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63.30.915 | Transitional provision. | (1) An initial report filed under this chapter for property that was not required to be reported before January 1, 2023, but that is required to be reported under this chapter, must include all items of property that would have been presumed abandoned during the six-year period preceding January 1, 2023, as if this cha... |
63.30.920 | Conflict with federal requirements—2022 c 225. | If any part of this act is found to be in conflict with federal requirements that are a prescribed condition to the allocation of federal funds to the state, the conflicting part of this act is inoperative solely to the extent of the conflict and with respect to the agencies directly affected, and this finding does not... |
63.30.925 | Effective date—2022 c 225. | This act takes effect January 1, 2023.
[ 2022 c 225 s 1507 .] |
63.32.010 | Methods of disposition—Notice—Sale, retention, destruction, or trade. | Whenever any personal property shall come into the possession of the police authorities of any city in connection with the official performance of their duties and said personal property shall remain unclaimed or not taken away for a period of sixty days from date of written notice to the owner thereof, if known, which... |
63.32.020 | Notice of sale. | Before said personal property shall be sold, a notice of such sale fixing the time and place thereof which shall be at a suitable place, which will be noted in the advertisement for sale, and containing a description of the property to be sold shall be published at least once in the official newspaper of said city at l... |
63.32.030 | Disposition of proceeds. | The moneys arising from sales under the provisions of this chapter shall be first applied to the payment of the costs and expenses of the sale and then to the payment of lawful charges and expenses for the keep of said personal property and the balance, if any, shall be paid into the police pension fund of said city if... |
63.32.040 | Reimbursement to owner. | If the owner of said personal property so sold, or his or her legal representative, shall, at any time within three years after such money shall have been deposited in said police pension fund or the city current expense fund, furnish satisfactory evidence to the police pension fund board or the city treasurer of said ... |
63.32.050 | Donation of unclaimed personal property to nonprofit charitable organizations. | In addition to any other method of disposition of unclaimed property provided under this chapter, the police authorities of a city or town may donate unclaimed personal property to nonprofit charitable organizations. A nonprofit charitable organization receiving personal property donated under this section must use the... |
63.32.060 | Duties of police department or designated alternate entity accepting found property. | (1) This chapter does not modify the requirements for a police department to accept found property under chapter 63.21 RCW. (2) If a city or town designates an alternate department or governmental entity to accept found property under RCW 63.21.090 : (a) The designated department or governmental entity shall comply wit... |
63.35.010 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Agency" means the Washington state patrol. (2) "Chief" means the chief of the Washington state patrol or designee. (3) "Personal property" or "property" includes both corporeal and incorporeal personal pro... |
63.35.020 | Methods of disposition—Sale, retention, destruction, or trade. | Whenever any personal property shall come into the possession of the officers of the state patrol in connection with the official performance of their duties and said personal property shall remain unclaimed or not taken away for a period of sixty days from the date of written notice to the owner thereof, if known, whi... |
63.35.030 | Notice of sale. | Before said personal property shall be sold, a notice of such sale fixing the time and place thereof which shall be at a suitable place, which will be noted in the advertisement for sale, and containing a description of the property to be sold shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in th... |
63.35.040 | Disposition of proceeds. | The moneys arising from sales under the provisions of this chapter shall be first applied to the payment of the costs and expenses of the sale and then to the payment of lawful charges and expenses for the keep of said personal property and the balance, if any, shall be forwarded to the state treasurer to be deposited ... |
63.35.050 | Reimbursement to owner. | If the owner of said personal property so sold, or the owner's legal representative, shall, at any time within three years after such money shall have been deposited in the state patrol highway account, furnish satisfactory evidence to the state treasurer of the ownership of said personal property, the owner or the own... |
63.35.060 | Applicability of other statutes. | (1) Chapter 63.24 RCW, unclaimed property in hands of bailee, does not apply to personal property in the possession of the state patrol. (2) The uniform unclaimed property act, *chapter 63.29 RCW, does not apply to personal property in the possession of the state patrol.
[ 1989 c 222 s 6 .]
