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2023 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 Address
Please print or type information
Document 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.08 - Recording. › 65.08.170 - Notice of additional water or sewer facility tap or connection charges—Required—Contents.

RCW 65.08.170
Notice of additional water or sewer facility tap or connection charges—Required—Contents.
When any municipality as defined in *RCW 35.91.020 or any county has levied or intends to levy a charge on property pertaining to:
(1) The amount required by the provisions of a contract pursuant to RCW 35.91.020 under which the water or sewer facilities so tapped into or used were constructed; or
(2) Any connection charges which are in fact reimbursement for the cost of facilities constructed by the sale of revenue bonds; or
(3) The additional connection charge authorized in RCW 35.92.025;
such municipality or county shall record in the office in which deeds are recorded of the county or counties in which such facility is located a notice of additional tap or connection charges. Such notice shall contain either the legal description of the land affected by such additional tap or connection charges or a map making appropriate references to the United States government survey showing in outline the land affected or to be affected by such additional tap or connection charges.
[ 1977 c 72 § 1.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 35.91.020 was amended by 2013 c 243 § 3, eliminating the definition of "municipality." For later enactment of the definition, see RCW 35.91.015.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.08 - Recording. › 65.08.180 - Notice of additional water or sewer facility tap or connection charges—Duration—Certificate of payment and release.

RCW 65.08.180
Notice of additional water or sewer facility tap or connection charges—Duration—Certificate of payment and release.
The notice required by RCW 65.08.170, when duly recorded, shall be effective until there is recorded in the same office in which the notice was recorded a certificate of payment and release executed by the municipality or county. Such certificate shall contain a legal description of the particular parcel of land so released and shall be recorded within thirty days of the date of payment thereof.
[ 1977 c 72 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.010 - Weekly publication—How made.

RCW 65.16.010
Weekly publication—How made.
The publication of legal notices required by law, or by an order of a judge or court, to be published in a newspaper once in each week for a specified number of weeks, shall be made on the day of each week in which such newspaper is published.
[ 1893 c 127 § 27; RRS § 253.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.020 - Qualifications of legal newspaper.

RCW 65.16.020
Qualifications of legal newspaper.
The qualifications of a legal newspaper are that such newspaper shall have been published regularly, at least once a week, in the English language, as a newspaper of general circulation, in the city or town where the same is published at the time of application for approval, for at least six months prior to the date of such application; shall be compiled either in whole or in part in an office maintained at the place of publication; shall contain news of general interest as contrasted with news of interest primarily to an organization, group or class; shall have a policy to print all statutorily required legal notices; and shall hold a periodical class mailing permit: PROVIDED, That in case of the consolidation of two or more newspapers, such consolidated newspaper shall be considered as qualified if either or any of the papers so consolidated would be a qualified newspaper at the date of such legal publication, had not such consolidation taken place: PROVIDED, That this section shall not disqualify as a legal newspaper any publication which, prior to June 8, 1961, was adjudged a legal newspaper, so long as it continues to meet the requirements under which it qualified.
[ 2001 c 283 § 1; 1961 c 279 § 1; 1941 c 213 § 3; 1921 c 99 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 253-1. Prior: 1917 c 61 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.030 - Affidavit of publication—Presumption.

RCW 65.16.030
Affidavit of publication—Presumption.
All legal and other official notices shall be published in a legal newspaper as herein defined, and the affidavit of publication shall state that the newspaper has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the superior court of the county in which it is published, and shall be prima facie evidence of that fact. Wherever a legal notice, publication, advertisement or other official notice is required to be published by any statute or law of the state of Washington, the proof of such publication shall be the affidavit of the printer, publisher, foreman, principal clerk or business manager of the newspaper which published said notice.
[ 1953 c 233 § 1; 1941 c 213 § 4; 1921 c 99 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 253-2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.040 - Legal publications to be approved—Order of approval.

RCW 65.16.040
Legal publications to be approved—Order of approval.
Sixty days from and after the date *this act becomes effective, a legal newspaper for the publication of any advertisement, notice, summons, report, proceeding, or other official document now or hereafter required by law to be published, shall be a newspaper which has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the superior court of the county in which such newspaper is published. Such order may be entered without notice upon presentation of a petition by or on behalf of the publisher, setting forth the qualifications of the newspaper as required by *this act, and upon evidence satisfactory to the court that such newspaper is so qualified.
[ 1941 c 213 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 253a.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: (1) The language "this act" appears in 1941 c 213 codified as RCW 65.16.020 through 65.16.080.
(2) The effective date of this act is midnight June 11, 1941; see preface 1941 session laws.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.050 - Revocation of approval—Notice.

