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                                  HOUSE BILL 1447

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Cole, Fuhrman and Heavey; by request of Department of Licensing.

Read first time January 29, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.Changing the regulatory charge paid by cemetery authorities.

     AN ACT Relating to the payment of regulatory charges by cemetery authorities; and amending RCW 68.05.205.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 68.05.205 and 1987 c 331 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:

     Every cemetery authority shall pay for each cemetery operated by it, an annual regulatory charge to be fixed by the director ((of not more than three dollars per)) and based on each interment, entombment, and inurnment made during the preceding full calendar year, which charges shall be deposited in the cemetery account.  This regulatory charge may not be increased more than twenty-five percent each year.  Upon payment of said charges and compliance with the provisions of Title 68 RCW and the lawful orders, rules, and regulations of the board, the board will issue a certificate of authority.