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Chapter 73.20 RCW: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY
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Chapter 73.20 RCW
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY
RCW 73.20.050
No agency created by a power of attorney in writing given by a principal who is at the time of execution, or who, after executing such power of attorney, becomes either (1) a member of the armed forces of the United States, or (2) a person serving as a merchant seaman outside the limits of the United States, included within the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia; or (3) a person outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any department or official of the United States government, in connection with any activity pertaining to or connected with the prosecution of any war in which the United States is then engaged, shall be revoked or terminated by the death of the principal, as to the agent or other person who, without actual knowledge or actual notice of the death of the principal, shall have acted or shall act, in good faith, under or in reliance upon such power of attorney or agency, and any action so taken, unless otherwise invalid or unenforceable, shall be binding on the heirs, devisees, legatees, or personal representatives of the principal.
[ 1945 c 139 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10758-70.]
Severability—1945 c 139: "If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect any other provision or application of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable." [ 1945 c 139 § 5.]
RCW 73.20.060
An affidavit, executed by the attorney-in-fact or agent, setting forth that the maker of the power of attorney is a member of the armed forces of the United States or within the class of persons described in RCW 73.20.050, and that he or she has not or had not, at the time of doing any act pursuant to the power of attorney, received actual knowledge or actual notice of the revocation or termination of the power of attorney, by death or otherwise, or notice of any facts indicating the same, shall, in the absence of fraud, be conclusive proof of the nonrevocation or nontermination of the power at such time. If the exercise of the power requires execution and delivery of any instrument which is recordable under the laws of this state, such affidavit shall likewise be recordable.
[ 2012 c 117 § 507; 1945 c 139 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10758-71.]
RCW 73.20.070
[ 1945 c 139 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10758-72.]
RCW 73.20.080
RCW 73.20.050 through 73.20.070 shall not be construed so as to alter or affect any provision for revocation or termination contained in such power of attorney.
[ 1945 c 139 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10758-73.]