18 chapters · 346 sections in this title.
RCW 68.56.010 Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc.—Interfering with funeral.
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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, fe…
RCW 68.56.020 Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc.—Civil liability for damage.
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Any person violating any provision of RCW 68.56.010 is liable, in a civil action by and in the name of the cemetery authority, to pay all damages occasioned by his or her unlawful acts. The sum recovered shall be applied in payment for the repair and restoration of the property i…
RCW 68.56.030 Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc.—Exceptions.
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The provisions of *RCW 68.48.010 do not apply to the removal or unavoidable breakage or injury, by a cemetery authority, of any thing placed in or upon any portion of its cemetery in violation of any of the rules or regulations of the cemetery authority, nor to the removal of any…
RCW 68.56.040 Nonconforming cemetery a nuisance—Penalty.
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Every person, firm, or corporation who is the owner or operator of a cemetery established in violation of *this act is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a gross misdemeanor. [ 2005 c 365 s 149; 2003 c 53 s 313; 1943 c 247 s 145; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 3778-145. Formerl…