*Reviser's note: Chapter 63.... |
63.35.065 | Donation of unclaimed personal property to nonprofit charitable organizations. | In addition to any other method of disposition of unclaimed property provided under this chapter, the state patrol may donate unclaimed personal property to nonprofit charitable organizations. A nonprofit charitable organization receiving personal property donated under this section must use the property, or its procee... |
63.40.010 | Methods of disposition—Notice—Sale, retention, destruction, or trade. | Whenever any personal property, other than vehicles governed by chapter 46.52 RCW, shall come into the possession of the sheriff of any county in connection with the official performance of his duties and said personal property shall remain unclaimed or not taken away for a period of sixty days from date of written not... |
63.40.020 | Notice of sale, form, contents—Conduct of sale. | Before said personal property shall be sold, a notice of such sale fixing the time and place thereof which shall be at a suitable place, which will be noted in the advertisement for sale, and containing a description of the property to be sold shall be published at least once in an official newspaper in said county at ... |
63.40.030 | Disposition of proceeds. | The moneys arising from sales under the provisions of this chapter shall be first applied to the payment of the costs and expenses of the sale and then to the payment of lawful charges and expenses for the keeping of said personal property and the balance, if any, shall be paid into the county current expense fund.
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63.40.040 | Reimbursement to owner. | If the owner of said personal property so sold, or his or her legal representative, shall, at any time within three years after such money shall have been deposited in the county current expense fund, furnish satisfactory evidence to the county treasurer of said county of the ownership of said personal property, he or ... |
63.40.050 | Uniform unclaimed property act not applicable. | The provisions of *chapter 63.29 RCW shall not apply to personal property in the possession of the office of county sheriff.
[ 1985 c 7 s 126 ; 1961 c 104 s 5 .]
*Reviser's note: Chapter 63.29 RCW was repealed in its entirety by 2022 c 225 s 1505, effective January 1, 2023. For later enactment, see chapter 63.30 RCW. |
63.40.060 | Donation of unclaimed personal property to nonprofit charitable organizations. | In addition to any other method of disposition of unclaimed property provided under this chapter, the county sheriff may donate unclaimed personal property to nonprofit charitable organizations. A nonprofit charitable organization receiving personal property donated under this section must use the property, or its proc... |
63.40.070 | Duties of sheriff or designated alternate entity accepting found property. | (1) This chapter does not modify the requirements for a sheriff to accept found property under chapter 63.21 RCW. (2) If a county designates an alternate department or governmental entity to accept found property under RCW 63.21.090 : (a) The designated department or governmental entity shall comply with the dispositio... |
63.42.010 | Legislative intent. | It is the intent of the legislature to relieve the department of corrections from unacceptable burdens of cost related to storage space and manpower in the preservation of inmate personal property if the property has been abandoned by the inmate and to enhance the security and safety of the institutions.
[ 1983 1st ex.... |
63.42.020 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of corrections or the secretary's designees. (2) "Personal property" or "property" includes both corporeal and incorporeal personal property and includes am... |
63.42.030 | Personal property presumed abandoned—Illegal items retained as evidence or destroyed. | (1) All personal property, and any income or increment which has accrued thereon, held for the owner by an institution that has remained unclaimed for more than six months from the date the owner terminated without authorization from work training release, transferred to a different institution, or when the owner is un... |
63.42.040 | Disposition of property presumed abandoned—Inventory—Notice. | (1) All personal property, other than money, presumed abandoned shall be destroyed unless, in the opinion of the secretary, the property may be used or has value to a charitable or nonprofit organization, in which case the property may be donated to the organization. A charitable or nonprofit organization does not have... |
63.42.050 | Chapter not applicable if prior written agreement. | This chapter does not apply if the inmate and the department have reached an agreement in writing regarding the disposition of the personal property.
[ 1983 1st ex.s. c 52 s 5 .] |
63.42.060 | Application of chapters63.24and63.29RCW. | (1) The uniform unclaimed property act, *chapter 63.29 RCW, does not apply to personal property in the possession of the department of corrections. (2) Chapter 63.24 RCW, unclaimed property in hands of bailee, does not apply to personal property in the possession of the department of corrections.
[ 1985 c 7 s 127 ; 198... |
63.48.010 | Accounts presumed abandoned and to escheat to state. | All postal savings system accounts created by the deposits of persons whose last known addresses are in the state which have not been claimed by the persons entitled thereto before May 1, 1971, are presumed to have been abandoned by their owners and are declared to escheat and become the property of this state.
