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WA Rev Code § 64.90.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.260 - Unit boundaries—Relocation.

RCW 64.90.260 Unit boundaries—Relocation.(1) Subject to the provisions of the declaration, RCW 64.90.255, and other provisions of law, the boundaries between adjoining units may be relocated upon application to the board by the unit owners of those units and upon approval by the board pursuant to this section. The application must include plans showing the relocated boundaries and such other information as the board may require. If the unit owners of the adjoining units have specified a reallocation between their units of their allocated interests, the application must state the proposed reallocations. Unless the board determines, after receipt of all required information, that the reallocations are unreasonable or that the proposed boundary relocation does not comply with the declaration, RCW 64.90.255, or other provisions of law, the board must approve the application and prepare any amendments to the declaration and map in accordance with the requirements of subsection (3) of this section.(2)(a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions of law, boundaries between units and common elements may be relocated to incorporate common elements within a unit by an amendment to the declaration upon application to the association by the unit owner of the unit who proposes to relocate a boundary. The amendment may be approved only if the unit owner of the unit, the boundary of which is being relocated, and, unless the declaration provides otherwise, persons entitled to cast at least sixty-seven percent of the votes in the association, including sixty-seven percent of the votes allocated to units not owned by the declarant, agree.(b) The association may require payment to the association of a one-time fee or charge or continuing fees or charges payable by the unit owners of the units whose boundaries are being relocated to include common elements.(3)(a) The association must prepare any amendment to the declaration in accordance with the requirements of RCW 64.90.225 and any amendment to the map in accordance with the requirements of RCW 64.90.245 necessary to show or describe the altered boundaries of affected units and their dimensions and identifying numbers.(b) The amendment to the declaration must be executed by the unit owner of the unit, the boundaries of which are being relocated, and by the association, contain words of conveyance between them, and be recorded in the names of the unit owner or owners and the association, as grantor or grantee, as appropriate and as required under RCW 64.90.285(3). The amendments are effective upon recording.(4) All costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred by the association for preparing and recording amendments to the declaration and map under this section must be assessed to the unit, the boundaries of which are being relocated.[ 2018 c 277 § 213.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.270 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.270 - Monuments as boundaries.

RCW 64.90.270 Monuments as boundaries.(1) The physical boundaries of a unit located in a building containing or comprising that unit constructed or reconstructed in substantial accordance with the map, or amendment to the map, are its boundaries rather than any boundaries shown on the map, regardless of settling or lateral movement of the unit or of any building containing or comprising the unit, or of any minor variance between boundaries of the unit or any building containing or comprising the unit shown on the map.(2) This section does not relieve a unit owner from liability in case of the unit owner's willful misconduct or relieve a declarant or any other person from liability for failure to adhere to the map.[ 2018 c 277 § 215.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.275 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.275 - Sales purposes.

RCW 64.90.275 Sales purposes.(1) A declarant may maintain sales offices, management offices, and models in units or on common elements in the common interest community only if the declaration so provides. In a cooperative or condominium, any sales office, management office, or model not designated a unit by the declaration is a common element.(2) When a declarant no longer owns a unit or has the right to create a unit in the common interest community, the declarant ceases to have any rights under this section unless the unit is removed promptly from the common interest community in accordance with a right to remove reserved in the declaration.(3) Subject to any limitations in the declaration, a declarant may maintain signs in or on units owned by the declarant or the common elements advertising the common interest community.(4) This section is subject to the provisions of other state law and local ordinances.[ 2018 c 277 § 216.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.280 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.280 - Easement and use.

RCW 64.90.280 Easement and use.(1) Subject to the declaration, a declarant has an easement through the common elements as may be reasonably necessary for the purpose of discharging the declarant's obligations or exercising special declarant rights, whether arising under this chapter or reserved in the declaration.(2) Subject to RCW 64.90.405(2)(f) and 64.90.465, the unit owners have an easement in the common elements for access to their units.(3) Subject to the declaration and rules, the unit owners have a right to use the common elements that are not limited common elements for the purposes for which the common elements were intended.[ 2018 c 277 § 217.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.295 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.295 - Rights of secured lenders.

