CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1480

                   Chapter 266, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

      RECIPROCAL INSURERS‑-POWERS REGARDING REAL PROPERTY

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the House March 8, 1991

  Yeas 96   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 12, 1991

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Approved May 17, 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 HOUSE BILL 1480 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                  May 17, 1991 - 1:21 p.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                                  HOUSE BILL 1480

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives R. Meyers, Mielke, Heavey, Broback, Zellinsky and Paris.

Read first time January 30, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance.Allowing reciprocal insurer to affect title to real property.

     AN ACT Relating to the maintenance and investment of assets by reciprocal exchanges; and adding a new section to chapter 48.10 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 48.10 RCW to read as follows:

     A reciprocal insurer may purchase, sell, mortgage, encumber, lease, or otherwise affect the title to real property for the purposes and objects of the reciprocal insurer.  All deeds, notes, mortgages, or other documents relating to the real property may be executed in the name of the reciprocal insurer by its attorney.

     Passed the House March 8, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 12, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 17, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 17, 1991.