WSR 18-04-029
PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING
[Filed January 30, 2018, 10:38 a.m.]
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Title 98 WAC, Cemetery board, new chapter.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 68.05.105, chapter 68.60 RCW.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To add a new chapter as outlined in HB 1907 the requirements of landowners to allow for burials; any records or documents related to an abandoned cemetery must be transferred to the state archives and any endowment care funds held when the cemetery was designated abandoned must be transferred to the department of archaeology and historic preservation.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: The department of archaeology and historic preservation.
Process for Developing New Rule: Negotiated rule making.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Julie Konnersman, P.O. Box 9020, phone 360-664-1507, fax 360-570-7098, TTY 711, email jkonnersma@dol.wa.gov, web site http://www.dol.wa.gov/business/funeralcemetery/.
January 30, 2018
Damon Monroe
Rules Coordinator