Washington Code — 68
Browse 404 sections in division 68 of the Washington code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 68.04.005. Application.
- § 68.04.020. "Human remains," "remains."
- § 68.04.030. "Cremated human remains."
- § 68.04.040. "Cemetery."
- § 68.04.050. "Burial park."
- § 68.04.060. "Mausoleum."
- § 68.04.070. "Crematory."
- § 68.04.080. "Columbarium."
- § 68.04.100. "Interment."
- § 68.04.110. "Cremation."
- § 68.04.120. "Inurnment."
- § 68.04.130. "Entombment."
- § 68.04.140. "Burial."
- § 68.04.150. "Grave."
- § 68.04.160. "Crypt."
- § 68.04.165. "Outer burial container."
- § 68.04.170. "Niche."
- § 68.04.190. "Cemetery authority."
- § 68.04.210. "Cemetery business."
- § 68.04.230. "Lot" or "plot."
- § 68.04.240. "Owner of interment rights."
- § 68.04.250. "Interment right."
- § 68.04.260. "Scattering garden."
- § 68.04.270. "Scattering."
- § 68.04.280. "Multiple interment."
- § 68.04.290. "Alkaline hydrolysis" or "hydrolysis."
- § 68.04.300. "Hydrolysis facility."
- § 68.04.310. "Natural organic reduction."
- § 68.04.320. "Natural organic reduction facility."
- § 68.04.330. "Family burial ground."
- § 68.04.900. Construction — Title applicable to state registered domestic partnerships — 2009 c 521.
- § 68.05.010. Definitions.
- § 68.05.020. "Board" defined.
- § 68.05.024. "Department" defined.
- § 68.05.028. "Director" defined.
- § 68.05.030. "Endowment care," "endowed care" defined.
- § 68.05.090. Administration and enforcement of title.
- § 68.05.095. Program administrator or manager.
- § 68.05.100. Rules.
- § 68.05.105. Authority of the board.
- § 68.05.115. Sale or transfer of cemetery authority or creation of a new cemetery — Penalty for noncompliance.
- § 68.05.120. Actions to enforce law — Attorney general.
- § 68.05.150. Examination of funds — Powers, duties.
- § 68.05.155. Prearrangement sales license.
- § 68.05.160. Action required when authority fails to deposit minimum endowment amount or comply with prearrangement contract provisions.
- § 68.05.170. Order requiring reinvestment in compliance with title — Actions for preservation and protection.
- § 68.05.173. Revocation, suspension of certificate or license.
- § 68.05.175. License or endorsement required for cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, and natural organic reduction.
- § 68.05.180. Annual report of authority — Contents — Verification.
- § 68.05.190. Examination of reports.
- § 68.05.195. Burial or scatter of human remains — Permit.
- § 68.05.205. Fees.
- § 68.05.210. Proof of applicant's compliance with laws and financial responsibility.
- § 68.05.215. Certificates — Regulatory charges — Expiration.
- § 68.05.225. Sales licenses — Terms — Fees.
- § 68.05.235. Reports — Failure to file.
- § 68.05.240. Interment, certificate of authority required — Penalty.
- § 68.05.245. Crematory permits, licenses, or endorsements — Terms — Fees.
- § 68.05.254. Examination of endowment funds and prearrangement trust funds.
- § 68.05.259. Payment of examination expenses.
- § 68.05.290. Board members' immunity from suits.
- § 68.05.300. Unprofessional conduct — Disciplinary action.
- § 68.05.310. Prearrangement sales — Disciplinary action.
- § 68.05.320. Board action against authorities — Administrative procedures.
- § 68.05.330. Violation — Penalty — Unfair practice — Other laws applicable.
- § 68.05.340. Board action against authorities — Cease and desist orders.
- § 68.05.350. Delaying board action pending administrative proceedings.
- § 68.05.360. Board action against authorities — Hearing location — Decision — Review.
- § 68.05.370. Board action against authorities — Enforcement of orders.
- § 68.05.400. Exemptions from chapter.
- § 68.05.430. Uniform regulation of business and professions act.
- § 68.05.900. Effective date — 1987 c 331.
- § 68.20.010. Incorporation required.
- § 68.20.020. Corporations, how organized.
- § 68.20.030. Powers of existing corporations enlarged.
- § 68.20.040. Prior corporations not affected.
- § 68.20.050. General powers of cemetery corporations.
- § 68.20.060. Specific powers — Rule making and enforcement.
- § 68.20.061. Specific powers — Control of property.
- § 68.20.062. Specific powers — Regulation as to type of markers, monuments, etc.
- § 68.20.063. Specific powers — Regulation or prohibition as to the erection of monuments, effigies, etc.