RCW 65.16.050
Revocation of approval—Notice.
An order of approval of a newspaper shall remain effective from the time of the entry thereof until the approval be terminated by a subsequent order of the court, which may be done whenever it shall be brought to the attention of the court that the newspaper is no longer qualified as a legal newspaper, and after notice of hearing issued by the clerk and served upon the publisher, at least ten days prior to the date of hearing, by delivering a copy of such notice to the person in charge of the business office of the publisher, or if the publisher has no business office at the time of service, by mailing a copy of such notice addressed to the publisher at the place of publication alleged in the petition for approval.
[ 1941 c 213 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 253b.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.060 - Choice of newspapers.

RCW 65.16.060
Choice of newspapers.
Any summons, citation, notice of sheriff's sale, or legal advertisement of any description, the publication of which is now or may be hereafter required by law, may be published in any daily or weekly legal newspaper published in the county where the action, suit or other proceeding is pending, or is to be commenced or had, or in which such notice, summons, citation, or other legal advertisement is required to be given: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That if there be more than one legal newspaper in which any such legal notice, summons, citation or legal advertisement might lawfully be published, then the plaintiff or moving party in the action, suit or proceeding shall have the exclusive right to designate in which of such qualified newspapers such legal notice, summons, citation, notice of sheriff's sale or other legal advertisement shall be published.
[ 1941 c 213 § 6; 1921 c 99 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 253-5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.070 - List posted in clerk's office.

RCW 65.16.070
List posted in clerk's office.
Publications commenced in a legal newspaper, *when this act takes effect, may be completed in that newspaper notwithstanding any failure to obtain an order of approval under *this act, and notwithstanding an order of termination of approval prior to completion of publication. The clerk of the superior court of each county shall post and keep posted in a prominent place in his or her office a list of the newspapers published in that county which are approved as legal newspapers.
[ 2012 c 117 § 263; 1941 c 213 § 7; RRS § 253-5a.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: "this act," "when this act takes effect," see note following RCW 65.16.040.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.080 - Scope of provisions.

RCW 65.16.080
Scope of provisions.
The provisions of *this act shall not apply in counties where no newspaper has been published for a period of one year prior to the publication of such legal or other official notices.
[ 1941 c 213 § 5; 1921 c 99 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 253-3.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: "this act," see note following RCW 65.16.040.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.091 - Rates for legal notices.

RCW 65.16.091
Rates for legal notices.
The rate charged by a newspaper for legal notices shall not exceed the national advertising rate extended by the newspaper to all general advertisers and advertising agencies in its published rate card.
[ 1977 c 34 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.095 - Rates for political candidates.

RCW 65.16.095
Rates for political candidates.
The rate charged by a newspaper for advertising in relation to candidates for political office shall not exceed the national advertising rate extended to all general advertisers and advertising agencies in its published rate card.
[ 1955 c 186 § 2.]
NOTES:
Severability—1955 c 186: "If any section of this act shall be found unconstitutional it shall not invalidate the remaining section." [ 1955 c 186 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.100 - Omissions for Sundays and holidays.

RCW 65.16.100
Omissions for Sundays and holidays.
Where any law or ordinance of any incorporated city or town in this state provides for the publication of any form of notice or advertisement for consecutive days in a daily newspaper, the publication of such notice on legal holidays and Sundays may be omitted without in any manner affecting the legality of such notice or advertisement: PROVIDED, That the publication of the required number of notices is complied with.
[ 1921 c 99 § 6; RRS § 253-6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.110 - Affidavit to cover payment of fees.

RCW 65.16.110
Affidavit to cover payment of fees.
The affidavit of publication of all notices required by law to be published shall state the full amount of the fee charged for such publication and that the fee has been paid in full.
[ 1921 c 99 § 7; RRS § 253-7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.120 - Payment of fees in advance, on demand.

RCW 65.16.120
Payment of fees in advance, on demand.
When, by law, any publication is required to be made by an officer of any suit, process, notice, order or other papers, the costs of such publication shall, if demanded, be tendered by the party procuring such publication before such officer shall be compelled to make publication thereof.
[Code 1881 § 2092; 1869 p 373 § 14; RRS § 504.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.130 - Publication of official notices by radio or television—Restrictions.

