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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1928

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Representatives Sanders and J. Williams

Read first time 1/29/88 and referred to Committee on Local Government.

AN ACT Relating to the subdivision of land; and reenacting and amending RCW 58.17.060.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 6, chapter 271, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as last amended by section 1, chapter 92, Laws of 1987 and by section 5, chapter 354, Laws of 1987 and RCW 58.17.060 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

          The legislative body of a city, town, or county shall adopt regulations and procedures, and appoint administrative personnel for the summary approval of short plats and short subdivisions or alteration or vacation thereof.  When an alteration or vacation involves a public dedication, the alteration or vacation shall be processed as provided in RCW 58.17.212 or 58.17.215.  Such regulations shall be adopted by ordinance and may contain wholly different requirements than those governing the approval of preliminary and final plats of subdivisions and may require surveys and monumentations and shall require filing of a short plat, or alteration or vacation thereof, for record in the office of the county auditor:  PROVIDED, That such regulations must contain a requirement that land in short subdivisions may not be further divided in any manner within a period of five years without the filing of a final plat, except that when the short plat contains fewer than four parcels, nothing in this section shall prevent the owner who filed the short plat from filing an alteration within the five-year period to create up to a total of four lots within the original short plat boundaries:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That such regulations are not required to contain a penalty clause as provided in RCW 36.32.120 and may provide for wholly injunctive relief.

          An ordinance requiring a survey shall not require that the survey be completed and filed ((with the application for)) before approval of the short subdivision.