RCW 68.28.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 28 / Section 070
RCW 68.28.070: Construction in compliance with existing laws.
Status: in_force

The penalties of *this act shall not apply as to any building which, at the time of construction was constructed in compliance with the laws then existing, if its use is not in violation of the laws for the protection of public health.
RCW 68.05.210 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 210
RCW 68.05.210: Proof of applicant's compliance with laws and financial responsibility.
Status: in_force

The board may require such proof as it deems advisable concerning the compliance by such applicant to all the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances and orders applicable to it. The board shall also require proof that the applicant and its officers and directors are financially responsible, in order that only cemeteries of permanent benefit to the community in which they are located will be established in this state.
RCW 68.28.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 28 / Section 030
RCW 68.28.030: Standards of construction.
Status: in_force

No building or structure intended to be used for the placement of human remains shall be constructed, and a building not used for the placement of human remains shall not be altered for use or used for interment purposes, unless constructed of such material and workmanship as will ensure its durability and permanence as dictated and determined at the time by modern mausoleum construction and engineering science.
RCW 68.50.105 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 105
RCW 68.50.105: Autopsies, postmortems—Reports and records confidential—Exceptions.
Status: in_force

(1) Reports and records of autopsies or postmortems shall be confidential, except that the following persons may examine and obtain copies of any such report or record: The personal representative of the decedent as defined in RCW 11.02.005 , any family member, the attending physician or *advanced registered nurse practitioner, the prosecuting attorney or law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction, public health officials, the department of labor and industries in cases in which it has an interest under RCW 68.50.103 , the secretary of the department of children, youth, and families or his or her designee in cases being reviewed under RCW 74.13.640 , or the secretary of the department of social and health services or his or her designee under chapter 74.34 RCW. (2)(a) Notwithstanding the restrictions contained in this section regarding the dissemination of records and reports of autopsies or postmortems, nor the exemptions referenced under RCW 42.56.240 (1), nothing in this chapter prohibits a coroner, medical examiner, or his or her designee, from publicly discussing his or her findings as to any death subject to the jurisdiction of his or her office where actions of a law enforcement officer or corrections officer have been determined to be a proximate cause of the death, except as provided in (b) of this subsection. (b) A coroner, medical examiner, or his or her designee may not publicly discuss his or her findings outside of formal court or inquest proceedings if there is a pending or active criminal investigation, or a criminal or civil action, concerning a death that has commenced prior to January 1, 2014. (3) The coroner, the medical examiner, or the attending physician shall, upon request, meet with the family of the decedent to discuss the findings of the autopsy or postmortem. For the purposes of this section, the term "family" means the surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, or any child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, or sister of the decedent, or any person who was guardian of the decedent at the time of death.
RCW 68.60.055 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 60 / Section 055
RCW 68.60.055: Skeletal human remains—Duty to notify—Ground disturbing activities—Coroner determination—Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who discovers skeletal human remains shall notify the coroner and local law enforcement in the most expeditious manner possible. Any person knowing of the existence of skeletal human remains and not having good reason to believe that the coroner and local law enforcement has notice thereof and who fails to give notice thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2) Any person engaged in ground disturbing activity and who encounters or discovers skeletal human remains in or on the ground shall: (a) Immediately cease any activity which may cause further disturbance; (b) Make a reasonable effort to protect the area from further disturbance; (c) Report the presence and location of the remains to the coroner and local law enforcement in the most expeditious manner possible; and (d) Be held harmless from criminal and civil liability arising under the provisions of this section provided the following criteria are met: (i) The finding of the remains was based on inadvertent discovery; (ii) The requirements of the subsection are otherwise met; and (iii) The person is otherwise in compliance with applicable law. (3) The coroner must make a determination whether the skeletal human remains are forensic or nonforensic within five business days of receiving notification of a finding of such remains provided that there is sufficient evidence to make such a determination within that time period. The coroner will retain jurisdiction over forensic remains. (a) Upon determination that the remains are nonforensic, the coroner must notify the department of archaeology and historic preservation within two business days. The department will have jurisdiction over such remains until provenance of the remains is established. A determination that remains are nonforensic does not create a presumption of removal or nonremoval. (b) Upon receiving notice from a coroner of a finding of nonforensic skeletal human remains, the department must notify the appropriate local cemeteries, and all affected Indian tribes via certified mail to the head of the appropriate tribal government, and contact the appropriate tribal cultural resources staff within two business days of the finding. The determination of what are appropriate local cemeteries to be notified is at the discretion of the department. A notification to tribes of a finding of such nonforensic skeletal human remains does not create a presumption that the remains are Indian. (c) The state physical anthropologist must make an initial determination of whether nonforensic skeletal human remains are Indian or non-Indian to the extent possible based on the remains within two business days of notification of a finding of such nonforensic remains. If the remains are determined to be Indian, the department must notify all affected Indian tribes via certified mail to the head of the appropriate tribal government within two business days and contact the appropriate tribal cultural resources staff. (d) The affected tribes have five business days to respond via telephone or writing to the department as to their interest in the remains. (4) For the purposes of this section: (a) "Affected tribes" are: (i) Those federally recognized tribes with usual and accustomed areas in the jurisdiction where the remains were found; (ii) Those federally recognized tribes that submit to the department maps that reflect the tribe's geographical area of cultural affiliation; and (iii) Other tribes with historical and cultural affiliation in the jurisdiction where the remains were found. (b) "Forensic remains" are those that come under the jurisdiction of the coroner pursuant to RCW 68.50.010 . (c) "Inadvertent discovery" has the same meaning as used in RCW 27.44.040 . (5) Nothing in this section constitutes, advocates, or otherwise grants, confers, or implies federal or state recognition of those tribes that are not federally recognized pursuant to 25 C.F.R. part 83, procedures for establishing that an American Indian group exists as an Indian tribe.
RCW 68.46.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 100
RCW 68.46.100: Prearrangement contract requirements.
Status: in_force

Every prearrangement contract shall contain language which informs the purchaser of the prearrangement trust fund and the amount to be deposited in the prearrangement trust fund. The amount deposited to the prearrangement trust fund must meet the requirements of RCW 68.46.030 . Every prearrangement contract shall contain language prominently featured on the face of the contract disclosing to the purchaser what items will be delivered before need, either stored or installed, and thus not subject to funding or refund. Every prearrangement contract for the sale of unconstructed crypts, niches, or undeveloped property shall contain language which informs the purchaser that sales of unconstructed or undeveloped property are subject to the provisions of RCW 68.46.030 .
RCW 68.56.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 56 / Section 050
RCW 68.56.050: Defendant liable for costs.
Status: in_force

Every person who violates any provision of *this act is guilty of a misdemeanor, and in addition is liable for all costs, expenses, and disbursements paid or incurred by a person prosecuting the case.
RCW 68.28.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 28 / Section 060
RCW 68.28.060: Improper construction a nuisance—Penalty.
Status: in_force

Every owner or operator of a mausoleum or columbarium erected in violation of *this act is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance. A violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor.
RCW 68.44.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 010
RCW 68.44.010: Funds authorized—Investments.
Status: in_force

Any cemetery authority not exempt under chapter 68.40 RCW shall establish, maintain, and operate an inviolable endowment care fund. Endowment care, special care, and other cemetery authorities' endowment care funds may be commingled for investment and the income therefrom shall be divided between the funds in the proportion that each contributed to the sum invested. The funds shall be held in the name of the trustees appointed by the cemetery authority with the words "endowment care fund" being a part of the name.
RCW 68.60.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 60 / Section 010
RCW 68.60.010: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Abandoned cemetery" means a burial ground of the human dead: (a) For which the county assessor can find no record of an owner; (b) Where the last known owner is deceased and lawful conveyance of the title has not been made; or (c) In which the cemetery company, cemetery association, corporation, or other organization that formed for the purposes of burying the human dead: (i) Has disbanded, has been administratively dissolved by the secretary of state, or has otherwise ceased to exist, and for which title has not been conveyed; or (ii) No longer has a valid certificate of authority as determined by the funeral and cemetery board. (2) "Cemetery" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 68.04.040 . (3) "Historic grave" means a grave or graves that were placed outside a cemetery dedicated pursuant to this chapter and to chapter 68.24 RCW, prior to June 7, 1990, except Indian graves and burial cairns protected under chapter 27.44 RCW. (4) "Historical cemetery" means any burial site or grounds which contain within them human remains buried prior to November 11, 1889; except that (a) cemeteries holding a valid certificate of authority to operate granted under RCW 68.05.115 and 68.05.215 , (b) cemeteries owned or operated by any recognized religious denomination that qualifies for an exemption from real estate taxation under RCW 84.36.020 on any of its churches or the ground upon which any of its churches are or will be built, and (c) cemeteries controlled or operated by a coroner, county, city, town, or cemetery district shall not be considered historical cemeteries.
RCW 68.44.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 020
RCW 68.44.020: Use and care of funds.
Status: in_force

Endowment care funds shall not be used for any purpose other than to provide, through income only, for the endowment care stipulated in the instrument by which the fund was established. Endowment care funds shall be kept separate and distinct from all assets of the cemetery authority. Endowment care principal shall remain inviolable and may not be reduced in any way not found within RCW 11.100.020 .Any archaeologist or interested person may copy and examine such glyptic or painted records or examine the surface of any such cairn or grave, but no such record or archaeological material from any such cairn or grave may be removed unless the same shall be destined for reburial or perpetual preservation in a duly recognized archaeological repository and permission for scientific research and removal of specimens of such records and material has been granted by the state historic preservation officer. Whenever a request for permission to remove records or material is received, the state historic preservation officer shall notify the affected Indian tribe or tribes.
RCW 68.20.063 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 063
RCW 68.20.063: Specific powers—Regulation or prohibition as to the erection of monuments, effigies, etc.
Status: in_force

It may regulate or prohibit the erection of monuments, markers, effigies, and structures within any portion of the cemetery.
RCW 68.60.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 60 / Section 060
RCW 68.60.060: Violations—Civil liability.
Status: in_force

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is liable in a civil action by and in the name of the department of archaeology and historic preservation to pay all damages occasioned by their unlawful acts. The sum recovered shall be applied in payment for the repair and restoration of the property injured or destroyed and to the care fund if one is established.
RCW 68.24.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 020
RCW 68.24.020: Surveys and maps.
Status: in_force

Every cemetery authority, from time to time as its property may be required for cemetery purposes, shall: (1) In case of land, survey and subdivide it into sections, blocks, plots, avenues, walks, or other subdivisions; make a good and substantial map or plat showing the sections, plots, avenues, walks or other subdivisions, with descriptive names or numbers. (2) In case of a mausoleum, or columbarium, it shall make a good and substantial map or plat on which shall be delineated the sections, halls, rooms, corridors, elevation, and other divisions, with descriptive names or numbers.The director of the department of enterprise services is hereby authorized and directed to contract with Olympia Lodge No. 1, F.& A.M., a corporation for the improvement and perpetual care of the state veterans' plot in the Masonic cemetery at Olympia; such care to include the providing of proper curbs and walks, cultivating, reseeding and fertilizing grounds, repairing and resetting the bases and monuments in place on the ground, leveling grounds, and transporting and setting headstones for graves of persons hereafter buried on the plot.
RCW 68.24.150 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 150
RCW 68.24.150: Unlawful employment of others to dispose of human remains.
Status: in_force

Every person who pays, causes to be paid, or offers to pay to any other person, firm, or corporation, directly or indirectly, except as provided in RCW 68.24.140 , any commission, bonus, or rebate, or other thing of value in consideration of recommending or causing the disposition of human remains in any cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction facility or cemetery, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Each violation constitutes a separate offense.
RCW 68.04.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 100
RCW 68.04.100: "Interment."
Status: in_force

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"Interment" means the placement of human remains in a cemetery.
RCW 68.05.360 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 360
RCW 68.05.360: Board action against authorities—Hearing location—Decision—Review.
Status: in_force

Any administrative hearing under RCW 68.05.320 may be held at such place as is designated by the board and shall be conducted in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW. Within sixty days after the hearing the board shall render a decision which shall include findings of fact upon which the decision is based and shall issue and serve upon each party to the proceeding an order or orders consistent with RCW 68.05.320 . Review of the decision shall be as provided in chapter 34.05 RCW.
RCW 68.46.175 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 175
RCW 68.46.175: Unconstructed crypts, etc., as part of contract—Requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) A cemetery authority that enters into prearrangement contracts for the sale of unconstructed crypts, niches, or undeveloped property, or that conveys undeveloped property by gift, shall maintain an adequate inventory of constructed crypts or niches and developed property. The inventory shall be a minimum of ten percent of the unconstructed or undeveloped property sales. The inventory shall be equal or better in quality than the unconstructed crypts or niches, or undeveloped property if they were constructed or developed. (2) If the death of a purchaser or owner of an unconstructed crypt, niche, or undeveloped property occurs before the property is constructed or developed, the cemetery authority shall provide a constructed crypt, niche, or developed property of equal or better quality without additional cost or charge. (3) If two or more unconstructed crypts, niches, or undeveloped properties are conveyed with the intention that the crypts, niches, or properties shall be contiguous to each other or maintained together as a group and the death of any one purchaser or owner in such group occurs before the unconstructed crypts, niches, or undeveloped property is developed, the cemetery authority shall provide additional constructed crypts, niches, or developed property of equal or better quality, contiguous to each other or together as a group, as originally intended, to other purchasers or owners in the group without additional cost or charge. (4) The representative of the deceased purchaser may agree to the placement of the decedent in a temporary crypt, niche, or grave until the construction is completed and the decedent is placed in the new crypt, niche, or grave. (5) Prearrangement sales of unconstructed crypts, niches, or undeveloped property must meet the requirements of RCW 68.46.030 .
RCW 68.36.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 36 / Section 020
RCW 68.36.020: Notice—Requirements—Limitation on placing.
Status: in_force

Cemetery management shall place a suitable notice on each unoccupied space, setting forth the date the notice is placed and that the unoccupied space is subject to forfeiture and sale by the cemetery. If the owner of the unoccupied space fails during the next three years following the date of the notice to maintain or care for the unoccupied space, the cemetery may reclaim the unoccupied space. However, such a notice cannot be placed on the unoccupied space in any cemetery lot until twenty years have elapsed since the last interment in any such lot of a member of the immediate family of the record owner.
RCW 68.46.040 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 040
RCW 68.46.040: Prearrangement trust funds—Deposit of funds.
Status: in_force

(1) All prearrangement trust funds must be deposited in a commercial bank, trust company, mutual savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union, whether state or federally chartered. Such accounts must be designated as the "prearrangement trust fund" by name and the particular cemetery authority for the benefit of the beneficiaries named in any prearrangement contract. (2) All prearrangement trust funds must be invested in accordance with the provisions of RCW 11.100.020 subject to the following restrictions: (a) No officer or director of the cemetery authority, trustee of the prearrangement trust funds, or spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent, or issue of such officer, director, or trustee, may borrow any of such funds for himself or herself, directly or indirectly; (b) No funds may be loaned to the cemetery authority, its agents, or employees, or to any corporation, partnership, or other business entity in which the cemetery authority has any ownership interest; and (c) No funds may be invested with persons or business entities operating in a business field directly related to cemeteries.
RCW 68.44.090 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 090
RCW 68.44.090: Covenant to care for cemetery.
Status: in_force

Upon payment of the purchase price and the contribution for endowment care, a deed of conveyance or other instrument may include an agreement to care for the cemetery, on an endowment basis to the extent the income will permit.
RCW 68.40.085 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 40 / Section 085
RCW 68.40.085: Representing fund as perpetual—Penalty.
Status: in_force

It is a misdemeanor for any cemetery authority, its officers, employees, or agents, or a cemetery broker or salesperson to represent that an endowment care fund, or any other fund set up for maintaining care, is perpetual.
RCW 68.04.260 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 260
RCW 68.04.260: "Scattering garden."
Status: in_force

"Scattering garden" means a designated area in a cemetery for the scattering of human remains.
RCW 68.04.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 060
RCW 68.04.060: "Mausoleum."
Status: in_force

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"Mausoleum" means a structure or building for the entombment of human remains in crypts in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes.
RCW 68.05.330 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 330
RCW 68.05.330: Violation—Penalty—Unfair practice—Other laws applicable.
Status: in_force

Unless specified otherwise in this title, any person who violates or aids or abets any person in the violation of any of the provisions of this title shall be guilty of a class C felony punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW. A violation shall constitute an unfair practice under chapter 19.86 RCW and shall be grounds for disciplinary action against the certificate of authority or any other license issued by the board under this chapter and chapter 18.235 RCW. Retail installment transactions under this chapter shall be governed by chapter 63.14 RCW. The provisions of this chapter shall not affect any other remedy available at law.
RCW 68.20.067 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 067
RCW 68.20.067: Specific powers—Rules and regulations for general purposes.
Status: in_force

It may make and enforce rules and regulations for all other purposes deemed necessary by the cemetery authority for the proper conduct of the business of the cemetery, for the transfer of any plot or the right of interment, and the protection and safeguarding of the premises, and the principles, plans, and ideals on which the cemetery is conducted.
RCW 68.32.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 010
RCW 68.32.010: Presumption as to title.
Status: in_force

