Chapter 68.04 RCW DEFINITIONS
SECTIONS
| 68.04.200 |
"Cemetery corporation", "cemetery
association", "cemetery corporation or association." |
| 68.04.210 |
"Cemetery business", "cemetery businesses",
"cemetery purposes." |
| 68.04.240 |
"Plot owner," "owner," "lot
proprietor." |
RCW 68.04.020
"Human remains," "remains."
"Human remains" or "remains" means the body of a
deceased person, and includes the body in any stage of decomposition except
cremated remains.
[1977 c 47 § 1; 1943 c 247 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-2.]
NOTES:
Short title -- 1943 c 247: "This
act shall be known as the 'General Cemetery Act.'" [1943 c 247 § 1.]
Severability -- 1943 c 247: "If any
section, subdivision, sentence or clause of this act shall be held invalid or
unconstitutional, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this act." [1943 c 247 § 147.]
The annotations apply to 1943 c 247, the
general cemetery act, which was codified as RCW 68.04.020
through 68.04.240, 68.08.010 through 68.08.030,
68.08.120 through 68.08.220, 68.08.240, 68.20.010 through 68.20.100, 68.24.010
through 68.24.180, 68.28.010 through 68.28.070, 68.32.010 through 68.32.170,
68.36.010 through 68.36.100, 68.40.010 through 68.40.090, 68.44.010 through
68.44.170, and 68.48.040 through 68.48.090.
RCW 68.04.030
"Cremated remains."
"Cremated remains" means a human body after cremation in a
crematory.
[1977 c 47 § 2; 1943 c 247 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-3.]
RCW 68.04.040
"Cemetery."
"Cemetery" means: (1) Any one, or a combination of more than one,
of the following, in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated, for
cemetery purposes:
(a) A burial park, for earth interments.
(b) A mausoleum, for crypt interments.
(c) A columbarium, for permanent cinerary
interments; or
(2) For the purposes of chapter 68.60 RCW only,
"cemetery" means any burial site, burial grounds, or place where five
or more human remains are buried. Unless a cemetery is designated as a parcel of
land identifiable and unique as a cemetery within the records of the county
assessor, a cemetery's boundaries shall be a minimum of ten feet in any
direction from any burials therein.
[1990 c 92 § 7; 1979 c 21 § 1; 1943 c 247 § 4; Rem. Supp. § 3778-4.]
RCW 68.04.050
"Burial park."
"Burial park" means a tract of land for the burial of human
remains in the ground, used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery
purposes.
[1943 c 247 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-5.]
RCW 68.04.060
"Mausoleum."
"Mausoleum" means a structure or building for the entombment of
human remains in crypts in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated,
for cemetery purposes.
[1979 c 21 § 2; 1943 c 247 § 6; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-6.]
RCW 68.04.070
"Crematory."
"Crematory" means a building or structure containing one or more
retorts for the reduction of bodies of deceased persons to cremated remains.
[1943 c 247 § 7; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-7.]
RCW 68.04.080
"Columbarium."
"Columbarium" means a structure, room, or other space in a
building or structure containing niches for permanent inurnment of cremated
remains in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery
purposes.
[1943 c 247 § 8; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-8.]
RCW 68.04.090
"Crematory and columbarium."
"Crematory and columbarium" means a building or structure
containing both a crematory and columbarium.
[1943 c 247 § 9; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-9.]
RCW 68.04.100
"Interment."
"Interment" means the disposition of human remains by cremation
and inurnment, entombment, or burial in a place used, or intended to be used,
and dedicated, for cemetery purposes.
[1943 c 247 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-10.]
RCW 68.04.110
"Cremation."
"Cremation" means the reduction of the body of a deceased person
to cremated remains in a crematory in such a manner that the largest dimension
of any remaining particle does not exceed five millimeters: PROVIDED, That if a
person entitled to possession of such remains under the provisions of RCW
68.50.270 is going to place the cremated remains in a cemetery, mausoleum,
columbarium, or building devoted exclusively to religious purposes, the five
millimeter dimension requirement shall not apply.
[1987 c 331 § 1; 1977 c 47 § 3; 1943 c 247 § 11; Rem. Supp. 1943 §
3778-11.]
NOTES:
Effective date -- 1987 c 331: See RCW
68.05.900.
RCW 68.04.120
"Inurnment."
"Inurnment" means placing cremated remains in an urn or vault and
placing it in a niche.
[1943 c 247 § 12; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-12.]
RCW 68.04.130
"Entombment."
"Entombment" means the placement of human remains in a crypt or
vault.
[1943 c 247 § 13; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-13.]
RCW 68.04.140
"Burial."
"Burial" means the placement of human remains in a grave.
[1943 c 247 § 14; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-14.]
RCW 68.04.150
"Grave."
"Grave" means a space of ground in a burial park, used or intended
to be used, for burial.
[1943 c 247 § 15; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-15.]
RCW 68.04.160
"Crypt."
"Crypt" means a space in a mausoleum of sufficient size, used or
intended to be used, to entomb uncremated human remains.
[1979 c 21 § 3; 1943 c 247 § 16; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-16.]
RCW 68.04.165
"Vault", "lawn crypt", "liner."
"Vault", "lawn crypt" or "liner" means any
container which is buried in the ground and into which human remains are placed
in the burial process.
[1979 c 21 § 4.]
RCW 68.04.170
"Niche."
"Niche" means a space in a columbarium or urn garden used, or
intended to be used, for inurnment of cremated human remains.
[1943 c 247 § 17; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-17.]
RCW 68.04.180
"Temporary receiving vault."
"Temporary receiving vault" means a vault used or intended to be
used for the temporary placement of human remains.
[1943 c 247 § 18; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-18.]
RCW 68.04.190
"Cemetery authority."
"Cemetery authority" includes cemetery corporation, association,
corporation sole, or other person owning or controlling cemetery lands or
property.
[1943 c 247 § 19; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-19.]
RCW 68.04.200
"Cemetery corporation", "cemetery association",
"cemetery corporation or association."
"Cemetery corporation", "cemetery association", or
"cemetery corporation or association" mean any corporation now or
hereafter organized which is or may be authorized by its articles to conduct any
one or more or all of the businesses of a cemetery, but do not mean or include a
corporation sole.
[1943 c 247 § 20; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-20.]
RCW 68.04.210
"Cemetery business", "cemetery businesses", "cemetery
purposes."
"Cemetery business", "cemetery businesses", and
"cemetery purposes" are used interchangeably and mean any and all
business and purposes requisite to, necessary for, or incident to, establishing,
maintaining, operating, improving, or conducting a cemetery, interring human
remains, and the care, preservation, and embellishment of cemetery property.
[1943 c 247 § 21; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-21.]
RCW 68.04.220
"Directors," "governing body."
"Directors" or "governing body" means the board of
directors, board of trustees, or other governing body of a cemetery association.
[1943 c 247 § 22; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-22.]
RCW 68.04.230
"Lot", "plot", "interment plot."
"Lot", "plot", or "interment plot" means space
in a cemetery, used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains.
Such terms include and apply to one or more than one adjoining graves, one or
more than one adjoining crypts or vaults, or one or more than one adjoining
niches.
[1943 c 247 § 23; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-23.]
RCW 68.04.240
"Plot owner", "owner", "lot proprietor."
"Plot owner", "owner", or "lot proprietor"
means any person in whose name an interment plot stands of record as owner, in
the office of a cemetery authority.
[1943 c 247 § 24; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 3778-24.]