NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1066

HOUSE BILL 981

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 28-105 RELATIVE TO THE PRIORITY OF FUNERAL EXPENSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 28-105, "Second Class", 1965 Cumulative Supplement is hereby further amended by adding a new sentence at the end thereof to read as follows: "The preferential limitation herein granted shall be construed to be only a limit with respect to preference of payment and shall not be construed to be a limitation on reasonable funeral expenses which may be incurred; nor shall the preferential limitation of payment in the amount of six hundred dollars ($600.00) be diminished by any Veterans Administration, Social Security or other Federal Governmental benefits awarded to the estate of the deceased or to his or her beneficiaries."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  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 3rd day of July, 1967.