PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: June 12, 2003.
Purpose: To allow out of state real estate licensees working under a license recognition agreement to maintain their Washington transaction records with the out-of-state broker to whom they are licensed.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 308-124B-150.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.85.040(1).
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 03-09-059 on April 14, 2003.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 1,
Repealed 0;
Pilot Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
or Other Alternative Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule:
Thirty-one days after filing.
June 20, 2003
Alan E. Rathbun
Assistant Director
OTS-6326.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 02-03-054, filed 1/10/02,
effective 2/10/02)
WAC 308-124B-150
Office requirement for brokers actively
licensed in another jurisdiction.
The term "office" in RCW 18.85.180 for a broker actively licensed in another
jurisdiction in which the broker's headquarter office is
located shall mean the Washington location where trust account
and transaction records are maintained. Such records are
required to be maintained for three years. The trust account
and transaction records shall be open and accessible to
representatives of the department of licensing. The parties
to the transaction shall have access to the transaction
records prepared or retained for the requesting party.
A broker actively licensed in another jurisdiction seeking licensure in Washington, whose headquarter office is located in that other jurisdiction, shall notify the department of the location address where the records are maintained in the state of Washington and shall include this address with the headquarter's address on the license application.
The Washington license shall be posted at the location where the records are being maintained.
Within thirty days after mailing of the notice of audit, the broker shall come to the department's office, after making an appointment, in the geographic location (Seattle or Olympia) nearest to the location of the records to sign the audit report.
If a real estate licensee actively licensed in another jurisdiction, whose headquarter office is located in that other jurisdiction, has obtained a Washington real estate license through a license recognition agreement, that licensee may maintain required Washington real estate transaction records in their out-of-state jurisdiction and with the out-of-state broker to whom they are licensed, providing it is allowed for in the license recognition agreement.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040(1). 02-03-054, § 308-124B-150, filed 1/10/02, effective 2/10/02. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040 and the Governor's Executive Order on Regulatory Improvement 97-02. 99-03-042, § 308-124B-150, filed 1/14/99, effective 2/14/99. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040. 88-06-039 (Order PM 711), § 308-124B-150, filed 3/1/88.]