[ 1971 ... |
63.48.020 | Director to request federal records. | The director of revenue shall request from the bureau of accounts of the United States treasury department records providing the following information: The names of depositors at the post offices of this state whose accounts are unclaimed, their last addresses as shown by the records of the post office department, and ... |
63.48.030 | Escheat proceedings brought in Thurston county. | The director of revenue may bring proceedings in the superior court for Thurston county to escheat unclaimed postal savings system accounts held by the United States treasury. A single proceeding may be used to escheat as many accounts as may be available for escheat at one time.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 68 s 3 .] |
63.48.040 | Notice to depositors whose accounts are to be escheated. | The director of revenue shall notify depositors whose accounts are to be escheated as follows: (1) A letter advising that a postal savings system account in the name of the addressee is about to be escheated and setting forth the procedure by which a deposit may be claimed shall be mailed by first-class mail to the nam... |
63.48.050 | Copy of judgment presented for payment—Disposition of proceeds. | The director of revenue shall present a copy of each final judgment of escheat to the United States treasury department for payment of the principal due and the interest computed under regulations of the United States treasury department. The payment received shall be deposited in the general fund in the state treasury... |
63.48.060 | Indemnification for losses as result of escheat proceedings—Source. | This state shall indemnify the United States for any losses suffered as a result of the escheat of unclaimed postal savings system accounts. The burden of the indemnification falls upon the fund into which the proceeds of the escheated accounts have been paid.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 68 s 6 .] |
63.52.005 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Customer" means an individual or entity that causes or did cause a molder to fabricate, cast, or otherwise make a die, mold, or form. (2) "Molder" means an individual or entity, including but not limited t... |
63.52.010 | Customer has title and all rights—Written exception—Failure to claim within three years after the last use—Notice to customer—Title and all rights may transfer to the molder. | (1) In the absence of a written agreement otherwise, the customer has title and all rights to a die, mold, or form in the molder's possession. (2) If a customer does not claim possession from a molder of a die, mold, or form within three years after the last use of the die, mold, or form, title and all rights to the di... |
63.60.010 | Property right—Use of name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5886-S.SL ) ***
Every individual or personality has a property right in the use of his or her name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness. Such right exists in the name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness of individuals or personalities deceased before, on, or after June 11, 1998.... |
63.60.020 | Definitions. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5886-S.SL ) ***
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Deceased individual" means any individual, regardless of the individual's place of domicile, residence, or citizenship at the time of death or otherwise, who has... |
63.60.030 | Transfer, assignment, and license. | (1) Every individual or personality has a property right in the use of his or her name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness. Such right shall be freely transferable, assignable, and licensable, in whole or in part, by contract or inter vivos transfer. This right shall not expire upon the death of the individual o... |
63.60.040 | Right is exclusive for individuals and personalities. | (1) For individuals, except to the extent that the individual may have assigned or licensed such rights, the rights protected in this chapter are exclusive to the individual, subject to the assignment or licensing of such rights, during such individual's lifetime and are exclusive to the persons entitled to such rights... |
63.60.050 | Infringement of right—Use without consent—Profit or not for profit. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5886-S.SL ) ***
Any person who uses or authorizes the use of a living or deceased individual's or personality's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, on or in goods, merchandise, or products entered into commerce in this state, or for purposes of advertising products, merchandise,... |
63.60.060 | Infringement of right—Superior courts—Injunctions—Liability for damages and profits—Impoundment—Destruction—Attorneys' fees. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5886-S.SL ) ***
(1) The superior courts of this state may grant injunctions on reasonable terms to prevent or restrain the unauthorized use of the rights in a living or deceased individual's or personality's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness. (2) Any person who infringes the ri... |
63.60.070 | Exemptions from use restrictions—When chapter does not apply. | (1) For purposes of RCW 63.60.050 , the use of a name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness in connection with matters of cultural, historical, political, religious, educational, newsworthy, or public interest, including, without limitation, comment, criticism, satire, and parody relating thereto, shall not consti... |
63.60.080 | Community property rights. | Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to invalidate any community property rights.
