Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 68 Cemeteries, Morgues, And Human Remains - Chapter 68.20 Private Cemeteries

68.20.010 Incorporation required
It is unlawful for any corporation, copartnership, firm, trust, association, or individual to engage in or transact any of the businesses of a cemetery within ...

68.20.020 Corporations, how organized
Any private corporation authorized by its articles so to do, may establish, maintain, manage, improve, or operate a cemetery, and conduct any or all of ...

68.20.030 Powers of existing corporations enlarged
The powers, privileges and duties conferred and imposed upon any corporation, firm, copartnership, association, trust, or individual, existing and doing business under the laws of ...

68.20.040 Prior corporations not affected
The provisions of *this act do not affect the corporate existence or rights or powers of any cemetery organized under any law then existing prior ...

68.20.050 General powers of cemetery corporations
Unless otherwise limited by the law under which created[,] cemetery authorities shall in the conduct of their business have the same powers granted by law ...

68.20.060 Specific powers -- Rule making and enforcement
A cemetery authority may make, adopt, amend, add to, revise, or modify, and enforce rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction and ...

68.20.061 Specific powers -- Control of property
It may restrict and limit the use of all property within its cemetery, including interment rights.[2005 c 365 § 71; 1943 c 247 § 47; ...

68.20.062 Specific powers -- Regulation as to type of markers, monuments, etc
It may regulate the uniformity, class, and kind of all markers, monuments, and other structures within the cemetery and its subdivisions.[1943 c 247 § 48; ...

68.20.063 Specific powers -- Regulation or prohibition as to the erection of monuments, effigies, etc
It may regulate or prohibit the erection of monuments, markers, effigies, and structures within any portion of the cemetery.[1943 c 247 § 49; Rem. Supp. ...

68.20.064 Specific powers -- Regulation of plants and shrubs
It may regulate or prevent the introduction or care of plants or shrubs within the cemetery.[1943 c 247 § 50; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-50. ...

68.20.065 Specific powers -- Prevention of interment
It may prevent interment in any part of the cemetery of human remains not entitled to interment and prevent the use of interment plots for ...

68.20.066 Specific powers -- Prevention of improper assemblages
It may regulate the conduct of persons and prevent improper assemblages in the cemetery.[1943 c 247 § 52; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-52. Formerly RCW ...

68.20.067 Specific powers -- Rules and regulations for general purposes
It may make and enforce rules and regulations for all other purposes deemed necessary by the cemetery authority for the proper conduct of the business ...

68.20.070 Rules and regulations -- Posting
The rules and regulations made pursuant to RCW 68.20.060 shall be plainly printed or typewritten and maintained subject to inspection in the office of the ...

68.20.080 Cities and counties may regulate cemeteries
Cities and counties are authorized to enact ordinances regulating or prohibiting the establishment of new cemeteries or the extension of existing ones and to give ...

68.20.110 Nonprofit cemetery association -- Tax exempt land
Nonprofit cemetery associations shall be authorized to purchase or take by gift or devise, and hold land exempt from execution and from any appropriation to ...

68.20.120 Sold lots exempt from taxes, etc. -- Nonprofit associations
Burial lots, sold by *such association shall be for the sole purpose of interment, and shall be exempt from taxation, execution, attachment or other claims, ...

68.20.140 Certain cemeteries exempt from chapter
This chapter does not apply to any cemetery controlled and operated by a coroner, county, city, town, or cemetery district.[1987 c 331 § 33.]Notes: Effective ...