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SENATE BILL 5179
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By Senators Winsley and Loveland
Read first time 01/13/95. Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions & Housing.
AN ACT Relating to used mobile homes; and amending RCW 82.45.032.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 82.45.032 and 1993 sp.s. c 25 s 504 are each amended to read as follows:
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Real estate" or "real property" means any interest, estate, or beneficial interest in land or anything affixed to land, including the ownership interest or beneficial interest in any entity which itself owns land or anything affixed to land. The term includes used mobile homes, used floating homes, and improvements constructed upon leased land.
(2) "Used mobile
home" means a mobile home which has been previously sold at retail and has
been subjected to tax under chapter 82.08 RCW, or which has been previously
used and has been subjected to tax under chapter 82.12 RCW((, and which has
substantially lost its identity as a mobile unit at the time of sale by virtue
of its being fixed in location upon land owned or leased by the owner of the
mobile home and placed on a foundation (posts or blocks) with fixed pipe
connections with sewer, water, and other utilities)).
(3) "Mobile home" means a mobile home as defined by RCW 46.04.302, as now or hereafter amended.
(4) "Used floating home" means a floating home in respect to which tax has been paid under chapter 82.08 or 82.12 RCW.
(5) "Floating home" means a building on a float used in whole or in part for human habitation as a single-family dwelling, which is not designed for self propulsion by mechanical means or for propulsion by means of wind, and which is on the property tax rolls of the county in which it is located.
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