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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.04 - Boundaries. › 58.04.040 - Proceedings, conduct of—Costs.

RCW 58.04.040
Proceedings, conduct of—Costs.
The proceedings shall be conducted as other civil actions, and the court, on final decree, shall apportion the costs of the proceedings equitably, and the cost so apportioned, shall be a lien upon the said lands, severally, as against any transfer or incumbrance made of, or attaching to said lands, from the time of the filing of the complaint: PROVIDED, A notice of lis pendens, is filed in the auditor's office of the proper county, in accordance with law.
[ 1886 p 105 § 3; RRS § 949.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.08 - Plats—Recording. › 58.08.010 - Town plat to be recorded—Requisites.

RCW 58.08.010
Town plat to be recorded—Requisites.
Any person or persons, who may hereafter lay off any town within this state, shall, previous to the sale of any lots within such town, cause to be recorded in the recorder's office of the county wherein the same may lie, a plat of said town, with the public grounds, (if any there be,) streets, lanes and alleys, with their respective widths properly marked, and the lots regularly numbered, and the size stated on said plat.
[Code 1881 § 2328; 1862 p 431 § 1; 1857 p 25 § 1; RRS § 9288.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.08 - Plats—Recording. › 58.08.015 - Effect of donation marked on plat.

RCW 58.08.015
Effect of donation marked on plat.
Every donation or grant to the public, or to any individual or individuals, religious society or societies, or to any corporation or body politic, marked or noted as such on the plat of the town, or wherein such donation or grant may have been made, shall be considered, to all intents and purposes, as a quitclaim deed to the said donee or donees, grantee or grantees, for his, her or their use, for the purposes intended by the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, as aforesaid.
[Code 1881 § 2329; 1862 p 431 § 2; 1857 p 26 § 2; RRS § 9310. Formerly RCW 58.08.060.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.08 - Plats—Recording. › 58.08.020 - Additions.

RCW 58.08.020
Additions.
Every person hereinafter laying off any lots in addition to any town, shall, previous to the sale of such lots, have the same recorded under the like regulations as are provided for recording the original plat of said town, and thereafter the same shall be considered an addition thereto.
[Code 1881 § 2330; 1862 p 431 § 3; 1857 p 26 § 3; RRS § 9289.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.08 - Plats—Recording. › 58.08.030 - Plats to be acknowledged—Certificate that taxes and assessments are paid.

RCW 58.08.030
Plats to be acknowledged—Certificate that taxes and assessments are paid.
Every person whose duty it may be to comply with the foregoing regulations shall at or before the time of offering such plat for record, acknowledge the same before the auditor of the proper county, or any other officer who is authorized by law to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate of which acknowledgment shall be indorsed on or annexed to such plat and recorded therewith. In all cases where any person or persons, corporation or corporations shall desire to file a plat, map, subdivision or replat of any property or shall desire to vacate the whole or any portion of any existing plat, map, subdivision or replat, such person or persons, corporation or corporations must, at the time of filing the same for record or of filing a petition for vacation thereof, file therewith a certificate from the proper officer or officers who may be in charge of the collection of taxes for which the property affected may be liable at that date, that all taxes which have been levied and become chargeable against such property at such date have been duly paid, satisfied and discharged and must file therewith a certificate from the proper officer or officers, who may be in charge of the collections, that all delinquent assessments for which the property affected may be liable at that date and that all special assessments assessed against said property, which, under the plat filed, become streets, alleys and other public places, have been paid.
[ 1927 c 188 § 1; 1893 c 129 § 1; Code 1881 § 2331; 1862 p 431 § 4; 1857 p 26 § 4; RRS § 9290.]
NOTES:
Acknowledgments: Chapter 64.08 RCW.
Taxes collected by treasurer—Dates of delinquency: RCW 84.56.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.08 - Plats—Recording. › 58.08.035 - Platted streets, public highways—Lack of compliance, penalty.

RCW 58.08.035
Platted streets, public highways—Lack of compliance, penalty.
All streets, lanes, and alleys, laid off and recorded in accordance with *the foregoing provisions, shall be considered, to all intents and purposes, public highways, and any person who may lay off any town or any addition to any town in this state, and neglect or refuse to comply with the requisitions aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for the use of said town, for every month he or she may delay a compliance with the provisions of this chapter, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars, to be recovered by civil action, in the name of the treasurer of the county.
[ 2010 c 8 § 18001; Code 1881 § 2332; 1862 p 431 § 5; 1857 p 26 § 5; no RRS.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: "the foregoing provisions" refer to earlier sections of chapter 178, Code of 1881 codified (as amended) in RCW 58.08.010 through 58.08.030.
Platted streets as public highways: RCW 58.08.050.
Regulation of surveys and plats: RCW 58.10.040.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.08 - Plats—Recording. › 58.08.050 - Official plat—Platted streets as public highways.

