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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5574

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators McCaslin and DeJarnatt

Read first time 1/27/89 and referred to Committee on   Economic Development & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to license requirements for real estate transactions; and amending RCW 18.85.110.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 3, chapter 252, Laws of 1941 as last amended by section 20, chapter 240, Laws of 1988 and RCW 18.85.110 are each amended to read as follows:

          This chapter shall not apply to (1) any person who purchases property and/or a business opportunity for his own account, or that of a group of which he is a member, or who, as the owner or part owner of property, and/or a business opportunity, in any way disposes of the same; nor, (2) any duly authorized attorney in fact acting without compensation, or an attorney at law in the performance of his duties; nor, (3) any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian, or any person acting under the order of any court, or selling under a deed of trust; nor, (4) any secretary, bookkeeper, accountant, or other office personnel who does not engage in any conduct or activity specified in any of the definitions under RCW 18.85.010; nor, (5) any owner of rental or lease property, members of the owner's family whether or not residing on such property, or a resident manager of a complex of residential dwelling units wherein such manager resides; nor, (6) any person who manages residential dwelling units on an incidental basis and not as his principal source of income so long as that person does not advertise or hold himself out to the public by any oral or printed solicitation or representation that he is so engaged; nor, (7) only with respect to the rental or lease of individual storage space, any person who owns or manages a self-service storage facility as defined under chapter 19.150 RCW.