NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 582

SENATE BILL 302

 

 

AN ACT MAKING IT A MISDEMEANOR TO DESECRATE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CEMETERIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 22 of Chapter 14 is amended by adding a new Section following Section 14-150 to be designated as Section 14-150.1 and to read as follows:

"Sec. 14-150.1.  Desecration of Public and Private Cemeteries. If any person shall willfully commit any of the acts set forth in the following subsections, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) 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 said cemetery."

Sec. l/2.  "Provided, nothing contained in this Section shall preclude operators of such cemeteries from exercising all the powers reserved to them in their respective rules and regulations relating to the care of such cemeteries."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of May, 1967.