All plots or rights of interment conveyed to individuals are presumed to be the sole and separate property rights of the owner named in the instrument of conveyance.
RCW 68.52.130 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 130
RCW 68.52.130: Hearing—Inclusion and exclusion of lands.
Status: in_force

At the time and place fixed for the hearing on the petition or at any adjournment thereof, the county legislative authority must hear the petition and receive such evidence as it may deem material in favor of or opposed to the formation of the proposed cemetery district or to the inclusion or exclusion of any lands in the proposed district, but no lands not within the boundaries of the proposed district as described in the petition may be included without a written waiver describing the land, executed by all persons having any interest of record therein, having been filed in the proceedings. No land within the boundaries described in the petition may be excluded from the proposed district.
RCW 68.05.150 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 150
RCW 68.05.150: Examination of funds—Powers, duties.
Status: in_force

In making such examination the board: (1) Shall have free access to the books and records relating to the endowment care funds and prearrangement trust funds; (2) Shall inspect and examine the endowment care funds and prearrangement trust funds to determine their condition and the status of the investments; and (3) Shall verify that the cemetery authority has complied with all the laws applicable to endowment care funds and prearrangement trust funds.
RCW 68.50.645 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 645
RCW 68.50.645: Skeletal human remains—Duty to notify—Ground disturbing activities—Coroner determination—Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) It is the duty of every person who knows of the existence and location of skeletal human remains to notify the coroner and local law enforcement in the most expeditious manner possible, unless such person has good reason to believe that such notice has already been given. Any person knowing of the existence of skeletal human remains and not having good reason to believe that the coroner and local law enforcement has notice thereof and who fails to give notice to the coroner and local law enforcement, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2) Any person engaged in ground disturbing activity and who encounters or discovers skeletal human remains in or on the ground shall: (a) Immediately cease any activity which may cause further disturbance; (b) Make a reasonable effort to protect the area from further disturbance; (c) Report the presence and location of the remains to the coroner and local law enforcement in the most expeditious manner possible; and (d) Be held harmless from criminal and civil liability arising under the provisions of this section provided the following criteria are met: (i) The finding of the remains was based on inadvertent discovery; (ii) The requirements of the subsection are otherwise met; and (iii) The person is otherwise in compliance with applicable law. (3) The coroner must make a determination of whether the skeletal human remains are forensic or nonforensic within five business days of receiving notification of a finding of such human remains provided that there is sufficient evidence to make such a determination within that time period. The coroner will retain jurisdiction over forensic remains. (a) Upon determination that the remains are nonforensic, the coroner must notify the department of archaeology and historic preservation within two business days. The department will have jurisdiction over such remains until provenance of the remains is established. A determination that remains are nonforensic does not create a presumption of removal or nonremoval. (b) Upon receiving notice from a coroner of a finding of nonforensic skeletal human remains, the department must notify the appropriate local cemeteries, and all affected Indian tribes via certified mail to the head of the appropriate tribal government, and contact the appropriate tribal cultural resources staff within two business days of the finding. The determination of what are appropriate local cemeteries to be notified is at the discretion of the department. A notification to tribes of a finding of such nonforensic skeletal human remains does not create a presumption that the remains are Indian. (c) The state physical anthropologist must make an initial determination of whether nonforensic skeletal human remains are Indian or non-Indian to the extent possible based on the remains within two business days of notification of a finding of nonforensic remains. If the remains are determined to be Indian, the department must notify all affected Indian tribes via certified mail to the head of the appropriate tribal government within two business days and contact the appropriate tribal cultural resources staff. (d) The affected tribes have five business days to respond via telephone or writing to the department as to their interest in the remains. (4) For the purposes of this section: (a) "Affected tribes" are: (i) Those federally recognized tribes with usual and accustomed areas in the jurisdiction where the remains were found; (ii) Those federally recognized tribes that submit to the department maps that reflect the tribe's geographical area of cultural affiliation; and (iii) Other tribes with historical and cultural affiliation in the jurisdiction where the remains were found. (b) "Forensic remains" are those that come under the jurisdiction of the coroner pursuant to RCW 68.50.010 . (c) "Inadvertent discovery" has the same meaning as used in RCW 27.44.040 . (5) Nothing in this section constitutes, advocates, or otherwise grants, confers, or implies federal or state recognition of those tribes that are not federally recognized pursuant to 25 C.F.R. part 83, procedures for establishing that an American Indian group exists as an Indian tribe.
RCW 68.50.102 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 102
RCW 68.50.102: Court petition for autopsy—Cost.
Status: in_force

Any party by showing just cause may petition the court to have autopsy made and results thereof made known to said party at his or her own expense.
RCW 68.20.064 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 064
RCW 68.20.064: Specific powers—Regulation of plants and shrubs.
Status: in_force

It may regulate or prevent the introduction or care of plants or shrubs within the cemetery.
RCW 68.40.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 40 / Section 010
RCW 68.40.010: Cemetery authorities—Deposit in endowment care fund required.
Status: in_force

A cemetery authority not exempt under this chapter shall deposit in an endowment care fund not less than the following amounts for plots or interment rights sold: Ten percent of the gross sales price for each grave, niche, or crypt. In the event that a cemetery authority sells an interment right at a price that is less than its current list price, or gives away, bequeaths, or otherwise gives title to an interment right, the interment right shall be endowed at the rate at which it would normally be endowed. The deposits shall be made not later than the twentieth day of the month following the final payment on the sale price. If a contract for interment rights is sold, pledged, or otherwise encumbered as security for a loan by the cemetery authority, the cemetery authority shall pay into the endowment care fund ten percent of the gross sales price of the interment right within twenty days of receipt of payment of the proceeds from such sale or loan. Any cemetery hereafter established shall have deposited in an endowment care fund the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars before selling any interment right.
RCW 68.50.140 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 140
RCW 68.50.140: Unlawful disturbance, removal, or sale of human remains—Penalty.
Status: in_force

(1) Every person who removes human remains, or any part thereof, from a grave, vault, or other place where the same has been buried or deposited awaiting final disposition, without authority of law, with intent to sell the same, or for the purpose of securing a reward for its return, or for dissection, or from malice or wantonness, is guilty of a class C felony. (2) Every person who purchases or receives, except for burial or final disposition, human remains or any part thereof, knowing that the same has been removed contrary to the foregoing provisions, is guilty of a class C felony. (3) Every person who opens a grave or other place of interment, temporary or otherwise, or a building where human remains are placed, with intent to sell or remove the casket, urn, or of any part thereof, or anything attached thereto, or any vestment, or other article interred, or intended to be interred with the human remains, is guilty of a class C felony. (4) Every person who removes, disinters, or mutilates human remains from a place of interment, without authority of law, is guilty of a class C felony.
RCW 68.32.130 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 130
RCW 68.32.130: Waiver of right of placement.
Status: in_force

Any surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, parent, child, or heir having a right of placement in a family plot may waive such right in favor of any other relative, spouse, or state registered domestic partner of a relative of the deceased owner. Upon such a waiver, the remains of the person in whose favor the waiver is made may be placed in the plot.
RCW 68.24.180 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 180
RCW 68.24.180: Opening of roads, railroads through cemetery—Consent required.
Status: in_force

After dedication under this title, and as long as the property remains dedicated to cemetery purposes, a railroad, street, road, alley, pipe line, pole line, or other public thoroughfare or utility shall not be laid out, through, over, or across any part of it without the consent of the cemetery authority or of not less than two-thirds of the owners of plots or rights of interment.
RCW 68.64.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 100
RCW 68.64.100: Persons to whom an anatomical gift may be made.
Status: in_force

(1) An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons named in the document of gift: (a) For research or education: A hospital; an accredited medical school, dental school, college, or university; or an organ procurement organization; (b) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, an individual designated by the person making the anatomical gift if the individual is the recipient of the part; (c) An eye bank or tissue bank. (2) If an anatomical gift to an individual under subsection (1)(b) of this section cannot be transplanted into the individual, the part passes in accordance with subsection (7) of this section in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the person making the anatomical gift. (3) If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts or of all parts is made in a document of gift that does not name a person described in subsection (1) of this section but identifies the purpose for which an anatomical gift may be used, the following rules apply: (a) If the part is an eye and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy, the gift passes to the appropriate eye bank. (b) If the part is tissue and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy, the gift passes to the appropriate tissue bank. (c) If the part is an organ and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy, the gift passes to the appropriate organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ. (d) If the part is an organ, an eye, or tissue and the gift is for the purpose of research or education, the gift passes to the appropriate procurement organization. (4) For the purpose of subsection (3) of this section, if there is more than one purpose of an anatomical gift set forth in the document of gift but the purposes are not set forth in any priority, the gift must be used for transplantation or therapy, if suitable. If the gift cannot be used for transplantation or therapy, the gift may be used for research or education. (5) If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts is made in a document of gift that does not name a person described in subsection (1) of this section and does not identify the purpose of the gift, the gift may be used only for transplantation or therapy, and the gift passes in accordance with subsection (7) of this section. (6) If a document of gift specifies only a general intent to make an anatomical gift by words such as "donor," "organ donor," or "body donor," or by a symbol or statement of similar import, the gift may be used only for transplantation or therapy, and the gift passes in accordance with subsection (7) of this section. (7) For purposes of subsections (2), (5), and (6) of this section the following rules apply: (a) If the part is an eye, the gift passes to the appropriate eye bank. (b) If the part is tissue, the gift passes to the appropriate tissue bank. (c) If the part is an organ, the gift passes to the appropriate organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ. (8) An anatomical gift of an organ for transplantation or therapy, other than an anatomical gift under subsection (1)(b) of this section, passes to the organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ. (9) If an anatomical gift does not pass pursuant to subsections (1) through (8) of this section or the decedent's body or part is not used for transplantation, therapy, research, or education, custody of the body or part passes to the person under obligation to dispose of the body or part. (10) A person may not accept an anatomical gift if the person knows that the gift was not effectively made under RCW 68.64.040 or 68.64.090 or if the person knows that the decedent made a refusal under RCW 68.64.060 that was not revoked. For purposes of this subsection (10), if a person knows that an anatomical gift was made on a document of gift, the person is deemed to know of any amendment or revocation of the gift or any refusal to make an anatomical gift on the same document of gift. (11) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (1)(b) of this section, nothing in this chapter affects the allocation of organs for transplantation or therapy.
RCW 68.05.195 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 195
RCW 68.05.195: Burial or scatter of human remains—Permit.
Status: in_force

Any person other than persons defined in RCW 68.50.160 who buries or scatters human remains by land, air, or sea or performs any other disposition of human remains outside of a cemetery must have a permit issued in accordance with RCW 68.05.100 and are subject to that section.
RCW 68.04.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 080
RCW 68.04.080: "Columbarium."
Status: in_force

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"Columbarium" means a structure, room, or other space in a building or structure containing niches for permanent placement of human remains in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes.
RCW 68.04.130 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 130
RCW 68.04.130: "Entombment."
Status: in_force

"Entombment" means the placement of human remains in a crypt.
RCW 68.56.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 56 / Section 070
RCW 68.56.070: Forfeiture of office for inattention to duty.
Status: in_force

The office of any director or officer who acts or permits action contrary to *this act immediately thereupon becomes vacant.
RCW 68.46.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 010
RCW 68.46.010: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Board" means the funeral and cemetery board established under RCW 18.39.173 or its authorized representative. (2) "Cemetery merchandise or services" and "merchandise or services" mean those services normally performed by cemetery authorities, including the sale of monuments, markers, memorials, nameplates, liners, vaults, boxes, urns, vases, interment services, or any one or more of them. (3) "Prearrangement contract" means a contract for purchase of cemetery merchandise or services, unconstructed crypts or niches, or undeveloped graves to be furnished at a future date for a specific consideration which is paid in advance by one or more payments in one sum or by installment payments. (4) "Prearrangement trust fund" means all funds required to be maintained in one or more funds for the benefit of beneficiaries by either this chapter or by the terms of a prearrangement contract, as herein defined. (5) "Undeveloped grave" means any grave in an area which a cemetery authority has not landscaped, groomed, or developed to the extent customary in the cemetery industry.
RCW 68.64.903 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 903
RCW 68.64.903: Supersedes, in part, the federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act.
Status: in_force

This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7001 et seq.) with respect to electronic signatures and anatomical gifts, but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(a) of that act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7001), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103(b) of that act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7003(b)).
RCW 68.64.180 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 180
RCW 68.64.180: Declarations or advance health care directives—Conflicts with medical suitability measures.
Status: in_force

(1) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (a) "Advance health care directive" means a power of attorney for health care or a "directive" as defined in RCW 70.122.020 . (b) "Declaration" means a record signed by a prospective donor specifying the circumstances under which a life support system may be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor. (c) "Health care decision" means any decision made regarding the health care of the prospective donor. (2) If a prospective donor has a declaration or advance health care directive, and the terms of the declaration or directive and the express or implied terms of a potential anatomical gift are in conflict with regard to the administration of measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part for transplantation or therapy, the prospective donor's attending physician and the prospective donor shall confer to resolve the conflict. If the prospective donor is incapable of resolving the conflict, an agent acting under the prospective donor's declaration or directive, or, if none or the agent is not reasonably available, another person authorized by law other than this chapter to make health care decisions on behalf of the prospective donor, shall act for the donor to resolve the conflict. The conflict must be resolved as expeditiously as possible. Information relevant to the resolution of the conflict may be obtained from the appropriate procurement organization and any other person authorized to make an anatomical gift for the prospective donor under RCW 68.64.080 . Before resolution of the conflict, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the part may not be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor if withholding or withdrawing the measures is not contraindicated by appropriate end-of-life care.
RCW 68.54.110 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 54 / Section 110
RCW 68.54.110: Merger and transfer of part of one district to adjacent district—When election dispensed with.
Status: in_force

If three-fifths of all the qualified electors in the area to be merged sign a petition to merge the districts, no election on the question of the merger is necessary, in which case the auditor shall return the petition, together with his or her certificate of sufficiency attached thereto, to the boards of the merging districts. Thereupon the boards of the respective districts shall adopt their concurrent resolutions of transfer in the same manner and to the same effect as if the same had been authorized by an election.
RCW 68.54.130 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 54 / Section 130
RCW 68.54.130: Withdrawal of territory.
Status: in_force

(1) Territory within a cemetery district may be withdrawn from the district in the same manner provided by law for withdrawal of territory from water-sewer districts, as provided by chapter 57.28 RCW, except as provided otherwise in subsections (2) and (3) of this section. (2) If a territory has qualified voters residing within it, then the territory may not be withdrawn from the cemetery district unless a special election is held and a majority of votes cast by qualified voters residing within the district approve the withdrawal. Agreement between the district board of commissioners and the county legislative authority on the findings of fact under RCW 57.28.080 does not preclude an election under this subsection. (3) If a territory has no qualified voters residing within it, then no special election is required as applied to procedures for withdrawal of territory under this section. However, if withdrawal of such territory is commenced by the district board of commissioners as provided under RCW 57.28.035 , then the territory may not be withdrawn from the cemetery district unless written approval is attained from the owners, according to the records of the county auditor or auditors, of not less than sixty percent of the area of land included in the resolution for withdrawal. The written approval must be attained within sixty days from the date of the final hearing of any county legislative authority on the resolution for withdrawal. Agreement between the district board of commissioners and the county legislative authority on the findings of fact under RCW 57.28.080 does not preclude the written approval requirement under this subsection.
RCW 68.24.250 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 250
RCW 68.24.250: Cemetery arrangements, notice requirements—Disclosure of multiple interment.
Status: reserved

(1) Every cemetery shall disclose and give to the person making cemetery arrangements a written statement, contract, or other document that indicates all the items of property, merchandise, and service that the customer is purchasing, and the price of those items. (2) Any cemetery offering single burial use of multiple interment space must include the following disclosure on the written statement, contract, or other document in conspicuous boldface type no smaller than other text provisions in the written statement, contract, or other document, to be initialed by the person making the cemetery arrangements in immediate proximity to the space reserved for the signature lines: "DISCLOSURE OF MULTIPLE INTERMENT State law provides that "multiple interment" means two or more noncremated human remains are buried in the ground, in outer burial enclosures or chambers, placed one on top of another, with a ground level surface the same size as a single grave or right of interment."
RCW 68.64.130 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 130
RCW 68.64.130: Nonnative English speakers—Interpreter services and translations.
Status: in_force

When English is not the first language of the person or persons making, amending, revoking, or refusing anatomical gifts as defined in chapter 139, Laws of 2008, organ procurement organizations are responsible for providing, at no cost, appropriate interpreter services or translations to such persons for the purpose of making such decisions.
RCW 68.50.185 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 185
RCW 68.50.185: Individual final disposition—Exception—Penalty.
Status: in_force

(1) A person authorized to dispose of human remains may not perform or cause to be performed final disposition of more than one human remains at a time unless written permission, after full and adequate disclosure regarding the manner of disposition, has been received from the person or persons under RCW 68.50.160 having the authority to order final disposition. This restriction does not apply when equipment, techniques, or devices are employed that keep human remains separate and distinct before, during, and after the final disposition process. (2) Violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor.
RCW 68.32.040 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 040
RCW 68.32.040: Descent of title to plot or right of interment.
Status: in_force

