RCW 68.46.010
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1)"Board" means the funeral and cemetery board established under RCW 18.39.173 or its authorized representative.
(2)"Cemetery merchandise or services" and "merchandise or services" mean those services normally performed by cemetery authorities, including the sale of monuments, markers, memorials, nameplates, liners, vaults, boxes, urns, vases, interment services, or any one or more of them.
(3)"Prearrangement contract" means a contract for purchase of cemetery merchandise or services, unconstructed crypts or niches, or undeveloped graves to be furnished at a future date for a specific consideration which is paid in advance by one or more payments in one sum or by installment payments.
(4)"Prearrangement trust fund" means all funds required to be maintained in one or more funds for the benefit of beneficiaries by either this chapter or by the terms of a prearrangement contract, as herein defined.
(5)"Undeveloped grave" means any grave in an area which a cemetery authority has not landscaped, groomed, or developed to the extent customary in the cemetery industry.
[ 2009 c 102 s 17 ; 2005 c 365 s 125 ; 1979 c 21 s 22 ; 1975 1st ex.s. c 55 s 1 ; 1973 1st ex.s. c 68 s 1 .]
Notes:
Reviser's note: The definitions in this section have been alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015 (2)(k).
Funeral directors and embalmers account and cemetery account abolished, moneys transferred to funeral and cemetery account — 2009 c 102: See note following RCW 18.39.810 .