§ 65-57 – Licenses for sales organizations, management organizations and brokers.
65-57. Licenses for sales organizations, management organizations and brokers. (a) No legal entity shall engage in the business of a cemetery sales organization, a cemetery management organization or a cemetery broker except as authorized by this Article, and without first obtaining a license from the Commission. (b) Any legal entity wishing to establish and operate […]
§ 65-58 – Licenses for persons selling preneed grave space.
65-58. Licenses for persons selling preneed grave space. (a) No person shall offer to sell preneed grave spaces, mausoleum crypts, niches, memorials, vaults or any other preneed cemetery merchandise or services under any plan authorized for any cemetery, cemetery sales group, or cemetery management group, before obtaining a license from the Commission. (b) Persons wishing […]
§ 65-59 – Application for a change of control; filing fee.
65-59. Application for a change of control; filing fee. A person who proposes to acquire control of an existing cemetery company, whether by purchasing the capital stock of the company, purchasing an owner’s interest in the company, or otherwise acting to effectively change the control of the company, shall first make application on a form […]
§ 65-60 – Records.
65-60. Records. A record shall be kept of every burial in the cemetery of a cemetery company, showing the date of burial, name of the person buried, together with lot, plot, and space in which such burial was made therein. All sales, trust funds, accounting records, and all other records of the licensee shall be […]
§ 65-46 – Short title.
65-46. Short title. This Article 9 may be cited as "North Carolina Cemetery Act." (1975, c. 768, s. 1.)
§ 65-47 – Scope.
65-47. Scope. (a) The provisions of this Article shall apply to all persons engaged in the business of operating a cemetery as defined herein, except cemeteries owned and operated by governmental agencies or churches. (b) Any cemetery beneficially owned and operated by a fraternal organization or its corporate agent for at least 50 years prior […]
§ 65-48 – Definitions.
65-48. Definitions. As used in this Article, unless otherwise stated or unless the context or subject matter clearly indicates otherwise: (1) "Bank of belowground crypts" means any construction unit of belowground crypts acceptable to the Commission which a cemetery uses to initiate its belowground crypt program or to add to existing belowground crypt structures. (2) […]
§ 65-49 – The North Carolina Cemetery Commission.
65-49. The North Carolina Cemetery Commission. The North Carolina Cemetery Commission is established with the power and duty to adopt rules and regulations to be followed in the enforcement of this Article. (1975, c. 768, s. 1; 1989, c. 751, s. 7(5); 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 959, s. 19; 2012-120, s. 3(a).)
§ 65-50 – Cemetery Commission; members, selection, quorum.
65-50. Cemetery Commission; members, selection, quorum. (a) Membership. – The Cemetery Commission shall consist of nine members. The General Assembly shall appoint two members who own or manage or who have retired from owning or managing a cemetery in North Carolina, one of whom shall be recommended by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate […]
§ 65-51 – Principal office.
65-51. Principal office. The principal office of the Commission shall be in the City of Raleigh, North Carolina. Notice of all regular and special meetings of the Commission shall be advertised 10 or more days in advance in at least three newspapers in North Carolina having inter-county circulation in the State. Each member of the […]