CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1265

                   Chapter 132, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

              EASEMENTS ESTABLISHED BY DEDICATION

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the House March 12, 1991

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 11, 1991

  Yeas 42   Nays 0

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Approved May 10, 1991 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1265 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                  May 10, 1991 - 2:29 p.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1265

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Valle, Heavey and Scott).

Read first time March 6, 1991.  Restricting subdivision alterations that diminish dedications.

     AN ACT Relating to dedications; adding a new section to chapter 64.04 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 58.17 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 64.04 RCW to read as follows:

     Easements established by a dedication are property rights that cannot be extinguished or altered without the approval of the easement owner or owners, unless the plat or other document creating the dedicated easement provides for an alternative method or methods to extinguish or alter the easement.

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

     The alteration of a subdivision is subject to section 1 of this act.

     Passed the House March 12, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 11, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 10, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 1991.