- § 68.20.064. Specific powers — Regulation of plants and shrubs.
- § 68.20.065. Specific powers — Prevention of interment.
- § 68.20.066. Specific powers — Prevention of improper assemblages.
- § 68.20.067. Specific powers — Rules and regulations for general purposes.
- § 68.20.070. Rules and regulations — Posting.
- § 68.20.080. Cities and counties may regulate cemeteries.
- § 68.20.110. Nonprofit cemetery association — Tax exempt land.
- § 68.20.120. Sold lots exempt from taxes, etc. — Nonprofit associations.
- § 68.20.140. Certain cemeteries and family burial grounds exempt from chapter.
- § 68.24.010. Right to acquire property.
- § 68.24.020. Surveys and maps.
- § 68.24.030. Declaration of dedication and maps — Filing.
- § 68.24.040. Dedication, when complete.
- § 68.24.050. Constructive notice.
- § 68.24.060. Maps and plats — Amendment.
- § 68.24.070. Permanency of dedication.
- § 68.24.080. Rule against perpetuities, etc., inapplicable.
- § 68.24.090. Removal of dedication — Procedure.
- § 68.24.100. Notice of hearing.
- § 68.24.110. Sale of plots or rights of interment.
- § 68.24.115. Execution of conveyances.
- § 68.24.120. Plots or rights of interment indivisible.
- § 68.24.130. Sale for resale prohibited — Penalty.
- § 68.24.140. Commission on sales prohibited — Penalty.
- § 68.24.150. Unlawful employment of others to dispose of human remains.
- § 68.24.160. Liens subordinate to dedication.
- § 68.24.170. Record of ownership and transfers.
- § 68.24.180. Opening of roads, railroads through cemetery — Consent required.
- § 68.24.190. Opening road through cemetery — Penalty.
- § 68.24.220. Burying place exempt from execution.
- § 68.24.240. Certain cemetery lands exempt from taxes, etc. — 1901 c 147.
- § 68.24.250. Cemetery arrangements, notice requirements — Disclosure of multiple interment.
- § 68.28.010. Sections applicable to mausoleums, columbariums, etc.
- § 68.28.020. Building converted to use for human remains placement.
- § 68.28.030. Standards of construction.
- § 68.28.040. Fireproof construction.
- § 68.28.050. Ordinances and specifications to be complied with.
- § 68.28.060. Improper construction a nuisance — Penalty.
- § 68.28.065. Court to fix costs.
- § 68.28.070. Construction in compliance with existing laws.
- § 68.28.080. Application to family burial grounds.
- § 68.32.010. Presumption as to title.
- § 68.32.020. Vested right of spouse or state registered domestic partner.
- § 68.32.030. Vested right — Termination.
- § 68.32.040. Descent of title to plot or right of interment.
- § 68.32.050. Affidavit as authorization.
- § 68.32.060. Family plot — Sale.
- § 68.32.070. Joint tenants — Vested rights.
- § 68.32.080. Joint tenants — Survivorship.
- § 68.32.090. Joint tenants — Identification.
- § 68.32.100. Co-owners may designate representative.
- § 68.32.110. Order of interment — General.
- § 68.32.130. Waiver of right of placement.
- § 68.32.140. Termination of vested right by waiver.
- § 68.32.150. Limitations on vested rights.
- § 68.32.160. Conveyance of plot or right of interment to cemetery authority, effect.
- § 68.32.170. Exemption from inheritance tax.
- § 68.36.010. Sale of abandoned space — Presumption of abandonment.
- § 68.36.020. Notice — Requirements — Limitation on placing.
- § 68.36.030. Petition for order of abandonment — Notice and hearing.
- § 68.36.040. Service of notice.
- § 68.36.050. Hearing — Order — Attorneys' fees.
- § 68.36.060. Contract for care before adjudication.
- § 68.36.070. Contract for care within one year after adjudication.
- § 68.36.080. Sale after one year.
- § 68.36.100. Petition may cover several lots.
- § 68.40.010. Cemetery authorities — Deposit in endowment care fund required.
- § 68.40.025. Nonendowed sections — Identification.
- § 68.40.040. Endowment care fiscal reports — Review by plot owners.
- § 68.40.060. May accept property in trust — Application of income.
- § 68.40.085. Representing fund as perpetual — Penalty.
- § 68.40.090. Penalty.
- § 68.40.095. Certain cemeteries exempt from chapter.
- § 68.40.100. Only nonendowment care cemeteries now in existence are authorized.
- § 68.40.900. Effective date — 1987 c 331.
- § 68.44.010. Funds authorized — Investments.
