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WA Rev Code § 65.04.047 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.047 - Recorded instruments—Cover sheet—When required—Form.

RCW 65.04.047 Recorded instruments—Cover sheet—When required—Form.(1) If the first page of an instrument presented for recording does not contain the information required by RCW 65.04.045(1), the person preparing the instrument for recording shall prepare a cover sheet that contains the required information. The cover sheet shall be attached to the instrument and shall be recorded as a part of the instrument. An additional page fee as determined under RCW 36.18.010 shall be collected for recording of the cover sheet. Any errors in the cover sheet shall not affect the transactions contained in the instrument itself. The cover sheet need not be separately signed or acknowledged. The cover sheet information shall be used to generate the auditor's grantor/grantee index, however, the names and legal description in the instrument itself will determine the legal chain of title. The cover sheet shall be substantially the following form:Return AddressPlease print or type informationDocument Title(s) (or transactions contained therein):1.2.3.4.Grantor(s) (Last name first, then first name and initials)1.2.3.4.5. □ Additional names on page     of document.Grantee(s) (Last name first, then first name and initials)1.2.3.4.5. □ Additional names on page     of document.Legal Description (abbreviated: i.e., lot, block, plat or section, township, range)□ Additional legal description is on page     of document.Assessor's Property Tax Parcel or Account Number at the time of recording:Reference Number(s) of Documents assigned or released:□ Additional references on page     of document.The Auditor or Recording Officer will rely on the information provided on this form. The staff will not read the document to verify the accuracy of or the completeness of the indexing information provided herein.(2) Documents which are exempt from format requirements and which may be recorded with a properly completed cover sheet include: Documents which were signed prior to January 1, 1997; military separation documents; documents executed outside of the United States; certified copies of documents; any birth or death certificate; marriage certificates from outside the state of Washington; any document, one of whose original signer is deceased or otherwise incapacitated; and judgments or other documents formatted to meet court requirements.[ 1999 c 233 § 13; 1998 c 27 § 2; 1996 c 143 § 3.]NOTES:Effective date—1999 c 233: See note following RCW 4.28.320.Effective date—1996 c 143: See note following RCW 36.18.010.
WA Rev Code § 65.04.048 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.048 - Additional fee for certain documents not meeting requirements—Signed statement.

RCW 65.04.048 Additional fee for certain documents not meeting requirements—Signed statement.(1) Documents which must be recorded immediately and which do not meet margin and font size requirements may be recorded for an additional fee of fifty dollars. Documents which do not meet legibility requirements must not be recorded as a nonstandard recording.(2) In addition to preparing a properly completed cover sheet as described in RCW 65.04.047, the person preparing the document for recording must sign a statement which must be attached to the document and which must read substantially as follows: "I am requesting an emergency nonstandard recording for an additional fee as provided in RCW 36.18.010. I understand that the recording processing requirements may cover up or otherwise obscure some part of the text of the original document."[ 1999 c 233 § 14.]NOTES:Effective date—1999 c 233: See note following RCW 4.28.320.
WA Rev Code § 65.04.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.060 - Record when lien is discharged.

RCW 65.04.060 Record when lien is discharged.Whenever any mortgage, bond, lien, or instrument incumbering real estate, has been satisfied, released or discharged, by the recording of an instrument of release, or acknowledgment of satisfaction, the auditor shall immediately note, in the comment section of the index, the recording number of the original mortgage, bond, lien, or instrument.[ 1999 c 233 § 15; 1985 c 44 § 17; Code 1881 § 2729; 1869 p 315 § 25; RRS § 10604.]NOTES:Effective date—1999 c 233: See note following RCW 4.28.320.
WA Rev Code § 65.04.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.070 - Recording judgments affecting real property.

RCW 65.04.070 Recording judgments affecting real property.The auditor must file and record with the record of deeds, grants, and transfers certified copies of final judgments or decrees partitioning or affecting the title or possession of real property, any part of which is situated in the county of which he or she is recorder. Every such certified copy or partition, from the time of filing the same with the auditor for record, imparts notice to all persons of the contents thereof, and subsequent purchasers, mortgagees, and lienholders purchase and take with like notice and effect as if such copy or decree was a duly recorded deed, grant, or transfer.[ 2012 c 117 § 205; Code 1881 § 2730; RRS § 10605.]
WA Rev Code § 65.04.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.080 - Entries when instruments offered for record—Content restrictions.