RCW 64.90.295 Rights of secured lenders.(1) The declaration may require that all or a specified number or percentage of the lenders who hold security interests encumbering the units or who have extended credit to the association approve specified actions of the unit owners or the association as a condition to the effectiveness of those actions, but no requirement for approval may operate to:(a) Deny or delegate control over the general administrative affairs of the association by the unit owners or the board;(b) Prevent the association or the board from commencing, intervening in, or settling any litigation or proceeding; or(c) Prevent any insurance trustee or the association from receiving and distributing any insurance proceeds except pursuant to RCW 64.90.470.(2) With respect to any action requiring the consent of a specified number or percentage of mortgagees, the consent of only eligible mortgagees holding a first lien security interest need be obtained and the percentage must be based upon the votes attributable to units with respect to which eligible mortgagees have an interest.(3) A lender who has extended credit to an association secured by an assignment of income or an encumbrance on the common elements may enforce its security agreement in accordance with its terms, subject to the requirements of this chapter and other law. A requirement that the association must deposit its periodic common charges before default with the lender to which the association's income has been assigned, or increase its common charges at the lender's direction by amounts reasonably necessary to amortize the loan in accordance with its terms, does not violate the prohibitions on lender approval contained in subsection (1) of this section.[ 2018 c 277 § 220.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.300 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.300 - Master association.

RCW 64.90.300 Master association.(1) If the declaration provides that any of the powers described in RCW 64.90.405 are to be exercised by or may be delegated to a for-profit or nonprofit corporation or limited liability company that exercises those or other powers on behalf of one or more common interest communities or for the benefit of the unit owners of one or more common interest communities, all provisions of this chapter applicable to unit owners associations apply to any such corporation or limited liability company, except as modified by this section.(2) Unless it is acting in the capacity of an association described in RCW 64.90.400, a master association may exercise the powers set forth in RCW 64.90.405(1)(b) only to the extent expressly permitted in the declarations of common interest communities that are part of the master association or expressly described in the delegations of power from those common interest communities to the master association.(3) If the declaration of any common interest community provides that the board may delegate certain powers to a master association, the board is not liable for the acts or omissions of the master association with respect to those powers following delegation.(4) The rights and responsibilities of unit owners with respect to the unit owners' association set forth in RCW 64.90.410, 64.90.445, 64.90.450, 64.90.455, 64.90.465, and 64.90.505 apply in the conduct of the affairs of a master association only to persons who elect the board of a master association, whether or not those persons are otherwise unit owners within the meaning of this chapter.(5) If a master association is also an association described in RCW 64.90.400, the organizational documents of the master association and the declaration of each common interest community, the powers of which are assigned by the declaration or delegated to the master association, may provide that the board of the master association must be elected after the period of declarant control in any of the following ways:(a) All unit owners of all common interest communities subject to the master association may elect all members of the master association's board;(b) All board members of all common interest communities subject to the master association may elect all members of the master association's board;(c) All unit owners of each common interest community subject to the master association may elect specified members of the master association's board; or(d) All board members of each common interest community subject to the master association may elect specified members of the master association's board.[ 2018 c 277 § 221.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.305 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.305 - Delegation of power to subassociations.