RCW 58.08.050
Official plat—Platted streets as public highways.
Whenever any city or town has been surveyed and platted and a plat thereof showing the roads, streets and alleys has been filed in the office of the auditor of the county in which such city or town is located, such plat shall be deemed the official plat of such city, or town, and all roads, streets and alleys in such city or town as shown by such plat, be and the same are declared public highways: PROVIDING, That nothing herein shall apply to any part of a city or town that has been vacated according to law.
[Code 1881 § 3049; 1877 p 314 § 1; RRS § 9292.]
NOTES:
Platted streets, public highways—Lack of compliance, penalty: RCW 58.08.035.
Streets and alleys over first-class tidelands—Control of: RCW 35.21.250.
Streets over tidelands declared public highways: RCW 35.21.230.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.010 - Purpose—Short title.

RCW 58.09.010
Purpose—Short title.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a method for preserving evidence of land surveys by establishing standards and procedures for monumenting and for recording a public record of the surveys. Its provisions shall be deemed supplementary to existing laws relating to surveys, subdivisions, platting, and boundaries.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Survey Recording Act".
[ 1973 c 50 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.020 - Definitions.

RCW 58.09.020
Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Land surveyor" shall mean every person authorized to practice the profession of land surveying under the provisions of chapter 18.43 RCW, as now or hereafter amended.
(2) "*Washington coordinate system" shall mean that system of plane coordinates as established and designated by chapter 58.20 RCW.
(3) "Survey" shall mean the locating and monumenting in accordance with sound principles of land surveying by or under the supervision of a licensed land surveyor, of points or lines which define the exterior boundary or boundaries common to two or more ownerships or which reestablish or restore general land office corners.
[ 1973 c 50 § 2.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The "Washington coordinate system" was renamed the "Washington plane coordinate system" by 2020 c 50.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.030 - Compliance with chapter required.

RCW 58.09.030
Compliance with chapter required.
Any land surveyor engaged in the practice of land surveying may prepare maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other documentary evidence in connection therewith.
Every map, plat, report, description, or other document issued by a licensed land surveyor shall comply with the provisions of this chapter whenever such map, plat, report, description, or other document is filed as a public record.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sign, stamp, or seal any map, report, plat, description, or other document for filing under this chapter unless he or she be a land surveyor.
[ 2010 c 8 § 18002; 1973 c 50 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.040 - Records of survey—Contents—Filing—Replacing corner, filing record.

RCW 58.09.040
Records of survey—Contents—Filing—Replacing corner, filing record.
After making a survey in conformity with sound principles of land surveying, a land surveyor may file a record of survey with the county auditor in the county or counties wherein the lands surveyed are situated.
(1) It shall be mandatory, within ninety days after the establishment, reestablishment, or restoration of a corner on the boundary of two or more ownerships or general land office corner by survey that a land surveyor shall file with the county auditor in the county or counties wherein the lands surveyed are situated a record of such survey, in such form as to meet the requirements of this chapter, which through accepted survey procedures, shall disclose:
(a) The establishment of a corner which materially varies from the description of record;
(b) The establishment of one or more property corners not previously existing;
(c) Evidence that reasonable analysis might result in alternate positions of lines or points as a result of an ambiguity in the description;
(d) The reestablishment of lost government land office corners.
(2) When a licensed land surveyor, while conducting work of a preliminary nature or other activity that does not constitute a survey required by law to be recorded, replaces, or restores an existing or obliterated general land office corner, it is mandatory that, within ninety days thereafter, he or she shall file with the county auditor in the county in which said corner is located a record of the monuments and accessories found or placed at the corner location, in such form as to meet the requirements of this chapter.
[ 2010 c 8 § 18003; 1973 c 50 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.050 - Records of survey—Processing—Requirements.

