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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5559

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senators Hansen, Bailey and Fleming

Read first time 2/5/87 and referred to Committee on Agriculture.

AN ACT Relating to crop liens and security interests; and amending RCW 60.11.050.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 5, chapter 242, Laws of 1986 and RCW 60.11.050 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) Except as provided in subsections (2), (3), and (4) of this section, conflicting liens and security interests shall rank in accordance with the time of filing.

          (2) The lien created in RCW 60.11.020(2) in favor of any person who furnishes any work or labor upon the land of the grower or landowner shall be preferred and prior to any other lien or security interest upon the crops to which they attach including the liens described in subsections (3) and (4) of this section.

          (3) A lien or security interest in crops otherwise entitled to priority pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be subordinate to a later filed lien or security interest in crops to the extent that obligations secured by such earlier filed security interest or lien were not incurred to produce such crops.

          (4) A lien or security interest in crops otherwise entitled to priority pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be subordinate to a properly filed landlord's lien.  A landlord's lien shall retain its priority if refiled within six months prior to its expiration.