5219-S.E AMH COOK H3003.1

ESSB 5219 - H AMD 779 ADOPTED 4/13/95

By Representative Cooke and others

     On page 44, after line 24, insert the following:

     "Sec. 38.  RCW 36.18.010 and 1991 c 26 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

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

     For recording instruments, for the first page, legal size (eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less), five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar; the fee for recording multiple transactions contained in one instrument will be calculated individually for each transaction requiring separate indexing as required under RCW 65.04.050;

     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 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((, which five-dollar fee shall expire June 30, 1995,)) 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, five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

     For modernization and improvement of the recording and indexing system, a surcharge as provided in RCW 36.22.170."

     Renumber the remaining section consecutively.

     On page 44, after line 28, insert the following:

     "NEW SECTION. Sec. 39.  Section 38 of this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 40.  If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected."

ESSB 5219 - H AMD

By Representative Cooke

     On page 1, line 6 of the title, after "10.14.080," strike "and" and after "26.50.150" insert ", and 36.18.010"

     On page 1, line 9 of the title, after "section;" strike "and" and after "penalties" insert "; and declaring an emergency"

EFFECT:  Provides statutory authority necessary to be consistent with all executive and legislative branch budget proposals extending child abuse and neglect prevention.

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