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                                          ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 5040

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senator Rasmussen

Read first time 1/13/87 and referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to the subdivision of land; amending RCW 58.17.060; and adding a new section to chapter 58.17 RCW.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 6, chapter 271, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as amended by section 3, chapter 134, Laws of 1974 ex. sess. and RCW 58.17.060 are each amended to read as follows:

          The legislative body of a city, town, or county shall adopt regulations and procedures, and appoint administrative personnel for the summary approval of short plats and short subdivisions, or revision thereof.  Such regulations shall be adopted by ordinance and may contain wholly different requirements than those governing the approval of preliminary and final plats of subdivisions and may require surveys and monumentations and shall require filing of a short plat for record in the office of the county auditor:  PROVIDED, That such regulations must contain a requirement that land in short subdivisions may not be further divided in any manner within a period of five years without the filing of a final plat:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That such regulations are not required to contain a penalty clause as provided in RCW 36.32.120 and may provide for wholly injunctive relief.

Ordinances requiring surveys may permit short plat approval before commencement of the survey, contingent upon completion of the survey, prior to filing the short plat.  If the survey reveals a discrepancy in boundary lines, the short plat shall not be given final approval until the discrepancy has been rectified and the title quieted.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 58.17 RCW to read as follows:

          No plat shall be approved by any city, town, or county where the survey required under RCW 58.17.060 or 58.17.160 reveals a discrepancy in boundary lines until the discrepancy has been rectified and the title has been quieted.