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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1683
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
C 126 L 88
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1988 Regular Session
By House Committee on Housing (originally sponsored by Representatives Cantwell, Todd, Ebersole, Crane, Dorn and Sayan)
Read first time 2/5/88.
AN ACT Relating to civil remedies for violation of the mobile home landlord-tenant act; amending RCW 59.20.190; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 22, chapter 304, Laws of 1981 and RCW 59.20.190 are each amended to read as follows:
The state board of health shall adopt rules on or before January 1, 1982, setting health and sanitation standards for mobile home parks. Such rules shall be enforced by the city, county, city-county, or district health officer of the jurisdiction in which the mobile home park is located, upon notice of a violation to such health officer. Failure to remedy the violation after enforcement efforts are made may result in a fine being imposed on the park owner, or tenant as may be applicable, by the enforcing governmental body of up to one hundred dollars per day, depending on the degree of risk of injury or illness to persons in or around the park.