Washington § 68.56.010 - Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc. — Interfering with funeral.

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§ 68.56.010. Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc. — Interfering with funeral.

Every person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor who unlawfully or without right wilfully does any of the following:
(1) Destroys, cuts, mutilates, effaces, or otherwise injures, tears down or removes, any tomb, plot, monument, memorial or marker in a cemetery, or any gate, door, fence, wall, post or railing, or any enclosure for the protection of a cemetery or any property in a cemetery.
(2) Destroys, cuts, breaks, removes or injures any building, statuary, ornamentation, tree, shrub, flower or plant within the limits of a cemetery.
(3) Disturbs, obstructs, detains or interferes with any person carrying or accompanying human remains to a cemetery or funeral establishment, or engaged in a funeral service, or an interment.
[ 1943 c 247 s 36; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 3778-36. Cf. 1909 c 249 s 240 and 1856-57 p 28 ss 4, 5. Formerly RCW 68.48.010.]

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