RCW 58.09.050
Records of survey—Processing—Requirements.
The records of survey to be filed under authority of this chapter shall be processed as follows:
(1)(a) The record of survey filed under RCW 58.09.040(1) shall be an original map, eighteen by twenty-four inches, that is legibly drawn in black ink on mylar and is suitable for producing legible prints through scanning, microfilming, or other standard copying procedures.
(b) The following are allowable formats for the original that may be used in lieu of the format set forth under (a) of this subsection:
(i) Photo mylar with original signatures;
(ii) Any standard material as long as the format is compatible with the auditor's recording process and records storage system. This format is only allowed in those counties that are excepted from permanently storing the original document as required in RCW 58.09.110(5);
(iii) An electronic version of the original if the county has the capability to accept electronic signatures which meet the standards provided by the rules adopted by the Washington state board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors, and can import electronic files into an imaging system. The electronic version shall be a standard raster file format acceptable to the county.
A two inch margin on the left edge and a one-half inch margin on other edges of the map shall be provided. The auditor shall reject for recording any maps not suitable for producing legible prints through scanning, microfilming, or other standard copying procedures.
(2) Information required by RCW 58.09.040(2) shall be filed on a standard form eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches as designed and prescribed by the department of natural resources. The auditor shall reject for recording any records of corner information not suitable for producing legible prints through scanning, microfilming, or other standard copying procedures. An electronic version of the standard form may be filed if the county has the capability to accept electronic signatures which meet the standards provided by the rules adopted by the Washington state board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors, and can import electronic files into an imaging system. The electronic version shall be a standard raster file format acceptable to the county.
(3) Two legible prints of each record of survey as required under the provisions of this chapter shall be furnished to the county auditor in the county in which the survey is to be recorded. The auditor, in those counties using imaging systems, may require only the original, and fewer prints, as needed, to meet the requirements of their duties. If any of the prints submitted are not suitable for scanning or microfilming the auditor shall not record the original.
(4) Legibility requirements are set forth in the recorder's checklist under RCW 58.09.110.
[ 2020 c 57 § 85; 2019 c 132 § 6; 1999 c 39 § 1; 1973 c 50 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.060 - Records of survey, contents—Record of corner, information.

RCW 58.09.060
Records of survey, contents—Record of corner, information.
(1) The record of survey as required by RCW 58.09.040(1) shall show:
(a) All monuments found, set, reset, replaced, or removed, describing their kind, size, and location and giving other data relating thereto;
(b) Bearing trees, corner accessories or witness monuments, basis of bearings, bearing and length of lines, scale of map, and north arrow;
(c) Name and legal description of tract in which the survey is located and ties to adjoining surveys of record;
(d) Certificates required by RCW 58.09.080;
(e) Any other data necessary for the intelligent interpretation of the various items and locations of the points, lines and areas shown.
(2) The record of corner information as required by RCW 58.09.040(2) shall be on a standard form showing:
(a) An accurate description and location, in reference to the corner position, of all monuments and accessories found at the corner;
(b) An accurate description and location, in reference to the corner position, of all monuments and accessories placed or replaced at the corner;
(c) Basis of bearings used to describe or locate such monuments or accessories;
(d) Corollary information that may be helpful to relocate or identify the corner position;
(e) Certificate required by RCW 58.09.080.
[ 1973 c 50 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.070 - Coordinates—Map showing control scheme required.

RCW 58.09.070
Coordinates—Map showing control scheme required.
When coordinates in the *Washington coordinate system are shown for points on a record of survey map, the map may not be recorded unless it also shows, or is accompanied by a map showing, the control scheme through which the coordinates were determined from points of known coordinates.
[ 1973 c 50 § 7.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The "Washington coordinate system" was renamed the "Washington plane coordinate system" by 2020 c 50.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.080 - Certificates—Required—Forms.

RCW 58.09.080
Certificates—Required—Forms.
Certificates shall appear on the record of survey map as follows:
SURVEYOR'S CERTIFICATE
This map correctly represents a survey made by me or under my direction in conformance with the requirements of the Survey Recording Act at the request of . . . . . . . . . in . . . . . ., (year) . . . .
Name of Person
(Signed and Sealed) . . . .
Certificate No. . . . .
AUDITOR'S CERTIFICATE
Filed for record this . . . . day of . . . . . ., (year) . . . . at . . . . .M. in book . . . . of . . . . at page . . . . at the request of . . . . . . . . .
(Signed) . . . .
County Auditor
[ 2016 c 202 § 34; 1973 c 50 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.090 - When record of survey not required.

