Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 68.52 - Public Cemeteries and Morgues.
68.52.030 - Counties and cities may provide for burial, acquire cemeteries, etc.

RCW 68.52.030
Counties and cities may provide for burial, acquire cemeteries, etc.

Each and every county, town or city, shall have power to provide a hearse and pall for burial of the dead, and to procure and hold lands for burying grounds, and to make regulations and fence the same, and to preserve the monuments erected therein, and to levy and collect the necessary taxes for that purpose, in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected.

[ 1857 p 28 § 3; RRS § 3772. Formerly RCW 68.12.030.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 68 - Cemeteries, Morgues, and Human Remains

Chapter 68.52 - Public Cemeteries and Morgues.

68.52.010 - Morgues authorized in counties.

68.52.020 - Coroner to control morgue—Expense.

68.52.030 - Counties and cities may provide for burial, acquire cemeteries, etc.

68.52.040 - Cities and towns may own, improve, etc., cemeteries.

68.52.045 - Cities and towns may provide for a cemetery board.

68.52.050 - Cemetery improvement fund.

68.52.060 - Care and investment of fund.

68.52.065 - Approval of investments.

68.52.070 - Cemetery improvement fund—Management.

68.52.080 - Books of account—Audit.

68.52.090 - Establishment authorized.

68.52.100 - Petition—Requisites—Examination.

68.52.110 - Hearing—Place and date.

68.52.120 - Publication and posting of petition and notice of hearing.

68.52.130 - Hearing—Inclusion and exclusion of lands.

68.52.140 - Formation of district and election of first commissioners.

68.52.150 - Election, how conducted—Notice.

68.52.155 - Conformity with election laws—Exception—Vacancies.

68.52.160 - Election ballot.

68.52.170 - Canvass of returns—Votes required for district formation.

68.52.180 - Review—When district formation is complete.

68.52.185 - Ballot proposition authorized for district formation.

68.52.190 - General powers of district.

68.52.192 - Public cemetery facilities or services—Cooperation with public or private agencies—Joint purchasing.

68.52.193 - Public cemetery facilities or services—"Public agency" defined.

68.52.195 - Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.

68.52.200 - Right of eminent domain.

68.52.210 - Power to do cemetery business—District boundaries may include cities and towns—Eminent domain exception.

68.52.220 - District commissioners—Compensation—Election.

68.52.250 - Special elections.

68.52.260 - Oath of commissioners.

68.52.270 - Organization of board—Secretary—Office—Meetings—Powers.

68.52.280 - Duty of county treasurer—Cemetery district fund.

68.52.290 - Tax levy authorized for fund.

68.52.300 - Disbursement of fund.

68.52.310 - Limitation of indebtedness—Limitation of tax levy.

68.52.320 - Dissolution of districts.

68.52.330 - Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years.

68.52.901 - Effective date—1987 c 331.