§ 160A-341. Authority to establish and operate cemeteries.
Article 17.
Cemeteries.
§ 160A‑341. Authority to establish and operatecemeteries.
A city shall have authority to establish, operate, and maintaincemeteries either inside or outside its corporate limits, may acquire and holdreal and personal property for cemetery purposes by gift, purchase, or (forreal property) by exercise of the power of eminent domain, may devote anyproperty owned by the city to use as a cemetery, may prohibit burials at anyplace within the city other than city cemeteries, and may regulate the mannerof burial in city cemeteries. Nothing in this section shall confer upon anycity authority to prohibit or regulate burials in cemeteries licensed by theState Burial Association Commissioner, or in church cemeteries.
As used in this Article "cemetery" includes columbariums andfacilities for cremation. (1917, c. 136, subch. 5, s. 1; 1919, cc. 136, 237; C.S., s. 2787; 1969,c. 402; 1971, c. 698, s. 1.)