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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 567

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Nutley, McMullen, Allen, Wang, Cantwell, Scott, Brough, Winsley, Unsoeld, Leonard, Padden, Cooper, Lewis, R. King, Holm, L. Smith, Betrozoff, May, Sprenkle, Todd, Spanel and Miller

Read first time 2/2/87 and referred to Committee on Human Services.

AN ACT Relating to domestic violence prevention services in counties; amending RCW 36.18.010; and adding a new section to chapter 36.18 RCW.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 36.18.010, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 as last amended by section 2, chapter 44, Laws of 1985 and RCW 36.18.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          County auditors shall collect the following fees for their official services:

          For recording instruments, for the first page, legal size (eight and one-half by thirteen inches or less), five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

          For preparing and certifying copies, for the first legal size page, three dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

          For preparing noncertified copies, for each legal size page, one dollar;

          For administering an oath or taking an affidavit, with or without seal, two dollars;

          For issuing a marriage license, eight dollars, (this fee includes taking necessary affidavits, filing returns, indexing, and transmittal of a record of the marriage to the state registrar of vital statistics) plus an additional five-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund, which five-dollar fee shall expire June 30, 1988, plus an additional five-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund which five-dollar fee shall expire June 30, 1987, plus an additional seventeen dollar fee which shall be retained by the county under section 2 of this 1987 act if authorized under section 2 of this 1987 act;

          For searching records per hour, eight dollars;

          For recording plats, fifty cents for each lot except cemetery plats for which the charge shall be twenty-five cents per lot; also one dollar for each acknowledgment, dedication, and description:  PROVIDED, That there shall be a minimum fee of twenty-five dollars per plat;

          For recording of miscellaneous records, not listed above, for first legal size page, five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 36.18 RCW to read as follows:

          The county legislative authority may adopt an ordinance imposing the additional seventeen dollar fee for the issuance of a marriage license by the county auditor authorized under RCW 36.18.010.  Moneys from the fee shall be deposited with the county treasurer.  Such moneys shall only be used for domestic violence prevention programs and services in the county including but not limited to providing domestic violence shelters and counseling programs, handling domestic violence complaints, enhancing law enforcement services relating to domestic violence complaints, and the prosecution of domestic violence charges.