65-72. Burial without regard to race or color.
(a) It shall be the public policy of the State that all cemetery companies or other legal entities conducting or maintaining public or private cemeteries shall sell to all applicants and bury all deceased human beings on equal terms without regard to race or color. Anything contrary hereto is void and of no legal effect. Bylaws, rules and regulations, contracts, deeds, etc., may permit designation of parts of cemeteries or burial grounds for the specific use of persons whose religious code required isolation. Any program offering free burial rights to veterans or any other person or group of persons shall not be conditioned by any requirement to purchase additional burial rights or merchandise.
(b) Any cemetery company or other legal entity violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and each violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense. (1975, c. 768, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 502; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 9 - North Carolina Cemetery Act.
§ 65-49 - The North Carolina Cemetery Commission.
§ 65-50 - Cemetery Commission; members, selection, quorum.
§ 65-52 - Regular and special meetings.
§ 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.
§ 65-60.1 - 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.
§ 65-72 - Burial without regard to race or color.
§ 65-73 - Validation of certain deeds for cemetery lots executed by suspended corporations.