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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 4461

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senators Bailey and Saling

Prefiled with Secretary of the Senate 1/6/86.  Read first time 1/13/86 and referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

AN ACT Relating to child abuse; amending RCW 36.18.010; and adding a new section to chapter 43.121 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 43.121 RCW to read as follows:

          The victims of child abuse account is established in the  state treasury.  The state treasurer shall deposit in the account all moneys received as specified under RCW 36.18.010.  Moneys in the account may be spent pursuant to appropriation only for the treatment of victims of child abuse and family members other than the offender.

        Sec. 2.  Section 36.18.010, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 as last amended by section 2, chapter 44, Laws of 1985 and RCW 36.18.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          County auditors shall collect the following fees for their official services:

          For recording instruments, for the first page, legal size (eight and one-half by thirteen inches or less), five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

          For preparing and certifying copies, for the first legal size page, three dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

          For preparing noncertified copies, for each legal size page, one dollar;

          For administering an oath or taking an affidavit, with or without seal, two dollars;

          For issuing a marriage license, eight dollars, (this fee includes taking necessary affidavits, filing returns, indexing, and transmittal of a record of the marriage to the state registrar of vital statistics) plus an additional five-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund, which five-dollar fee shall expire June 30, 1988, plus an additional five-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund, which five-dollar fee shall expire June 30, 1987, plus an additional ten-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer to be deposited in the victims of child abuse fund under section 1 of this 1986 act;

          For searching records per hour, eight dollars;

          For recording plats, fifty cents for each lot except cemetery plats for which the charge shall be twenty-five cents per lot; also one dollar for each acknowledgment, dedication, and description:  PROVIDED, That there shall be a minimum fee of twenty-five dollars per plat;

          For recording of miscellaneous records, not listed above, for first legal size page, five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar.