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SENATE BILL 5188
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senators Moore, Matson and Anderson.
Read first time January 23, 1991. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to mobile home landlord-tenant relations; and adding a new section to chapter 59.20 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 59.20 RCW to read as follows:
(1) Upon abandonment of a mobile home by a tenant or eviction of a tenant from a mobile home that is not subject to RCW 59.20.074, the landlord may store the mobile home on the mobile home lot or in the mobile park until removal of the mobile home as provided by law. The landlord may charge rent and reasonable expenses for occupancy of the mobile home lot or any other area in the mobile home park by the mobile home. Any rent or other reasonable expenses owed to the landlord pursuant to this section shall be paid to the landlord prior to removal of the mobile home from the mobile home park.
(2) This section shall not affect the availability of a landlord's lien as provided in chapter 60.72 RCW.