If no placement is made in a plot or right of interment, which has been transferred by deed or certificate of ownership to an individual owner, the title descends to the surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner. If there is no surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner, the title descends to the heirs at law of the owner. Following death of the owner, if all remains previously placed are lawfully removed and the owner did not dispose of the plot or right of interment by specific devise or by a written declaration filed and recorded in the office of the cemetery authority, the title descends to the surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner. If there is no surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner, the title descends to the heirs at law of the owner.
RCW 68.44.150 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 150
RCW 68.44.150: Annual report.
Status: in_force

The cemetery authority or the trustees in whose names the funds are held shall, annually, and within ninety days after the end of the calendar or fiscal year of the cemetery authority, file in its office and with the funeral and cemetery board endowment care trust fund, a report showing the actual financial condition of the funds. The report must be signed by an officer of the cemetery authority or one or more of the trustees. The report must be maintained for a period of seven years.
RCW 68.46.110 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 110
RCW 68.46.110: Compliance required.
Status: in_force

No cemetery authority shall sell, offer to sell, or authorize the sale of cemetery merchandise or services or accept funds in payment of any prearrangement contract unless such acts are performed in compliance with this title and under the authority of a valid and unsuspended certificate of authority to operate a cemetery in this state.
RCW 68.24.140 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 140
RCW 68.24.140: Commission on sales prohibited—Penalty.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for a cemetery authority to pay or offer to pay to any person, firm, or corporation, directly or indirectly, a commission or bonus or rebate or other thing of value for the sale of a plot, right of interment, or services. This shall not apply to an owner or a person regularly employed by the cemetery authority for such purpose. Each person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and each violation shall constitute a separate offense.
RCW 68.32.160 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 160
RCW 68.32.160: Conveyance of plot or right of interment to cemetery authority, effect.
Status: in_force

A cemetery authority may take and hold any plot or right of interment conveyed to it by the plot owner so that it will be nontransferable. Placements shall be restricted to the persons designated in the conveyance.
RCW 68.46.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 050
RCW 68.46.050: Withdrawals from trust funds—Notice of department of social and health services' claim.
Status: in_force

(1) A depository of prearrangement funds shall permit a cemetery authority to withdraw all funds deposited under any specific prearrangement contract plus interest accrued thereon, under the following circumstances and conditions: (a) If the cemetery authority files a verified statement with the depository that the prearrangement merchandise and services covered by a contract have been furnished and delivered; or (b) If the cemetery authority files a verified statement that a specific prearrangement contract has been canceled in accordance with its terms. (2) The department of social and health services shall notify the cemetery authority maintaining a prearrangement trust fund regulated by this chapter that the department has a claim on the estate of a beneficiary for long-term care services. Such notice shall be renewed at least every three years. The cemetery authority, upon becoming aware of the death of a beneficiary, shall give notice to the department of social and health services, office of financial recovery, who shall file any claim there may be within thirty days of the notice.
RCW 68.56.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 56 / Section 030
RCW 68.56.030: Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc.—Exceptions.
Status: in_force

The provisions of *RCW 68.48.010 do not apply to the removal or unavoidable breakage or injury, by a cemetery authority, of any thing placed in or upon any portion of its cemetery in violation of any of the rules or regulations of the cemetery authority, nor to the removal of anything placed in the cemetery by or with the consent of the cemetery authority which has become in a wrecked, unsightly or dilapidated condition.
RCW 68.44.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 080
RCW 68.44.080: Plans for care—Financing.
Status: in_force

The cemetery authority may adopt plans for the care, maintenance, and embellishment of its cemetery. A cemetery authority may charge and collect from all purchasers of plots or rights of interment a reasonable sum that will generate a fund, and the income from the fund will provide care, maintenance, and embellishment on an endowment basis.
RCW 68.36.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 36 / Section 080
RCW 68.36.080: Sale after one year.
Status: in_force

One year after the entry of the order adjudging such lot, part of lot, lots or parts of lots to have been abandoned, the owner or manager of the cemetery in which the same is located shall have the power to sell the same, in whole or in part, at public or private sale, and convey by deed good, clear and sufficient title thereto.
RCW 68.50.270 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 270
RCW 68.50.270: Possession of human remains.
Status: in_force

The person or persons determined under RCW 68.50.160 as having authority to order disposition is entitled to possession of the human remains without further intervention by the state or its political subdivisions.
RCW 68.32.170 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 170
RCW 68.32.170: Exemption from inheritance tax.
Status: in_force

Cemetery property passing to an individual by reason of the death of the owner is exempt from all inheritance taxes.
RCW 68.44.130 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 130
RCW 68.44.130: Bank or trust company as trustee.
Status: in_force

In lieu of the appointment of a board of trustees of its endowment care fund, a cemetery authority may appoint, as sole trustee of its endowment care fund, any bank or trust company qualified to engage in the trust business. The bank or trust company shall be authorized to receive and accept the endowment care fund at the time of its appointment.
RCW 68.05.173 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 173
RCW 68.05.173: Revocation, suspension of certificate or license.
Status: in_force

Upon violation of any of the provisions of this title, the board may revoke or suspend the certificate of authority or any other license issued by the board.
RCW 68.50.040 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 040
RCW 68.50.040: Deceased's effects to be listed.
Status: in_force

All jewelry, moneys, papers, and other personal property of the deceased shall be inventoried immediately upon being taken into custody by the coroner or his or her appointees. The original of such lists shall be certified to by the coroner and kept as a public record at the county morgue.
RCW 68.04.165 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 165
RCW 68.04.165: "Outer burial container."
Status: in_force

"Outer burial container" means any container which is buried in the ground for the placement of human remains in the burial process. Outer burial containers include, but are not limited to vaults, lawn crypts, and liners.
RCW 68.44.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 070
RCW 68.44.070: Use of contributions to funds.
Status: in_force

Contributions to endowment care and special care funds are permitted for charitable purposes. Endowment care and such contributions are provisions for the discharge of a duty from the persons contributing to the persons interred or to be interred in the cemetery. This provision is for the benefit and protection of the public by preserving and keeping cemeteries from becoming neglected places of disgrace in the communities they serve.
RCW 68.54.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 54 / Section 030
RCW 68.54.030: Merger—Petition—Procedure—Contents.
Status: in_force

To effect such a merger, a petition therefor shall be filed with the board of the merger district by the commissioners of the merging district. The commissioners of the merging district may sign and file the petition upon their own initiative, and they shall file such a petition when it is signed by ten percent of the registered voters resident in the merging district who voted in the last general municipal election and presented to them. The petition shall state the reasons for the merger; give a detailed statement of the district's finances, listing its assets and liabilities; state the terms and conditions under which the merger is proposed; and pray for the merger.
RCW 68.05.350 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 350
RCW 68.05.350: Delaying board action pending administrative proceedings.
Status: in_force

Within ten days after a cemetery authority has been served with a temporary cease and desist order issued under RCW 68.05.320 , the cemetery authority may apply to the superior court in the county of its principal place of business for an injunction setting aside, limiting, or suspending the order pending completion of the administrative proceedings under RCW 68.05.320 .
RCW 68.50.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 010
RCW 68.50.010: Coroner's jurisdiction over remains.
Status: in_force

The jurisdiction of bodies of all deceased persons who come to their death suddenly when in apparent good health without medical attendance within the 36 hours preceding death; or where the circumstances of death indicate death was caused by unnatural or unlawful means; or where death occurs under suspicious circumstances; or where a coroner's autopsy or postmortem or coroner's inquest is to be held; or where death results from unknown or obscure causes, or where death occurs within one year following an accident; or where the death is caused by any violence whatsoever, whether self-induced or otherwise; where death apparently results from drowning, hanging, burns, electrocution, gunshot wounds, stabs or cuts, lightning, starvation, radiation, exposure, alcoholism, narcotics or other addictions, tetanus, strangulations, suffocation or smothering; or where death is due to a violent contagious disease or suspected contagious disease which may be a public health hazard; or where death results from alleged rape, carnal knowledge or sodomy, where death occurs in a jail or prison; where a body is found dead or is not claimed by relatives or friends, is hereby vested in the county coroner or medical examiner, which bodies may be removed and placed in the morgue under such rules as are adopted by the coroner or medical examiner with the approval of the county commissioners, having jurisdiction, providing therein how the bodies shall be brought to and cared for at the morgue and held for the proper identification where necessary.
RCW 68.50.210 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 210
RCW 68.50.210: Notice for order to remove remains.
Status: in_force

Notice of application to the court for such permission shall be given, at least ten days prior thereto, personally, or at least fifteen days prior thereto if by mail, to the cemetery authority and to the persons not consenting, and to every other person on whom service of notice may be required by the court.
RCW 68.52.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 080
RCW 68.52.080: Books of account—Audit.
Status: in_force

Accurate books of account shall be kept of all transactions pertaining to said fund, which books shall be open to the public for inspection and shall be audited by the auditing committee of said city.
RCW 68.64.170 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 170
RCW 68.64.170: Liability.
Status: in_force

(1) A person who acts in accordance with this chapter or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good faith to do so, is not liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution, or administrative proceeding. (2) Neither the person making an anatomical gift nor the donor's estate is liable for any injury or damage that results from the making or use of the gift. (3) In determining whether an anatomical gift has been made, amended, or revoked under this chapter, a person may rely upon representations of an individual listed in RCW 68.64.080 (1) (b) through (g) relating to the individual's relationship to the donor or prospective donor unless the person knows that the representation is untrue.
RCW 68.46.125 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 125
RCW 68.46.125: Certain cemeteries exempt from chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to any cemetery controlled and operated by a coroner, county, city, town, or cemetery district.
RCW 68.50.090 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 090
RCW 68.50.090: Penalty.
Status: in_force

Any person violating any provision of RCW 68.50.060 through 68.50.080 shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
RCW 68.50.240 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 240
RCW 68.50.240: Record of human remains to be kept.
Status: in_force

The person in charge of any premises on which final dispositions are made must keep a record of all human remains on the premises under his or her charge, in each case stating the name of each deceased person, date of final disposition, and name and address of the funeral establishment.
RCW 68.50.170 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 170
RCW 68.50.170: Effect of authorization.
Status: in_force

Any person signing any authorization for the interment, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction of any human remains warrants the truthfulness of any fact set forth in the authorization, the identity of the person whose human remains are sought to undergo final disposition, and his or her authority to order such. That person is personally liable for all damage occasioned by or resulting from breach of such warranty.
RCW 68.46.170 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 170
RCW 68.46.170: Sales licenses—Requirement.
Status: in_force

No cemetery authority shall enter into prearrangement contracts in this state unless the cemetery authority has obtained a prearrangement sales license issued by the board or its authorized representative and such license is then current and valid.
RCW 68.64.210 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 210
RCW 68.64.210: Organ and tissue donation awareness account.
Status: in_force

(1) The organ and tissue donation awareness account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from donations made under RCW 46.16A.090 (2), and other contributions and appropriations specifically made for the purposes of organ and tissue donor awareness, shall be deposited into the account. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, expenditures from the account may be authorized by the director of the department of licensing or the director's designee and do not require an appropriation. (2) The department of licensing shall submit a funding request to the legislature covering the reasonable costs associated with the ongoing maintenance associated with the electronic transfer of the donor information to the organ and tissue donor registry and the donation program established in RCW 46.16A.090 (2). The legislature shall appropriate to the department of licensing an amount it deems reasonable from the organ and tissue donation awareness account to the department of licensing for these purposes. (3) At least quarterly, the department of licensing shall transmit any remaining moneys in the organ and tissue donation awareness account to the foundation established in RCW 46.16A.090 (2) for the costs associated with educating the public about the organ and tissue donor registry and related organ and tissue donation education programs. (4) Funding for donation awareness programs must be proportional across the state regardless of which Washington state organ procurement organization may be designated by the United States department of health and human services to serve a particular geographic area. No funds from the account may be used to fund activities outside Washington state.
RCW 68.05.225 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 225
RCW 68.05.225: Sales licenses—Terms—Fees.
Status: in_force

All prearrangement sales licenses issued under this chapter shall be issued for the year and shall expire at midnight, the 31st day of March of each year, or at whatever time during any year that ownership or control of any cemetery authority is transferred or sold. The director, in accordance with RCW 43.24.086 , shall set and the department shall collect in advance the fees required for licensing.
RCW 68.52.180 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 180
RCW 68.52.180: Review—When district formation is complete.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person, firm, or corporation having a substantial interest involved, and feeling aggrieved by any finding, determination, or resolution of the county legislative authority under the provisions of this chapter, may appeal within five days after the finding, determination, or resolution was made to the superior court of the county in the same manner as provided by law for appeals from orders of the county legislative authority. (2) After the expiration of five days from the date of the resolution declaring the district formed, and upon filing of certified copies of the resolution in the offices of the county auditor and county assessor, the formation of the cemetery district is complete and its legal existence may not thereafter be questioned by any person by reason of any defect in the proceedings for the formation of the cemetery district.
RCW 68.64.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 020
RCW 68.64.020: Scope.
Status: in_force

This chapter applies to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of, or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made.
RCW 68.05.320 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 320
RCW 68.05.320: Board action against authorities—Administrative procedures.
Status: in_force

(1) The board or its authorized representative may issue and serve upon a cemetery authority a notice of charges if in the opinion of the board or its authorized representative the cemetery authority: (a) Is engaging in or has engaged in practices likely to endanger the future delivery of cemetery merchandise or services, unconstructed crypts or niches, or undeveloped graves; (b) Is violating or has violated any statute of the state of Washington or any rule of the board; or (c) Is about to do an act prohibited in (a) or (b) of this subsection when the opinion is based upon reasonable cause. (2) The notice shall contain a statement of the facts constituting the alleged violation or practice and shall fix a time and place at which a hearing will be held to determine whether an order to cease and desist should issue against the cemetery authority. The hearing shall be set not earlier than ten nor later than thirty days after service of the notice unless a later date is set by the board or its authorized representative at the request of the cemetery authority. Unless the cemetery authority appears at the hearing by a duly authorized representative it shall be deemed to have consented to the issuance of a cease and desist order. In the event of this consent or if upon the record made at the hearing the board finds that any violation or practice specified in the notice of charges has been established, the board may issue and serve upon the cemetery authority an order to cease and desist from the violation or practice. The order may require the cemetery authority and its directors, officers, employees, and agents to cease and desist from the violation or practice and may require the cemetery authority to take affirmative action to correct the conditions resulting from the violation or practice. (3) A cease and desist order shall become effective at the expiration of ten days after service of the order upon the cemetery authority except that a cease and desist order issued upon consent shall become effective as provided in the order unless it is stayed, modified, terminated, or set aside by action of the board or a reviewing court. (4) The powers of the board under this section are in addition to the power of the board to take disciplinary action against a cemetery authority's prearrangement sales license.
RCW 68.50.330 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 330
RCW 68.50.330: Identification of body or human remains by dental examination—Comparison of dental examination records with dental records of dental identification system.
Status: in_force

If the county coroner or county medical examiner investigating a death is unable to establish the identity of a body or human remains by visual means, fingerprints, or other identifying data, he or she shall have a qualified dentist, as determined by the county coroner or county medical examiner, carry out a dental examination of the body or human remains. If the county coroner or county medical examiner with the aid of the dental examination and other identifying findings is still unable to establish the identity of the body or human remains, he or she shall prepare and forward such dental examination records within thirty days of the date the body or human remains were found to the dental identification system of the state patrol identification and criminal history section on forms supplied by the state patrol for such purposes. The dental identification system shall act as a repository or computer center or both with respect to such dental examination records. It shall compare such dental examination records with dental records filed with it and shall determine which scoring probabilities are the highest for the purposes of identification. It shall then submit such information to the county coroner or county medical examiner who prepared and forwarded the dental examination records. If the body or human remains are still unidentified thirty days after discovery, the county coroner or county medical examiner investigating the death must, as soon as practicable, submit information regarding the body or remains to the national missing and unidentified persons system created by the United States department of justice's national institute of justice. Information submitted to the national missing and unidentified persons system must include, to the extent information is available, a detailed personal description, DNA information, copies of fingerprints on standardized eight inch by eight inch fingerprint cards or the equivalent digital image, forensic dental examination records, and other identifying data, including date and place of death. If the identity of the body or human remains is later established, the county coroner or county medical examiner must notify the national missing and unidentified persons system within forty-eight hours.
RCW 68.50.230 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 230
RCW 68.50.230: Human remains that have not been disposed—Rules.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever any human remains shall have been in the lawful possession of any person, firm, corporation, county, or association for a period of 45 days or more, and the relatives of, or persons interested in, the deceased person shall fail, neglect, or refuse to direct the disposition, the human remains may be disposed of by the person, firm, corporation, county, or association having such lawful possession thereof, under and in accordance with rules adopted by the funeral and cemetery board, not inconsistent with any statute of the state of Washington or rule adopted by the state board of health. (2)(a) The department of veterans affairs may certify that the deceased person to whom subsection (1) of this section applies was a veteran or the dependent of a veteran eligible for interment at a federal or state veterans' cemetery. (b) Upon certification of eligible veteran or dependent of a veteran status under (a) of this subsection, the person, firm, corporation, county, or association in possession of the veteran's or veteran's dependent's remains shall transfer the custody and control of the remains to the department of veterans affairs. (c) The transfer of human remains under (b) of this subsection does not create: (i) A private right of action against the state or its officers and employees or instrumentalities, or against any person, firm, corporation, county, or association transferring the remains; or (ii) Liability on behalf of the state, the state's officers, employees, or instrumentalities; or on behalf of the person, firm, corporation, county, or association transferring the remains.
RCW 68.50.901 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 901
RCW 68.50.901: Application—1993 c 228.
Status: in_force