[ 1998 c 274 s 8 .] |
64.04.005 | Liquidated damages—Earnest money deposit—Exclusive remedy—Definition. | (1) A provision in a written agreement for the purchase and sale of real estate which provides for liquidated damages or the forfeiture of an earnest money deposit to the seller as the seller's sole and exclusive remedy if a party fails, without legal excuse, to complete the purchase, is valid and enforceable, regardle... |
64.04.007 | Owner-occupied real property—Release of security interest—Outstanding debt—Notice to borrower—Definition. | (1) If the beneficiary or mortgagee, or its assignees, of debt secured by owner-occupied real property intends to release its deed of trust or mortgage in the real property for less than full payment of the secured debt, it shall provide upon its first written notice to the borrower the following information in substan... |
64.04.010 | Conveyances and encumbrances to be by deed. | Every conveyance of real estate, or any interest therein, and every contract creating or evidencing any encumbrance upon real estate, shall be by deed: PROVIDED, That (1) leases do not require acknowledgment, witness, or seals, but to be recorded, a lease and a memorandum of lease must have the lessee's and lessor's si... |
64.04.020 | Requisites of a deed. | Every deed shall be in writing, signed by the party bound thereby, and acknowledged by the party before some person authorized by *this act to take acknowledgments of deeds.
[ 1929 c 33 s 2 ; RRS s 10551. Prior: 1915 c 172 s 1 ; 1888 p 50 s 2 ; 1886 p 177 s 2 ; Code 1881 s 2312; 1854 p 402 s 2 .]
*Reviser's note: The l... |
64.04.030 | Warranty deed—Form and effect. | Warranty deeds for the conveyance of land may be substantially in the following form, without express covenants: The grantor (here insert the name or names and place or residence) for and in consideration of (here insert consideration) in hand paid, conveys and warrants to (here insert the grantee's name or names) the ... |
64.04.040 | Bargain and sale deed—Form and effect. | Bargain and sale deeds for the conveyance of land may be substantially in the following form, without express covenants: The grantor (here insert name or names and place of residence), for and in consideration of (here insert consideration) in hand paid, bargains, sells, and conveys to (here insert the grantee's name o... |
64.04.050 | Quitclaim deed—Form and effect. | Quitclaim deeds may be in substance in the following form: The grantor (here insert the name or names and place of residence), for and in consideration of (here insert consideration) conveys and quitclaims to (here insert grantee's name or names) all interest in the following described real estate (here insert descript... |
64.04.055 | Deeds for conveyance of apartments under horizontal property regimes act.(Effective until January 1, 2028.) | All deeds for the conveyance of apartments as provided for in chapter 64.32 RCW shall be substantially in the form required by law for the conveyance of any other land or real property and shall in addition thereto contain the contents described in RCW 64.32.120 .
[ 1963 c 156 s 29 .] |
64.04.060 | Word "heirs" unnecessary. | The term "heirs", or other technical words of inheritance, shall not be necessary to create and convey an estate in fee simple. All conveyances heretofore made omitting the word "heirs", or other technical words of inheritance, but not limiting the estate conveyed, are hereby validated as and are declared to be conveya... |
64.04.070 | After acquired title follows deed. | Whenever any person or persons having sold and conveyed by deed any lands in this state, and who, at the time of such conveyance, had no title to such land, and any person or persons who may hereafter sell and convey by deed any lands in this state, and who shall not at the time of such sale and conveyance have the tit... |
64.04.090 | Private seals abolished. | The use of private seals upon all deeds, mortgages, leases, bonds, and other instruments, and contracts in writing, including deeds from a husband to his wife and from a wife to her husband for their respective community right, title, interest or estate in all or any portion of their community real property, is hereby ... |
64.04.100 | Private seals abolished—Validation. | All deeds, mortgages, leases, bonds and other instruments and contracts in writing, including deeds from a husband to his wife and from a wife to her husband for their respective community right, title, interest or estate in all or any portion of their community real property, which have heretofore been executed withou... |
64.04.105 | Corporate seals—Effect of absence from instrument. | The absence of a corporate seal on any deed, mortgage, lease, bond or other instrument or contract in writing shall not affect its validity, legality or character in any respect.
[ 1957 c 200 s 1 .] |
64.04.130 | Interests in land for purposes of conservation, protection, preservation, etc.—Ownership by certain entities—Conveyances—Definitions. | A development right, easement, covenant, restriction, or other right, or any interest less than the fee simple, to protect, preserve, maintain, improve, restore, limit the future use of, or conserve for open space purposes, any land or improvement on the land, whether the right or interest be appurtenant or in gross, m... |
64.04.135 | Criteria for monitoring historical conformance not to exceed those in original donation agreement—Exception. | The criteria for monitoring historical conformance shall not exceed those included in the original donation agreement, unless agreed to in writing between grantor and grantee.
