NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 915

HOUSE BILL 836

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES TO REMOVE GRAVES FROM PROPERTY OWNED BY OR IN THE CUSTODY OF SUCH SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES OR COLLEGES, WHEN SUCH REMOVAL IS NECESSARY TO PERMIT PROPER PERFORMANCE OF SUCH INSTITUTIONS FUNCTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section. 1. G. S. 65-13 is amended by rewriting the last paragraph thereof to read as follows:

"If any municipality or other political subdivision of the State, or any school, university or college in this State shall find it necessary in order to perform its governmental or educational function and the duties prescribed by law or under authority of the governing body thereof, to remove graves from property owned by or in the custody and control of such municipality or other political subdivision, or of a school, university or college in the State, or from property owned by individuals or corporations, whether known or unknown, such graves may be moved by such municipality or political subdivision, or by such school, university or college, after thirty days' notice to the relatives of the deceased persons, if any are known, and if none are known, then after publication of a notice of such intended removal once a week for four (4) weeks in some newspaper having a general circulation in the county in which such property lies; and such graves when removed shall be removed to a suitable place in another cemetery, due care being taken to protect the tombstones and to place them properly so as to leave the graves in as good condition as before removal. All expense of the removal and acquisition of another burial site shall be borne by the municipality or political subdivision of the State, or by the school, university or college moving the said graves."

Sec. 1½. This Act shall not apply to Orange County.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1963.