RCW * 68.50.520 through ** 68.50.630 and 68.50.901 through 68.50.904 apply to a document of gift, revocation, or refusal to make an anatomical gift signed by the donor or a person authorized to make or object to making an anatomical gift before, on, or after July 25, 1993.
RCW 68.50.320 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 320
RCW 68.50.320: Procedures for investigating missing persons—Availability of files.
Status: in_force

When a person reported missing has not been found within thirty days of the report, or at any time the investigating agency suspects criminal activity to be the basis of the victim being missing, the sheriff, chief of police, county coroner or county medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority initiating and conducting the investigation for the missing person shall: (1) File a missing person's report with the Washington state patrol missing and unidentified persons unit; (2) initiate the collection of DNA samples from the known missing person and their family members for nuclear and mitochondrial DNA testing along with the necessary consent forms; (3) ask the missing person's family or next of kin to give written consent to contact the dentist or dentists of the missing person and request the person's dental records; and (4) enter the case into the national crime information center system through the Washington state patrol electronic database. Upon knowledge from the national crime information center system, the Washington state patrol's crime information center, or similar or subsequent authority, that a person in custody at a jail, or being released from custody, is the subject of a missing person's report, the jail shall notify the agency of original jurisdiction for the missing person's report. The missing person's dentist or dentists shall provide diagnostic quality copies of the missing person's dental records or original dental records to the sheriff, chief of police, county coroner or county medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority, when presented with the written consent from the missing person's family or next of kin or with a statement from the sheriff, chief of police, county coroner or county medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority that the missing person's family or next of kin could not be located in the exercise of due diligence or that the missing person's family or next of kin refuse to consent to the release of the missing person's dental records and there is reason to believe that the missing person's family or next of kin may have been involved in the missing person's disappearance. As soon as possible after collecting the DNA samples, the sheriff, chief of police, or other law enforcement authority shall submit the DNA samples to the appropriate laboratory. Dental records shall be submitted as soon as possible to the Washington state patrol missing and unidentified persons unit. The descriptive information from missing person's reports and dental data submitted to the Washington state patrol missing and unidentified persons unit shall be recorded and maintained by the Washington state patrol missing and unidentified persons unit in the applicable dedicated missing person's databases. When a person reported missing has been found, the sheriff, chief of police, coroner or medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority shall report such information to the Washington state patrol. The dental identification system shall maintain a file of information regarding persons reported to it as missing. The file shall contain the information referred to in this section and such other information as the Washington state patrol finds relevant to assist in the location of a missing person. The files of the dental identification system shall, upon request, be made available to law enforcement agencies attempting to locate missing persons.
RCW 68.05.205 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 205
RCW 68.05.205: Fees.
Status: in_force

The director with the consent of the board must set all fees for chapters 18.39 , 68.05, 68.20, 68.24, 68.28, 68.32, 68.36, 68.40, 68.44, and 68.46 RCW in accordance with RCW 43.24.086 , including fees for licenses, certificates, regulatory charges, permits, or endorsements, and the department must collect the fees.
RCW 68.50.110 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 110
RCW 68.50.110: Burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction.
Status: in_force

Except in cases of dissection provided for in RCW 68.50.100 , and where human remains are rightfully carried through or removed from the state for the purpose of burial elsewhere, human remains lying within this state, and the remains of any dissected body, after dissection, must be decently buried, undergo cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction within a reasonable time after death.
RCW 68.64.090 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 090
RCW 68.64.090: Manner in which an anatomical gift may be made—After donor's death.
Status: in_force

(1) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under RCW 68.64.080 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or by that person's oral communication that is electronically recorded or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and signed by the individual receiving the oral communication. (2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, an anatomical gift by a person authorized under RCW 68.64.080 may be amended or revoked orally or in a record by any member of a prior class who is reasonably available. If more than one member of the prior class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under RCW 68.64.080 may be: (a) Amended only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the amending of the gift; or (b) Revoked only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the revoking of the gift or if they are equally divided as to whether to revoke the gift. (3) A revocation under subsection (2) of this section is effective only if, before an incision has been made to remove a part from the donor's body or before transplant procedures have begun on the recipient, the procurement organization, transplant hospital, or physician or technician knows of the revocation.
RCW 68.32.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 050
RCW 68.32.050: Affidavit as authorization.
Status: in_force

An affidavit by a person having knowledge of the facts setting forth the fact of the death of the owner and the name of the person or persons entitled to the use of the plot or right of interment pursuant to RCW 68.32.010 through 68.32.040 , is complete authorization to the cemetery authority to permit the use of the unoccupied portions of the plot or interment right by the person entitled to the use of it.
RCW 68.52.185 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 185
RCW 68.52.185: Ballot proposition authorized for district formation.
Status: in_force

A county legislative authority may, by ordinance or resolution, provide for a ballot proposition to form a cemetery district. When proposed by ordinance or resolution of the county legislative authority, a ballot proposition shall designate the boundaries of the proposed district by metes and bounds or describing the lands to be included in the proposed district by government townships, ranges, and legal subdivisions. The ballot proposition authorizing the formation of a cemetery district shall be submitted to the voters residing within the proposed district consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
RCW 68.05.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 100
RCW 68.05.100: Rules.
Status: in_force

The board may establish necessary rules for the enforcement of this title and the laws subject to its jurisdiction. The board shall prescribe the application forms and reports provided for in this title.
RCW 68.50.015 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 015
RCW 68.50.015: Immunity for determining cause and manner of death—Judicial review of determination.
Status: in_force

A county coroner or county medical examiner or persons acting in that capacity shall be immune from civil liability for determining the cause and manner of death. The accuracy of the determinations is subject to judicial review.
RCW 68.50.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 050
RCW 68.50.050: Removal or concealment of body—Penalty.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person, not authorized or directed by the coroner or medical examiner or their deputies, who removes the body of a deceased person not claimed by a relative or friend, or moves, disturbs, molests, or interferes with the human remains coming within the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner as set forth in RCW 68.50.010 , to any undertaking rooms or elsewhere, or any person who knowingly directs, aids, or abets such unauthorized moving, disturbing, molesting, or taking, and any person who knowingly conceals the human remains, shall in each of said cases be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. (2) In evaluating whether it is necessary to retain jurisdiction and custody of human remains under RCW 68.50.010 , 68.50.645 , and 27.44.055 , the coroner or medical examiner shall consider the deceased's religious beliefs, if known, including the tenets, customs, or rites related to death and burial. (3) For purposes of this section and unless the context clearly requires otherwise, "human remains" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 68.04.020 . Human remains also includes, but is not limited to, skeletal remains.
RCW 68.50.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 080
RCW 68.50.080: Certificate and bond before receiving bodies.
Status: in_force

Every physician or surgeon before receiving the dead body must give to the board or officer surrendering the same to him or her a certificate from the medical society of the county in which he or she resides, or if there is none, from the board of supervisors of the same, that he or she is a fit person to receive such dead body. He or she must also give a bond with two sureties, that each body so by him or her received will be used only for the promotion of anatomical science, and that it will be used for such purpose in this state only, and so as in no event to outrage the public feeling.
RCW 68.52.090 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 090
RCW 68.52.090: Establishment authorized.
Status: in_force

Cemetery districts may be established in all counties and on any island in any county, as in this chapter provided.
RCW 68.05.235 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 235
RCW 68.05.235: Reports—Failure to file.
Status: in_force

(1) Each authorized cemetery authority shall, within ninety days after the close of its accounting year, file with the board an endowment care trust fund report and a prearrangement trust fund report for the preceding year. The reports shall be on such forms and shall contain such information as required by this chapter and by the board. (2) The failure to file a report as required under subsection (1) of this section constitutes unprofessional conduct for which the board may take disciplinary action against the prearrangement sales license of the cemetery authority. In addition, the board may take disciplinary action against any other license held by the cemetery authority.
RCW 68.05.430 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 430
RCW 68.05.430: Uniform regulation of business and professions act.
Status: in_force

The uniform regulation of business and professions act, chapter 18.235 RCW, governs unlicensed practice, the issuance and denial of licenses, and the discipline of licensees under this chapter.
RCW 68.20.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 080
RCW 68.20.080: Cities and counties may regulate cemeteries.
Status: in_force

Cities and counties are authorized to enact ordinances regulating or prohibiting the establishment of new cemeteries or the extension of existing ones and to give power to local planning commissions to pass upon and make recommendations to local legislative bodies concerning the establishment or extension of cemeteries.
RCW 68.05.245 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 245
RCW 68.05.245: Crematory permits, licenses, or endorsements—Terms—Fees.
Status: in_force

(1) All permits, licenses, or endorsements issued under this chapter must be issued for the year and expire at midnight, the 31st day of March of each year, or at whatever time during any year that ownership or control of any cemetery authority that operates such facility is transferred or sold. (2) The director must set and the department must collect in advance the fees required for licensing.
RCW 68.32.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 070
RCW 68.32.070: Joint tenants—Vested rights.
Status: in_force

In a conveyance to two or more persons as joint tenants each joint tenant has a vested right of placement in the plot or right of interment conveyed.
RCW 68.04.280 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 280
RCW 68.04.280: "Multiple interment."
Status: in_force

"Multiple interment" means two or more human remains are buried in the ground, in outer burial enclosures or chambers, placed one on top of another, with a ground level surface the same size as a single grave or right of interment.
RCW 27.44.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 030
RCW 27.44.030: Intent.
Status: in_force

The legislature hereby declares that: (1) Native Indian burial grounds and historic graves are acknowledged to be a finite, irreplaceable, and nonrenewable cultural resource, and are an intrinsic part of the cultural heritage of the people of Washington. The legislature recognizes the value and importance of respecting all graves, and the spiritual significance of such sites to the people of this state; (2) There have been reports and incidents of deliberate interference with native Indian and historic graves for profit-making motives; (3) There has been careless indifference in cases of accidental disturbance of sites, graves, and burial grounds; (4) Indian burial sites, cairns, glyptic markings, and historic graves located on public and private land are to be protected and it is therefore the legislature's intent to encourage voluntary reporting and respectful handling in cases of accidental disturbance and provide enhanced penalties for deliberate desecration.Endowment care funds shall be kept invested in accordance with the provisions of RCW 11.100.020 subject to the following restrictions: (1) No officer or director of the cemetery authority, trustee of the endowment care or special care funds, or spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent, or issue of such officer, director, or trustee, shall borrow any of such funds for himself or herself, directly or indirectly. (2) No funds shall be loaned to the cemetery authority, its agents, or employees, or to any corporation, partnership, or other business entity in which the cemetery authority has any ownership interest. (3) No funds shall be invested with persons or business entities operating in a business field directly related to cemeteries, including, but not limited to, mortuaries, monument production and sales, florists, and rental of funeral facilities. (4) Notwithstanding any other provisions contained in this section, funds may be invested in any commercial bank, mutual savings bank, or savings and loan association duly chartered and operating under the laws of the United States or statutes of the state of Washington.
RCW 68.56.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 56 / Section 060
RCW 68.56.060: Police authority—Who may exercise.
Status: in_force

The sexton, superintendent, or other person in charge of a cemetery, and such other persons as the cemetery authority designates have the authority of a police officer for the purpose of maintaining order, enforcing the rules and regulations of the cemetery association, the laws of the state, and the ordinances of the city or county, within the cemetery over which he or she has charge, and within such radius as may be necessary to protect the cemetery property.
RCW 68.36.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 36 / Section 060
RCW 68.36.060: Contract for care before adjudication.
Status: in_force

If at any time before the adjudication of abandonment the owner of an unoccupied space contracts with the owner or manager of the cemetery for the endowment care of the space, the court shall dismiss the proceedings as to such unoccupied space.
RCW 68.05.170 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 170
RCW 68.05.170: Order requiring reinvestment in compliance with title—Actions for preservation and protection.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever the board finds, after notice and hearing, that any endowment care funds have been invested in violation of this title, it may by written order mailed to the person or body in charge of the fund require the reinvestment of the funds in conformity with this title within the period specified by it which shall be not more than six months. Such period may be extended by the board in its discretion. (2) The board may bring actions for the preservation and protection of endowment care funds in the superior court of the county in which the cemetery is located. The court shall appoint substitute trustees and make any other order which may be necessary for the preservation, protection, and recovery of endowment care funds, whenever a cemetery authority or the trustees of its fund have: (a) Transferred or attempted to transfer any property to, or made any loan from, the endowment care funds for the benefit of the cemetery authority or any director, officer, agent or employee of the cemetery authority or trustee of any endowment care funds; or, (b) Failed to reinvest endowment care funds in accordance with a board order issued under subsection (1) of this section; or, (c) Invested endowment care funds in violation of this title; or, (d) Taken action or failed to take action to preserve and protect the endowment care funds; or, (e) Become financially irresponsible or transferred control of the cemetery authority to any person who, or business entity which, is financially irresponsible; or, (f) Is in danger of becoming insolvent or has gone into bankruptcy or receivership; or, (g) Taken any action in violation of Title 68 RCW or failed to take action required by Title 68 RCW or has failed to comply with lawful rules and orders of the board. (3) Whenever the board or its representative has reason to believe that endowment care funds or prearrangement trust funds are in danger of being lost or diminished during the time required for notice and hearing, it may immediately impound or seize documents, financial instruments, or other trust fund assets, or take other actions deemed necessary under the circumstances for the preservation and protection of endowment care funds or prearrangement trust funds, including, but not limited to, immediate substitutions of trustees.
RCW 68.04.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 020
RCW 68.04.020: "Human remains," "remains."
Status: in_force

"Human remains" or "remains" means the body of a deceased person, including remains following the process of cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction. This also includes the body in any stage of decomposition.
RCW 68.05.120 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 120
RCW 68.05.120: Actions to enforce law—Attorney general.
Status: in_force

The board is authorized to bring actions to enforce the provisions of the law subject to its jurisdiction, in which actions it shall be represented by the attorney general.
RCW 68.52.195 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 195
RCW 68.52.195: Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.
Status: in_force

In addition to other authority that a cemetery district possesses, a cemetery district may provide any public improvement as defined under RCW 39.89.020 , but this additional authority is limited to participating in the financing of the public improvements as provided under RCW 39.89.050 . This section does not limit the authority of a cemetery district to otherwise participate in the public improvements if that authority exists elsewhere.
RCW 68.64.200 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 200
RCW 68.64.200: Organ and tissue donor registry.
Status: in_force

(1) The department of licensing shall electronically transfer all information that appears on the front of a driver's license or identicard including the name, gender, date of birth, and most recent address of any person who obtains a driver's license or identicard and volunteers to donate organs or tissue upon death to any Washington state organ procurement organization that intends to establish a statewide organ and tissue donor registry as provided under subsection (2) of this section. All subsequent electronic transfers of donor information shall be at no charge to this Washington state organ procurement organization. (2) Information obtained by a Washington state organ procurement organization under subsection (1) of this section shall be used for the purpose of establishing a statewide organ and tissue donor registry accessible to in-state recognized cadaveric organ and cadaveric tissue agencies for the recovery or placement of organs and tissue and to procurement agencies in another state when a Washington state resident is a donor of an anatomical gift and is not located in this state at the time of death or immediately before the death of the donor. Any registry created using information acquired under subsection (1) of this section must include all residents of Washington state regardless of their residence within the service area designated by the federal government. (3) No organ or tissue donation organization may obtain information from the organ and tissue donor registry for the purposes of fund-raising. Organ and tissue donor registry information may not be further disseminated unless authorized in this section or by federal law. Dissemination of organ and tissue donor registry information may be made by a Washington state organ procurement organization to another Washington state organ procurement organization, a recognized in-state procurement agency for other tissue recovery, or an out-of-state federally designated organ procurement organization that has been designated by the United States department of health and human services to serve an area outside Washington. (4) A Washington state organ procurement organization may acquire donor information from sources other than the department of licensing. (5) All reasonable costs associated with the creation of an organ and tissue donor registry shall be paid by the Washington state organ procurement organization that has requested the information. The reasonable costs associated with the initial installation and setup for electronic transfer of the donor information at the department of licensing shall be paid by the Washington state organ procurement organization that requested the information. (6) An individual does not need to participate in the organ and tissue donor registry to be a donor of organs or tissue. The registry is to facilitate organ and tissue donations and not inhibit persons from being donors upon death.
RCW 68.05.160 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 160
RCW 68.05.160: Action required when authority fails to deposit minimum endowment amount or comply with prearrangement contract provisions.
Status: in_force

