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SENATE BILL NO. 5040
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State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By Senator Rasmussen
Read first time 1/13/87 and referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.
AN ACT Relating to the subdivision of land; amending RCW 58.17.060; and adding a new section to chapter 58.17 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 6, chapter 271, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as amended by section 3, chapter 134, Laws of 1974 ex. sess. and RCW 58.17.060 are each amended to read as follows:
The
legislative body of a city, town, or county shall adopt regulations and
procedures, and appoint administrative personnel for the summary approval of
short plats and short subdivisions, or revision thereof. Such regulations
shall be adopted by ordinance and may contain wholly different requirements
than those governing the approval of preliminary and final plats of
subdivisions ((and may)) but shall require surveys and
monumentations and shall require filing of a short plat for record in the
office of the county auditor: PROVIDED, That such regulations must contain a
requirement that land in short subdivisions may not be further divided in any
manner within a period of five years without the filing of a final plat:
PROVIDED FURTHER, That such regulations are not required to contain a penalty
clause as provided in RCW 36.32.120 and may provide for wholly injunctive
relief.
No short plat shall be approved where the survey reveals a discrepancy in boundary lines until the discrepancy has been rectified and the title quieted.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 58.17 RCW to read as follows:
No plat shall be approved by any city, town, or county where the survey reveals a discrepancy in boundary lines until the discrepancy has been rectified and the title has been quieted.