- § 68.44.020. Use and care of funds.
- § 68.44.030. Authorized investments.
- § 68.44.060. Unauthorized loans — Penalty.
- § 68.44.070. Use of contributions to funds.
- § 68.44.080. Plans for care — Financing.
- § 68.44.090. Covenant to care for cemetery.
- § 68.44.100. Agreement by owner to care for plot.
- § 68.44.110. Trustees of fund.
- § 68.44.115. Trustee to file statement with board — Resignation of trusteeship.
- § 68.44.120. Directors as trustees — Secretary.
- § 68.44.130. Bank or trust company as trustee.
- § 68.44.140. Compensation of trustees.
- § 68.44.150. Annual report.
- § 68.44.160. Contributions.
- § 68.44.170. Use of income from fund.
- § 68.44.180. Certain cemeteries exempt from chapter.
- § 68.44.900. Effective date — 1987 c 331.
- § 68.46.010. Definitions.
- § 68.46.020. Prearrangement trust funds — Required.
- § 68.46.030. Prearrangement trust funds — Deposits — Bond requirements.
- § 68.46.040. Prearrangement trust funds — Deposit of funds.
- § 68.46.050. Withdrawals from trust funds — Notice of department of social and health services' claim.
- § 68.46.055. Indebtedness limitations.
- § 68.46.060. Termination of contract by purchaser or beneficiary.
- § 68.46.070. Involuntary termination of contract — Refund.
- § 68.46.075. Inactive contracts — Funds transfer — Obligations.
- § 68.46.080. Other use of trust funds prohibited.
- § 68.46.090. Financial reports — Filing — Verification.
- § 68.46.100. Prearrangement contract requirements.
- § 68.46.110. Compliance required.
- § 68.46.125. Certain cemeteries exempt from chapter.
- § 68.46.130. Exemptions from chapter granted by board.
- § 68.46.160. Contract forms — Filing.
- § 68.46.170. Sales licenses — Requirement.
- § 68.46.175. Unconstructed crypts, etc., as part of contract — Requirements.
- § 68.46.900. Effective date — 1987 c 331.
- § 18.39.240. Prearrangement funeral service contracts — License required.
- § 18.39.360. Fraternal or benevolent organizations and labor unions excepted.
- § 68.50.010. Coroner's jurisdiction over remains.
- § 68.50.015. Immunity for determining cause and manner of death — Judicial review of determination.
- § 68.50.020. Notice to coroner or medical examiner — Penalty.
- § 68.50.032. Transportation of remains directed by coroner or medical examiner — Costs.
- § 68.50.035. Unlawful to refuse burial to non-Caucasian.
- § 68.50.040. Deceased's effects to be listed.
- § 68.50.050. Removal or concealment of body — Penalty.
- § 68.50.060. Bodies for instruction purposes.
- § 68.50.070. Human remains — Disposition.
- § 68.50.080. Certificate and bond before receiving bodies.
- § 68.50.090. Penalty.
- § 68.50.100. Dissection, when permitted — Autopsy of person under the age of three years.
- § 68.50.101. Autopsy, postmortem — Who may authorize.
- § 68.50.102. Court petition for autopsy — Cost.
- § 68.50.103. Autopsies in industrial deaths.
- § 68.50.104. Cost of autopsy.
- § 68.50.105. Autopsies, postmortems — Reports and records confidential — Exceptions. (Effective until June 30, 2027.)
- § 68.50.106. Autopsies, postmortems — Analyses — Opinions — Evidence — Costs.
- § 68.50.107. State toxicological laboratory established — State toxicologist.
- § 68.50.108. Autopsies, postmortems — Consent to embalm, cremate body, or make final disposition — Time limitation.
- § 68.50.110. Burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction.
- § 68.50.115. Coroner and medical examiner liability — Release of information.
- § 68.50.120. Holding body for debt — Penalty.
- § 68.50.130. Unlawful disposal of remains.
- § 68.50.140. Unlawful disturbance, removal, or sale of human remains — Penalty.
- § 68.50.160. Right to control disposition of remains — Liability of funeral establishment or cemetery authority — Liability for cost.
- § 68.50.170. Effect of authorization.
- § 68.50.185. Individual final disposition — Exception — Penalty.
- § 68.50.200. Permission to remove human remains.
- § 68.50.210. Notice for order to remove remains.
- § 68.50.220. Exceptions.
- § 68.50.230. Human remains that have not been disposed — Rules.
- § 68.50.232. Remains — Entrusting to funeral homes or mortuaries.
- § 68.50.240. Record of human remains to be kept.
- § 68.50.270. Possession of human remains.
