17-1302.Cemetery lots; disposition.
Such corporations shall have power to convey, by deed or otherwise, any
lot or lots of the cemetery for purposes of sepulture. When such lots shall
have been surveyed and platted, the survey and plat shall be recorded in
the office of the register of deeds of the county wherein the same are
situated. No lots shall be sold or disposed of until such plat shall have
been recorded.
Every lot sold and conveyed in such cemetery shall be held by the
proprietor, for the purpose of sepulture only, and shall not be subject to
attachment or execution: Provided, That where such corporation has
agreed to convey a certain lot or lots to a purchaser, and such purchaser
has failed for a period of one year following the date of such agreement to
pay the purchase price therefor, such agreement, at the option and election
of the cemetery corporation, shall be and remain canceled, void, and of no
effect: Provided further, That if within the said period of one year
the purchaser shall cause any dead person to be buried upon said lot, or
lots, so agreed to be sold, that portion of said lot or lots actually
occupied by the said grave of such dead person so buried shall not be sold
by such cemetery corporation to any other person, or persons; but, if the
purchaser shall voluntarily remove or cause to be removed the dead person
so buried in such grave, such corporation may convey, sell and dispose of
such grave described to any other person or persons.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 23, § 125; L. 1913, ch. 143, § 1; R.S.
1923, 17-1302; L. 1970, ch. 84, § 1; July 1.
17-1302.Cemetery lots; disposition.
Such corporations shall have power to convey, by deed or otherwise, any
lot or lots of the cemetery for purposes of sepulture. When such lots shall
have been surveyed and platted, the survey and plat shall be recorded in
the office of the register of deeds of the county wherein the same are
situated. No lots shall be sold or disposed of until such plat shall have
been recorded.
Every lot sold and conveyed in such cemetery shall be held by the
proprietor, for the purpose of sepulture only, and shall not be subject to
attachment or execution: Provided, That where such corporation has
agreed to convey a certain lot or lots to a purchaser, and such purchaser
has failed for a period of one year following the date of such agreement to
pay the purchase price therefor, such agreement, at the option and election
of the cemetery corporation, shall be and remain canceled, void, and of no
effect: Provided further, That if within the said period of one year
the purchaser shall cause any dead person to be buried upon said lot, or
lots, so agreed to be sold, that portion of said lot or lots actually
occupied by the said grave of such dead person so buried shall not be sold
by such cemetery corporation to any other person, or persons; but, if the
purchaser shall voluntarily remove or cause to be removed the dead person
so buried in such grave, such corporation may convey, sell and dispose of
such grave described to any other person or persons.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 23, § 125; L. 1913, ch. 143, § 1; R.S.
1923, 17-1302; L. 1970, ch. 84, § 1; July 1.
17-1302.Cemetery lots; disposition.
Such corporations shall have power to convey, by deed or otherwise, any
lot or lots of the cemetery for purposes of sepulture. When such lots shall
have been surveyed and platted, the survey and plat shall be recorded in
the office of the register of deeds of the county wherein the same are
situated. No lots shall be sold or disposed of until such plat shall have
been recorded.
Every lot sold and conveyed in such cemetery shall be held by the
proprietor, for the purpose of sepulture only, and shall not be subject to
attachment or execution: Provided, That where such corporation has
agreed to convey a certain lot or lots to a purchaser, and such purchaser
has failed for a period of one year following the date of such agreement to
pay the purchase price therefor, such agreement, at the option and election
of the cemetery corporation, shall be and remain canceled, void, and of no
effect: Provided further, That if within the said period of one year
the purchaser shall cause any dead person to be buried upon said lot, or
lots, so agreed to be sold, that portion of said lot or lots actually
occupied by the said grave of such dead person so buried shall not be sold
by such cemetery corporation to any other person, or persons; but, if the
purchaser shall voluntarily remove or cause to be removed the dead person
so buried in such grave, such corporation may convey, sell and dispose of
such grave described to any other person or persons.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 23, § 125; L. 1913, ch. 143, § 1; R.S.
1923, 17-1302; L. 1970, ch. 84, § 1; July 1.