As provided in G.S. § 14-148, if any person shall willfully commit any of the acts set forth in the following divisions, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the court:
(1) Throwing, placing or putting any refuse, garbage, trash or articles of similar nature in or on a public or private cemetery where human bodies are interred; or
(2) Destroying, removing, breaking, damaging, overturning or polluting any flower, plant, shrub or ornament located in any public or private cemetery where human bodies are interred without the express consent of the person in charge of the cemetery.
(B) Provided nothing contained in this section shall preclude operators of cemeteries from exercising all the powers reserved to them in their respective rules and regulations relating to the care of the cemeteries.
(1981 Code, § 13-5)