Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 68 Cemeteries, Morgues, And Human Remains - Chapter 68.24 Cemetery Property

68.24.010 Right to acquire property
Cemetery authorities may take by purchase, donation, or devise, property consisting of lands, mausoleums, crematories, and columbariums, or other property within which the placement of ...

68.24.020 Surveys and maps
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 ...

68.24.030 Declaration of dedication and maps -- Filing
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 ...

68.24.040 Dedication, when complete
Upon the filing of the map or plat and the filing of the declaration for record, the dedication is complete for all purposes and thereafter ...

68.24.050 Constructive notice
The filed map or plat and the recorded declaration are constructive notice to all persons of the dedication of the property to cemetery purposes.[1943 c ...

68.24.060 Maps and plats -- Amendment
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 ...

68.24.070 Permanency of dedication
After property is dedicated to cemetery purposes pursuant to RCW 68.24.010 through 68.24.060, neither the dedication, nor the title of a plot owner, shall be ...

68.24.080 Rule against perpetuities, etc., inapplicable
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 ...

68.24.090 Removal of dedication -- Procedure
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 ...

68.24.100 Notice of hearing
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 ...

68.24.110 Sale of plots or rights of interment
After filing the map or plat and recording the declaration of dedication, a cemetery authority may sell and convey plots or rights of interment subject ...

68.24.115 Execution of conveyances
All conveyances made by a cemetery authority shall be signed by such officer or officers as are authorized by the cemetery authority.[1943 c 247 § ...

68.24.120 Plots or rights of interment indivisible
All plots or rights of interment, the use of which has been conveyed by deed or certificate of ownership as a separate plot or right ...

68.24.130 Sale for resale prohibited -- Penalty
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell or offer to sell a cemetery plot or right of interment upon the ...

68.24.140 Commission on sales prohibited -- Penalty
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 ...

68.24.150 Unlawful employment of others to dispose of human remains
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 ...

68.24.160 Liens subordinate to dedication
All mortgages, deeds of trust, and other liens placed upon property which has been dedicated as a cemetery, or which is afterwards dedicated to cemetery ...

68.24.170 Record of ownership and transfers
A record shall be kept of the ownership of all plots or rights of interment in the cemetery, which have been conveyed by the cemetery ...

68.24.180 Opening of roads, railroads through cemetery -- Consent required
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, ...

68.24.190 Opening road through cemetery -- Penalty
Every person who shall make or open any road, or construct any railway, turnpike, canal, or other public easement over, through, in, or upon any ...

68.24.220 Burying place exempt from execution
Whenever any part of such burying ground shall have been designated and appropriated by the owners as the burying place of any particular person or ...

68.24.240 Certain cemetery lands exempt from taxes, etc. -- 1901 c 147
Upon compliance with the requirements of *this act said lands shall forever be exempt from taxation, judgment and other liens and executions.[1901 c 147 § ...

68.24.250 Cemetery arrangements, notice requirements -- Disclosure of multiple interment
(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 ...