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                          HOUSE BILL 1039

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives D. Schmidt and Scott

Read first time 01/13/97.  Referred to Committee on Government Administration.

Raising certain auditor's fees.

    AN ACT Relating to auditor's fees; and amending RCW 36.18.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.18.010 and 1996 c 143 s 1 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 eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, ((five)) seven dollars; for each additional page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, ((one)) two dollars; 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 page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, three dollars; for each additional page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, one dollar;

    For preparing noncertified copies, for each page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, 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 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)) ten 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 the first page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, ((five)) seven dollars; for each additional page eight and one-half by fourteen inches or less, ((one)) two dollars;

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

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