- § 68.50.290. Corneal tissue for transplantation — Presumption of good faith.
- § 68.50.300. Release of information concerning a death.
- § 68.50.310. Dental identification system established — Powers and duties.
- § 68.50.320. Procedures for investigating missing persons — Availability of files.
- § 68.50.325. Indigenous persons — Identification of remains — Spiritual practices.
- § 68.50.330. Identification of body or human remains by dental examination — Comparison of dental examination records with dental records of dental identification system.
- § 68.50.645. Skeletal human remains — Duty to notify — Ground disturbing activities — Coroner determination — Definitions.
- § 68.50.900. Effective date — 1987 c 331.
- § 68.50.901. Application — 1993 c 228.
- § 68.50.902. Application — Construction — 1993 c 228.
- § 68.50.903. Severability — 1993 c 228.
- § 68.50.904. Short title — 1993 c 228.
- § 46.52.065. Blood samples to state toxicologist — Analysis — Availability, admissibility of reports.
- § 36.39.030. Disposal of remains of indigent persons.
- § 68.52.010. Morgues authorized in counties.
- § 68.52.020. Coroner to control morgue — Expense.
- § 68.52.030. Counties and cities may provide for burial, acquire cemeteries, etc.
- § 68.52.040. Cities and towns may own, improve, etc., cemeteries.
- § 68.52.045. Cities and towns may provide for a cemetery board.
- § 68.52.050. Cemetery improvement fund.
- § 68.52.060. Care and investment of fund.
- § 68.52.065. Approval of investments.
- § 68.52.070. Cemetery improvement fund — Management.
- § 68.52.080. Books of account — Audit.
- § 68.52.090. Establishment authorized.
- § 68.52.100. Petition — Requisites — Examination.
- § 68.52.110. Hearing — Place and date.
- § 68.52.120. Publication and posting of petition and notice of hearing.
- § 68.52.130. Hearing — Inclusion and exclusion of lands.
- § 68.52.140. Formation of district and election of first commissioners.
- § 68.52.150. Election, how conducted — Notice.
- § 68.52.155. Conformity with election laws — Exception — Vacancies.
- § 68.52.160. Election ballot.
- § 68.52.170. Canvass of returns — Votes required for district formation.
- § 68.52.180. Review — When district formation is complete.
- § 68.52.185. Ballot proposition authorized for district formation.
- § 68.52.190. General powers of district.
- § 68.52.192. Public cemetery facilities or services — Cooperation with public or private agencies — Joint purchasing.
- § 68.52.193. Public cemetery facilities or services — "Public agency" defined.
- § 68.52.195. Community revitalization financing — Public improvements.
- § 68.52.200. Right of eminent domain.
- § 68.52.210. Power to do cemetery business — District boundaries may include cities and towns — Eminent domain exception.
- § 68.52.220. District commissioners — Compensation — Election.
- § 68.52.250. Special elections.
- § 68.52.260. Oath of commissioners.
- § 68.52.270. Organization of board — Secretary — Office — Meetings — Powers.
- § 68.52.280. Duty of county treasurer — Cemetery district fund.
- § 68.52.290. Tax levy authorized for fund.
- § 68.52.300. Disbursement of fund.
- § 68.52.310. Limitation of indebtedness — Limitation of tax levy.
- § 68.52.320. Dissolution of districts.
- § 68.52.330. Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years.
- § 68.52.901. Effective date — 1987 c 331.
- § 19.16.500. Public bodies may retain collection agencies to collect public debts — Fees.
- § 84.36.020. Cemeteries, churches, parsonages, convents, and grounds.
- § 68.54.010. Annexation — Petition — Procedure.
- § 68.54.020. Merger — Authorized.
- § 68.54.030. Merger — Petition — Procedure — Contents.
- § 68.54.040. Merger — Petition — Rejection, concurrence, or modification — Signatures.
- § 68.54.050. Merger — Petition — Special election.
- § 68.54.060. Merger — Petition — Election — Vote required — Merger effected.
- § 68.54.070. Merger — Petition — When election dispensed with.
- § 68.54.080. Merger — Preexisting obligations.
- § 68.54.090. Merger — Transfer of all property, funds, assessments.
- § 68.54.100. Merger and transfer of part of one district to adjacent district — Petition — Election — Vote.
- § 68.54.110. Merger and transfer of part of one district to adjacent district — When election dispensed with.
- § 68.54.120. Merger and transfer of part of one district to adjacent district — Preexisting indebtedness.
- § 68.54.130. Withdrawal of territory.
- § 68.54.900. Effective date — 1987 c 331.
- § 68.56.010. Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc. — Interfering with funeral.