| Passed by the Senate February 8, 2006 YEAS 47 ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House February 28, 2006 YEAS 97 ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6816 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 59th Legislature | 2006 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/25/2006. Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
AN ACT Relating to cemetery districts; and amending RCW 68.52.210.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 68.52.210 and 1994 c 81 s 82 are each amended to read
as follows:
(1) A cemetery district organized under this chapter shall have
power to acquire, establish, maintain, manage, improve and operate
cemeteries and conduct any and all of the businesses of a cemetery as
defined in this title. A cemetery district shall constitute a cemetery
authority as defined in this title and shall have and exercise all
powers conferred thereby upon a cemetery authority and be subject to
the provisions thereof.
(2) A cemetery district may include within its boundaries the lands
embraced within the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town
((with a population of less than ten thousand)) and in any such cases
the district may acquire any cemetery or cemeteries theretofore
maintained and operated by any such city or town and proceed to
maintain, manage, improve and operate the same under the provisions
hereof. In such event the governing body of the city or town, after
the transfer takes place, shall levy no cemetery tax. The power of
eminent domain heretofore conferred shall not extend to the
condemnation of existing cemeteries within the district: PROVIDED,
That no cemetery district shall operate a cemetery within the corporate
limits of any city or town where there is a private cemetery operated
for profit.