RCW 65.16.130
Publication of official notices by radio or television—Restrictions.
Any official of the state or any of its political subdivisions who is required by law to publish any notice required by law may supplement publication thereof by radio or television broadcast or both when, in his or her judgment, the public interest will be served thereby: PROVIDED, That the time, place, and nature of such notice only be read or shown with no reference to any person by name then a candidate for political office, and that notices by political subdivisions may be made only by stations whose signal is received within the county of origin of the legal notice.
[ 2007 c 103 § 1; 1961 c 85 § 1; 1951 c 119 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.150 - Proof of publication by radio or television.

RCW 65.16.150
Proof of publication by radio or television.
Written documentation of proof of publication of legal notice or notice of event must be provided by the radio or television station broadcasting the notice.
[ 2007 c 103 § 2; 1961 c 85 § 3; 1951 c 119 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.16 - Legal Publications. › 65.16.160 - Publication of ordinances.

RCW 65.16.160
Publication of ordinances.
(1) Whenever any county is required by law to publish legal notices containing the full text of any proposed or adopted ordinance in a newspaper, the county may publish a summary of the ordinance which summary shall be approved by the governing body and which shall include:
(a) The name of the county;
(b) The formal identification or citation number of the ordinance;
(c) A descriptive title;
(d) A section-by-section summary;
(e) Any other information which the county finds is necessary to provide a complete summary; and
(f) A statement that the full text will be mailed upon request.
Publication of the title of an ordinance by a county authorizing the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness shall constitute publication of a complete summary of that ordinance, and a section-by-section summary shall not be required.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section notwithstanding, whenever any publication is made under this section and the proposed or adopted ordinance contains provisions regarding taxation or penalties or contains legal descriptions of real property, then the sections containing this matter shall be published in full and shall not be summarized. When a legal description of real property is involved, the notice shall also include the street address or addresses of the property described, if any. In the case of descriptions covering more than one street address, the street addresses of the four corners of the area described shall meet this requirement.
(3) The full text of any ordinance which is summarized by publication under this section shall be mailed without charge to any person who requests the text from the adopting county.
[ 1995 c 157 § 1; 1994 c 273 § 19; 1977 c 34 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.20 - Classification of Manufactured Homes. › 65.20.010 - Purpose.

RCW 65.20.010
Purpose.
The legislature recognizes that confusion exists regarding the classification of manufactured homes as personal or real property. This confusion is increased because manufactured homes are treated as vehicles in some parts of state statutes, however these homes are often used as residences to house persons residing in the state of Washington. This results in a variety of problems, including: (1) Creating confusion as to the creation, perfection, and priority of security interests in manufactured homes; (2) making it more difficult and expensive to obtain financing and title insurance; (3) making it more difficult to utilize manufactured homes as an affordable housing option; and (4) increasing the risk of problems for and losses to the consumer. Therefore the purpose of this chapter is to clarify the type of property manufactured homes are, particularly relating to security interests, and to provide a statutory process to make the manufactured home real property by eliminating the title to a manufactured home when the home is affixed to land owned by the homeowner.
[ 1989 c 343 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.20 - Classification of Manufactured Homes. › 65.20.020 - Definitions.

