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 Sanford
 Code of Ordinances
 Part II. SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO THE CITY

  Art. 22. - Creating a cemetery commission.  

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  • The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

    Section 1. That there is hereby created a cemetery commission for the Town of Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina to be known as the "Sanford Cemetery Commission."

    Sec. 2. That the said Sanford Cemetery Commission shall consist of seven members to be named by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sanford after the General Assembly of North Carolina shall ratify this Act, and shall be named to hold office for the terms stated so that one member shall hold office one year after appointment and other six members shall hold office for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 years respectively after appointment. Each of the persons named shall serve for the terms specified and until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. Thereafter as the terms of the members initially named expire one member shall be appointed each year by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sanford to serve for seven years. Vacancies in the commission shall be filled for the unexpired term by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sanford. The members of this commission shall serve without compensation. The commission shall at its first regular meeting appoint a chairman and secretary and such other officers as it shall deem necessary and it shall adopt rules and regulations to govern its procedure.

    Sec. 3. The Sanford Cemetery Commission shall have full charge of city cemetery property owned or controlled by the Town of Sanford and shall be charged with the duty of supervising and maintaining the same.

    Sec. 4. The said Sanford Cemetery Commission shall have the right to accept any grant, lease, loan or devise of real estate given for cemetery purposes to the Town of Sanford or any gift or bequest of money or any donation to be applied of principal or interest for the use, maintenance and perpetual care of the cemeteries of the town.

    Sec. 5. All funds belonging to the perpetual care of city cemeteries shall be held by the town treasurer together with any additional gifts or bequests thereto and the use of income of said funds shall be controlled by the Sanford Cemetery Commission. All funds so held by the Town of Sanford for cemetery purposes shall be segregated at all times and shall not be mingled with any other funds belonging to the Town of Sanford.

    Sec. 6. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

    Sec. 7. That this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

    In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of March, 1949.

(Session Laws of 1949, chapter 435)