Title 68 — Title 68 CEMETERIES, MORGUES, AND HUMAN REMAINS
17 chapters · 337 sections in this title.
RCW 68.60.010 Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Abandoned cemetery" means a burial ground of the human dead:(a) For which the county assessor can find no record of an owner;(b) Where the last known owner is deceased…
RCW 68.60.020 Dedication.
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Any cemetery, abandoned cemetery, historical cemetery, or historic grave that has not been dedicated pursuant to RCW 68.24.030 and 68.24.040 shall be considered permanently dedicated and subject to RCW 68.24.070. Removal of dedication may only be made pursuant to RCW 68.24.090 an…
RCW 68.60.030 Preservation and maintenance corporations—Authorization of other corporations to restore, maintain, and protect abandoned cemeteries.
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(1)(a) The department of archaeology and historic preservation may grant, by nontransferable certificate, the authority to maintain and protect an abandoned cemetery upon application made by a state or local governmental organization, such as a city or county, or by a preservatio…
RCW 68.60.040 Protection of cemeteries—Penalties.
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(1) Every person who in a cemetery unlawfully or without right willfully 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, fence, wall, post, or railing, or any enclosur…
RCW 68.60.050 Protection of historic graves—Penalty.
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(1) Any person who knowingly removes, mutilates, defaces, injures, or destroys any historic grave shall be guilty of a class C felony punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW. Persons disturbing historic graves through inadvertence, including disturbance through construction, shall rei…
RCW 68.60.055 Skeletal human remains—Duty to notify—Ground disturbing activities—Coroner determination—Definitions.
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(1) Any person who discovers skeletal human remains shall notify the coroner and local law enforcement in the most expeditious manner possible. Any person knowing of the existence of skeletal human remains and not having good reason to believe that the coroner and local law enfor…
RCW 68.60.060 Violations—Civil liability.
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Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is liable in a civil action by and in the name of the department of archaeology and historic preservation to pay all damages occasioned by their unlawful acts. The sum recovered shall be applied in payment for the repair and r…
RCW 68.60.070 Abandoned cemetery burials—Records—Endowment care funds.
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(1)(a) The funeral and cemetery board must consult with the department of archaeology and historic preservation to promulgate rules in order to allow for burials in abandoned cemeteries.(b) The landowner of an abandoned cemetery must allow for burials in accordance with rules pro…
RCW 68.60.080 Abandoned cemetery—Lawful entry purposes.
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It is lawful to enter an abandoned cemetery for purposes of:(1) Burials pursuant to RCW 68.60.070 and associated rules;(2) Care and maintenance activities authorized under RCW 68.60.030; and(3) Visitation of graves.[ 2019 c 129 s 1.]Notes:Effective date—2019 c 129: "This act is n…