Except as otherwise ordered by the court pursuant to RCW
4.24.130, county auditors or recording officers shall collect the following fees for their official services:
(1) For recording instruments, for the first page eight and one-half by 14 inches or less, $5; for each additional page eight and one-half by 14 inches or less, $1. The fee for recording multiple transactions contained in one instrument will be calculated for each transaction requiring separate indexing as required under RCW
65.04.050 as follows: The fee for each title or transaction is the same fee as the first page of any additional recorded document; the fee for additional pages is the same fee as for any additional pages for any recorded document; the fee for the additional pages may be collected only once and may not be collected for each title or transaction;
(2) For preparing and certifying copies, for the first page eight and one-half by 14 inches or less, $3; for each additional page eight and one-half by 14 inches or less, $1;
(3) For preparing noncertified copies, for each page eight and one-half by 14 inches or less, $1;
(4) For administering an oath or taking an affidavit, with or without seal, $2;
(5) For issuing a marriage license, $8, (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 $5 fee for use and support of the prevention of child abuse and neglect activities to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund plus an additional $10 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;
(6) For searching records per hour, $8;
(7) For recording plats, 50 cents for each lot except cemetery plats for which the charge shall be 25 cents per lot; also $1 for each acknowledgment, dedication, and description: PROVIDED, That there shall be a minimum fee of $25 per plat;
(8) For recording of miscellaneous records not listed above, for the first page eight and one-half by 14 inches or less, $5; for each additional page eight and one-half by 14 inches or less, $1;
(9) For modernization and improvement of the recording and indexing system, a surcharge as provided in RCW
36.22.170;
(10) For recording an emergency nonstandard document as provided in RCW
65.04.047, $50, in addition to all other applicable recording fees;
(11) For recording instruments, a $3 surcharge to be deposited into the Washington state library operations account created in RCW
43.07.129;
(12) For recording instruments, a $2 surcharge to be deposited into the Washington state library-archives building account created in RCW
43.07.410 until the financing contract entered into by the secretary of state for the Washington state library-archives building is paid in full;
(13) For recording instruments, the surcharge as provided in RCW
36.22.250; and
(14) For recording instruments, except for documents exempt under RCW
36.22.185(2), an assessment as provided in RCW
36.22.185.