2018 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 14 - Criminal Law
Article 52 - Miscellaneous Police Regulations.
§ 14-401.3 - Inscription on gravestone or monument charging commission of crime.
14-401.3. Inscription on gravestone or monument charging commission of crime.
It shall be illegal for any person to erect or cause to be erected any gravestone or monument bearing any inscription charging any person with the commission of a crime, and it shall be illegal for any person owning, controlling or operating any cemetery to permit such gravestone to be erected and maintained therein. If such gravestone has been erected in any graveyard, cemetery or burial plot, it shall be the duty of the person having charge thereof to remove and obliterate such inscription. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1949, c. 1075; 1969, c. 1224, s. 8; 1993, c. 539, s. 273; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)