CHAPTER 92: CEMETERIES

Section

General Provisions and Regulations

   92.01   Applicability of chapter

   92.02   Definitions

   92.03   Prohibited acts

   92.04   Plantings and maintenance

   92.05   Hours of visitation

   92.06   Conduct in cemetery

   92.07   Regulation of vehicles

   92.08   Removal of floral arrangements

   92.09   Regulation of animals

Interments

   92.10   Depth of graves

   92.11   Grave liners

   92.12   Certificate of death; permits

   92.13   Hours of interment

   92.14   Marking new graves

   92.15   Interments per grave

   92.16   Interment of human remains only

   92.17   Tents and other private property

   92.18   Exhumations

Sale of Plots

   92.19   Procedure for the purchase of plots

   92.20   Price of plots

   92.21   Modification of official plats

   92.99   Penalty

Statutory reference:

   Cemeteries generally, G.S. Ch. 65

   Municipality’s authority to regulate cemeteries, see G.S. §§ 160A-341 et seq.

GENERAL PROVISIONS AND REGULATIONS

§ 92.01 APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.

   The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to all cemeteries which are now or may hereafter be located within the corporate limits of the town, for which the town assumes the responsibility for regulation and maintenance.

(1985 Code, § 92.01)

§ 92.02 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   BLOCK. A grouping of lot units, the number of which may vary but which shall be in accordance with an official plat or layout of the cemetery property.

   CEMETERY. An established location designated for the interment of the deceased, which is now, or shall hereafter be, under the regulatory authority of the town.

   LOT. A unit of cemetery property which may contain three or four plots, as designated by an official plat or layout of the cemetery property.

   PLOT. A unit of cemetery property containing two grave spaces.

(1985 Code, § 92.02)