S-0297.2

SENATE BILL 5368

State of Washington

66th Legislature

2019 Regular Session

BySenators Wagoner, Warnick, Bailey, Honeyford, and Van De Wege

Read first time 01/18/19.Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks.

AN ACT Relating to requiring the department of natural resources to maintain the department's roads that are the exclusive means of accessing private property by road; and adding a new section to chapter 79.38 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 79.38 RCW to read as follows:

The department shall maintain any road under its ownership or control that has been the exclusive means of accessing private property by road for a continuous period of at least ten years. The duty imposed on the department under this section terminates if the property that is made accessible by a road under the department's ownership or control ceases to be privately owned.

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