RCW 65.04.080 Entries when instruments offered for record—Content restrictions.(1) When any instrument, paper, or notice, authorized or required by law to be filed or recorded, is deposited in or electronically transmitted to the county auditor's office for filing or record, that officer must indorse upon the same the time when it was received, noting the year, month, day, hour and minute of its reception, and note that the document was received by electronic transmission, and must file, or file and record the same without delay, together with the acknowledgments, proofs, and certificates written or printed upon or annexed to the same, with the plats, surveys, schedules and other papers thereto annexed, in the order and as of the time when the same was received for filing or record, and must note on the instrument filed, or at the foot of the record the exact time of its reception, and the name of the person at whose request it was filed or filed and recorded. However, the county auditor shall not be required to accept for filing, or filing and recording, any instrument unless there appear upon the face thereof, the name and nature of the instrument offered for filing, or filing and recording, as the case may be.(2) When any instrument, except those generated by governmental agencies, is presented to a county auditor or recording officer for recording, the document may not contain the following information: (a) A social security number; (b) a date of birth identified with a particular person; or (c) the maiden name of a person's parent so as to be identified with a particular person.[ 2005 c 134 § 2; 1996 c 229 § 4; 1985 c 44 § 18; 1927 c 187 § 1; Code 1881 § 2731; 1869 p 313 § 19; RRS § 10606.]
WA Rev Code § 65.04.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.090 - Further endorsements—Delivery.

RCW 65.04.090 Further endorsements—Delivery.The recording officer must also endorse upon such an instrument, paper, or notice, the time when and the book and page in which it is recorded, and must thereafter either electronically transmit or deliver it to the party leaving the same for record or to the address on the face of the document.[ 2003 c 239 § 1; 1996 c 229 § 5; Code 1881 § 2732; RRS § 10607.]
WA Rev Code § 65.04.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.110 - Liability of auditor for damages.

RCW 65.04.110 Liability of auditor for damages.If any county auditor to whom an instrument, proved or acknowledged according to law, or any paper or notice which may by law be recorded is delivered or electronically transmitted for record: (1) Neglects or refuses to record such instrument, paper or notice, within a reasonable time after receiving the same; or (2) records any instruments, papers or notices untruly, or in any other manner than as directed in this chapter; or, (3) neglects or refuses to keep in his or her office such indexes as are required by *this act, or to make the proper entries therein; or, (4) neglects or refuses to make the searches and to give the certificate required by *this act; or if such searches or certificate are incomplete and defective in any important particular affecting the property in respect to which the search is requested; or, (5) alters, changes, or obliterates any records deposited in his or her office, or inserts any new matter therein; he or she is liable to the party aggrieved for the amount of damage which may be occasioned thereby. However, if the name or names and address hand printed, printed, or typewritten on any instrument, proved or acknowledged according to law, or on any paper or notice which may by law be filed or recorded, is or are incorrect, or misspelled or not the true name or names of the party or parties appearing thereon, the county auditor shall not, by reason of such fact, be liable for any loss or damage resulting therefrom.[ 1996 c 229 § 6; 1965 c 134 § 1; Code 1881 § 2734; RRS § 10609.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: The language "this act" appears in Code 1881 c 211, codified herein as RCW 5.44.070, 36.16.030 through 36.16.050, 36.16.070, 36.16.080, 36.22.110 through 36.22.130, 36.22.150, 65.04.020, 65.04.030, 65.04.050 through 65.04.110, 65.04.130, and 65.04.140.
WA Rev Code § 65.04.115 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.115 - Names on documents, etc., to be printed or typewritten—Indexing.

RCW 65.04.115 Names on documents, etc., to be printed or typewritten—Indexing.The name or names appearing on all documents or instruments, proved or acknowledged according to law, or on any paper which may by law be filed or recorded shall be hand printed, printed or typewritten so as to be legible and the county auditor shall index said documents and instruments in accordance with the hand printed, printed or typewritten name or names appearing thereon.[ 1965 c 134 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 65.04.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.130 - Fees to be paid or tendered.

RCW 65.04.130 Fees to be paid or tendered.Said county auditor is not bound to record any instrument, or file any paper or notice, or furnish any copies, or to render any service connected with his or her office, until his or her fees for the same, as prescribed by law, are if demanded paid or tendered.[ 2012 c 117 § 206; Code 1881 § 2735; RRS § 10610.]
WA Rev Code § 65.04.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.04 - Duties of County Auditor.|65.04.140 - Auditor as custodian of records.

