(A) (1) No person may drive any motor vehicle of any kind in any cemetery except upon the main roads and avenues provided therein for vehicular traffic.
(2) No person may drive any motor vehicle or park any motor vehicle in any cemetery unless in attendance at burial services or otherwise engaged in activities consistent with the use of a cemetery as a cemetery.
(3) No person may take any dog, horse or other animal into any cemetery or allow any animal to run at large therein.
(4) No person may intentionally disrupt any funeral services or disturb the quiet and good order of any cemetery by extremely loud or boisterous conduct, except in the case of military funerals and veterans or military commemorative exercises, no person may carry or discharge firearms in any cemetery.
(5) No person may post or attach any bills, posters, placards, pictures or other form of political or commercial advertising within the cemetery or on the inside or outside of any wall or fence enclosing any cemetery.
(B) As provided in G.S. § 14-148(c) 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;
(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; or
(3) 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 cemeteries.
(C) As provided in G.S. § 14-148, if any person shall unlawfully and on purpose remove from its place any monument of marble, stone, brass, wood or other material erected for the purpose of designating the spot where any dead body is interred, or for the purpose of preserving and perpetuating the memory, name, fame, birth, age or death of any person, whether situated in or out of the common burying ground, or shall unlawfully and on purpose break or deface a monument or alter the letters, marks or inscription thereof, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Provided that nothing contained in this section shall preclude operators of public or private cemeteries from exercising all the powers reserved to them in their respective rules and regulations relating to the use and care of cemeteries.
(Ord. passed 10-3-2005) Penalty, see § 97.99