[ 1987 c 341 s 4 .] |
64.04.140 | Legislative declaration—Solar energy systems—Solar easements authorized. | The legislature declares that the potential economic and environmental benefits of solar energy use are considered to be in the public interest; therefore, local governments are authorized to encourage and protect access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems. The legislature further declares that solar easements ... |
64.04.150 | Solar easements—Definitions. | (1) As used in this chapter: (a) "Solar energy system" means any device or combination of devices or elements which rely upon direct sunlight as an energy source, including but not limited to any substance or device which collects sunlight for use in: (i) The heating or cooling of a structure or building; (ii) The heat... |
64.04.160 | Solar easements—Creation. | A solar easement created under this chapter may only be created by written agreement. Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to create or authorize the creation of an implied easement or a prescriptive easement.
[ 1979 ex.s. c 170 s 14 .]
Severability — 1979 ex.s. c 170: See note following RCW 64.04.140 . |
64.04.170 | Interference with solar easement—Remedies. | In any action for interference with a solar easement, if the instrument creating the easement does not specify any appropriate and applicable remedies, the court may choose one or more remedies including but not limited to the following: (1) Actual damages as measured by increased charges for supplemental energy, the c... |
64.04.175 | Easements established by dedication—Extinguishing or altering. | Easements established by a dedication are property rights that cannot be extinguished or altered without the approval of the easement owner or owners, unless the plat or other document creating the dedicated easement provides for an alternative method or methods to extinguish or alter the easement.
[ 1991 c 132 s 1 .] |
64.04.180 | Railroad properties as public utility and transportation corridors—Declaration of availability for public use—Acquisition of reversionary interest. | Railroad properties, including but not limited to rights-of-way, land held in fee and used for railroad operations, bridges, tunnels, and other facilities, are declared to be suitable for public use upon cessation of railroad operations on the properties. It is in the public interest of the state of Washington that suc... |
64.04.190 | Public utility and transportation corridors—Defined. | Public utility and transportation corridors are railroad properties (1) on which railroad operations have ceased; (2) that have been found suitable for public use by an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States; and (3) that have been acquired by purchase, lease, donation, exchange, or other agre... |
64.04.200 | Existing rate or charge for energy conservation—Seller's duty to disclose. | Prior to closing, the seller of real property subject to a rate or charge for energy conservation measures, services, or payments provided under a tariff approved by the utilities and transportation commission pursuant to RCW 80.28.065 shall disclose to the purchaser of the real property the existence of the obligation... |
64.04.210 | Requests for notice of transfer or encumbrance—Disclosure—Notice to department of social and health services. | (1) If the department of social and health services has filed a request for notice of transfer or encumbrance under RCW 43.20B.750 : (a) A title insurance company or agent that discovers the presence of a request for notice of transfer or encumbrance when performing a title search on real property shall disclose the pr... |
64.04.220 | Handling of earnest money—Definitions—Notice from holder—Interpleader action, forms—Application. | (1) As used in this section: (a) "Day" means calendar day. (b) "Earnest money" means money placed with a holder by a prospective buyer of residential real property to show a good-faith intention to perform pursuant to an executed purchase and sale agreement. (c) "Holder" means the party holding the earnest money pursua... |
64.06.005 | Definitions.(Effective until January 1, 2028.) | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Commercial real estate" has the same meaning as in RCW 60.42.005 . (2) "Improved residential property," "unimproved residential property," and "commercial real estate" do not include a condominium unit crea... |
64.06.010 | Application—Exceptions for certain transfers of real property. | This chapter does not apply to the following transfers of real property: (1) A foreclosure or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure; (2) A gift or other transfer to a parent, spouse, domestic partner, or child of a transferor or child of any parent, spouse, or domestic partner of a transferor; (3) A transfer between spouses or b... |
