NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION
CHAPTER 393
HOUSE BILL 574
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BLUE RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY IN ASHE COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the cemetery located on the Blue Ridge Parkway, in Pine Swamp Township, Ashe County, North Carolina, and at or near Blue Ridge Baptist Church, be and the same is hereby incorporated under the style and name of the Blue Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery.
Sec. 2. The management and control of said cemetery shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, consisting of three members and Mrs. Helen Blackburn, Paul Owens and Edwin C. Johnston are hereby named and designated as Trustees for said cemetery.
Sec. 3. In the event of a vacancy in said Board of Trustees by death, resignation or otherwise, the surviving Trustees are authorized and empowered to select a successor.
Sec. 4. That said Trustees as herein named and those who may become their successors shall have the management and control of said cemetery and shall be empowered to receive gifts and donations to be used and expended in the upkeep and beautification of said cemetery; and said Trustees shall have the power to purchase additional land for said cemetery or receive gifts of the same and the power to lay off and sell cemetery lots.
Sec. 5. Said Trustees may select one of their number as treasurer and require him to execute an indemnity bond if they so desire; and the said treasurer shall keep a record of all receipts and expenditures which shall be open to the inspection of all the people interested in or having relatives buried in said cemetery.
Sec. 6. That said Trustees shall have all such incidental powers and duties and rights as are now vested by law in Trustees of Eleemosynary Institutions.
Sec. 7. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 8. 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 9th day of May, 1961.