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WA Rev Code § 68.32.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.010 - Presumption as to title.

RCW 68.32.010 Presumption as to title.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 91; 1943 c 247 § 88; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-88.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.020 - Vested right of spouse or state registered domestic partner.

RCW 68.32.020 Vested right of spouse or state registered domestic partner.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.[ 2007 c 156 § 15; 2005 c 365 § 92; 1943 c 247 § 89; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-89.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.030 - Vested right—Termination.

RCW 68.32.030 Vested right—Termination.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.[ 2007 c 156 § 16; 2005 c 365 § 93; 1943 c 247 § 90; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-90.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.040 - Descent of title to plot or right of interment.

RCW 68.32.040 Descent of title to plot or right of interment.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.[ 2007 c 156 § 17; 2005 c 365 § 94; 1979 c 21 § 15; 1943 c 247 § 91; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-91.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.050 - Affidavit as authorization.

RCW 68.32.050 Affidavit as authorization.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 95; 1943 c 247 § 93; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-93.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.060 - Family plot—Sale.

RCW 68.32.060 Family plot—Sale.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.[ 2007 c 156 § 18; 2005 c 365 § 96; 1979 c 21 § 16; 1943 c 247 § 98; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-98.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.070 - Joint tenants—Vested rights.

RCW 68.32.070 Joint tenants—Vested rights.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 97; 1943 c 247 § 94; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-94.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.080 - Joint tenants—Survivorship.

RCW 68.32.080 Joint tenants—Survivorship.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 98; 1943 c 247 § 95; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-95.]NOTES:Co-owners, simultaneous death: RCW 11.05A.040.
WA Rev Code § 68.32.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.090 - Joint tenants—Identification.

RCW 68.32.090 Joint tenants—Identification.An affidavit by any person having knowledge of the fact of the death of one joint tenant and establishing the identity of the surviving joint tenants named in the deed to any plot or right of interment, when filed with the cemetery authority, is complete authorization to the cemetery authority to permit the use of the unoccupied portion of the plot or right of interment in accordance with the directions of the surviving joint tenants.[ 2005 c 365 § 99; 1943 c 247 § 96; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-96.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.100 - Co-owners may designate representative.

RCW 68.32.100 Co-owners may designate representative.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 100; 1943 c 247 § 97; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-97.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.110 - Order of interment—General.

RCW 68.32.110 Order of interment—General.In a family plot one right of interment may be used for the owner's interment and one for the owner's surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner, if any. Any unoccupied spaces may then be used by the remaining parents and children of the deceased owner, if any, then to the spouse or state registered domestic partner of any child of the owner, then to the heirs at law of the owner, in the order of death.[ 2007 c 156 § 19; 2005 c 365 § 101; 1943 c 247 § 99; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-99.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.130 - Waiver of right of placement.

RCW 68.32.130 Waiver of right of placement.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.[ 2007 c 156 § 20; 2005 c 365 § 102; 1943 c 247 § 101; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-101.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.140 - Termination of vested right by waiver.

RCW 68.32.140 Termination of vested right by waiver.A vested right of placement may be waived and is terminated upon the placement elsewhere of the remains of the person in whom vested.[ 2005 c 365 § 103; 1943 c 247 § 102; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-102.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.150 - Limitations on vested rights.

RCW 68.32.150 Limitations on vested rights.No vested right of interment gives any person the right to have his or her remains interred in any interment space in which the remains of any deceased person having a prior vested right of interment have been interred. No vested right of interment gives any person the right to have the remains of more than one deceased person placed in a single space in violation of the rules and regulations of the cemetery in which the space is located.[ 2005 c 365 § 104; 1943 c 247 § 103; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-103.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.160 - Conveyance of plot or right of interment to cemetery authority, effect.

RCW 68.32.160 Conveyance of plot or right of interment to cemetery authority, effect.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 105; 1943 c 247 § 104; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-104.]
WA Rev Code § 68.32.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.32 - Title and Rights to Cemetery Plots.|68.32.170 - Exemption from inheritance tax.

RCW 68.32.170 Exemption from inheritance tax.Cemetery property passing to an individual by reason of the death of the owner is exempt from all inheritance taxes.[ 1943 c 247 § 92; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-92.]NOTES:Reviser's note: The inheritance tax was repealed by 1981 2nd ex.s. c 7 § 83.100.160 (Initiative Measure No. 402). See RCW 83.100.900. For later enactment, see chapter 83.100 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 68.36.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.010 - Sale of abandoned space—Presumption of abandonment.

RCW 68.36.010 Sale of abandoned space—Presumption of abandonment.The ownership or right to unoccupied cemetery space in this state shall, upon abandonment, be subject to forfeiture and sale by the person or entity having ownership or management of the cemetery. Unoccupied cemetery space is presumed to be abandoned if it has been neglected and in a state of disrepair for a period of five years.[ 2005 c 365 § 106; 1943 c 247 § 78; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-78.]
WA Rev Code § 68.36.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.020 - Notice—Requirements—Limitation on placing.

