AN ACT Relating to
filing fees; amending RCW 36.18.012; and reenacting and amending RCW 36.18.020.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 36.18.012 and 1995 c
292 s 12 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Revenue collected
under this section is subject to division with the state for deposit in the
public safety and education account under RCW 36.18.025.
(2) The party filing a
transcript or abstract of judgment or verdict from a United States court held
in this state, or from the superior court of another county or from a district
court in the county of issuance, shall pay at the time of filing a fee of
fifteen dollars.
(3) For the filing of a
tax warrant by the department of revenue of the state of Washington, a fee of
five dollars must be paid.
(4) The clerk shall
collect a fee of twenty dollars for: Filing a paper not related to or a part
of a proceeding, civil or criminal, or a probate matter, required or permitted
to be filed in the clerk's office for which no other charge is provided by
law((; or filing a petition, written agreement, or memorandum as provided in
RCW 11.96.170)).
(5) If the defendant
serves or files an answer to an unlawful detainer complaint under chapter 59.18
or 59.20 RCW, the plaintiff shall pay before proceeding with the unlawful
detainer action eighty dollars.
(6) For a restrictive
covenant for filing a petition to strike discriminatory provisions in real
estate under RCW 49.60.227 a fee of twenty dollars must be charged.
(7) A fee of twenty
dollars must be charged for filing a will only, when no probate of the will is
contemplated.
(8) A fee of two
dollars must be charged for filing a petition, written agreement, or written
memorandum in a nonjudicial probate dispute under RCW 11.96.170.
(9) A fee of
thirty-five dollars must be charged for filing a petition regarding a common
law lien under RCW 60.70.060.
(10) For certification
of delinquent taxes by a county treasurer under RCW 84.64.190, a fee of five
dollars must be charged.
Sec. 2. RCW 36.18.020 and 1995 c
312 s 70 and 1995 c 292 s 10 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(1) Revenue collected
under this section is subject to division with the state public safety and
education account under RCW 36.18.025 and with the county or regional law
library fund under RCW 27.24.070.
(2) Clerks of superior
courts shall collect the following fees for their official services:
(a) The party filing
the first or initial paper in any civil action, including, but not limited to
an action for restitution, adoption, or change of name, shall pay, at the time
the paper is filed, a fee of one hundred ten dollars except, in an unlawful
detainer action under chapter 59.18 or 59.20 RCW for which the plaintiff shall
pay a case initiating filing fee of thirty dollars, or in proceedings
filed under RCW 28A.225.030 alleging a violation of the compulsory attendance
laws where the petitioner shall not pay a filing fee((,)). The thirty
dollar filing fee under this subsection for an unlawful detainer action shall
not include an order to show cause or any other order or judgment except a
default order or default judgment in an unlawful detainer action.
(b) Any party, except a
defendant in a criminal case, filing the first or initial paper on an appeal
from a court of limited jurisdiction or any party on any civil appeal, shall
pay, when the paper is filed, a fee of one hundred ten dollars.
(c) For filing of a
petition for judicial review as required under RCW 34.05.514 a filing fee of
one hundred ten dollars.
(d) For filing of a
petition for unlawful harassment under RCW 10.14.040 a filing fee of one
hundred ten dollars.
(e) ((For filing of
a petition for determination of water rights under RCW 90.03.180 a filing fee
of twenty-five dollars)) For filing the notice of debt due for the
compensation of a crime victim under RCW 7.68.120(2)(a) a fee of one hundred ten
dollars.
(f) In probate
proceedings, the party instituting such proceedings, shall pay at the time of
filing the first paper therein, a fee of one hundred ten dollars.
(g) For filing any
petition to contest a will admitted to probate or a petition to admit a will
which has been rejected, or a petition objecting to a written agreement or
memorandum as provided in RCW 11.96.170, there shall be paid a fee of one
hundred ten dollars.
(h) Upon conviction or
plea of guilty, upon failure to prosecute an appeal from a court of limited
jurisdiction as provided by law, or upon affirmance of a conviction by a court
of limited jurisdiction, a defendant in a criminal case shall be liable for a
fee of one hundred ten dollars.
(i) With the exception
of demands for jury hereafter made and garnishments hereafter issued, civil
actions and probate proceedings filed prior to midnight, July 1, 1972, shall be
completed and governed by the fee schedule in effect as of January 1, 1972:
PROVIDED, That no fee shall be assessed if an order of dismissal on the clerk's
record be filed as provided by rule of the supreme court.
(3) No fee
shall be collected when a petition for relinquishment of parental rights is
filed pursuant to RCW 26.33.080 or for forms and instructional brochures
provided under RCW 26.50.030.
