BILL REQ. #:  H-1333.1 

Read first time 02/03/11.   Referred to Committee on Local Government.

     AN ACT Relating to the sale of memorial markers by cemetery districts; and amending RCW 68.52.190.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 68.52.190 and 1984 c 186 s 58 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Cemetery districts created under this chapter ((shall be)) are deemed to be municipal corporations within the purview of the Constitution and laws of the state of Washington. They ((shall)) constitute bodies corporate and possess all the usual powers of corporations for public purposes. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, they ((shall)) have full authority to carry out the objects of their creation, and to that end are empowered to acquire, hold, lease, manage, occupy, and sell real and personal property or any interest therein; to enter into and perform any and all necessary contracts; to appoint and employ necessary officers, agents, and employees; to contract indebtedness, to borrow money, and to issue general obligation bonds in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW; to levy and enforce the collection of taxes against the lands within the district, and to do any and all lawful acts to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
     (2) No cemetery district may sell monuments, headstones, tombstones, or any other memorial marker related to identifying a gravesite, when a private, for-profit retailer or wholesaler of these products is located within fifty miles of the boundary of the cemetery district.