§ 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. […]
§ 65-68 – 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.)
§ 65-69 – Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.
65-69. Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands. (a) Each licensee shall set aside a minimum of 30 acres of land for use by said licensee as a cemetery, and shall not sell, mortgage, lease or encumber the same. (b) The fee simple title, or lesser estate, in any lands owned by licensee and […]
§ 65-60.1 – Trustees; qualifications; examination of records; enforcement.
65-60.1. Trustees; qualifications; examination of records; enforcement. (a) The term "corporate trustee" as used in this Article shall mean a bank, credit union, or trust company authorized to do business in North Carolina under the supervision of the Commissioner of Banks, Credit Union Administrator, or any other corporate entity; provided that any corporate entity other […]
§ 65-61 – Required trust fund for care and maintenance; remedy of Commission for noncompliance.
65-61. Required trust fund for care and maintenance; remedy of Commission for noncompliance. No cemetery company shall be permitted to establish, or operate if already established, a cemetery unless provision is made for the future care and maintenance of such cemetery by establishing a trust fund and designating a corporate trustee to administer said fund […]
§ 65-62 – Individual contracts for care and maintenance.
65-62. Individual contracts for care and maintenance. At the time of making a sale or receiving the initial deposit hereunder, the cemetery company shall deliver to the person to whom such sale is made, or who makes such deposit, an instrument in writing which shall specifically state that the net income of the care and […]
§ 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, […]