If any examination made by the board, or any report filed with it, shows that there has not been collected and deposited in the endowment care funds the minimum amounts required by this title, or if the board finds that the cemetery authority has failed to comply with the requirements of this chapter and chapter 68.46 RCW with respect to prearrangement contracts, merchandise, or services, unconstructed crypts or niches or undeveloped graves, or prearrangement trust funds, the board shall require such cemetery authority to comply with this chapter or with chapter 68.40 or 68.46 RCW, as the case may be.
RCW 68.50.104 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 104
RCW 68.50.104: Cost of autopsy.
Status: in_force

(1) The cost of autopsy shall be borne by the county in which the autopsy is performed, except when requested by the department of labor and industries, in which case, the department shall bear the cost of such autopsy. (2)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, when the county bears the cost of an autopsy, it shall be reimbursed from the death investigations account, established by RCW 43.79.445 , as follows: (i) Up to 40 percent of the cost of contracting for the services of a pathologist to perform an autopsy; (ii) Up to 30 percent of the salary of pathologists who are primarily engaged in performing autopsies and are (A) county coroners or county medical examiners, or (B) employees of a county coroner or county medical examiner; (iii) 100 percent of the cost of autopsies conducted under RCW 70.54.450 ; and (iv) Up to 40 percent of the cost of transportation of remains to and from facilities accredited pursuant to RCW 36.24.210 for the purpose of autopsy services. (b) When the county bears the cost of an autopsy of a child under the age of three whose death was sudden and unexplained, the county shall be reimbursed for the expenses of the autopsy when the death scene investigation and the autopsy have been conducted under RCW 43.103.100 (4) and (5), and the autopsy has been done at a facility designed for the performance of autopsies. (3) Payments from the account shall be made pursuant to biennial appropriation: PROVIDED, That no county may reduce funds appropriated for this purpose below 1983 budgeted levels. (4) Where the county coroner's office or county medical examiner's office is not accredited pursuant to RCW 36.24.210 , or a coroner, medical examiner, or other medicolegal investigative employee is not certified as required by RCW 36.24.205 and 43.101.480 , the state treasurer's office shall withhold 25 percent of autopsy reimbursement funds until accreditation under RCW 36.24.210 or compliance with RCW 36.24.205 and 43.101.480 is achieved.
RCW 68.50.300 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 300
RCW 68.50.300: Release of information concerning a death.
Status: in_force

(1) The county coroner, medical examiner, or prosecuting attorney having jurisdiction may in such official's discretion release information concerning a person's death to the media and general public, in order to aid in identifying the deceased, when the identity of the deceased is unknown to the official and when he or she does not know the information to be readily available through other sources. (2)(a) The county coroner, medical examiner, or prosecuting attorney may withhold any information which directly or indirectly identifies a decedent until either: (i) A notification period of forty-eight hours has elapsed after identification of the decedent by such official; or (ii) The next of kin of the decedent has been notified. (b) During the forty-eight hour notification period, such official shall make a good faith attempt to locate and notify the next of kin of the decedent. (3) The county coroner, medical examiner, or prosecuting attorney having jurisdiction may release information contained in a report of death, as defined in chapter 70.58A RCW, to the media and general public.
RCW 68.40.040 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 40 / Section 040
RCW 68.40.040: Endowment care fiscal reports—Review by plot owners.
Status: in_force

A cemetery authority not exempt under this chapter shall file in its principal office for review by plot owners the previous seven fiscal years' endowment care reports as filed with the funeral and cemetery board in accordance with RCW 68.44.150 .
RCW 68.52.280 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 280
RCW 68.52.280: Duty of county treasurer—Cemetery district fund.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the county treasurer of the county in which any cemetery district is situated to receive and disburse all district revenues and collect all taxes authorized and levied under this chapter. There is hereby created in the office of county treasurer of each county in which a cemetery district shall be organized for the use of the district, a cemetery district fund. All taxes levied for district purposes when collected shall be placed by the county treasurer in the cemetery district fund.
RCW 68.05.900 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 900
RCW 68.05.900: Effective date—1987 c 331.
Status: in_force

This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1987.
RCW 68.70.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 70 / Section 020
RCW 68.70.020: Prohibition of discrimination.
Status: in_force

(1) A covered entity may not, solely on the basis of a qualified individual's mental or physical disability: (a) Deem an individual ineligible to receive an anatomical gift or organ transplant; (b) Deny medical or related organ transplantation services, including evaluation, surgery, counseling, and postoperative treatment and care; (c) Refuse to refer the individual to a transplant center or other related specialist for the purpose of evaluation or receipt of an organ transplant; (d) Refuse to place an individual on an organ transplant waiting list, or placement of the individual at a lower-priority position on the list than the position at which he or she would have been placed if not for his or her disability; or (e) Decline insurance coverage for any procedure associated with the receipt of the anatomical gift, including posttransplantation care. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, a covered entity may take an individual's disability into account when making treatment and/or coverage recommendations or decisions, solely to the extent that the physical or mental disability has been found by a physician, following an individualized evaluation of the potential recipient, to be medically significant to the provision of the anatomical gift. The provisions of this section may not be deemed to require referrals or recommendations for, or the performance of, medically inappropriate organ transplants. (3) If an individual has the necessary support system to provide reasonable assurance that she or he will comply with posttransplant medical requirements, an individual's inability to independently comply with those requirements may not be deemed to be medically significant for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section. (4) A covered entity must make reasonable modifications to policies, practices, or procedures, when such modifications are necessary to make services such as transplantation-related counseling, information, coverage, or treatment available to qualified individuals with disabilities, unless the entity can demonstrate that making such modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of such services. (5) A covered entity must take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that no qualified individual with a disability is denied services such as transplantation-related counseling, information, coverage, or treatment because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the entity can demonstrate that taking such steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the services being offered or would result in an undue burden. (6) A covered entity must otherwise comply with the requirements of Titles II and III of the Americans with disabilities act of 1990 and the Americans with disabilities act amendments act of 2008. (7) The provisions of this section apply to each part of the organ transplant process.
RCW 68.54.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 54 / Section 100
RCW 68.54.100: Merger and transfer of part of one district to adjacent district—Petition—Election—Vote.
Status: in_force

A part of one district may be transferred and merged with an adjacent district whenever such area can be better served by the merged district. To effect such a merger a petition, signed by not less than fifteen percent of the qualified electors residing in the area to be merged, shall be filed with the commissioners of the merging district. Such petition shall be promoted by one or more qualified electors within the area to be transferred. If the commissioners of the merging district act favorably upon the petition, then the petition shall be presented to the commissioners of the merger district. If the commissioners of the merger district act favorably upon the petition, an election shall be called in the area merged. In the event that either board of cemetery commissioners should not concur with the petition, the petition may then be presented to a county review board established for such purposes, if there be no county review board for such purposes then to the state review board and if there be no state review board, then to the county commissioners of the county in which the area to be merged is situated, who shall decide if the area can be better served by such a merger; upon an affirmative decision an election shall be called in the area merged. A majority of the votes cast shall be necessary to approve the transfer.
RCW 68.52.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 020
RCW 68.52.020: Coroner to control morgue—Expense.
Status: in_force

Such morgue shall be under the control and management of the coroner who shall have power with the advice and consent of the county commissioners, to employ the necessary deputies and employees; and, with the advice and consent of the county commissioners, to fix their salaries and compensation, which, together with the expenses of operating such morgue, shall be paid monthly out of the county treasury.
RCW 68.64.105 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 105
RCW 68.64.105: Document of gift—Validity requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with: (a) This chapter; (b) The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or (c) The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed. (2) If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift. (3) A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.
RCW 68.04.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 070
RCW 68.04.070: "Crematory."
Status: in_force

"Crematory" means a building or area of a building that houses one or more cremation chambers, to be used for the cremation of human remains.
RCW 68.52.250 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 250
RCW 68.52.250: Special elections.
Status: in_force

Special elections submitting propositions to the registered voters of the district may be called at any time by resolution of the cemetery commissioners in accordance with RCW 29A.04.321 and 29A.04.330 , and shall be called, noticed, held, conducted and canvassed in the same manner and by the same officials as provided for the election to determine whether the district shall be created.
RCW 68.36.040 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 36 / Section 040
RCW 68.36.040: Service of notice.
Status: in_force

The notice may be served personally upon the owner, or may be given by the mailing of the notice by registered mail to the owner to his or her last known address and by publishing the notice three times in a legal newspaper published in the county in which the cemetery is located. In the event that the whereabouts of the owner is unknown, then the notice may be given by publishing the notice three times in a legal newspaper as required by this section. The cemetery authority may file an affidavit in the proceeding to the effect that the owner is unknown and that the cemetery exercised diligence in attempting to locate the unknown parties. The affidavit shall be conclusive to that effect.
RCW 68.04.240 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 240
RCW 68.04.240: "Owner of interment rights."
Status: in_force

"Owner of interment rights" means any person who is listed as the owner of record of a right or rights of interment in the office of a cemetery authority.
RCW 68.60.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 60 / Section 070
RCW 68.60.070: Abandoned cemetery burials—Records—Endowment care funds.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) The funeral and cemetery board must consult with the department of archaeology and historic preservation to promulgate rules in order to allow for burials in abandoned cemeteries. (b) The landowner of an abandoned cemetery must allow for burials in accordance with rules promulgated by the funeral and cemetery board. (2) Any records, maps, or other documents associated with an abandoned cemetery must be transferred to the state archives at the time the cemetery becomes an abandoned cemetery. (3) Any endowment care funds held by the cemetery authority at the time such cemetery becomes an abandoned cemetery must be transferred to the department of archaeology and historic preservation.
RCW 68.52.210 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 210
RCW 68.52.210: Power to do cemetery business—District boundaries may include cities and towns—Eminent domain exception.
Status: in_force

(1) A cemetery district organized under this chapter shall have power to acquire, establish, maintain, manage, improve and operate cemeteries and conduct any and all of the businesses of a cemetery as defined in this title. A cemetery district shall constitute a cemetery authority as defined in this title and shall have and exercise all powers conferred thereby upon a cemetery authority and be subject to the provisions thereof. (2) A cemetery district may include within its boundaries the lands embraced within the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town and in any such cases the district may acquire any cemetery or cemeteries theretofore maintained and operated by any such city or town and proceed to maintain, manage, improve and operate the same under the provisions hereof. In such event the governing body of the city or town, after the transfer takes place, shall levy no cemetery tax. The power of eminent domain heretofore conferred shall not extend to the condemnation of existing cemeteries within the district: PROVIDED, That no cemetery district shall operate a cemetery within the corporate limits of any city or town where there is a private cemetery operated for profit.
RCW 68.20.120 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 120
RCW 68.20.120: Sold lots exempt from taxes, etc.—Nonprofit associations.
Status: in_force

Burial lots, sold by *such association shall be for the sole purpose of interment, and shall be exempt from taxation, execution, attachment or other claims, lien or process whatsoever, if used as intended, exclusively for burial purposes and in nowise with a view to profit.
RCW 68.52.220 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 220
RCW 68.52.220: District commissioners—Compensation—Election.
Status: in_force

(1) The affairs of the cemetery district must be managed by a board of cemetery district commissioners composed of three members. The board may provide, by resolution passed by the commissioners, for the payment of compensation to each of its commissioners at a rate of up to ninety dollars for each day or portion of a day spent in actual attendance at official meetings of the district commission, or in performance of other official services or duties on behalf of the district. However, the compensation for each commissioner must not exceed eight thousand six hundred forty dollars per year. (2) Any commissioner may waive all or any portion of his or her compensation payable under this section as to any month or months during his or her term of office, by a written waiver filed with the clerk of the board. The waiver, to be effective, must be filed any time after the commissioner's election and prior to the date on which the compensation would otherwise be paid. The waiver must specify the month or period of months for which it is made. The board must fix the compensation to be paid the secretary and other employees of the district. Cemetery district commissioners and candidates for cemetery district commissioner are exempt from the requirements of chapter 42.17A RCW. (3) The initial cemetery district commissioners must assume office immediately upon their election and qualification. Staggering of terms of office must be accomplished as follows: (a) The person elected receiving the greatest number of votes is elected to a six-year term of office if the election is held in an odd-numbered year or a five-year term of office if the election is held in an even-numbered year; (b) the person who is elected receiving the next greatest number of votes is elected to a four-year term of office if the election is held in an odd-numbered year or a three-year term of office if the election is held in an even-numbered year; and (c) the other person who is elected is elected to a two-year term of office if the election is held in an odd-numbered year or a one-year term of office if the election is held in an even-numbered year. The initial commissioners must assume office immediately after they are elected and qualified but their terms of office must be calculated from the first day of January after the election. (4) Thereafter, commissioners are elected to six-year terms of office. Commissioners must serve until their successors are elected and qualified and assume office as provided in RCW 29A.60.280 . (5) The dollar thresholds established in this section must be adjusted for inflation by the office of financial management every five years, beginning January 1, 2024, based upon changes in the consumer price index during that time period. "Consumer price index" means, for any calendar year, that year's annual average consumer price index, for Washington state, for wage earners and clerical workers, all items, compiled by the bureau of labor and statistics, United States department of labor. If the bureau of labor and statistics develops more than one consumer price index for areas within the state, the index covering the greatest number of people, covering areas exclusively within the boundaries of the state, and including all items must be used for the adjustments for inflation in this section. The office of financial management must calculate the new dollar threshold and transmit it to the office of the code reviser for publication in the Washington State Register at least one month before the new dollar threshold is to take effect. (6) A person holding office as commissioner for two or more special purpose districts may receive only that per diem compensation authorized for one of his or her commissioner positions as compensation for attending an official meeting or conducting official services or duties while representing more than one of his or her districts. However, such commissioner may receive additional per diem compensation if approved by resolution of all boards of the affected commissions.
RCW 68.44.180 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 180
RCW 68.44.180: Certain cemeteries exempt from chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to any cemetery controlled and operated by a coroner, county, city, town, or cemetery district.
RCW 68.20.061 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 061
RCW 68.20.061: Specific powers—Control of property.
Status: in_force

It may restrict and limit the use of all property within its cemetery, including interment rights.
RCW 68.46.160 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 160
RCW 68.46.160: Contract forms—Filing.
Status: in_force

No cemetery authority shall use a prearrangement contract without first filing the form of such contract with the board: PROVIDED, That the board may order the cemetery authority to cease using any prearrangement contract form which: (1) Is in violation of any provision of this chapter; (2) Is misleading or deceptive; or (3) Is being used in connection with solicitation by false, misleading or deceptive advertising or sales practices. Use of a prearrangement contract form which is not on file with the board or which the board has ordered the cemetery authority not to use shall be a violation of this chapter.
RCW 68.70.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 70 / Section 030
RCW 68.70.030: Enforcement.
Status: in_force

(1) Any individual who has been subjected to discrimination in violation of this chapter may initiate a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin further violations and recover the cost of the suit including reasonable attorneys' fees. (2) The court must accord priority on its calendar and expeditiously proceed with an action brought under this chapter. (3) Nothing in this section is intended to limit or replace available remedies under the Americans with disabilities act of 1990 and the Americans with disabilities act amendments act of 2008 or any other applicable law.
RCW 68.05.254 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 254
RCW 68.05.254: Examination of endowment funds and prearrangement trust funds.
Status: in_force

(1) The board shall examine the endowment care and prearrangement trust fund or funds of a cemetery authority: (a) Whenever it deems necessary, but at least once every three years after the original examination except where the cemetery authority is either required by the board to, or voluntarily files an annual financial report for the fund certified by a certified public accountant or a licensed public accountant in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards; (b) One year following the issuance of a new certificate of authority; (c) Whenever the cemetery authority in charge of endowment care or prearrangement trust fund or funds fails after reasonable notice from the board to file the reports required by this chapter; or (d) Whenever it is requested by verified petition signed by twenty-five lot owners alleging that the endowment care funds are not in compliance with this title, or whenever it is requested by verified petition signed by twenty-five purchasers or beneficiaries of prearrangement merchandise or services alleging that the prearrangement trust funds are not in compliance with this title, in either of which cases, the examination shall be at the expense of the petitioners. (2) The expense of the endowment care and prearrangement trust fund examination as provided in subsection (1)(a) and (b) of this section shall be paid by the cemetery authority. Such examination shall be privately conducted in the principal office of the cemetery authority. (3) The requirements that examinations be conducted once every three years and that they be conducted in the principal office of the cemetery authority do not apply to any endowment care or prearrangement fund that is less than twenty-five thousand dollars. The board shall, at its discretion, decide when and where the examinations shall take place. (4) Examination expenses incurred in conjunction with a transfer of ownership of a cemetery must be paid by the selling entity. (5) All examination expense moneys collected by the department must be paid to the cemetery account created in *RCW 68.05.285 .
RCW 68.52.160 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 160
RCW 68.52.160: Election ballot.
Status: in_force

