§ 65-70 – Construction of mausoleums and belowground crypts; trust fund for receipts from sale of preconstruction crypts; compliance requirements.
65-70. Construction of mausoleums and belowground crypts; trust fund for receipts from sale of preconstruction crypts; compliance requirements. (a) A cemetery company shall be required to start construction of that section of a mausoleum or bank of belowground crypts in which sales, contracts for sale, reservations for sales or agreements for sales are being made, […]
§ 65-71 – Penalties.
65-71. Penalties. (a) Except as provided in this subsection, a person violating any provisions of this Article is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Each failure to deposit funds in a trust fund in accordance with this Article is a separate offense. A person that has failed to deposit funds in a trust fund in […]
§ 65-72 – Burial without regard to race or color.
65-72. Burial without regard to race or color. (a) It shall be the public policy of the State that all cemetery companies or other legal entities conducting or maintaining public or private cemeteries shall sell to all applicants and bury all deceased human beings on equal terms without regard to race or color. Anything contrary […]
§ 65-73 – Validation of certain deeds for cemetery lots executed by suspended corporations.
65-73. Validation of certain deeds for cemetery lots executed by suspended corporations. Any deed for a cemetery lot or lots which was executed prior to January 1, 1979, and which would have been valid if the charter of the grantor corporation had not been suspended at the time the deed was executed, is hereby validated. […]
§ 65-63 – Requirements for perpetual care fund.
65-63. Requirements for perpetual care fund. A cemetery company may not cause or permit advertising of a perpetual care fund in connection with the sale or offer for sale of its property unless the amount deposited in the fund is at least one hundred dollars ($100.00) or ten percent (10%) of the retail sale price, […]
§ 65-64 – Deposits to perpetual care fund.
65-64. Deposits to perpetual care fund. (a) Deposits to the care and maintenance trust fund must be made by the cemetery company holding title to the subject cemetery lands on or before the last day of the calendar month following the calendar month in which final payment is received as provided herein; however the entire […]
§ 65-65 – Trust fund; financial reports.
65-65. Trust fund; financial reports. Within 60 days after the end of the calendar or fiscal year of the cemetery company, the trustee shall furnish adequate financial reports with respect to the care fund on forms provided by the Commission. However, the Commission may require the trustee to make such additional financial reports as it […]
§ 65-66 – Receipts from sale of personal property or services; trust account; penalties.
65-66. Receipts from sale of personal property or services; trust account; penalties. (a) It shall be deemed contrary to public policy if any person or legal entity receives, holds, controls or manages funds or proceeds received from the sale of, or from a contract to sell, personal property or services which may be used in […]
§ 65-67 – Applications for license.
65-67. Applications for license. Applications for renewal license must be submitted on or before July 1 each and every year in the case of an existing cemetery company. Before any sale of cemetery property in the case of a new cemetery company or a change of ownership or control as indicated in G.S. 65-59, an […]
§ 65-68 – License not assignable or transferable.
65-68. License not assignable or transferable. No license issued under G.S. 65-67 shall be transferable or assignable and no licensee shall develop or operate any cemetery authorized by this Article under any name or at any location other than that contained in the application for such license. (1975, c. 768, s. 1.)