Last Updated: 08/18/02

[S.B. No 45]

Amending Act of 1899 Relative to incorporation of Cemetery Associations.

An act to amend Section 6 of an act entitled, "An act making provisions for the incorporation of cemetery associations, defining their powers, and prescribing a penalty for injury to their property," approved March 6, 1899.

Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Washington:

Section 1.  That section 6 of an act entitled, "An act making provisions for the incorporation of cemetery associations, defining their powers, and prescribing a penalty for injury to their property," approved march 6, 1899 (same being section 3328 of Pierce's Code), be the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 6.  All such associations shall cause a plan of their grounds and of the blocks and lots by them laid out, to be made and recorded, such blocks and lots to be numbered by regular consecutive numbers, and shall have power to enclose, improve and adorn the grounds and avenues, to erect buildings for the use of the association and to prescribe rules for the designation and adorning of lots and for erecting monuments in the cemetery, and to prohibit any use, division, improvement or adornment of a lot which they may deem improper.  An annual exhibit shall be made of the affairs of the association.  The plan, or plat, hereinbefore required shall be recorded by the property County Auditor for a fee not to exceed ten cents a lot, and if the actual cost of recording the same shall be less than ten cents a lot, the said Auditor shall record the same at the actual cost thereof.

Passed the Senate January 31, 1905.

Passed the House March 1, 1905.

Approved by the Governor March 3, 1905.

Chapter 118.

[H.B. No 113]

Authorizing Cemetery Associations to Accept Trust Funds.

An act authorizing associations and companies owning cemeteires to accept trust funds, the income therefrom to be used in the betterment, care and improvement of such cemeteires.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington:

Section 1.  That all associations and companies owning cemeteries may take and hold any proeprty, real and personal, bequeathed or given upon trust, to apply the income thereof under the direction of the trustees or managers of such associations or companies for the improvement or embellishment of such cemeteries, or the erection or preservation of any buildings, structrures, fences or walks erected or to be erected upon the lands of such cemetery associations or companies, or upon the lots or plots of any of the proprietors, or for the repair, preservation, erection or renewal of any tomb, monument, gravestone, fence, railing, or other erection in or around any cemetery lot or plot, or for planting and cultivating trees, shrubs, flowers or plants in or around any such lot or plot, or for improving or embellishing such cemeteries or any of the  lots or plots in any other manner or form consistent with the design and purposes of such associations and companies, according to the terms of such grant, devise or bequest.

Passed the House February 15, 1905.

Passed the Senate March 8, 1905.