CHAPTER 7: CEMETERIES 1
   Article
      I.   IN GENERAL
      II.   SALE OF LOTS
      III.   RULES AND REGULATIONS

 

Notes

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1Statutory reference:
Cemeteries, G.S. §§ 160A-341 et seq.; regulation of city cemeteries, G.S. § 160A-348.
ARTICLE I:  IN GENERAL
Section
   7-100   Authority to purchase; applicability of provisions
   7-101   Control of the town cemetery; covenant
   7-102   Superintendent
   7-103   Burial regulated
   7-104   Interment; disinterment
   7-105   Plantings
   7-106   Family monument
   7-107   Trees, shrubbery
   7-108   Landscaping
   7-109   Structures
   7-110   Conduct; hours
   7-111   Vehicles
   7-112   Rubbish, and the like
   7-112.1   Construction materials
   7-113   Damaging gravestones or other monuments
   7-114   Cleaning after funerals
   7-115   Burial permits
   7-116   Prerequisite to a burial permit
   7-117   Number of bodies to buried in one grave
   7-118   Vault or grave liner required
   7-119   Flower regulations and cleaning after funerals
   7-120   Animals prohibited
   7-121   Ornamentation
   7-122 to 7-199   Reserved
§ 7-100  AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE; APPLICABILITY OF PROVISIONS.
   (A)   As used in this article, and except as provided in subsection (C) below, the terms CEMETERY and TOWN CEMETERY shall refer to any, and all, cemeteries owned, and/or operated, by the town.
   (B)   The town may acquire real estate to be used for cemetery purposes.
   (C)   The following sections apply to all cemeteries within the town: §§ 7-103, 7-112, 7-113, and 7-120. The remaining sections of this article apply only to cemeteries owned, and/or operated, by the town.
(Ord. 26-94, passed 11-7-1994)
§ 7-101  CONTROL OF THE TOWN CEMETERY; COVENANT.
   All lots within the town’s cemetery, and within any extension of the cemetery at any time hereafter made, whether owned by the town, or by any other person, shall be subject to, and regulated and controlled by, the provisions of this article, and in all deeds of conveyance by the town to any person for any lot, the following provisions shall be included therein as a covenant running with the land:
 
“This conveyance is made subject to an ordinance of the Town of Maiden adopting rules and regulations for the control of the cemetery and providing penalties in relation thereto. The grantee herein, his heirs and assigns agree that upon the breach of any of its provisions, the title to said property shall revert to the Town of Maiden. This lot may not be sold to any other person, except with the written permission of the town manager, and it shall not be sold for more than the original purchase price of the lot.”
 
(Code 1976, § 9.49) (Ord. 12-75, passed 10-20-1975)
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