RCW 65.20.020
Definitions.
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Affixed" means that the manufactured home is installed in accordance with the installation standards in state law.
(2) "Department" means the department of licensing.
(3) "Eliminating the title" means to cancel an existing certificate of title issued by this state or a foreign jurisdiction or to waive the certificate of title required in chapter 46.12 RCW and recording the appropriate documents in the county real property records pursuant to this chapter.
(4) "Homeowner" means the owner of a manufactured home.
(5) "Land" means real property excluding the manufactured home.
(6) "Manufactured home" or "mobile home" means a structure, designed and constructed to be transportable in one or more sections and is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities that include plumbing, heating, and electrical systems contained therein. The structure must comply with the national mobile home construction and safety standards act of 1974 as adopted by chapter 43.22 RCW if applicable. "Manufactured home" does not include a modular home. A structure which met the definition of a "manufactured home" at the time of manufacture is still considered to meet this definition notwithstanding that it is no longer transportable.
(7) "Owner" means, when referring to a manufactured home that is titled, the person who is the registered owner. When referring to a mobile home that is untitled pursuant to this chapter, the owner is the person who owns the land. When referring to land, the person may have fee simple title, have a leasehold estate of thirty-five years or more, or be purchasing the property on a real estate contract. Owners include joint tenants, tenants in common, holders of legal life estates, and holders of remainder interests.
(8) "Person" means any individual, trustee, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity. "Person" may refer to more than one individual or entity.
(9) "Secured party" means the legal owner when referring to a titled mobile home, or the lender securing a loan through a mortgage, deed of trust, or real estate contract when referring to land or land containing an untitled manufactured home pursuant to this chapter.
(10) "Security interest" means an interest in property to secure payment of a loan made by a secured party to a borrower.
(11) "Title" or "titled" means a certificate of title issued pursuant to chapter 46.12 RCW.
[ 2010 c 161 § 1154; 1989 c 343 § 2.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Intent—Legislation to reconcile chapter 161, Laws of 2010 and other amendments made during the 2010 legislative session—2010 c 161: See notes following RCW 46.04.013.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.20 - Classification of Manufactured Homes. › 65.20.030 - Clarification of type of property and perfection of security interests.

RCW 65.20.030
Clarification of type of property and perfection of security interests.
When a manufactured home is sold or transferred on or after March 1, 1990, and when all ownership in the manufactured home is transferred through the sale or other transfer of the manufactured home to new owners, the manufactured home shall be real property when the new owners eliminate the title pursuant to this chapter. The manufactured home shall not be real property in any form, including fixture law, unless the title is eliminated under this chapter. Where any person who owned a used manufactured home on March 1, 1990, continues to own the manufactured home on or after March 1, 1990, the interests and rights of owners, secured parties, lienholders, and others in the manufactured home shall be based on the law prior to March 1, 1990, except where the owner voluntarily eliminates the title to the manufactured home by complying with this chapter. If the title to the manufactured home is eliminated under this chapter, the manufactured home shall be treated the same as a site-built structure and ownership shall be based on ownership of the real property through real property law. If the title to the manufactured home has not been eliminated under this chapter, ownership shall be based on chapter 46.12 RCW.
For purposes of perfecting and realizing upon security interests, manufactured homes shall always be treated as follows: (1) If the title has not been eliminated under this chapter, security interests in the manufactured home shall be perfected only under chapter 62A.9A RCW in the case of a manufactured home held as inventory by a manufacturer or dealer or chapter 46.12 RCW in all other cases, and the lien shall be treated as securing personal property for purposes of realizing upon the security interest; or (2) if the title has been eliminated under this chapter, a separate security interest in the manufactured home shall not exist, and the manufactured home shall only be secured as part of the real property through a mortgage, deed of trust, or real estate contract.
[2000 c 250 § 9A-836; 1989 c 343 § 3.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2000 c 250: See RCW 62A.9A-701.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 65 - Recording, Registration, and Legal Publication › Chapter 65.20 - Classification of Manufactured Homes. › 65.20.040 - Elimination of title—Application.

RCW 65.20.040
Elimination of title—Application.
If a manufactured home is affixed to land that is owned by the homeowner, the homeowner may apply to the department to have the title to the manufactured home eliminated. The application package shall consist of the following:
(1) An affidavit, in the form prescribed by the department, signed by all the owners of the manufactured home and containing:
(a) The date;
(b) The names of all of the owners of record of the manufactured home;
(c) The legal description of the real property;
(d) A description of the manufactured home including model year, make, width, length, and vehicle identification number;
(e) The names of all secured parties in the manufactured home; and
(f) A statement that the owner of the manufactured home owns the real property to which it is affixed;
(2) Certificate of title for the manufactured home, or the manufacturer's statement of origin in the case of a new manufactured home. Where title is held by the secured party as legal owner, the consent of the secured party must be indicated by the legal owner releasing his or her security interest;
(3) A certification by the local government indicating that the manufactured home is affixed to the land;
(4) Payment of all vehicle license fees, excise tax, use tax, real estate tax, recording fees, and proof of payment of all property taxes then due; and
(5) Any other information the department may require.
[ 2010 c 161 § 1155; 1989 c 343 § 4.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Intent—Legislation to reconcile chapter 161, Laws of 2010 and other amendments made during the 2010 legislative session—2010 c 161: See notes following RCW 46.04.013.