Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 68.20.060 (2026)

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A cemetery authority may make, adopt, amend, add to, revise, or modify, and enforce rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction and protection of all or any part of its cemetery and for the other purposes specified in RCW 68.20.061 through 68.20.067, 68.20.070 and * 68.48.080.

[ 1943 c 247 s 46; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 3778-46. Formerly RCW 68.20.070, part. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1943 c 247 ss 47 through 52 now codified as RCW 68.20.061 through 68.20.066.]

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*Reviser's note: RCW 68.48.080 was recodified as RCW 68.56.050 pursuant to 1987 c 331 s 89.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1954–2018 · leading case: Southwick, Inc. v. Wash. State, 426 P.3d 693 (Wash. 2018).

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Southwick, Inc. v. Wash. State, 426 P.3d 693 (Wash. 2018). · cites it 9× “Cemeteries are statutorily authorized to make their own rules concerning their day-to-day operations under RCW 68.20.060. Southwick claims it was acting under its own rules in disinterring the cremains without notice to family members, so it was acting with "authority of law.”

Clark v. Sunset Hills Mem'l Park, Inc., 273 P.2d 645 (Wash. 1954). “See RCW 68.20.060. Most persuasive is the fact that RCW 68.”

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