Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 68 Cemeteries, Morgues, And Human Remains - Chapter 68.32 Title And Rights To Cemetery Plots

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009