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                         SENATE BILL 5819

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By Senator Patterson

 

Read first time 02/14/97.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Extending the application of the Condominium Act.


    AN ACT Relating to applicability of the Washington Condominium Act; and amending RCW 64.34.010.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 64.34.010 and 1993 c 429 s 12 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) This chapter applies to all condominiums created within this state after July 1, 1990.  RCW 64.34.040 (separate titles and taxation), RCW 64.34.050 (applicability of local ordinances, regulations, and building codes), RCW 64.34.060 (condemnation), RCW 64.34.208 (construction and validity of declaration and bylaws), RCW 64.34.212 (description of units), RCW 64.34.304(1)(a) through (f) and (k) through (r) (powers of unit owners' association), RCW 64.34.308(1) (board of directors and officers), RCW 64.34.308(3) (budget presentation), RCW 64.34.340 (voting-proxies), RCW 64.34.344 (tort and contract liability), RCW 64.34.354 (notification on sale of unit), RCW 64.34.360(3) (common expenses-assessments), RCW 64.34.364 (lien for assessments), RCW 64.34.372 (association records), RCW 64.34.425 (resales of units), RCW 64.34.455 (effect of violation on rights of action; attorney's fees), and RCW 64.34.020 (definitions) to the extent necessary in construing any of those sections, apply to all condominiums created in this state before July 1, 1990; but those sections apply only with respect to events and circumstances occurring after July 1, 1990, and do not invalidate or supersede existing, inconsistent provisions of the declaration, bylaws, or survey maps or plans of those condominiums.

    (2) The provisions of chapter 64.32 RCW do not apply to condominiums created after July 1, 1990, and do not invalidate any amendment to the declaration, bylaws, and survey maps and plans of any condominium created before July 1, 1990, if the amendment would be permitted by this chapter.  The amendment must be adopted in conformity with the procedures and requirements specified by those instruments and by chapter 64.32 RCW.  If the amendment grants to any person any rights, powers, or privileges permitted by this chapter which are not otherwise provided for in the declaration or chapter 64.32 RCW, all correlative obligations, liabilities, and restrictions in this chapter also apply to that person.

    (3) This chapter does not apply to condominiums or units located outside this state.

    (4) RCW 64.34.400 (applicability-waiver), RCW 64.34.405 (liability for public offering statement requirements), RCW 64.34.410 (public offering statement-general provisions), RCW 64.34.415 (public offering statement-conversion condominiums), RCW 64.34.420 (purchaser's right to cancel), RCW 64.34.430 (escrow of deposits), RCW 64.34.440 (conversion condominiums-notice-tenants), and RCW 64.34.455 (effect of violations on rights of action-attorney's fees) apply with respect to all sales of units pursuant to purchase agreements entered into after July 1, 1990, in condominiums created before July 1, 1990, in which as of July 1, 1990, the declarant or an affiliate of the declarant owns or had the right to create at least ten units constituting at least twenty percent of the units in the condominium.

 


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