1915_private laws_284_72
CHAPTER 283 AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PRESENT CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON AND ALL AMENDMENTS TO SAID CHARTER, AND TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. Name, Rights, and Liabilities.
The town of Lincolnton shall have power, by ordinance duly passed, to regulate burial-grounds, crematories, and cemeteries, and to prevent burial within the town limits, if deemed advisable or if found necessary to protect the public health, and to condemn and close burial-grounds and cemeteries in the thickly settled portions of the town. The town of Lincolnton shall have power to acquire land and grounds inside or outside of the town limits, by purchase, gift, or otherwise, to be devoted and used for the purpose of a public and private cemetery, and to pass such suitable regulations concerning the burial of the dead in such cemetery or in the cemeteries now owned by the town, and make such charges for the burial of the dead therein as may be deemed proper by the town council; and the said town shall have power to appropriate private property lying within or without the town limits to be used and devoted for cemetery purposes, as herein stated, by condemnation proceedings brought for such purpose, and in all such cases the proceedings had to condemn shall conform to provisions hereinbefore contained for condemnation of land for streets in article six hereof.