GroundRules
Browse Washington
Read the original sections, or search by topic.
- RCW 68.50.035 · Unlawful to refuse burial to non-Caucasian.
- RCW 68.50.040 · Deceased's effects to be listed.
- RCW 68.50.050 · Removal or concealment of body—Penalty.
- RCW 68.50.060 · Bodies for instruction purposes.
- RCW 68.50.070 · Human remains—Disposition.
- RCW 68.50.080 · Certificate and bond before receiving bodies.
- RCW 68.50.090 · Penalty.
- RCW 68.50.100 · Dissection, when permitted—Autopsy of person under the age of three years.
- RCW 68.50.101 · Autopsy, postmortem—Who may authorize.
- RCW 68.50.102 · Court petition for autopsy—Cost.
- RCW 68.50.103 · Autopsies in industrial deaths.
- RCW 68.50.104 · Cost of autopsy.
- RCW 68.50.105 · Autopsies, postmortems—Reports and records confidential—Exceptions. (Effective until June 30, 2027.)
- RCW 68.50.106 · Autopsies, postmortems—Analyses—Opinions—Evidence—Costs.
- RCW 68.50.107 · State toxicological laboratory established—State toxicologist.
- RCW 68.50.108 · Autopsies, postmortems—Consent to embalm, cremate body, or make final disposition—Time limitation.
- RCW 68.50.110 · Burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction.
- RCW 68.50.115 · Coroner and medical examiner liability—Release of information.
- RCW 68.50.120 · Holding body for debt—Penalty.
- RCW 68.50.130 · Unlawful disposal of remains.
- RCW 68.50.140 · Unlawful disturbance, removal, or sale of human remains—Penalty.
- RCW 68.50.160 · Right to control disposition of remains—Liability of funeral establishment or cemetery authority—Liability for cost.
- RCW 68.50.170 · Effect of authorization.
- RCW 68.50.185 · Individual final disposition—Exception—Penalty.
- RCW 68.50.200 · Permission to remove human remains.
- RCW 68.50.210 · Notice for order to remove remains.
- RCW 68.50.220 · Exceptions.
- RCW 68.50.230 · Human remains that have not been disposed—Rules.
- RCW 68.50.232 · Remains—Entrusting to funeral homes or mortuaries.
- RCW 68.50.240 · Record of human remains to be kept.
- RCW 68.50.270 · Possession of human remains.
- RCW 68.50.290 · Corneal tissue for transplantation—Presumption of good faith.
- RCW 68.50.300 · Release of information concerning a death.
- RCW 68.50.310 · Dental identification system established—Powers and duties.
- RCW 68.50.320 · Procedures for investigating missing persons—Availability of files.
- RCW 68.50.325 · Indigenous persons—Identification of remains—Spiritual practices.
- RCW 68.50.330 · Identification of body or human remains by dental examination—Comparison of dental examination records with dental records of dental identification system.
- RCW 68.50.645 · Skeletal human remains—Duty to notify—Ground disturbing activities—Coroner determination—Definitions.
- RCW 68.50.900 · Effective date—1987 c 331.
- RCW 68.50.901 · Application—1993 c 228.
- RCW 68.50.902 · Application—Construction—1993 c 228.
- RCW 68.50.903 · Severability—1993 c 228.
- RCW 68.50.904 · Short title—1993 c 228.
- RCW 68.52.010 · Morgues authorized in counties.
- RCW 68.52.020 · Coroner to control morgue—Expense.
- RCW 68.52.030 · Counties and cities may provide for burial, acquire cemeteries, etc.
- RCW 68.52.040 · Cities and towns may own, improve, etc., cemeteries.
- RCW 68.52.045 · Cities and towns may provide for a cemetery board.
- RCW 68.52.050 · Cemetery improvement fund.
- RCW 68.52.060 · Care and investment of fund.
- RCW 68.52.065 · Approval of investments.
- RCW 68.52.070 · Cemetery improvement fund—Management.
- RCW 68.52.080 · Books of account—Audit.
- RCW 68.52.090 · Establishment authorized.
- RCW 68.52.100 · Petition—Requisites—Examination.
- RCW 68.52.110 · Hearing—Place and date.
- RCW 68.52.120 · Publication and posting of petition and notice of hearing.
- RCW 68.52.130 · Hearing—Inclusion and exclusion of lands.
- RCW 68.52.140 · Formation of district and election of first commissioners.
- RCW 68.52.150 · Election, how conducted—Notice.
- RCW 68.52.155 · Conformity with election laws—Exception—Vacancies.
- RCW 68.52.160 · Election ballot.
- RCW 68.52.170 · Canvass of returns—Votes required for district formation.
- RCW 68.52.180 · Review—When district formation is complete.
- RCW 68.52.185 · Ballot proposition authorized for district formation.
- RCW 68.52.190 · General powers of district.
- RCW 68.52.192 · Public cemetery facilities or services—Cooperation with public or private agencies—Joint purchasing.
- RCW 68.52.193 · Public cemetery facilities or services—"Public agency" defined.
- RCW 68.52.195 · Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.
- RCW 68.52.200 · Right of eminent domain.
- RCW 68.52.210 · Power to do cemetery business—District boundaries may include cities and towns—Eminent domain exception.
- RCW 68.52.220 · District commissioners—Compensation—Election.
- RCW 68.52.250 · Special elections.
- RCW 68.52.260 · Oath of commissioners.
- RCW 68.52.270 · Organization of board—Secretary—Office—Meetings—Powers.
- RCW 68.52.280 · Duty of county treasurer—Cemetery district fund.
- RCW 68.52.290 · Tax levy authorized for fund.
- RCW 68.52.300 · Disbursement of fund.
- RCW 68.52.310 · Limitation of indebtedness—Limitation of tax levy.
- RCW 68.52.320 · Dissolution of districts.
- RCW 68.52.330 · Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years.
- RCW 68.52.901 · Effective date—1987 c 331.
- RCW 68.54.010 · Annexation—Petition—Procedure.
- RCW 68.54.020 · Merger—Authorized.
- RCW 68.54.030 · Merger—Petition—Procedure—Contents.
- RCW 68.54.040 · Merger—Petition—Rejection, concurrence, or modification—Signatures.
- RCW 68.54.050 · Merger—Petition—Special election.
- RCW 68.54.060 · Merger—Petition—Election—Vote required—Merger effected.
- RCW 68.54.070 · Merger—Petition—When election dispensed with.
- RCW 68.54.080 · Merger—Preexisting obligations.
- RCW 68.54.090 · Merger—Transfer of all property, funds, assessments.
- RCW 68.54.100 · Merger and transfer of part of one district to adjacent district—Petition—Election—Vote.
- RCW 68.54.110 · Merger and transfer of part of one district to adjacent district—When election dispensed with.
- RCW 68.54.120 · Merger and transfer of part of one district to adjacent district—Preexisting indebtedness.
- RCW 68.54.130 · Withdrawal of territory.
- RCW 68.54.900 · Effective date—1987 c 331.
- RCW 68.56.010 · Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc.—Interfering with funeral.
- RCW 68.56.020 · Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc.—Civil liability for damage.
- RCW 68.56.030 · Unlawful damage to graves, markers, shrubs, etc.—Exceptions.
- RCW 68.56.040 · Nonconforming cemetery a nuisance—Penalty.