64.06.013 | Commercial real estate—Seller's duty—Format of disclosure statement—Minimum information. | (1) In a transaction for the sale of commercial real estate, the seller shall, unless the buyer has expressly waived the right to receive the disclosure statement under RCW 64.06.010 , or unless the transfer is otherwise exempt under RCW 64.06.010 , deliver to the buyer a completed seller disclosure statement in the fo... |
64.06.015 | Unimproved residential real property—Seller's duty—Format of disclosure statement—Minimum information. | (1) In a transaction for the sale of unimproved residential real property, the seller shall, unless the buyer has expressly waived the right to receive the disclosure statement under RCW 64.06.010 , or unless the transfer is otherwise exempt under RCW 64.06.010 , deliver to the buyer a completed seller disclosure state... |
64.06.020 | Improved residential real property—Seller's duty—Format of disclosure statement—Minimum information. | (1) In a transaction for the sale of improved residential real property, the seller shall, unless the buyer has expressly waived the right to receive the disclosure statement under RCW 64.06.010 , or unless the transfer is otherwise exempt under RCW 64.06.010 , deliver to the buyer a completed seller disclosure stateme... |
64.06.021 | Notice regarding sex offenders. | The notice regarding sex offenders under RCW 64.06.020 does not create any legal duty on the part of the seller, or on the part of any real estate licensee, to investigate or to provide the buyer with information regarding the actual presence, or lack thereof, of registered sex offenders in the area of any property, in... |
64.06.022 | Disclosure of possible proximity to farm or working forest. | A seller of residential real property shall make available to the buyer the following statement: "This notice is to inform you that the real property you are considering for purchase may lie in close proximity to a farm or working forest. The operation of a farm or working forest involves usual and customary agricultur... |
64.06.030 | Delivery of disclosure statement—Buyer's options—Time frame. | Unless the buyer has expressly waived the right to receive the disclosure statement, not later than five business days or as otherwise agreed to, after mutual acceptance of a written agreement between a buyer and a seller for the purchase and sale of residential real property, the seller shall deliver to the buyer a co... |
64.06.040 | After delivery of disclosure statement—Additional information—Seller's duty—Buyer's options—Closing the transaction. | (1) If, after the date that a seller of real property completes a real property transfer disclosure statement, the seller learns from a source other than the buyer or others acting on the buyer's behalf such as an inspector of additional information or an adverse change which makes any of the disclosures made inaccurat... |
64.06.050 | Error, inaccuracy, or omission in disclosure statement—Actual knowledge—Liability. | (1) The seller shall not be liable for any error, inaccuracy, or omission in the real property transfer disclosure statement if the seller had no actual knowledge of the error, inaccuracy, or omission. Unless the seller has actual knowledge of an error, inaccuracy, or omission in a real property transfer disclosure sta... |
64.06.060 | Consumer protection act does not apply. | The legislature finds that the practices covered by this chapter are not matters vitally affecting the public interest for the purpose of applying the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW.
[ 1994 c 200 s 7 .] |
64.06.070 | Buyer's rights or remedies. | Except as provided in RCW 64.06.050 , nothing in this chapter shall extinguish or impair any rights or remedies of a buyer of real estate against the seller or against any agent acting for the seller otherwise existing pursuant to common law, statute, or contract; nor shall anything in this chapter create any new right... |
64.06.080 | Seller and landlord disclosure requirement—Electronic notice by city or county. | (1) Any ordinance, resolution, or policy adopted by a city or county that imposes a requirement on landlords or sellers of real property, or their agents, to provide information to a buyer or tenant pertaining to the subject property or the surrounding area is effective only after: (a) A summary of the ordinance, resol... |
64.06.090 | Oil tank for heating—No cost insurance—Seller's notice. | A seller of residential real property shall make available to the buyer the following statement: "This notice is to inform you that if the real property you are considering for purchase utilizes an oil tank for heating purposes, no cost insurance may be available from the pollution liability insurance agency."
[ 2018 c... |
64.06.900 | Effective date—1994 c 200. | This act shall take effect on January 1, 1995.
