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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5296

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Madsen and Barr

Read first time 1/20/89 and referred to Committee on   Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to county recording fees; and amending RCW 36.18.010.

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 1, chapter 230, Laws of 1987 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 of each transaction within the same document, 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 ten-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund.  The legislature intends to appropriate an amount at least equal to the revenue generated by this fee for the purposes of the displaced homemaker act, chapter 28B.04 RCW;

          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 of each transaction within the same document, five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar.