2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes Article 8 - Municipal Cemeteries.

Article 8.

Municipal Cemeteries.

§ 65‑37.� Authority to take possession of and continue the use of certain lands as cemetery.

In any case where property not under the control or in the� possession of any church or religious organization in any town or municipality has been heretofore set aside or used for cemetery purposes, and the trustees or owners named in the deed or deeds for said property have died, or are unknown, or the deeds of conveyance have been lost or misplaced and no record of title thereto has been found, and said property has been occupied and used for burial purposes for a time sufficient to identify its use as cemetery property, the municipality in which any such cemetery property is located is hereby authorized and empowered in its discretion to appropriate and take possession of all such land within its corporate limits which has heretofore been used for cemetery purposes and such adjoining land not held or owned by known claimants of title, and to cause the same to be surveyed and lines established and to designate and appropriate the said property as a cemetery, or burial ground. (1947, c. 821, s. 1.)

 

§ 65‑38.� Repealed by Session Laws 1969, c. 1279.

 

§ 65‑39.� Subdivision into burial plots; sale of lots and use of proceeds.

Said town or municipality shall have power and authority in such cases to cause the same to be subdivided and to lay off and allot for family burial plots any property heretofore appropriated or used for burial purposes for or by different families without any charge therefor, and to cause the remainder of said property to be subdivided and laid off into lots; and shall have the power and authority to sell to any person or persons for burial purposes, any of said lots so subdivided and surveyed, except those heretofore appropriated as referred to in this section of this Article, and use the proceeds of such sale for the improvement and upkeep of said cemetery property. (1947, c. 821, s. 3.)

 

§ 65‑40.� Appropriations for improvement and maintenance; application of existing laws.

In the event any town or municipality appropriates or takes possession of land used for cemetery purposes as set forth and described herein, it is further authorized and empowered to appropriate and use such funds as may be necessary and proper for the improvement and maintenance of said cemetery; and all statutes and ordinances heretofore enacted and passed relative to cemeteries in said town or municipality, are hereby made applicable to said cemetery property. (1947, c. 821, s. 4.)