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HOUSE BILL 2060
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State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By Representatives Dunn, Cooper, Haigh, Edmonds and Fromhold
Read first time 02/13/2001. Referred to Committee on Local Government & Housing.
_1 AN ACT Relating to funds for operating and maintenance of low‑
_2 income housing projects and for innovative housing demonstration
_3 projects; amending RCW 36.18.010; adding a new section to chapter
_4 36.22 RCW; and creating a new section.
_5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
_6 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature recognizes housing
_7 affordability has become a significant problem for a large portion
_8 of society in many parts of Washington state in recent years. The
_9 state has traditionally focused its resources on housing for low-
10 income populations. Additional funding resources are needed for
11 unusual or one time operation and maintenance activities for
12 housing projects for the developmentally disabled and farm worker
13 housing projects. In addition to supporting low-income populations,
14 the state must find new methods to assist moderate and middle-
15 income populations who are having a difficult time affording
16 decent housing at today's prices reasonably near their jobs.
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_1 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 36.22
_2 RCW to read as follows:
_3 (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a
_4 surcharge of ten dollars per instrument shall be charged by the
_5 county auditor for each real property document recorded, which
_6 will be in addition to any other charge authorized by law. The
_7 auditor may retain up to five percent of these funds collected to
_8 administer the collection of these funds. Of the remaining funds,
_9 forty percent of the revenue generated through this surcharge will
10 be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer who will deposit the
11 funds into the Washington housing trust account. The office of
12 community development of the department of community, trade, and
13 economic development will develop guidelines for: (a) The use of
14 these funds to support unusual or one-time operation and
15 maintenance costs of low-income housing projects that have been
16 developed with housing trust funds; and (b) innovative housing
17 demonstration projects for moderate and middle-income
18 populations. Sixty percent of the revenue generated by this
19 surcharge will be retained by the county and be deposited into a
20 fund that must be used by the county and its cities and towns for
21 low-income housing projects.
22 (2) The surcharge imposed in this section does not apply to
23 assignments of previously recorded deeds of trust.
24 Sec. 3. RCW 36.18.010 and 1999 c 233 s 3 are each amended to read
25 as follows:
26 County auditors or recording officers shall collect the
27 following fees for their official services:
28 For recording instruments, for the first page eight and one-
29 half by fourteen inches or less, five dollars; for each additional
30 page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, one dollar.
31 The fee for recording multiple transactions contained in one
32 instrument will be calculated for each transaction requiring
33 separate indexing as required under RCW 65.04.050 as follows: The
34 fee for each title or transaction is the same fee as the first
35 page of any additional recorded document; the fee for additional
36 pages is the same fee as for any additional pages for any recorded
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_1 document; the fee for the additional pages may be collected only
_2 once and may not be collected for each title or transaction;
_3 For preparing and certifying copies, for the first page eight
_4 and one-half by fourteen inches or less, three dollars; for each
_5 additional page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, one
_6 dollar;
_7 For preparing noncertified copies, for each page eight and one-
_8 half by fourteen inches or less, one dollar;
_9 For administering an oath or taking an affidavit, with or
10 without seal, two dollars;
11 For issuing a marriage license, eight dollars, (this fee
12 includes taking necessary affidavits, filing returns, indexing,
13 and transmittal of a record of the marriage to the state registrar
14 of vital statistics) plus an additional five-dollar fee for use
15 and support of the prevention of child abuse and neglect
16 activities to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and
17 deposited in the state general fund plus an additional ten-dollar
18 fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited
19 in the state general fund. The legislature intends to appropriate
20 an amount at least equal to the revenue generated by this fee for
21 the purposes of the displaced homemaker act, chapter 28B.04 RCW;
22 For searching records per hour, eight dollars;
23 For recording plats, fifty cents for each lot except cemetery
24 plats for which the charge shall be twenty-five cents per lot;
25 also one dollar for each acknowledgment, dedication, and
26 description: PROVIDED, That there shall be a minimum fee of twenty-
27 five dollars per plat;
28 For recording of miscellaneous records not listed above, for
29 the first page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, five
30 dollars; for each additional page eight and one-half by fourteen
31 inches or less, one dollar;
32 For modernization and improvement of the recording and indexing
33 system, a surcharge as provided in RCW 36.22.170.
34 For recording an emergency nonstandard document as provided in
35 RCW 65.04.047, fifty dollars, in addition to all other applicable
36 recording fees.
37 For recording instruments related to real property, a surcharge
38 as provided in section 2 of this act.
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