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North Carolina · N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-401.3
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“It shall be illegal for any person to erect or cause to be erected any gravestone or monument bearing any inscription charging any person with the commission of a crime, and it shall be illegal for any person owning, controlling or operating any cemetery to permit such gravestone to be erected and maintained therein.”
“If such gravestone has been erected in any graveyard, cemetery or burial plot, it shall be the duty of the person having charge thereof to remove and obliterate such inscription.”
“Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.”
“(1949, c. 1075; 1969, c. 1224, s. 8; 1993, c. 539, s. 273; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)”
The earliest year in this note is 1949. That's the earliest year the note prints. It doesn't establish when this wording was enacted, took effect or first appeared.
Our reading
An epitaph that names someone as a murderer or thief isn't allowed in North Carolina. The rule reaches the cemetery too: whoever runs it can't let such a stone stand, and has a duty to remove and obliterate the inscription if one goes up.
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