The ballot for the election shall be in such form as may be convenient but shall present the propositions substantially as follows: ". . .(insert county name). . . cemetery district No. . . .(insert number). . . . . .Yes. . . . . .(insert county name). . . cemetery district No. . . .(insert number). . . . . .No. . ."
RCW 68.64.902 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 902
RCW 68.64.902: Uniformity of application and construction—2008 c 139.
Status: in_force

In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
RCW 68.05.215 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 215
RCW 68.05.215: Certificates—Regulatory charges—Expiration.
Status: in_force

The regulatory charges for cemetery certificates at all periods of the year are the same as provided in this chapter. All regulatory charges are payable at the time of the filing of the application and in advance of the issuance of the certificates. All certificates shall be issued for the year and shall expire at midnight, the 31st day of March of each year, or at whatever time during any year that ownership or control of any cemetery authority is transferred or sold. Cemetery certificates shall not be transferable.
RCW 68.28.040 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 28 / Section 040
RCW 68.28.040: Fireproof construction.
Status: in_force

All mausoleums or columbariums hereafter constructed shall be of class A fireproof construction.
RCW 68.36.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 36 / Section 070
RCW 68.36.070: Contract for care within one year after adjudication.
Status: in_force

If at any time within one year after the adjudication of abandonment, the former owner of the unoccupied space shall contract for its endowment care, and reimburse the owner or manager of the cemetery for the expense of the proceedings, including attorney's fees, the space shall not be sold and the order adjudging it to have been abandoned shall be vacated upon petition of the former owner.
RCW 68.24.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 100
RCW 68.24.100: Notice of hearing.
Status: in_force

The notice of hearing provided in RCW 68.24.090 shall be given by publication once a week for at least three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where said cemetery is located, and the posting of copies of the notice in three conspicuous places on that portion of the property from which the dedication is to be removed. The notice shall: (1) Describe the portion of the cemetery property sought to be removed from dedication. (2) State that all human remains have been removed or that no interments have been made in the portion of the cemetery property sought to be removed from dedication. (3) Specify the time and place of the hearing.
RCW 68.50.310 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 310
RCW 68.50.310: Dental identification system established—Powers and duties.
Status: in_force

A dental identification system is established in the identification section of the Washington state patrol. The dental identification system shall act as a repository or computer center or both for dental examination records and it shall be responsible for comparing such records with dental records filed under RCW 68.50.330 . It shall also determine which scoring probabilities are the highest for purposes of identification and shall submit such information to the coroner or medical examiner who prepared and forwarded the dental examination records. Once the dental identification system is established, operating funds shall come from the state general fund.
RCW 68.04.210 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 210
RCW 68.04.210: "Cemetery business."
Status: in_force

"Cemetery business" includes establishing, maintaining, operating, and improving a cemetery for the placement of human remains, and the care and preservation of the cemetery property.
RCW 68.50.032 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 032
RCW 68.50.032: Transportation of remains directed by coroner or medical examiner—Costs.
Status: in_force

Whenever a coroner or medical examiner assumes jurisdiction over human remains and directs transportation of those remains by a funeral establishment, as defined in RCW 18.39.010 , the reasonable costs of transporting shall be borne by the county if: (1) The funeral establishment transporting the remains is not providing the funeral or disposition services; or (2) the funeral establishment providing the funeral or disposition services is required to transport the remains to a facility other than its own. Except as provided in RCW 36.39.030 , 68.52.030 , and 73.08.070 , any transportation costs or other costs incurred after the coroner or medical examiner has released jurisdiction over the human remains shall not be borne by the county.
RCW 68.44.160 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 160
RCW 68.44.160: Contributions.
Status: in_force

A cemetery authority which has established an endowment care fund may take and hold, as a part of the fund, any property, real, personal, or mixed, bequeathed, devised, granted, given, or otherwise contributed to it for its endowment care fund.
RCW 68.20.062 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 062
RCW 68.20.062: Specific powers—Regulation as to type of markers, monuments, etc.
Status: in_force

It may regulate the uniformity, class, and kind of all markers, monuments, and other structures within the cemetery and its subdivisions.
RCW 68.50.220 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 220
RCW 68.50.220: Exceptions.
Status: in_force

RCW 68.50.200 and 68.50.210 do not apply to or prohibit the removal of any human remains from one plot to another in the same cemetery or the removal of [human] remains by a cemetery authority from a plot for which the purchase price is past due and unpaid, to some other suitable place; nor do they apply to the disinterment of human remains upon order of court or coroner. However, a cemetery authority shall provide notification to the person cited in RCW 68.50.200 before moving human remains.
RCW 68.04.270 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 270
RCW 68.04.270: "Scattering."
Status: in_force

"Scattering" means the removal of human remains from their container for the purpose of scattering the remains in any lawful manner.
RCW 68.40.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 40 / Section 100
RCW 68.40.100: Only nonendowment care cemeteries now in existence are authorized.
Status: in_force

After June 7, 1979, no nonendowment care cemetery may be established. However, any nonendowment care cemetery in existence on June 7, 1979, may continue to operate as a nonendowment care cemetery.
RCW 68.20.110 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 110
RCW 68.20.110: Nonprofit cemetery association—Tax exempt land.
Status: in_force

Nonprofit cemetery associations shall be authorized to purchase or take by gift or devise, and hold land exempt from execution and from any appropriation to public purposes for the sole purpose of a cemetery not exceeding eighty acres, which shall be exempt from taxation if intended to be used exclusively for burial purposes without discrimination as to race, color, national origin or ancestry, and in nowise with a view to profit of the members of such association: PROVIDED, That when the land already held by the association is all practically used then the amount thereof may be increased by adding thereto not exceeding twenty acres at a time.
RCW 68.24.090 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 090
RCW 68.24.090: Removal of dedication—Procedure.
Status: in_force

Property dedicated to cemetery purposes shall be held and used exclusively for cemetery purposes, unless and until the dedication is removed from all or any part of it by an order and decree of the superior court of the county in which the property is situated, in a proceeding brought by the cemetery authority for that purpose and upon notice of hearing and proof satisfactory to the court: (1) That no placements of human remains were made in or that all placements of human remains have been removed from that portion of the property from which dedication is sought to be removed. (2) That the portion of the property from which dedication is sought to be removed is not being used for placement of human remains. (3) That notice of the proposed removal of dedication has been given in writing to both the funeral and cemetery board and the department of archaeology and historic preservation. This notice must be given at least sixty days before filing the proceedings in superior court. The notice of the proposed removal of dedication shall be recorded with the auditor or recording officer of the county where the cemetery is located at least sixty days before filing the proceedings in superior court.
RCW 68.05.095 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 095
RCW 68.05.095: Program administrator or manager.
Status: in_force

The director, in consultation with the board, may employ and prescribe the duties of the program administrator or manager. The program administrator or manager must have a minimum of five years' experience in either cemetery or funeral management, or both, unless this requirement is waived by the board.
RCW 68.05.175 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 175
RCW 68.05.175: License or endorsement required for cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, and natural organic reduction.
Status: in_force

A license or endorsement issued under chapter 18.39 RCW is required in order to operate a crematory or conduct a cremation, operate or conduct alkaline hydrolysis, operate or conduct natural organic reduction, or operate a natural organic reduction facility.
RCW 68.52.320 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 320
RCW 68.52.320: Dissolution of districts.
Status: in_force

Cemetery districts may be dissolved by a majority vote of the electors at an election called for that purpose, which shall be conducted in the same manner as provided for special elections, and no further district obligations shall thereafter be incurred, but such dissolution shall not abridge or cancel any of the outstanding obligations of the district, and the board of county commissioners shall have authority to make annual levies against the lands included within the district until the obligations of the district are fully paid. When the obligations are fully paid, any moneys remaining in the cemetery district fund and all collections of unpaid district taxes shall be transferred to the current expense fund of the county.
RCW 68.50.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 060
RCW 68.50.060: Bodies for instruction purposes.
Status: in_force

Any physician or surgeon of this state, or any medical student under the authority of any such physician or surgeon, may obtain, as hereinafter provided, and have in his or her possession human dead bodies, or the parts thereof, for the purposes of anatomical inquiry or instruction.
RCW 68.64.190 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 190
RCW 68.64.190: Coroner or medical examiner—Duties.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) A coroner or medical examiner shall cooperate with procurement organizations, to the extent that such cooperation does not prevent, hinder, or impede the timely investigation of death, to facilitate the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation or therapy. However, a coroner or medical examiner may limit the number of procurement organizations with which he or she cooperates. (b) The coroner or medical examiner may release the initial investigative information to the tissue or organ procurement organization for the purpose of determining the suitability of the potential donor by those organizations. The information released for this purpose shall remain confidential. The coroner or medical examiner is not liable for any release of confidential information by the procurement organization. (2)(a) Procurement organizations shall cooperate with the coroner or medical examiner to ensure the preservation of and timely transfer to the coroner or medical examiner any physical or biological evidence from a prospective donor that the procurement organization may have contact with or access to that is required by the coroner or medical examiner for the investigation of death. (b) If the coroner or medical examiner or a designee releases a part for donation under subsection (4) of this section, the procurement organization, upon request, shall cause the physician or technician who removes the part to provide the coroner or medical examiner with a record describing the condition of the part, biopsies, residual tissue, photographs, and any other information and observations requested by the coroner or medical examiner that would assist in the investigation of death. (3) A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a coroner or medical examiner for transplantation, therapy, research, or education unless the part is the subject of an anatomical gift, and has been released by the coroner or medical examiner. The body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner may not be delivered to a person for research or education unless the body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This subsection does not preclude a coroner or medical examiner from performing the medicolegal investigation upon the body or relevant parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner. (4) If an anatomical gift of a part from the decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner has been or might be made, but the coroner or medical examiner initially believes that the recovery of the part could interfere with the postmortem investigation into the decedent's cause or manner of death, the collection of evidence, or the description, documentation, or interpretation of injuries on the body, the coroner or medical examiner may consult with the procurement organization or physician or technician designated by the procurement organization about the proposed recovery. After consultation, the coroner or medical examiner may release the part for recovery.
RCW 68.20.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 050
RCW 68.20.050: General powers of cemetery corporations.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise limited by the law under which created[,] cemetery authorities shall in the conduct of their business have the same powers granted by law to corporations in general, including the right to contract such pecuniary obligations within the limitation of general law as may be required, and may secure them by mortgage, deed of trust, or otherwise upon their property.
RCW 68.50.107 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 107
RCW 68.50.107: State toxicological laboratory established—State toxicologist.
Status: in_force

There shall be established in conjunction with the chief of the Washington state patrol and under the authority of the state forensic investigations council a state toxicological laboratory under the direction of the state toxicologist whose duty it will be to perform all necessary toxicologic procedures requested by all coroners, medical examiners, and prosecuting attorneys. The state forensic investigations council, after consulting with the chief of the Washington state patrol and director of the bureau of forensic laboratory services, shall appoint a toxicologist as state toxicologist, who shall report to the director of the bureau of forensic laboratory services and the office of the chief of the Washington state patrol. Toxicological services shall be funded by disbursement from the spirits, beer, and wine restaurant; spirits, beer, and wine private club; spirits, beer, and wine nightclub; spirits, beer, and wine VIP airport lounge; and sports entertainment facility license fees as provided in RCW 66.08.180 and by appropriation from the death investigations account as provided in RCW 43.79.445 .
RCW 68.40.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 40 / Section 060
RCW 68.40.060: May accept property in trust—Application of income.
Status: in_force

The cemetery authority of an endowment care cemetery may accept any property bequeathed, granted, or given to it in trust and may apply the income from such property to any or all of the following purposes: (1) Improvement or embellishment of all or any part of the cemetery; (2) Erection, renewal, repair, or preservation of any monument, fence, building, or other structure in the cemetery; (3) Planting or cultivation of trees, shrubs, or plants in or around any part of the cemetery; (4) Special care or ornamenting of any part of any interment right, section, or building in the cemetery; and (5) Any purpose or use consistent with the purpose for which the cemetery was established or is maintained.
RCW 68.32.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 060
RCW 68.32.060: Family plot—Sale.
Status: in_force

Whenever an interment of the human remains of a member or of a relative of a member of the family of the record owner or of the remains of the record owner is made in a plot transferred by deed or certificate of ownership to an individual owner and both the owner and the surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner, if any, die with children then living without making disposition of the plot either by a specific devise, or by a written declaration filed and recorded in the office of the cemetery authority, the plot shall thereafter be held as a family plot and shall be subject to sale only upon agreement of the children of the owner living at the time of sale.
RCW 68.24.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 030
RCW 68.24.030: Declaration of dedication and maps—Filing.
Status: in_force

The cemetery authority shall file the map or plat in the office of the recorder of the county in which all or a portion of the property is situated. The cemetery authority shall also file for record in the county recorder's office a written declaration of dedication of the property delineated on the plat or map, dedicating the property exclusively to cemetery purposes.The said plot shall be available, to the extent such space is available, without charge or cost for the burial of persons who have served in the army, navy, or marine corps in the United States, in the Spanish-American war, Philippine insurrection, or the Chinese Relief Expedition, or who served in any said branches of said service at any time between April 21, 1898 and July 4, 1902 and any veteran as defined in RCW 41.04.007 .
RCW 68.05.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 020
RCW 68.05.020: "Board" defined.
Status: in_force

The term "board" used in this chapter means the funeral and cemetery board.
RCW 68.52.110 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 110
RCW 68.52.110: Hearing—Place and date.
Status: in_force

The county legislative authority must conduct a hearing on the petition not less than twenty nor more than forty days from the date of receipt of the petition from the county auditor. The hearing may be completed on the day set for hearing the petition or it may be adjourned from time to time as necessary, but an adjournment may not extend the time for the county legislative authority's determination pursuant to RCW 68.52.140 more than sixty days from the date of receipt of the petition from the county auditor.
RCW 68.04.300 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 300
RCW 68.04.300: "Hydrolysis facility."
Status: in_force

"Hydrolysis facility" means a structure, room, or other space in a building or structure containing one or more hydrolysis vessels, to be used for alkaline hydrolysis.
RCW 68.04.110 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 110
RCW 68.04.110: "Cremation."
Status: in_force

"Cremation" means the reduction of human remains to bone fragments in a crematory by means of incineration.
RCW 68.50.200 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 200
RCW 68.50.200: Permission to remove human remains.
Status: in_force

Human remains may be removed from a plot in a cemetery with the consent of the cemetery authority and the written consent of one of the following in the order named: (1) The surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner. (2) The surviving children of the decedent. (3) The surviving parents of the decedent. (4) The surviving brothers or sisters of the decedent. If the required consent cannot be obtained, permission by the superior court of the county where the cemetery is situated is sufficient: PROVIDED, That the permission shall not violate the terms of a written contract or the rules and regulations of the cemetery authority.
RCW 68.32.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 030
RCW 68.32.030: Vested right—Termination.
Status: in_force

No conveyance or other action of the owner without the written consent of the spouse or state registered domestic partner , of the owner divests the spouse or state registered domestic partner , of a vested right of placement. A final decree of divorce between them or certification of termination of the state registered domestic partnership terminates the vested right of placement unless otherwise provided in the decree.
RCW 68.04.040 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 040
RCW 68.04.040: "Cemetery."
Status: in_force

"Cemetery" means: (1) Any one, or a combination of more than one, of the following, in a place used, or intended to be used for the placement of human remains and dedicated, for cemetery purposes: (a) A burial park, for earth interments. (b) A mausoleum, for crypt interments. (c) A columbarium, for permanent niche interments; or (2) For the purposes of chapter 68.60 RCW only, "cemetery" means any burial site, burial grounds, or place where five or more human remains are buried. Unless a cemetery is designated as a parcel of land identifiable and unique as a cemetery within the records of the county assessor, a cemetery's boundaries shall be a minimum of ten feet in any direction from any burials therein.
RCW 68.52.192 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 192
RCW 68.52.192: Public cemetery facilities or services—Cooperation with public or private agencies—Joint purchasing.
Status: in_force

A cemetery district may jointly operate or provide, cooperate to operate and provide and/or contract for a term of not to exceed five years to provide or have provided public cemetery facilities or services, with any other public or private agency, including out of state public agencies, which each is separately authorized to operate or provide, under terms mutually agreed upon by such public or private agencies. The governing body of a cemetery district may join with any other public or private agency in buying supplies, equipment, and services collectively.
RCW 68.64.150 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 150
RCW 68.64.150: Illegal purchases or sales—Felony.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, a person who, for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a part for transplantation or therapy if removal of a part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual's death is guilty of a class C felony under RCW 9A.20.010 . (2) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.
RCW 68.52.120 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 120
RCW 68.52.120: Publication and posting of petition and notice of hearing.
Status: in_force

The text of the petition with the names of petitioners omitted and a notice signed by the clerk of the county legislative authority stating the day, hour, and place of the hearing must be published in three consecutive weekly issues of the official newspaper of the county prior to the date of the hearing. The clerk must also cause a copy of the petition with the names of petitioners omitted, with a copy of the notice attached, to be posted for not less than fifteen days before the date of the hearing in three public places in the proposed district, to be previously designated by him or her and made a matter of record in the proceedings.
RCW 68.05.340 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 340
RCW 68.05.340: Board action against authorities—Cease and desist orders.
Status: in_force