RCW 64.90.305 Delegation of power to subassociations.(1)(a) If the declaration provides that any of the powers described in RCW 64.90.405 are to be exercised by or may be delegated to a for-profit corporation or limited liability company that exercises those or other powers on behalf of unit owners owning less than all of the units in a common interest community, and if those unit owners share the exclusive use of one or more limited common elements within the common interest community or share some property or other interest in the common interest community in common that is not shared by the remainder of the unit owners in the common interest community, all provisions of this chapter applicable to unit owners associations apply to any such corporation or limited liability company, except as modified under this section.(b) The delegation of powers to a subassociation must not be used to discriminate in favor of units owned by the declarant or an affiliate of the declarant.(2) A subassociation may exercise the powers set forth in RCW 64.90.405 only to the extent expressly permitted by the declaration of the common interest community of which the units in the subassociation are a part of or expressly described in the delegations of power from that common interest community to the subassociation.(3) If the declaration of any common interest community contains a delegation of certain powers to a subassociation, or provides that the board of the common interest community may make such a delegation, the board members are not liable for the acts or omissions of the subassociation with respect to those powers so exercised by the subassociation following delegation.(4) The rights and responsibilities of unit owners with respect to the unit owners association set forth in RCW 64.90.400 through 64.90.500 apply to the conduct of the affairs of a subassociation.(5) Notwithstanding RCW 64.90.415(4), the board of the subassociation must be elected after any period of declarant control by the unit owners of all of the units in the common interest community subject to the subassociation.(6) The declaration of the common interest community creating the subassociation may provide that the authority of the board of the subassociation is exclusive with regard to the powers and responsibilities delegated to it. In the alternative, the declaration may provide as to some or all such powers that the authority of the board of a subassociation is concurrent with and subject to the authority of the board of the unit owners association, in which case the declaration must also contain standards and procedures for the review of the decisions of the board of the subassociation and procedures for resolving any dispute between the board of the unit owners association and the board of the subassociation.[ 2018 c 277 § 222.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.310 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.310 - Merger or consolidation.

RCW 64.90.310 Merger or consolidation.(1) Any two or more common interest communities of the same form of ownership, by agreement of the unit owners as provided in subsection (2) of this section, may be merged or consolidated into a single common interest community. In the event of a merger or consolidation, unless the agreement otherwise provides, the resultant common interest community is the legal successor, for all purposes, of all of the preexisting common interest communities, and the operations and activities of all associations of the preexisting common interest communities are merged or consolidated into a single association that holds all powers, rights, obligations, assets, and liabilities of all preexisting associations.(2) An agreement of two or more common interest communities to merge or consolidate pursuant to subsection (1) of this section must be evidenced by an agreement prepared, executed, recorded, and certified by the president of the association of each of the preexisting common interest communities following approval by unit owners of units to which are allocated the percentage of votes in each common interest community required to terminate that common interest community. The agreement must be recorded in every county in which a portion of the common interest community is located and is not effective until recorded.(3) Every merger or consolidation agreement, and every amendment providing for a merger or consolidation made by a declarant when exercising a special declarant right, must identify the declaration that will apply to the resultant common interest community and provide for the reallocation of allocated interests among the units of the resultant common interest community either (a) by stating the reallocations or the formulas upon which they are based or (b) by stating the percentage of overall allocated interests of the resultant common interest community that are allocated to all of the units comprising each of the preexisting common interest communities, and providing that the portion of the percentages allocated to each unit formerly comprising a part of the preexisting common interest community is equal to the percentages of allocated interests allocated to that unit by the declaration of the preexisting common interest community.[ 2018 c 277 § 223.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.315 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.315 - Addition of unspecified real estate.

RCW 64.90.315 Addition of unspecified real estate.In a plat community or miscellaneous community, if the right is originally reserved in the declaration, the declarant, in addition to any other development right, may amend the declaration at any time during as many years as are specified in the declaration for adding additional real estate to the plat community or miscellaneous community without describing the location of that real estate in the original declaration. The amount of real estate added to the plat community or miscellaneous community pursuant to this section may not exceed ten percent of the real estate described in RCW 64.90.225(1)(b) together with any real estate that is described in the declaration for addition to the plat community or miscellaneous community, and the declarant may not increase the number of units in the plat community or miscellaneous community beyond the number stated in the original declaration pursuant to RCW 64.90.225(1)(c).[ 2018 c 277 § 224.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.320 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.320 - Large scale communities.

