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Chapter 68.52 RCW

PUBLIC CEMETERIES AND MORGUES

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Sections

HTMLPDF 68.52.010Morgues authorized in counties.
HTMLPDF 68.52.020Coroner to control morgue—Expense.
HTMLPDF 68.52.030Counties and cities may provide for burial, acquire cemeteries, etc.
HTMLPDF 68.52.040Cities and towns may own, improve, etc., cemeteries.
HTMLPDF 68.52.045Cities and towns may provide for a cemetery board.
HTMLPDF 68.52.050Cemetery improvement fund.
HTMLPDF 68.52.060Care and investment of fund.
HTMLPDF 68.52.065Approval of investments.
HTMLPDF 68.52.070Cemetery improvement fund—Management.
HTMLPDF 68.52.080Books of account—Audit.
HTMLPDF 68.52.090Establishment authorized.
HTMLPDF 68.52.100Petition—Requisites—Examination.
HTMLPDF 68.52.110Hearing—Place and date.
HTMLPDF 68.52.120Publication and posting of petition and notice of hearing.
HTMLPDF 68.52.130Hearing—Inclusion and exclusion of lands.
HTMLPDF 68.52.140Formation of district and election of first commissioners.
HTMLPDF 68.52.150Election, how conducted—Notice.
HTMLPDF 68.52.155Conformity with election laws—Exception—Vacancies.
HTMLPDF 68.52.160Election ballot.
HTMLPDF 68.52.170Canvass of returns—Votes required for district formation.
HTMLPDF 68.52.180Review—When district formation is complete.
HTMLPDF 68.52.185Ballot proposition authorized for district formation.
HTMLPDF 68.52.190General powers of district.
HTMLPDF 68.52.192Public cemetery facilities or services—Cooperation with public or private agencies—Joint purchasing.
HTMLPDF 68.52.193Public cemetery facilities or services—"Public agency" defined.
HTMLPDF 68.52.195Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.
HTMLPDF 68.52.200Right of eminent domain.
HTMLPDF 68.52.210Power to do cemetery business—District boundaries may include cities and towns—Eminent domain exception.
HTMLPDF 68.52.220District commissioners—Compensation—Election.
HTMLPDF 68.52.250Special elections.
HTMLPDF 68.52.260Oath of commissioners.
HTMLPDF 68.52.270Organization of board—Secretary—Office—Meetings—Powers.
HTMLPDF 68.52.280Duty of county treasurer—Cemetery district fund.
HTMLPDF 68.52.290Tax levy authorized for fund.
HTMLPDF 68.52.300Disbursement of fund.
HTMLPDF 68.52.310Limitation of indebtedness—Limitation of tax levy.
HTMLPDF 68.52.320Dissolution of districts.
HTMLPDF 68.52.330Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years.
HTMLPDF 68.52.901Effective date—1987 c 331.

Notes:

Public bodies may retain collection agencies to collect public debts—Fees: RCW 19.16.500.
Taxation, exemptions: RCW 84.36.020.