North Carolina Cemetery Act

North Carolina · 65 · §§ 65-46 to 65-73 · 31 sections

Overview

The act regulates cemeteries and the sale of interment rights, setting requirements for interment spaces, memorials, outer burial containers, recordkeeping, and disclosure of prices, fees, and contract terms to purchasers, while prohibiting practices such as speculation in interment rights, sales commissions or bonuses, and discrimination. Administration rests with a designated state regulator empowered to adopt rules and forms, maintain a registry of new cemeteries, conduct examinations and investigations, issue subpoenas and cease and desist orders, seek injunctions and receiverships, and pursue civil penalties for fraudulent, misleading, or unauthorized conduct. It also governs the protection and public accessibility of cemeteries and burial sites, the care of neglected grounds, the interment, relocation, disinterment, and removal of remains, and county-level management of certain older burial sections.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 3 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 220 N.C. App. 286 - Birtha v. Stonemor, North Carolina, LLC

Sections covered

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-46Short title
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-47Scope
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-48Definitions
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-49The North Carolina Cemetery Commission
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-50Cemetery Commission; members, selection, quorum
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-51Principal office
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-52Regular and special meetings
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-53Powers
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-53.1Inspectors
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-54Annual budget of Commission; collection of funds
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-54.1Commission records are confidential
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-55License; cemetery company
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-56Existing companies; effect of Article
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-57Licenses for sales organizations, management organizations and brokers
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-58Licenses for persons selling preneed grave space
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-59Application for a change of control; filing fee
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-60Records2 cites
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-60.1Trustees; qualifications; examination of records; enforcement
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-61Required trust fund for care and maintenance; remedy of Commission for noncompliance
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-62Individual contracts for care and maintenance
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-63Requirements for perpetual care fund
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-64Deposits to perpetual care fund
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-65Trust fund; financial reports
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-66Receipts from sale of personal property or services; trust account; penalties
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-67Applications for license
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-68License not assignable or transferable
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-69Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-70Construction of mausoleums and belowground crypts; trust fund for receipts from sale of preconstruction crypts; compliance requirements
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-71Penalties
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-72Burial without regard to race or color1 cite
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-73Validation of certain deeds for cemetery lots executed by suspended corporations

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