Title 68, CEMETERIES, MORGUES, AND HUMAN REMAINS

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 person or persons entitled to the use of the plot or right of interment pursuant to RCW 68.32.010 through 68.32.040, is complete authorization to the cemete…

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 of the remains of the record owner is made in a plot transferred by deed or certificate of ownership to an individual owner and both the owner and the survivin…

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 of interment conveyed. [ 2005 c 365 s 97; 1943 c 247 s 94; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 3778-94.]

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, subject to the vested right of interment of the deceased joint tenant. [ 2005 c 365 s 98; 1943 c 247 s 95; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 3778-95.] Notes: Co…

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 tenants named in the deed to any plot or right of interment, when filed with the cemetery authority, is complete authorization to the ceme…

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 right and file written notice of designation with the cemetery authority. In the absence of such notice or of written objection to its so doing…

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 domestic partner, if any. Any unoccupied spaces may then be used by the remaining parents and children of the deceased owner, if any, then to…

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 favor of any other relative, spouse, or state registered domestic partner of a relative of the deceased owner. Upon such a 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 365 s 103; 1943 c 247 s 102; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 3778-102.]

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 of any deceased person having a prior vested right of interment have been interred. No vested right of interment gives any person the right to h…

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 nontransferable. Placements shall be restricted to the persons designated in the conveyance. [ 2005 c 365 s 105; 1943 c 247 s 104; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 3778-104.…

Cemetery property passing to an individual by reason of the death of the owner is exempt from all inheritance taxes. [ 1943 c 247 s 92; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 3778-92.] Notes: Reviser's note: The inheritance tax was repealed by 1981 2nd ex.s. c 7 s 83.100.160 (Initiative Measure No. 4…