RCW 65.04.140 Auditor as custodian of records.The county auditor in his or her capacity of recorder of deeds is sole custodian of all books in which are recorded deeds, mortgages, judgments, liens, incumbrances, and other instruments of writing, indexes thereto, maps, charts, town plats, survey and other books and papers constituting the records and files in said office of recorder of deeds, and all such records and files are, and shall be, matters of public information, free of charge to any and all persons demanding to inspect or to examine the same, or to search the same for titles of property. It is said recorder's duty to arrange in suitable places the indexes of said books of record, and when practicable, the record books themselves, to the end that the same may be accessible to the public and convenient for said public inspection, examination, and search, and not interfere with the said auditor's personal control and responsibility for the same, or prevent him or her from promptly furnishing the said records and files of his or her said office to persons demanding any information from the same. The said auditor or recorder must and shall, upon demand, and without charge, freely permit any and all persons, during reasonable office hours, to inspect, examine, and search any or all of the records and files of his or her said office, and to gather any information therefrom, and to make any desired notes or memoranda about or concerning the same, and to prepare an abstract or abstracts of title to any and all property therein contained. The county auditor has fulfilled this obligation regarding those records that can be accessed by the public on the county auditor's website.[ 2021 c 122 § 7; 2012 c 117 § 207; 1886 p 163 § 1; 1883 p 34 § 1; Code 1881 § 2736; RRS § 10611.]NOTES:Finding—Intent—2021 c 122: See note following RCW 2.32.050.
WA Rev Code § 65.08.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.030 - Recorded irregular instrument imparts notice.

RCW 65.08.030 Recorded irregular instrument imparts notice.(1) An instrument in writing purporting to convey or encumber real estate or any interest therein, which has been recorded in the auditor's office of the county in which the real estate is situated, although the instrument may not have been executed and acknowledged in accordance with the law in force at the time of its execution, shall impart the same notice to third persons, from the date of recording, as if the instrument had been executed, acknowledged, and recorded, in accordance with the laws regulating the execution, acknowledgment, and recording of the instrument then in force.(2) A tangible copy of an electronic record purporting to convey or encumber real estate or any interest therein, which has been recorded in the auditor's office of the county in which the real estate is situated, although the tangible copy may not have been certified by a notarial officer in accordance with RCW 42.45.020(3), imparts the same notice to third persons, from the date of recording, as if the tangible copy had been so certified.[ 2019 c 154 § 8; 1953 c 115 § 1. Prior: 1929 c 33 § 8; RRS § 10599.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 154: See note following RCW 42.45.280.
WA Rev Code § 65.08.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.050 - Recording land office receipts.

RCW 65.08.050 Recording land office receipts.Every cash or final receipt from any receiver, and every cash or final certificate from any register of the United States land office, evidencing that final payment has been made to the United States as required by law, or that the person named in such certificate is entitled, on presentation thereof, to a patent from the United States for land within the state of Washington, shall be recorded by the county auditor of the county wherein such land lies, on request of any party presenting the same, and any record heretofore made of any such cash or final receipt or certificate shall, from the date when this section becomes a law, and every record hereafter made of any such receipt or certificate shall, from the date of recording, impart to third persons and all the world, full notice of all the rights and equities of the person named in said cash or final receipt or certificate in the land described in such receipt or certificate.[ 1890 p 92 § 1; RRS § 10613.]
WA Rev Code § 65.08.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.060 - Terms defined.

RCW 65.08.060 Terms defined.(1) The term "real property" as used in RCW 65.08.060 through 65.08.150 includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and chattels real and mortgage liens thereon except a leasehold for a term not exceeding two years.(2) The term "purchaser" includes every person to whom any estate or interest in real property is conveyed for a valuable consideration and every assignee of a mortgage, lease or other conditional estate.(3) The term "conveyance" includes every written instrument by which any estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, mortgaged or assigned or by which the title to any real property may be affected, including an instrument in execution of a power, although the power be one of revocation only, and an instrument releasing in whole or in part, postponing or subordinating a mortgage or other lien; except a will, a lease for a term of not exceeding two years, and an instrument granting a power to convey real property as the agent or attorney for the owner of the property. "To convey" is to execute a "conveyance" as defined in this subdivision.(4) The term "recording officer" means the county auditor or, in charter counties, the county official charged with the responsibility for recording instruments in the county records.[ 1999 c 233 § 16; 1984 c 73 § 1; 1927 c 278 § 1; RRS § 10596-1.]NOTES:Effective date—1999 c 233: See note following RCW 4.28.320.
WA Rev Code § 65.08.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.070 - Real property conveyances to be recorded.