Whenever the board or its authorized representative determines that a cemetery authority is in violation of this title or that the continuation of acts or practices of the cemetery authority is likely to cause insolvency or substantial loss of assets or earnings of the cemetery authority's endowment care or prearrangement trust fund, the board, or its authorized representative, may issue a temporary order requiring the cemetery authority to cease and desist from the violation or practice. The order shall become effective upon service on the cemetery authority. The order shall remain effective unless set aside, limited, or suspended by a court in proceedings under RCW 68.05.350 , until the board dismisses the charges specified in the notice, or until the effective date of a cease and desist order issued against the cemetery authority under RCW 68.05.320 . Actions for unlicensed activity must be conducted under RCW 18.235.150 .
RCW 68.04.150 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 150
RCW 68.04.150: "Grave."
Status: in_force

"Grave" means a space of ground in a burial park, used or intended to be used, for burial.
RCW 68.32.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 080
RCW 68.32.080: Joint tenants—Survivorship.
Status: in_force

Upon the death of a joint tenant, the title to the plot or right of interment held in joint tenancy immediately vests in the survivors, subject to the vested right of interment of the deceased joint tenant.
RCW 68.04.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 050
RCW 68.04.050: "Burial park."
Status: in_force

"Burial park" means a tract of land for the burial of human remains in the ground, used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes.
RCW 68.05.155 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 155
RCW 68.05.155: Prearrangement sales license.
Status: in_force

To enter into prearrangement contracts as defined in RCW 68.46.010 , a cemetery authority shall have a valid prearrangement sales license. To apply for a prearrangement sales license, a cemetery authority shall: (1) File with the board its request showing: (a) Its name, location, and organization date; (b) The kinds of cemetery business or merchandise it proposes to transact; (c) A statement of its current financial condition, management, and affairs on a form satisfactory to or furnished by the board; and (d) Such other documents, stipulations, or information as the board may reasonably require to evidence compliance with the provisions of this chapter; and (2) Deposit with the department the fees required by this chapter to be paid for filing the accompanying documents, and for the prearrangement sales license, if granted.
RCW 68.20.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 030
RCW 68.20.030: Powers of existing corporations enlarged.
Status: in_force

The powers, privileges and duties conferred and imposed upon any corporation, firm, copartnership, association, trust, or individual, existing and doing business under the laws of this state, are hereby enlarged as each particular case may require to conform to the provisions of *this act.
RCW 68.20.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 020
RCW 68.20.020: Corporations, how organized.
Status: in_force

Any private corporation authorized by its articles so to do, may establish, maintain, manage, improve, or operate a cemetery, and conduct any or all of the businesses of a cemetery, either for or without profit to its members or stockholders. A nonprofit cemetery corporation may be organized in the manner provided in chapter 24.03A RCW. A profit corporation may be organized in the manner provided in the general corporation laws of the state of Washington.
RCW 68.28.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 28 / Section 010
RCW 68.28.010: Sections applicable to mausoleums, columbariums, etc.
Status: in_force

RCW 68.28.020 through 68.28.070 , 68.20.080 , * 68.20.090 , 68.56.040 , and 68.56.050 , apply to all buildings, mausoleums, and columbariums used or intended to be used for the placement of the human remains of fifteen or more persons, whether erected under or above the surface of the earth, where any portion of the building is exposed to view or, when interment is completed, is less than three feet below the surface of the earth and covered by earth.
RCW 68.54.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 54 / Section 050
RCW 68.54.050: Merger—Petition—Special election.
Status: in_force

If the auditor finds that the petition contains the signatures of a sufficient number of qualified electors, he or she shall return it, together with his or her certificate of sufficiency attached thereto, to the board of the merging district. Thereupon such board shall adopt a resolution, calling a special election in the merging district, at which shall be submitted to the electors thereof, the question of the merger.
RCW 68.50.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 100
RCW 68.50.100: Dissection, when permitted—Autopsy of person under the age of three years.
Status: in_force

(1) The right to dissect a dead body shall be limited to cases specially provided by statute or by the direction or will of the deceased; cases where a coroner is authorized to hold an inquest upon the body, and then only as he or she may authorize dissection; and cases where the spouse, state registered domestic partner, or next of kin charged by law with the duty of burial shall authorize dissection for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of death, and then only to the extent so authorized: PROVIDED, That the coroner, in his or her discretion, may make or cause to be made by a competent pathologist, toxicologist, or physician, an autopsy or postmortem in any case in which the coroner has jurisdiction of a body: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That the coroner may with the approval of the University of Washington and with the consent of a parent or guardian deliver any body of a deceased person under the age of three years over which he or she has jurisdiction to the University of Washington medical school for the purpose of having an autopsy made to determine the cause of death. (2) Every person who shall make, cause, or procure to be made any dissection of a body, except as provided in this section, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
RCW 68.52.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 070
RCW 68.52.070: Cemetery improvement fund—Management.
Status: in_force

The said city shall, by ordinance, make all necessary rules and regulations concerning the control and management of said fund to properly safeguard the same, but shall in nowise be liable for any of said funds except a misappropriation thereof, and shall not have power to bind the city or said fund for any further liability than whatever net interest may be actually realized from such investments, and shall not be liable to any particular person for more than the proportionate part of such net earnings.
RCW 68.50.903 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 903
RCW 68.50.903: Severability—1993 c 228.
Status: in_force

If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
RCW 68.50.290 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 290
RCW 68.50.290: Corneal tissue for transplantation—Presumption of good faith.
Status: in_force

In any subsequent civil action in which the next of kin of a decedent contends that he/she affirmatively informed the county coroner or medical examiner or designee of his/her objection to removal of corneal tissue from the decedent, it shall be presumed that the county coroner or medical examiner acted in good faith and without knowledge of the objection.
RCW 68.46.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 080
RCW 68.46.080: Other use of trust funds prohibited.
Status: in_force

Prearrangement trust funds shall not be used in any way for the benefit of the cemetery authority or any director, officer, agent, or employee of any cemetery authority, including, but not limited to any encumbrance, pledge, or other utilization or prearrangement trust funds as collateral or other security.
RCW 68.04.140 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 140
RCW 68.04.140: "Burial."
Status: in_force

"Burial" means the placement of human remains in a grave.
RCW 68.54.090 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 54 / Section 090
RCW 68.54.090: Merger—Transfer of all property, funds, assessments.
Status: in_force

The commissioners of the merging district shall, forthwith upon completion of the merger, transfer, convey, and deliver to the merged district all property and funds of the merging district, together with all interest in and right to collect any assessments theretofore levied.
RCW 68.40.095 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 40 / Section 095
RCW 68.40.095: Certain cemeteries exempt from chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to any cemetery controlled and operated by a coroner, county, city, town, or cemetery district.
RCW 68.54.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 54 / Section 060
RCW 68.54.060: Merger—Petition—Election—Vote required—Merger effected.
Status: in_force

The board of [the] merging district shall notify the board of the merger district of the results of the election. If three-fifths of the votes cast at the election favor the merger, the respective district boards shall adopt concurrent resolutions, declaring the districts merged, under the name of the merger district. Thereupon the districts are merged into one district, under the name of the merger district; the merging district is dissolved without further proceedings; and the boundaries of the merger district are thereby extended to include all the area of the merging district. Thereafter the legal existence cannot be questioned by any person by reason of any defect in the proceedings had for the merger.
RCW 68.46.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 030
RCW 68.46.030: Prearrangement trust funds—Deposits—Bond requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) For each prearrangement contract, a cemetery authority shall deposit the greater of the following amounts in its prearrangement trust fund: (a) For merchandise: (i) Fifty percent of the contract price; or (ii) The wholesale cost of the item. (b) For services: (i) Fifty percent of the contract price; or (ii) The direct cost of providing the service. (2) Any cemetery authority which does not file and maintain with the board a bond as provided in subsection (4) of this section shall deposit in its prearrangement trust fund an amount as determined under subsection (1) of this section, excluding sales tax and endowment care if such charge is made. (3) Any cemetery authority which files and maintains with the board a bond as provided in subsection (4) of this section may retain the nontrustable portion of the contract before depositing the balance of payments into its prearrangement trust fund, as determined under subsection (1) of this section, excluding sales tax and endowment care, if such charge is made. (4) Each cemetery authority electing to make payments to its prearrangement trust fund pursuant to subsection (3) of this section shall file and maintain with the board a bond, issued by a surety company authorized to do business in the state, in the amount by which the cemetery authority's contingent liability for refunds pursuant to RCW 68.46.060 exceeds the amount deposited in its prearrangement trust fund. The bond shall be conditioned that it is for the use and benefit of any person requesting a refund pursuant to RCW 68.46.060 if the cemetery authority does not promptly pay to the person the refund due pursuant to RCW 68.46.060 . In addition to any other remedy, every person not promptly receiving the refund due pursuant to RCW 68.46.060 may sue the surety for the refund. The liability of the surety shall not exceed the amount of the bond. Termination or cancellation shall not be effective unless notice is delivered by the surety to the board at least thirty days prior to the date of termination or cancellation. The board shall immediately notify the cemetery authority affected by the termination or cancellation by certified mail, return receipt requested. The cemetery authority shall thereupon obtain another bond or make such other arrangement as may be satisfactory to the board to ensure its ability to make refunds pursuant to RCW 68.46.060 . (5) Deposits to the prearrangement trust fund shall be made not later than the twentieth day of each month following receipt of each payment required to be deposited. If a prearrangement contract is sold, pledged, or otherwise encumbered as security for a loan by the cemetery authority, the cemetery authority shall pay into the prearrangement trust fund fifty percent of the total sale price of the prearrangement contract within twenty days of receipt of payment of the proceeds from the sale or loan. (6) Any failure to fund a prearrangement contract as required by this section shall be grounds for disciplinary action against the cemetery authority and the cemetery authority's prearrangement sales license.
RCW 68.04.120 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 120
RCW 68.04.120: "Inurnment."
Status: in_force

"Inurnment" means placing human remains in a cemetery.
RCW 68.50.902 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 902
RCW 68.50.902: Application—Construction—1993 c 228.
Status: in_force

This act shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this act among states enacting it.
RCW 68.64.901 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 901
RCW 68.64.901: Applicable state laws.
Status: in_force

This chapter is subject to the laws of this state governing the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner.
RCW 68.50.130 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 130
RCW 68.50.130: Unlawful disposal of remains.
Status: in_force

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Every person who performs a disposition of any human remains, except as otherwise provided by law, in any place, except in a cemetery or a building dedicated exclusively for religious purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Disposition of human remains following cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction may also occur on private property, with the consent of the property owner; and on public or government lands or waters with the approval of the government agency that has either jurisdiction or control, or both, of the lands or waters.
RCW 68.70.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 70 / Section 010
RCW 68.70.010: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Anatomical gift" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 68.64.010 . (2) "Auxiliary aids and services" include, but are not limited to: (a) Qualified interpreters or other effective methods of making aurally delivered materials available to individuals with hearing impairments; (b) Qualified readers, taped texts, or other effective methods of making visually delivered materials available to individuals with visual impairments; (c) Provision of information in a format that is accessible for individuals with cognitive, neurological, developmental, and/or intellectual disabilities; (d) Provision of supported decision-making services; and (e) Acquisition or modification of equipment or devices. (3) "Covered entity" means: (a) Any licensed provider of health care services, including licensed health care practitioners, hospitals, nursing facilities, laboratories, intermediate care facilities, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, institutions for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and prison health centers; or (b) Any entity responsible for matching anatomical gift donors to potential recipients. (4) "Disability" has the same meaning as provided in the Americans with disabilities act of 1990, as amended by the Americans with disabilities act amendments act of 2008, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 12102. (5) "Qualified individual" means an individual who, with or without the support networks available to them, provision of auxiliary aids and services, and/or reasonable modifications to policies or practices, meets the essential eligibility requirements for the receipt of an anatomical gift. (6) "Reasonable modifications to policies or practices" include, but are not limited to: (a) Communication with individuals responsible for supporting an individual with postsurgical and posttransplantation care, including medication; and (b) Consideration of support networks available to the individual, including family, friends, and home and community-based services, including home and community-based services funded through medicaid, medicare, another health plan in which the individual is enrolled, or any program or source of funding available to the individual, in determining whether the individual is able to comply with posttransplant medical requirements. (7) "Supported decision making" means the use of a support person to assist an individual in making medical decisions, communicate information to the individual, or ascertain an individual's wishes. "Supported decision making" may include: (a) The inclusion of the individual's attorney-in-fact, health care proxy, or any person of the individual's choice in communications about the individual's medical care; (b) Permitting the individual to designate a person of their choice for the purposes of supporting that individual in communicating, processing information, or making medical decisions; (c) Providing auxiliary aids and services to facilitate the individual's ability to communicate and process health-related information, including use of assistive communication technology; (d) Providing information to persons designated by the individual, consistent with the provisions of the health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1301 et seq., and other applicable laws and regulations governing disclosure of health information; (e) Providing health information in a format that is readily understandable by the individual; and (f) Working with a court-appointed guardian or other individual responsible for making medical decisions on behalf of the individual, to ensure that the individual is included in decisions involving his or her own health care and that medical decisions are in accordance with the individual's own expressed interests.
RCW 68.44.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 060
RCW 68.44.060: Unauthorized loans—Penalty.
Status: in_force

Every director or officer authorizing or consenting to a loan, and the person who receives a loan, in violation of RCW 68.44.030 are severally guilty of a class C felony punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW.
RCW 68.24.115 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 115
RCW 68.24.115: Execution of conveyances.
Status: in_force

All conveyances made by a cemetery authority shall be signed by such officer or officers as are authorized by the cemetery authority.
RCW 68.32.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 100
RCW 68.32.100: Co-owners may designate representative.
Status: in_force

When there are several owners of a plot or right of interment, they may designate one or more persons to represent the plot or interment right and file written notice of designation with the cemetery authority. In the absence of such notice or of written objection to its so doing, the cemetery authority is not liable to any owner for permitting the placement in the plot or right of interment upon the request or direction of any co-owner of the plot or right of interment.
RCW 68.64.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 080
RCW 68.64.080: Persons authorized to make an anatomical gift—After donor's death.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section and unless barred by RCW 68.64.060 or 68.64.070 , an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part may be made by any member of the following classes of persons who is reasonably available, in the order of priority listed: (a) An agent of the decedent at the time of death who could have made an anatomical gift under RCW 68.64.030 (2) immediately before the decedent's death; (b) The spouse, or domestic partner registered as required by state law, of the decedent; (c) Adult children of the decedent; (d) Parents of the decedent; (e) Adult siblings of the decedent; (f) Adult grandchildren of the decedent; (g) Grandparents of the decedent; (h) The persons who were acting as the guardians of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and (i) Any other person having the authority under applicable law to dispose of the decedent's body. (2) If there is more than one member of a class listed in subsection (1)(a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h) of this section entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by a member of the class unless that member or a person to which the gift may pass under RCW 68.64.100 knows of an objection by another member of the class. If an objection is known, the gift may be made only by a majority of the members of the class who are reasonably available. (3) A person may not make an anatomical gift if, at the time of the decedent's death, a person in a prior class under subsection (1) of this section is reasonably available to make or to object to the making of an anatomical gift.
RCW 68.44.100 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 44 / Section 100
RCW 68.44.100: Agreement by owner to care for plot.
Status: in_force

Upon the application of an owner of a plot, and upon the payment by the owner of the amount fixed as a reasonable and proportionate contribution for endowment care, a cemetery authority may enter into an agreement with the owner for the special care of his or her plot and its appurtenances.
RCW 68.50.103 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 103
RCW 68.50.103: Autopsies in industrial deaths.
Status: in_force

In an industrial death where the cause of death is unknown, and where the department of labor and industries is concerned, said department in its discretion, may request the coroner in writing to perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. The coroner shall be required to promptly perform such autopsy upon receipt of the written request from the department of labor and industries.
RCW 68.20.070 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 070
RCW 68.20.070: Rules and regulations—Posting.
Status: in_force

The rules and regulations made pursuant to RCW 68.20.060 shall be plainly printed or typewritten and maintained subject to inspection in the office of the cemetery authority or in such place or places within the cemetery as the cemetery authority may prescribe.
RCW 68.54.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 54 / Section 010
RCW 68.54.010: Annexation—Petition—Procedure.
Status: in_force

