealed by Session Laws 1969, c. 1279.
Article 8A - Veterans Cemeteries.
G.S. 65-41
§ 65-41. Land acquisition.
G.S. 65-42
§ 65-42. Location of cemeteries.
G.S. 65-43
§ 65-43. Definitions.
Modified by:
G.S. 65-43.1
§ 65-43.1. Eligibility for interment in a State veterans cemetery.
G.S. 65-43.2
§ 65-43.2. Proof of eligibility.
Modified by:
G.S. 65-43.3
§ 65-43.3. Bars to eligibility.
G.S. 65-43.4
§ 65-43.4. Disinterment.
G.S. 65-43.5
§ 65-43.5. Reinterment.
G.S. 65-43.6
§ 65-43.6. State veterans cemeteries cost.
G.S. 65-44
§ 65-44. Days for burial.
G.S. 65-45
§ 65-45. Reserved for future codification purposes.
Article 9 - North Carolina Cemetery Act.
G.S. 65-46
§ 65-46. Short title.
G.S. 65-47
§ 65-47. Scope.
G.S. 65-48
§ 65-48. Definitions.
G.S. 65-49
§ 65-49. The North Carolina Cemetery Commission.
G.S. 65-50
§ 65-50. Cemetery Commission; members, selection, quorum.
G.S. 65-51
§ 65-51. Principal office.
G.S. 65-52
§ 65-52. Regular and special meetings.
G.S. 65-53
§ 65-53. Powers.
G.S. 65-53.1
§ 65-53.1. Inspectors.
G.S. 65-54
§ 65-54. Annual budget of Commission; collection of funds.
G.S. 65-54.1
§ 65-54.1. Commission records are confidential.
G.S. 65-55
§ 65-55. License; cemetery company.
G.S. 65-56
§ 65-56. Existing companies; effect of Article.
G.S. 65-57
§ 65-57. Licenses for sales organizations, management organizations and brokers.
G.S. 65-58
§ 65-58. Licenses for persons selling preneed grave space.
G.S. 65-59
§ 65-59. Application for a change of control; filing fee.
G.S. 65-60
§ 65-60. Records.
G.S. 65-60.1
§ 65-60.1. Trustees; qualifications; examination of records; enforcement.
G.S. 65-61
§ 65-61. Required trust fund for care and maintenance; remedy of Commission for noncompliance.
G.S. 65-62
§ 65-62. Individual contracts for care and maintenance.
G.S. 65-63
§ 65-63. Requirements for perpetual care fund.
G.S. 65-64
§ 65-64. Deposits to perpetual care fund.
G.S. 65-65
§ 65-65. Trust fund; financial reports.
G.S. 65-66
§ 65-66. Receipts from sale of personal property or services; trust account; penalties.
G.S. 65-67
§ 65-67. Applications for license.
G.S. 65-68
§ 65-68. License not assignable or transferable.
G.S. 65-69
§ 65-69. Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.
G.S. 65-70
§ 65-70. Construction of mausoleums and belowground crypts; trust fund for receipts from sale of preconstruction crypts; compliance requirements.
G.S. 65-71
§ 65-71. Penalties.
G.S. 65-72
§ 65-72. Burial without regard to race or color.
G.S. 65-73
§ 65-73. Validation of certain deeds for cemetery lots executed by suspended corporations.
Article 10 - Access to and Maintenance of Private Graves and Abandoned Public Cemeteries.
G.S. 65-76
§ 65-76: Reserved for future codification purposes.
Article 11 - Minimum Burial Depth.
G.S. 65-77
§ 65-77. Minimum burial depth.
Article 12 - Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries.
G.S. 65-85
§ 65-85. Definitions.
G.S. 65-91
§ 65-91. Money deposited with the clerk of superior court.
G.S. 65-92
§ 65-92. Separate record of accounts to be kept.
G.S. 65-93
§ 65-93. Funds to be kept perpetually.
Modified by:
G.S. 65-94
§ 65-94. Investment of funds.
G.S. 65-95
§ 65-95. Substitution of bank or trust company as trustee.
Modified by:
G.S. 65-96
§ 65-96. Funds exempt from taxation.
G.S. 65-101
§ 65-101. Entering public or private property to maintain or visit with consent.
G.S. 65-102
§ 65-102. Entering public or private property to maintain or visit without consent.
G.S. 65-106
§ 65-106. Removal of graves; who may disinter, move, and reinter; notice; certificate filed; reinterment expenses; due care required.
G.S. 65-111
§ 65-111. County commissioners to provide list of public and abandoned cemeteries.
G.S. 65-112
§ 65-112. Appropriations by county commissioners.
G.S. 65-113
§ 65-113. County commissioners to have control of abandoned public cemeteries; trustees.