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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1552

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Representatives Todd, Nutley, Padden, Patrick, Holland, Anderson, D. Sommers, Leonard, Walk, Pruitt, Crane, Nelson and Dorn

Read first time 1/27/89 and referred to Committee on Housing.

AN ACT Relating to mobile home tenant lot fees; and amending RCW 59.22.060.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 4, chapter 280, Laws of 1988 and RCW 59.22.060 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) Every landlord shall register by October 1, 1988, with the department of revenue under such rules as that department shall prescribe.

          (2) Every landlord shall pay a fee of one dollar per lot per year, except for unoccupied lots, and in addition, ((shall collect from)) each tenant ((on)) shall pay to the landlord by January ((1)) 15 of each year a fee of one dollar per year for each lot rented by the tenant.  If the tenant fails to make payment to the landlord after the landlord requests payment in writing, the landlord shall have no further obligation to collect its fee.  Both fees shall be remitted by the landlord to the department of revenue under such rules as the department shall prescribe.  The fee required by this chapter, to be collected by the landlord, shall be deemed to be held in trust by the landlord until paid to the department of revenue, and any landlord who appropriates or converts the fee collected to his or her own use other than the payment to the department shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.  The provisions of chapter 82.32 RCW shall apply to the collection and enforcement of this fee.

(3) Any payment of a fee by a landlord for an unoccupied lot paid prior to this section shall be refunded to the landlord.