RCW 64.90.320 Large scale communities.(1) The declaration for a common interest community may state that it is a large scale community if the declarant has reserved the development right to create at least five hundred units that may be used for residential purposes and, at the time of the reservation, that declarant owns or controls more than five hundred acres on which the units may be built.(2) If the requirements of subsection (1) of this section are satisfied, the declaration for the large scale community need not state a maximum number of units and need not contain any of the information required under RCW 64.90.225(1) (c) through (n) until the declaration is amended under subsection (3) of this section.(3) When each unit in a large scale community is conveyed to a purchaser, the declaration must contain:(a) A sufficient legal description of the unit and all portions of the large scale community in which any other units have been conveyed to a purchaser; and(b) All the information required under RCW 64.90.225(1) (c) through (n) with respect to that real estate.(4) The only real estate in a large scale community subject to this chapter are units that have been made subject to the declaration or that are being offered for sale and any other real estate described pursuant to subsection (3) of this section. Other real estate that is or may become part of the large scale community is only subject to other law and to any other restrictions and limitations that appear of record.(5) If the public offering statement conspicuously identifies the fact that the community is a large scale community, the disclosure requirements contained in RCW 64.90.600 through 64.90.695 apply only to units that have been made subject to the declaration or are being offered for sale in connection with the public offering statement and to any other real estate described pursuant to subsection (3) of this section.(6) Limitations in this chapter on the addition of unspecified real estate do not apply to a large scale community.(7) The period of declarant control of the association for a large scale community terminates in accordance with any conditions specified in the declaration or otherwise at the time the declarant, in a recorded instrument and after giving notice in a record to the board of the association, voluntarily surrenders all rights to control the activities of the association.[ 2018 c 277 § 225.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.325 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.325 - Judicial termination.

RCW 64.90.325 Judicial termination.(1) If substantially all the units in a common interest community have been destroyed or abandoned or are uninhabitable and the available methods for giving notice under RCW 64.90.515 of a meeting of unit owners to consider termination under RCW 64.90.290 will not likely result in receipt of the notice, the board or any other interested person may commence an action seeking to terminate the common interest community in the superior court for any county in which a portion of the common interest community is located. If any portion of the common interest community is located in a county other than the county in which the action is commenced, the person commencing the action must record a copy of the judgment in the other county.(2) During the pendency of the action, the court may issue whatever orders it considers appropriate, including appointment of a receiver. After a hearing, the court may terminate the common interest community or reduce its size and may issue any other order the court considers to be in the best interest of the unit owners and persons holding an interest in the common interest community.[ 2018 c 277 § 226.]
WA Rev Code § 64.90.400 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 64 - Real Property and Conveyances|Chapter 64.90 - Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.|64.90.400 - Unit owners association—Organization.

RCW 64.90.400 Unit owners association—Organization. (Effective until January 1, 2022.)(1) A unit owners association must be organized no later than the date the first unit in the common interest community is conveyed to a purchaser.(2) The membership of the association at all times consists exclusively of all unit owners or, following termination of the common interest community, of all former unit owners entitled to distributions of proceeds under RCW 64.90.290 or their heirs, successors, or assigns.(3) The association must have a board and be organized as a for-profit or nonprofit corporation or limited liability company.(4) In case of any conflict between Title 23B RCW or chapter 23.86, 24.03, 24.06, or 25.15 RCW and this chapter, this chapter controls.[ 2018 c 277 § 301.]RCW 64.90.400Unit owners association—Organization. (Effective January 1, 2022.)(1) A unit owners association must be organized no later than the date the first unit in the common interest community is conveyed to a purchaser.(2) The membership of the association at all times consists exclusively of all unit owners or, following termination of the common interest community, of all former unit owners entitled to distributions of proceeds under RCW 64.90.290 or their heirs, successors, or assigns.(3) The association must have a board and be organized as a for-profit or nonprofit corporation or limited liability company.(4) In case of any conflict between Title 23B RCW or chapter 23.86, 24.03A, 24.06, or 25.15 RCW and this chapter, this chapter controls.[ 2021 c 176 § 5233; 2018 c 277 § 301.]NOTES:Effective date—2021 c 176: See note following RCW 24.03A.005.