North Carolina General Statutes
Article 9 - North Carolina Cemetery Act.
§ 65-54 - Annual budget of Commission; collection of funds.

65-54. Annual budget of Commission; collection of funds.
The Commission shall prepare an annual budget and shall collect the sums of money required for this budget from yearly fees and from any other sources provided in this Article. On or before July 1 of each year, each licensed cemetery shall pay a license fee to be set by the Commission in an amount not to exceed six hundred dollars ($600.00). In addition, each licensed cemetery shall pay to the Commission an inspection fee for each grave space, niche, or mausoleum crypt when the certificate of interment right is issued and shall pay a fee for each vault, belowground crypt, memorial, or opening and closing of a grave space that is included in a preneed cemetery contract. The inspection fee for each grave space, niche, or mausoleum crypt is payable when the certificate of interment right is issued and may not exceed four dollars ($4.00). The fee for each of the listed items that are included in a preneed cemetery contract is payable when the contract is made and may not exceed ten dollars ($10.00). (1975, c. 768, s. 1; 1977, c. 686, s. 7; 1987, c. 488, s. 1; 1991, c. 653, s. 1; 2004-202, s. 1.)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 65 - Cemeteries

Article 9 - North Carolina Cemetery Act.

§ 65-46 - Short title.

§ 65-47 - Scope.

§ 65-48 - Definitions.

§ 65-49 - The North Carolina Cemetery Commission.

§ 65-50 - Cemetery Commission; members, selection, quorum.

§ 65-51 - Principal office.

§ 65-52 - Regular and special meetings.

§ 65-53 - Powers.

§ 65-53.1 - Inspectors.

§ 65-54 - Annual budget of Commission; collection of funds.

§ 65-54.1 - Commission records are confidential.

§ 65-55 - License; cemetery company.

§ 65-56 - Existing companies; effect of Article.

§ 65-57 - Licenses for sales organizations, management organizations and brokers.

§ 65-58 - Licenses for persons selling preneed grave space.

§ 65-59 - Application for a change of control; filing fee.

§ 65-60 - Records.

§ 65-60.1 - Trustees; qualifications; examination of records; enforcement.

§ 65-61 - Required trust fund for care and maintenance; remedy of Commission for noncompliance.

§ 65-62 - Individual contracts for care and maintenance.

§ 65-63 - Requirements for perpetual care fund.

§ 65-64 - Deposits to perpetual care fund.

§ 65-65 - Trust fund; financial reports.

§ 65-66 - Receipts from sale of personal property or services; trust account; penalties.

§ 65-67 - Applications for license.

§ 65-68 - License not assignable or transferable.

§ 65-69 - Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.

§ 65-70 - Construction of mausoleums and belowground crypts; trust fund for receipts from sale of preconstruction crypts; compliance requirements.

§ 65-71 - Penalties.

§ 65-72 - Burial without regard to race or color.

§ 65-73 - Validation of certain deeds for cemetery lots executed by suspended corporations.