NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 311

SENATE BILL 258

 

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE A FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S LICENSE TO RELOCATE GRAVES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  North Carolina General Statutes 65-13(f) is hereby amended, by adding the following sentence after the existing sentence:

"If under the authority of this Chapter disinterment, removal, and reinterment is effected by the State of North Carolina or any of its agencies, public institutions, or political subdivisions, the United States of American or any agency thereof, any electric power or lighting company, then such disinterment, removal, and reinterment shall be performed by a funeral director duly licensed as a 'Funeral Director' or a 'Funeral Service Licensee' under the provisions of Article 13A of Chapter 90 of the North Carolina General Statutes."

Sec. 2.  This act shall not affect grave removals for which contracts have been entered into prior to the effective date of this act.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1977.