Any territory contiguous to a cemetery district and not within the boundaries of a city or town other than as set forth in RCW 68.52.210 or other cemetery district may be annexed to such cemetery district by petition of ten percent of the registered voters residing within the territory proposed to be annexed who voted in the last general municipal election. Such petition shall be filed with the cemetery commissioners of the cemetery district and if the cemetery commissioners shall concur in the petition they shall then file such petition with the county auditor who shall within thirty days from the date of filing such petition examine the signatures thereof and certify to the sufficiency or insufficiency thereof. After the county auditor shall have certified to the sufficiency of the petition, the proceedings thereafter by the county legislative authority, and the rights and powers and duties of the county legislative authority, petitioners and objectors and the election and canvass thereof shall be the same as in the original proceedings to form a cemetery district: PROVIDED, That the county legislative authority shall have authority and it shall be its duty to determine on an equitable basis, the amount of obligation which the territory to be annexed to the district shall assume, if any, to place the taxpayers of the existing district on a fair and equitable relationship with the taxpayers of the territory to be annexed by reason of the benefits of coming into a going district previously supported by the taxpayers of the existing district, and such obligation may be paid to the district in yearly installments to be fixed by the county legislative authority if within the limits as outlined in RCW 68.52.310 and included in the annual tax levies against the property in such annexed territory until fully paid. The amount of the obligation and the plan of payment thereof filed by the county legislative authority shall be set out in general terms in the notice of election for annexation: PROVIDED, That the special election shall be held only within the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed to the cemetery district. Upon the entry of the order of the county legislative authority incorporating such contiguous territory within such existing cemetery district, the territory shall become subject to the indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, of the existing district in like manner as the territory of the district. Should such petition be signed by sixty percent of the registered voters residing within the territory proposed to be annexed, and should the cemetery commissioners concur therein, an election in such territory and a hearing on such petition shall be dispensed with and the county legislative authority shall enter its order incorporating such territory within the existing cemetery district.
RCW 68.64.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 050
RCW 68.64.050: Amending or revoking an anatomical gift.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to RCW 68.64.070 , a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under RCW 68.64.030 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift by: (a) A record signed by: (i) The donor; (ii) The other person; or (iii) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, another individual acting at the direction of the donor or the other person if the donor or other person is physically unable to sign; or (b) A later-executed document of gift that amends or revokes a previous anatomical gift or portion of an anatomical gift, either expressly or by inconsistency. (2) A record signed pursuant to subsection (1)(a)(iii) of this section must: (a) Be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and (b) State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in (a) of this subsection. (3) Subject to RCW 68.64.070 , a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under RCW 68.64.030 may revoke an anatomical gift by the destruction or cancellation of the document of gift, or the portion of the document of gift used to make the gift, with the intent to revoke the gift. The donor or other person shall notify the Washington organ procurement organization of the destruction or cancellation of the document of gift for the purpose of removing the individual's name from the organ and tissue donor registry created in RCW 68.64.200 . If the Washington state organ procurement organization that is notified does not maintain a registry for Washington residents, it shall notify all Washington state procurement organizations that do maintain such a registry. (4) A donor may amend or revoke an anatomical gift that was not made in a will by any form of communication during a terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness. (5) A donor who makes an anatomical gift in a will may amend or revoke the gift in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection (1) of this section.
RCW 68.24.050 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 050
RCW 68.24.050: Constructive notice.
Status: in_force

The filed map or plat and the recorded declaration are constructive notice to all persons of the dedication of the property to cemetery purposes.
RCW 68.32.020 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 32 / Section 020
RCW 68.32.020: Vested right of spouse or state registered domestic partner.
Status: in_force

The spouse or state registered domestic partner , of an owner of any plot or right of interment containing more than one placement space has a vested right of placement in the plot and any person thereafter becoming the spouse or state registered domestic partner , of the owner has a vested right of placement in the plot if more than one space is unoccupied at the time the person becomes the spouse or state registered domestic partner , of the owner.
RCW 68.52.300 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 300
RCW 68.52.300: Disbursement of fund.
Status: in_force

The county treasurer shall disburse the cemetery district fund upon warrants issued by the county auditor on vouchers approved and signed by a majority of the board of cemetery commissioners and the secretary thereof.
RCW 68.36.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 36 / Section 030
RCW 68.36.030: Petition for order of abandonment—Notice and hearing.
Status: in_force

After a three-year period, the owner or manager of the cemetery may file a verified petition in the office of the county clerk, setting forth the facts relating to the abandonment. The petition may ask for an order of the superior court for abandonment. At the time of filing the petition, the cemetery authority shall request a hearing of the petition. The superior court will fix the time for the hearing. Not less than sixty days before the time fixed for the hearing of the petition, notice and nature of the hearing shall be given to the owner of such unoccupied space.
RCW 68.05.180 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 180
RCW 68.05.180: Annual report of authority—Contents—Verification.
Status: in_force

Each cemetery authority in charge of cemetery endowment care funds shall annually, and within ninety days after the end of the calendar or fiscal year of the cemetery authority, file with the board a written report in form and content prescribed by the board. These reports shall be verified by the president or vice president, one other officer of the cemetery authority, the accountant or auditor preparing the same, and, if required by the board for good cause, a certified public accountant in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.
RCW 68.50.108 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 50 / Section 108
RCW 68.50.108: Autopsies, postmortems—Consent to embalm, cremate body, or make final disposition—Time limitation.
Status: in_force

No dead body upon which the coroner, or prosecuting attorney, if there is not a coroner in the county, may perform an autopsy or postmortem, may be embalmed or make final disposition without the consent of the coroner having jurisdiction. Failure to obtain such consent is a misdemeanor. However, such autopsy or postmortem must be performed within five days, unless the coroner obtains an order from the superior court extending such time.
RCW 68.20.140 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 140
RCW 68.20.140: Certain cemeteries exempt from chapter.
Status: in_force

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This chapter does not apply to any cemetery controlled and operated by a coroner, county, city, town, or cemetery district.
RCW 68.05.400 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 400
RCW 68.05.400: Exemptions from chapter.
Status: in_force

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The provisions of this chapter do not apply to any of the following: (1) Nonprofit cemeteries which are owned or operated by any recognized religious denomination which qualifies for an exemption from real estate taxation under RCW 84.36.020 on any of its churches or the ground upon which any of its churches are or will be built; or (2) Any cemetery controlled and operated by a coroner, county, city, town, or cemetery district.
RCW 68.64.160 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 160
RCW 68.64.160: Illegal financial gain—Altering a document, amendment, or revocation of gift—Felony.
Status: in_force

A person who, in order to obtain financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or revocation of a document of gift, or a refusal is guilty of a class C felony under RCW 9A.20.010 .
RCW 68.04.005 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 005
RCW 68.04.005: Application.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this chapter apply throughout this title unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
RCW 68.64.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 010
RCW 68.64.010: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Adult" means an individual who is at least 18 years old. (2) "Agent" means an individual: (a) Authorized to make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care; or (b) Expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other record signed by the principal. (3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. (4) "Decedent" means a deceased individual whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. (5) "Disinterested witness" means a witness other than the spouse or state registered domestic partner, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent, or guardian of the individual who makes, amends, revokes, or refuses to make an anatomical gift. The term does not include a person to which an anatomical gift could pass under RCW 68.64.100 . (6) "Document of gift" means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. The term includes a statement or symbol on a driver's license, identification card, or donor registry. (7) "Donor" means an individual whose body or part is the subject of an anatomical gift. (8) "Donor registry" means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts. (9) "Driver's license" means a license or permit issued by the department of licensing to operate a vehicle, whether or not conditions are attached to the license or permit. (10) "Eye bank" means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes. (11) "Guardian" means a person appointed by a court to make decisions regarding the support, care, education, health, or welfare of an individual. The term does not include a guardian ad litem. (12) "Hospital" means a facility licensed as a hospital under the law of any state or a facility operated as a hospital by the United States, a state, or a subdivision of a state. (13) "Identification card" means an identification card issued by the department of licensing. (14) "Know" means to have actual knowledge. (15) "Minor" means an individual who is less than 18 years old. (16) "Organ procurement organization" means a person designated by the secretary of the United States department of health and human services as an organ procurement organization. (17) "Parent" means a parent whose parental rights have not been terminated. (18) "Part" means an organ, an eye, or tissue of a human being. The term does not include the whole body. (19) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. (20) "Physician" means an individual licensed or otherwise authorized to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery under the law of any state. (21) "Procurement organization" means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. (22) "Prospective donor" means an individual whose death is imminent and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. "Prospective donor" does not include an individual who has made a refusal. (23) "Reasonable costs" include: (a) Programming and software installation and upgrades; (b) employee training that is specific to the organ and tissue donor registry or the donation program created in RCW 46.16A.090 (2); (c) literature that is specific to the organ and tissue donor registry or the donation program created in RCW 46.16A.090 (2); and (d) hardware upgrades or other issues important to the organ and tissue donor registry or the donation program created in RCW 46.16A.090 (2) that have been mutually agreed upon in advance by the department of licensing and the Washington state organ procurement organizations. (24) "Reasonably available" means able to be contacted by a procurement organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an anatomical gift. (25) "Recipient" means an individual into whose body a decedent's part has been or is intended to be transplanted. (26) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (27) "Refusal" means a record created under RCW 68.64.060 that expressly states an intent to bar other persons from making an anatomical gift of an individual's body or part. (28) "Sign" means, with the present intent to authenticate or adopt a record: (a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or (b) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process. (29) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. (30) "Technician" means an individual determined to be qualified to remove or process parts by an appropriate organization that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law. The term includes an enucleator. (31) "Time sensitive organ or tissue donor" means an organ being transported for human transplant or a tissue donor being transported for the purpose of recovery that is time sensitive but not an emergency. (32) "Time urgent organ" means an organ being transported for human transplant that a member of the transplant team or a representative of the organ procurement organization declares an emergency. (33) "Tissue" means a portion of the human body other than an organ or an eye. The term does not include blood unless the blood is donated for the purpose of research or education. (34) "Tissue bank" means a person that is licensed to conduct business in this state, accredited, and regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue. (35) "Transplant hospital" means a hospital that furnishes organ transplants and other medical and surgical specialty services required for the care of transplant patients. (36) "Washington state organ procurement organization" means an organ procurement organization that has been designated by the United States department of health and human services to coordinate organ procurement activities for any portion of Washington state.
RCW 68.04.190 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 190
RCW 68.04.190: "Cemetery authority."
Status: in_force

"Cemetery authority" means an entity that has obtained a certificate of authority to operate a cemetery from the funeral and cemetery board, or any other entity that operates a cemetery that is not under the jurisdiction of the funeral and cemetery board.
RCW 68.04.030 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 04 / Section 030
RCW 68.04.030: "Cremated human remains."
Status: in_force

"Cremated human remains" means the end products of cremation.
RCW 68.24.080 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 080
RCW 68.24.080: Rule against perpetuities, etc., inapplicable.
Status: in_force

Dedication to cemetery purposes pursuant to *this act is not invalid as violating any laws against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation of title to or use of property, but is expressly permitted and shall be deemed to be in respect for the dead, a provision for the placement of human remains, and a duty to, and for the benefit of, the general public.
RCW 68.05.010 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 010
RCW 68.05.010: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in chapter 68.04 RCW are applicable to this chapter and govern the meaning of terms used in this chapter, except as otherwise provided.
RCW 68.64.120 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 120
RCW 68.64.120: Procurement organizations—Reasonable examinations—Donee's rights—Physician removal of donated part.
Status: in_force

(1) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization shall make a reasonable search of the records of the department of licensing and any donor registry that it knows exists for the geographical area in which the individual resides to ascertain whether the individual has made an anatomical gift. (2) A procurement organization must be allowed reasonable access to information in the records of the department of licensing to ascertain whether an individual at or near death is a donor. (3) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization may conduct any reasonable examination necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part that is or could be the subject of an anatomical gift for transplantation, therapy, research, or education from a donor or a prospective donor. During the examination period, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the part may not be withdrawn unless the hospital or procurement organization knows that the individual expressed a contrary intent. (4) Unless prohibited by law other than this chapter, at any time after a donor's death, the person to which a part passes under RCW 68.64.100 may conduct any reasonable examination necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the body or part for its intended purpose. (5) Unless prohibited by law other than this chapter, an examination under subsection (3) or (4) of this section may include an examination of all medical records of the donor or prospective donor. (6) Upon the death of a minor who was a donor or had signed a refusal, unless a procurement organization knows the minor is emancipated, the procurement organization shall conduct a reasonable search for the parents of the minor and provide the parents with an opportunity to revoke or amend the anatomical gift or revoke the refusal. (7) Upon referral by a hospital under subsection (1) of this section, a procurement organization shall make a reasonable search for any person listed in RCW 68.64.080 having priority to make an anatomical gift on behalf of a prospective donor. If a procurement organization receives information that an anatomical gift to any other person was made, amended, or revoked, it shall promptly advise the other person of all relevant information. (8) Subject to RCW 68.64.100 (9), 68.64.190 , and 68.64.901 , the rights of the person to which a part passes under RCW 68.64.100 are superior to the rights of all others with respect to the part. The person may accept or reject an anatomical gift in whole or in part. Subject to the terms of the document of gift and this chapter, a person that accepts an anatomical gift of an entire body may allow embalming, burial, alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction, and use of remains in a funeral service. If the gift is of a part, the person to which the part passes under RCW 68.64.100 , upon the death of the donor and before embalming or final disposition, must cause the part to be removed without unnecessary mutilation. (9) Neither the physician who attends the decedent at death nor the physician who determines the time of the decedent's death may participate in the procedures for removing or transplanting a part from the decedent. (10) A physician or technician may remove a donated part from the body of a donor that the physician or technician is qualified to remove.
RCW 68.56.040 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 56 / Section 040
RCW 68.56.040: Nonconforming cemetery a nuisance—Penalty.
Status: in_force

Every person, firm, or corporation who is the owner or operator of a cemetery established in violation of *this act is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a gross misdemeanor.
RCW 68.64.110 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 64 / Section 110
RCW 68.64.110: Document of gift or refusal—Examination and copying.
Status: in_force

(1) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective. (2) Upon or after an individual's death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a person to which the gift could pass under RCW 68.64.100 .
RCW 68.52.310 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 310
RCW 68.52.310: Limitation of indebtedness—Limitation of tax levy.
Status: in_force

The board of cemetery commissioners shall have no authority to contract indebtedness in any year in excess of the aggregate amount of the currently levied taxes, which annual tax levy for cemetery district purposes shall not exceed eleven and one-quarter cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation.
RCW 68.05.190 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 190
RCW 68.05.190: Examination of reports.
Status: in_force

The board shall examine the reports filed with it as to their compliance with the requirements of the law.
RCW 68.05.090 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 05 / Section 090
RCW 68.05.090: Administration and enforcement of title.
Status: in_force

The board shall enforce and administer the provisions of chapters 68.04 through 68.50 RCW, subject to provisions of RCW 68.05.400 . The board may adopt and amend bylaws establishing its organization and method of operation. The board may refer such evidence as may be available concerning violations of chapters 68.04 through 68.50 RCW to the attorney general or the proper prosecuting attorney, who may in his or her discretion, with or without such a reference, in addition to any other action the board might commence, bring an action against any person to restrain or prevent the doing of any act or practice prohibited or declared unlawful in chapters 68.04 through 68.50 RCW and shall have standing to seek enforcement of said provisions in the superior court of the state of Washington for the county in which the principal office of the cemetery authority is located.
RCW 68.24.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 24 / Section 060
RCW 68.24.060: Maps and plats—Amendment.
Status: in_force

Any part or subdivision of the property so mapped and plotted may, by order of the directors, be resurveyed and altered in shape and size and an amended map or plat filed, so long as such change does not disturb the interred remains of any deceased person.
RCW 68.20.060 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 20 / Section 060
RCW 68.20.060: Specific powers—Rule making and enforcement.
Status: in_force

A cemetery authority may make, adopt, amend, add to, revise, or modify, and enforce rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction and protection of all or any part of its cemetery and for the other purposes specified in RCW 68.20.061 through 68.20.067 , 68.20.070 and * 68.48.080 .
RCW 68.52.260 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 260
RCW 68.52.260: Oath of commissioners.
Status: in_force

Each cemetery commissioner, before assuming the duties of his or her office, shall take and subscribe an official oath to faithfully discharge the duties of his or her office, which oath shall be filed in the office of the county auditor.
RCW 68.52.330 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 330
RCW 68.52.330: Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years.
Status: in_force

See chapter 57.90 RCW.
RCW 68.46.075 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 46 / Section 075
RCW 68.46.075: Inactive contracts—Funds transfer—Obligations.
Status: in_force

In the event the beneficiary of a prearrangement contract make[s] no claim within fifty years of the date of the contract for the merchandise and services provided in the prearrangement contract, the funds deposited in the prearrangement trust for that contract, plus interest, shall be transferred to the cemetery authority's endowment fund, to be used for the purposes for which the endowment fund was established. However, the cemetery authority shall remain obligated for merchandise and services, unconstructed crypts, niches, and undeveloped property under the terms of the prearrangement contract. Claims may be made for merchandise and services, unconstructed crypts, niches, and undeveloped property on a prearrangement contract after the funds have been transferred to the endowment fund. These claims shall be paid for from the endowment fund income on a contract by contract basis.
RCW 68.52.045 — Washington Code / Title 68 / Chapter 52 / Section 045
RCW 68.52.045: Cities and towns may provide for a cemetery board.
Status: in_force

The legislative body of any city or town may provide by ordinance for a cemetery board to be appointed by the mayor in cities and towns operating under the mayor-council form of government, by the city commission in cities operating under the commission form of government, and by the city manager in cities and towns operating under the council-manager form of government: PROVIDED FURTHER, That no ordinance shall be enacted, pursuant to this section, in conflict with provisions contained in charters of cities of the first class.