CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6816

Chapter 335, Laws of 2006

59th Legislature
2006 Regular Session



CEMETERY DISTRICTS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/7/06

Passed by the Senate February 8, 2006
  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House February 28, 2006
  YEAS 97   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

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.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved March 29, 2006.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 29, 2006 - 4:59 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6816
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Passed Legislature - 2006 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2006 Regular Session

By Senator Zarelli

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.


         Passed by the Senate February 8, 2006.
         Passed by the House February 28, 2006.
         Approved by the Governor March 29, 2006.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 29, 2006.