GENERAL ASSEMBLY LAWS REGARDING REMOVAL OF FORSYTH COUNTY CEMETERIES
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PUBLIC , LOCAL & PRIVATE LAWS - GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SESSION 1923
Chapter 278 - Page 295
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE REMOVAL OF CERTAIN CEMETERIES IN
FORSYTH COUNTY
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
SECTION 1: The board of county commissioners of Forsyth County,
North Carolina, are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase
suitable locations to be used as a white cemetery and a colored
cemetery, and they are authorized and empowered to remove the
bodies from the white cemetery now situated on the east side of White
Street in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known as the North
Liberty Graveyard, and they are empowered to remove the bodies from
the colored graveyard situated on the west side of White Street in the
city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and to rebury said bodies in the
sites above mentioned which shall be selected by said board for
cemeteries.
SECTION 2: The said board of county commissioners of Forsyth
County, North Carolina, are hereby authorized and empowered, after
the removal of the bodies of the cemeteries above mentioned on White
Street, to sell at public sale the land above mentioned which is now
used as cemeteries.
SECTION 3: The said commissioners of Forsyth County, North
Carolina, are authorized and empowered to use the funds, or such
portion of said funds as may be necessary, which will be derived from
the sale of said cemeteries on White Street in the purchase of new sites
for said cemeteries and in the payment of the cost of removing the
bodies from the cemeteries on White Street, and they shall spend such
funds from time to time as may be necessary to keep in proper
condition the new cemeteries above mentioned.
SECTION 4: All tombstones, monuments or markers which are at the
graves in the cemeteries above mentioned on White Street shall be
moved and placed at the graves in the new cemeteries by said board of
county commissioners of Forsyth County.
SECTION 5: That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified this the 28th day of February, A.D. 1923
PUBLIC , LOCAL & PRIVATE LAWS - GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SESSION 1937--S.B. 408
Chapter 533- Page 501
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE REMOVAL OF PART OF A CEMETER
OR BURIAL GROUND ABUTTING ON WHITE STREET IN THE CITY
OF WINSTON-SALEM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
SECTION 1: Authority is hereby granted to the City of Winston-Salem
to move that part of Liberty Graveyard, between 10 1/2 and 11th
Streets, abutting on White Street in the City of Winston-Salem,
necessary to effect a widening of White Street, in accordance with
such action as the City of Winston-Salem may take for the widening
of the said street, and to this end the City of Winston-Salem, through
its duly constituted agents, is authorized to disinter and remove
bodies upon that part of the graveyard or burial ground affected by
the proposed change; provided, however, that any bodies so moved
shall be re-interred in another part of the said cemetery or in some
other cemetery or burial ground at the expense of the City of
Winston-Salem.
SECTION 2: This Act shall apply only to the City of Winston-Salem
SECTION 3: This act shall be in force and effect from and after its
ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd
day of March, A.D., 1937
NC GENERAL STATUTE § 160A‑343. Authority to abandon cemeteries.: A city shall have authority to abandon any cemetery that has not been used for
interment purposes within 10 years. Upon abandonment, all monuments, tombstones, and the contents of all graves within the cemetery shall be transferred at city
expense to another city cemetery, or to a cemetery licensed by the State Burial Association Commissioner. After the transfer of monuments, tombstones, and the contents
of graves, the city may take possession of, convey, or use the former cemetery property for any lawful purpose. (1917, c. 136, subch. 5, s. 1; 1919, cc. 136, 237; C.S., s.
2787; 1969, c. 402; 1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
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