RCW 68.36.020 Notice—Requirements—Limitation on placing.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 107; 1943 c 247 § 79; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-79.]
WA Rev Code § 68.36.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.030 - Petition for order of abandonment—Notice and hearing.

RCW 68.36.030 Petition for order of abandonment—Notice and hearing.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 108; 1943 c 247 § 80; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-80.]
WA Rev Code § 68.36.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.040 - Service of notice.

RCW 68.36.040 Service of notice.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 109; 1943 c 247 § 81; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-81.]
WA Rev Code § 68.36.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.050 - Hearing—Order—Attorneys' fees.

RCW 68.36.050 Hearing—Order—Attorneys' fees. An owner or claimant may appear and answer the allegations of the petition. If an owner fails to do so prior to the day fixed for hearing, a default shall be entered and it shall then be the duty of the superior court to immediately enter an order adjudging the unoccupied space to have been abandoned and subject to sale. In the event the owner or claimant shall appear and file his or her answer prior to the day fixed for the hearing, the presumption of abandonment shall no longer exist, and on the day fixed for the hearing of the petition or on any subsequent day to which the hearing of the cause is adjourned, the allegations and proof of the parties shall be presented to the court and if the court shall determine that there has been a continued failure to maintain or care for the unoccupied space for a period of three consecutive years preceding the filing of the petition, an order shall be entered accordingly adjudging the unoccupied space to have been abandoned and subject to sale at the expiration of one year by the person, association, corporation, or municipality having ownership of the cemetery containing the same. Upon any adjudication of abandonment, the court shall fix such sum as it shall deem reasonable as attorneys' fees for petitioner's attorney for rights of interment adjudged to have been abandoned in such proceedings.[ 2005 c 365 § 110; 1943 c 247 § 82; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-82.]
WA Rev Code § 68.36.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.060 - Contract for care before adjudication.

RCW 68.36.060 Contract for care before adjudication.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.[ 1953 c 290 § 1; 1943 c 247 § 83; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-83.]
WA Rev Code § 68.36.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.070 - Contract for care within one year after adjudication.

RCW 68.36.070 Contract for care within one year after adjudication.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.[ 1953 c 290 § 2; 1943 c 247 § 84; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-84.]
WA Rev Code § 68.36.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.080 - Sale after one year.

RCW 68.36.080 Sale after one year.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.[ 1943 c 247 § 85; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-85.]
WA Rev Code § 68.36.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.36 - Abandoned Lots.|68.36.100 - Petition may cover several lots.

RCW 68.36.100 Petition may cover several lots.In any one petition for abandonment, a petitioner may, irrespective of diversity of ownership, include in any such petition as many lots or parts of lots as come within the provisions of *this act. The petition for abandonment shall be entitled: "In the Matter of the Abandonment, Forfeiture and Sale of Unoccupied and Uncared for Space located in . . . . . . . . . Cemetery."[ 1943 c 247 § 87; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-87.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: For "this act," see note following RCW 68.04.020.
WA Rev Code § 68.40.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.40 - Endowment and Nonendowment Care.|68.40.010 - Cemetery authorities—Deposit in endowment care fund required.

RCW 68.40.010 Cemetery authorities—Deposit in endowment care fund required.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 111; 1987 c 331 § 35; 1984 c 53 § 1; 1961 c 133 § 2; 1953 c 290 § 4; 1943 c 247 § 118; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-118.]
WA Rev Code § 68.40.025 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.40 - Endowment and Nonendowment Care.|68.40.025 - Nonendowed sections—Identification.

RCW 68.40.025 Nonendowed sections—Identification.Cemeteries with nonendowed sections opened before July 1, 1987, shall only be required to endow sections opened after July 1, 1987. On the face of any contract, receipt, or deed used for sales of nonendowed interment rights shall be prominently displayed the words "Nonendowment section." All nonendowed sections shall be identified as such by posting of a legible sign containing the following phrase: "Nonendowment section."[ 2005 c 365 § 112; 1987 c 331 § 36.]
WA Rev Code § 68.40.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.40 - Endowment and Nonendowment Care.|68.40.040 - Endowment care fiscal reports—Review by plot owners.

RCW 68.40.040 Endowment care fiscal reports—Review by plot owners.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.[ 2009 c 102 § 14; 1987 c 331 § 37; 1953 c 290 § 7; 1943 c 247 § 122; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-122.]NOTES:Funeral directors and embalmers account and cemetery account abolished, moneys transferred to funeral and cemetery account—2009 c 102: See note following RCW 18.39.810.
WA Rev Code § 68.40.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.40 - Endowment and Nonendowment Care.|68.40.060 - May accept property in trust—Application of income.

RCW 68.40.060 May accept property in trust—Application of income.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.[ 2005 c 365 § 113; 1987 c 331 § 38; 1953 c 290 § 8; 1943 c 247 § 129; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-129.]
WA Rev Code § 68.40.085 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains|Chapter 68.40 - Endowment and Nonendowment Care.|68.40.085 - Representing fund as perpetual—Penalty.

RCW 68.40.085 Representing fund as perpetual—Penalty.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.[ 2012 c 117 § 311; 1953 c 290 § 24.]