[ 1994 c 200 s 10 .] |
64.08.010 | Who may take acknowledgments. | Acknowledgments of deeds, mortgages and other instruments in writing, required to be acknowledged may be taken in this state before a justice of the supreme court, or the clerk thereof, or the deputy of such clerk, before a judge of the court of appeals, or the clerk thereof, before a judge of the superior court, or qu... |
64.08.020 | Acknowledgments out of state—Certificate. | Acknowledgments of deeds conveying or encumbering real estate situated in this state, or any interest therein, and other instruments in writing, required to be acknowledged, may be taken in any other state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or in any possession of the United States, before any... |
64.08.040 | Foreign acknowledgments, who may take. | Acknowledgments of deeds conveying or encumbering real estate situated in this state, or any interest therein and other instruments in writing, required to be acknowledged, may be taken in any foreign country before any minister, plenipotentiary, secretary of legation, charge d'affaires, consul general, consul, vice co... |
64.08.050 | Certificate of acknowledgment—Evidence. | The officer, or person, taking an acknowledgment as in this chapter provided, shall certify the same by a certificate written upon or annexed to the instrument acknowledged and signed by him or her and sealed with his or her official seal, if any, and reciting in substance that the person, or persons, known to him or h... |
64.08.060 | Form of certificate for individual. | A certificate of acknowledgment for an individual, substantially in the following form or, after December 31, 1985, substantially in the form set forth in RCW 42.45.140 (1), shall be sufficient for the purposes of this chapter and for any acknowledgment required to be taken in accordance with this chapter: State of Cou... |
64.08.070 | Form of certificate for corporation. | A certificate of acknowledgment for a corporation, substantially in the following form or, after December 31, 1985, substantially in the form set forth in RCW 42.45.140 (2), shall be sufficient for the purposes of this chapter and for any acknowledgment required to be taken in accordance with this chapter: State of Cou... |
64.08.090 | Authority of superintendents, business managers, and officers of correctional institutions to take acknowledgments and administer oaths—Procedure. | The superintendents, associate and assistant superintendents, business managers, records officers, and camp superintendents of any correctional institution or facility operated by the state of Washington are hereby authorized and empowered to take acknowledgments on any instruments of writing, and certify the same in t... |
64.08.100 | Acknowledgments by persons unable to sign name. | Any person who is otherwise competent but is physically unable to sign his or her name or make a mark may make an acknowledgment authorized under this chapter by orally directing the notary public or other authorized officer taking the acknowledgment to sign the person's name on his or her behalf. In taking an acknowle... |
64.12.010 | Waste actionable. | Wrongs heretofore remediable by action of waste shall be subjects of actions as other wrongs.
[Code 1881 s 600; 1877 p 125 s 605 ; 1869 p 143 s 554 ; 1854 p 206 s 403 ; RRS s 937.] |
64.12.020 | Waste by guardian or tenant, action for. | If a guardian, tenant in severalty or in common, for life or for years, or by sufferance, or at will, or a subtenant, of real property commit waste thereon, any person injured thereby may maintain an action at law for damages therefor against such guardian or tenant or subtenant; in which action, if the plaintiff preva... |
64.12.030 | Injury to or removing trees, etc.—Damages. | Whenever any person shall cut down, girdle, or otherwise injure, or carry off any tree, including a Christmas tree as defined in *RCW 76.48.020 , timber, or shrub on the land of another person, or on the street or highway in front of any person's house, city or town lot, or cultivated grounds, or on the commons or publ... |
64.12.035 | Cutting or removing vegetation—Electric utility—Liability—Definitions. | (1) An electric utility is immune from liability under RCW 64.12.030 , 64.12.040 , and 4.24.630 and any claims for general or special damages, including claims of emotional distress, for cutting or removing vegetation located on or originating from land or property adjacent to electric facilities that: (a) Has come in ... |
64.12.040 | Mitigating circumstances—Damages. | If upon trial of such action it shall appear that the trespass was casual or involuntary, or that the defendant had probable cause to believe that the land on which such trespass was committed was his or her own, or that of the person in whose service or by whose direction the act was done, or that such tree or timber ... |
64.12.050 | Injunction to prevent waste on public land. | When any two or more persons are opposing claimants under the laws of the United States to any land in this state, and one is threatening to commit upon such land waste which tends materially to lessen the value of the inheritance and which cannot be compensated by damages and there is imminent danger that unless restr... |
64.12.060 | Action by occupant of unsurveyed land. | Any person now occupying and settled upon, or who may hereafter occupy or settle upon any of the unsurveyed public lands not to exceed one hundred sixty acres in this territory, for the purpose of holding and cultivating the same, may commence and maintain any action, in any court of competent jurisdiction, for interfe... |
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