RCW 65.08.070 Real property conveyances to be recorded.(1) A conveyance of real property, when acknowledged by the person executing the same (the acknowledgment being certified as required by law), may be recorded in the office of the recording officer of the county where the property is situated. Every such conveyance not so recorded is void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee in good faith and for a valuable consideration from the same vendor, his or her heirs or devisees, of the same real property or any portion thereof whose conveyance is first duly recorded. An instrument is deemed recorded the minute it is filed for record.(2) A recording officer as defined in RCW 65.08.060(4) may accept for recording under this section a tangible copy of an electronic record containing a notarial certificate as satisfying any requirement that a record accepted for recording be an original, if the notarial officer executing the notarial certificate certifies that the tangible copy is an accurate copy of the electronic record under RCW 42.45.020(3).[ 2019 c 154 § 9; 2012 c 117 § 208; 1927 c 278 § 2; RRS § 10596-2. Prior: 1897 c 5 § 1; Code 1881 § 2314; 1877 p 312 § 4; 1873 p 465 § 4; 1863 p 430 § 4; 1860 p 299 § 4; 1858 p 28 § 1; 1854 p 403 § 4.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 154: See note following RCW 42.45.280.RCW 65.08.070 applicable to rents and profits of real property: RCW 7.28.230.
WA Rev Code § 65.08.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.090 - Letters patent.

RCW 65.08.090 Letters patent.Letters patent from the United States or the state of Washington granting real property may be recorded in the office of the recording officer of the county where such property is situated in the same manner and with like effect as a conveyance that is entitled to be recorded.[ 1927 c 278 § 4; RRS § 10596-4.]
WA Rev Code § 65.08.095 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.095 - Conveyances of fee title by public bodies.

RCW 65.08.095 Conveyances of fee title by public bodies.Every conveyance of fee title to real property hereafter executed by the state or by any political subdivision or municipal corporation thereof shall be recorded by the grantor, after having been reviewed as to form by the grantee, at the expense of the grantee at the time of delivery to the grantee, and shall constitute legal delivery at the time of filing for record.[ 1963 c 49 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 65.08.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.100 - Certified copies.

RCW 65.08.100 Certified copies.A copy of a conveyance of or other instrument affecting real property recorded or filed in the office of the secretary of state or the commissioner of public lands, or of the record thereof, when certified in the manner required to entitle the same to be read in evidence, may be recorded with the certificate in the office of any recording officer of the state.[ 1927 c 278 § 5; RRS § 10596-5.]
WA Rev Code § 65.08.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.110 - Certified copies—Effect.

RCW 65.08.110 Certified copies—Effect.A copy of a record, when certified or authenticated to entitle it to be read in evidence, may be recorded in any office where the original instrument would be entitled to be recorded. Such record has the same effect as if the original were so recorded. A copy of the record of a conveyance of or other instrument affecting separate parcels of real property situated in more than one county, when certified or authenticated to entitle it to be read in evidence may be recorded in the office of the recording officer of any county in which any such parcel is situated with the same effect as though the original instrument were so recorded.[ 1927 c 278 § 6; RRS § 10596-6.]
WA Rev Code § 65.08.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.120 - Assignment of mortgage—Notice.

RCW 65.08.120 Assignment of mortgage—Notice.The recording of an assignment of a mortgage is not in itself notice to the mortgagor, his or her heirs, assigns or personal representatives, to invalidate a payment made by any of them to a prior holder of the mortgage.[ 2012 c 117 § 209; 1927 c 278 § 7; RRS § 10596-7.]
WA Rev Code § 65.08.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.130 - Revocation of power of attorney.

RCW 65.08.130 Revocation of power of attorney.A power of attorney or other instrument recorded pursuant to RCW 65.08.060 through 65.08.150 is not deemed revoked by any act of the party by whom it was executed unless the instrument of revocation is also recorded in the same office in which the instrument granting the power was recorded.[ 1927 c 278 § 8; RRS § 10596-8.]
WA Rev Code § 65.08.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.140 - No liability for error in recording when properly indexed.

RCW 65.08.140 No liability for error in recording when properly indexed.A recording officer is not liable for recording an instrument in a wrong book, volume or set of records if the instrument is properly indexed with a reference to the volume and page or recording number where the instrument is actually of record.[ 1999 c 233 § 17; 1927 c 278 § 9; RRS § 10596-9. Formerly RCW 65.04.120.]NOTES:Effective date—1999 c 233: See note following RCW 4.28.320.
WA Rev Code § 65.08.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication|Chapter 65.08 - Recording.|65.08.150 - Duty to record.

RCW 65.08.150 Duty to record.A recording officer, upon payment or tender to him or her of the lawful fees therefor, shall record in his or her office any instrument authorized or permitted to be so recorded by the laws of this state or by the laws of the United States.[ 2012 c 117 § 210; 1943 c 23 § 1; 1927 c 278 § 10; RRS § 10596-10. Formerly RCW 65.04.010.]