Bill Summaries: H703 MEMORIALS IN VETERANS CEMETERIES.

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  • Summary date: Apr 4 2025 - View Summary

    Enacts GS 65-43.7, requiring State veterans cemeteries to make available for purchase monuments and memorials honoring those interred therein for placement within the cemetery. Specifies that "monuments and memorials" includes memorial trees, granite or marble markers, and granite or marble benches, but not headstones. Limits those cemeteries from charging more than the market rate for the memorials and monuments sold, with the proceeds to be retained by State veterans cemetery that sells them and be used solely for the purpose of maintaining, improving, or caring for that cemetery. Effective October 1, 2025.