RCW 58.09.090
When record of survey not required.
(1) A record of survey is not required of any survey:
(a) When it has been made by a public officer in his or her official capacity and a reproducible copy thereof has been filed with the county engineer of the county in which the land is located. A map so filed shall be indexed and kept available for public inspection. A record of survey shall not be required of a survey made by the United States bureau of land management. A state agency conducting surveys to carry out the program of the agency shall not be required to use a land surveyor as defined by this chapter;
(b) When it is of a preliminary nature;
(c) When a map is in preparation for recording or shall have been recorded in the county under any local subdivision or platting law or ordinance;
(d) When it is a retracement or resurvey of boundaries of platted lots, tracts, or parcels shown on a filed or recorded and surveyed subdivision plat or filed or recorded and surveyed short subdivision plat in which monuments have been set to mark all corners of the block or street centerline intersections, provided that no discrepancy is found as compared to said recorded information or information revealed on other subsequent public survey map records, such as a record of survey or city or county engineer's map. If a discrepancy is found, that discrepancy must be clearly shown on the face of the required new record of survey. For purposes of this exemption, the term discrepancy shall include:
(i) A nonexisting or displaced original or replacement monument from which the parcel is defined and which nonexistence or displacement has not been previously revealed in the public record;
(ii) A departure from proportionate measure solutions which has not been revealed in the public record;
(iii) The presence of any physical evidence of encroachment or overlap by occupation or improvement; or
(iv) Differences in linear and/or angular measurement between all controlling monuments that would indicate differences in spatial relationship between said controlling monuments in excess of 0.50 feet when compared with all locations of public record: That is, if these measurements agree with any previously existing public record plat or map within the stated tolerance, a discrepancy will not be deemed to exist under this subsection.
(2) Surveys exempted by foregoing subsections of this section shall require filing of a record of corner information pursuant to RCW 58.09.040(2).
[ 2010 c 8 § 18004; 1992 c 106 § 1; 1973 c 50 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.110 - Duties of county auditor.

RCW 58.09.110
Duties of county auditor.
The auditor shall accept for recording those records of survey and records of corner information that are in compliance with the recorder's checklist as jointly developed by a committee consisting of the survey advisory board and two representatives from the Washington state association of county auditors. This checklist shall be adopted in rules by the department of natural resources.
(1) The auditor shall keep proper indexes of such record of survey by the name of owner and by quarter-quarter section, township, and range, with reference to other legal subdivisions.
(2) The auditor shall keep proper indexes of the record of corner information by section, township, and range.
(3) After entering the recording data on the record of survey and all prints received from the surveyor, the auditor shall send one of the surveyor's prints to the department of natural resources in Olympia, Washington, for incorporation into the statewide survey records repository. However, the county and the department of natural resources may mutually agree to process the original or an electronic version of the original in lieu of the surveyor's print.
(4) After entering the recording data on the record of corner information the auditor shall send a legible copy, suitable for scanning, to the department of natural resources in Olympia, Washington. However, the county and the department of natural resources may mutually agree to process the original or an electronic version of the original in lieu of the copy.
(5) The auditor shall permanently keep the original document filed using storage and handling processes that do not cause excessive deterioration of the document. A county may be excepted from the requirement to permanently store the original document if it has a document scanning, filming, or other process that creates a permanent, archival record that meets or surpasses the standards as adopted in rule by the division of archives and records management in chapter 434-663 or 434-677 WAC. The auditor must be able to provide full-size copies upon request. The auditor shall maintain a copy or image of the original for public reference.
(6) If the county has the capability to accept electronic signatures which meet the standards provided by the rules adopted by the Washington state board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors, and can import electronic files into an imaging system, the auditor may accept for recording electronic versions of the documents required by this chapter. The electronic version shall be a standard raster file format acceptable to the county.
(7) This section does not supersede other existing recording statutes.
[ 2020 c 57 § 86; 2019 c 132 § 7; 1999 c 39 § 2; 1973 c 50 § 11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.120 - Monuments—Requirements.

RCW 58.09.120
Monuments—Requirements.
Any monument set by a land surveyor to mark or reference a point on a property or land line shall be permanently marked or tagged with the certificate number of the land surveyor setting it. If the monument is set by a public officer it shall be marked by an appropriate official designation.
Monuments set by a land surveyor shall be sufficient in number and durability and shall be efficiently placed so as not to be readily disturbed in order to assure, together with monuments already existing, the perpetuation or reestablishment of any point or line of a survey.
[ 1973 c 50 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.130 - Monuments disturbed by construction activities—Procedure—Requirements.

RCW 58.09.130
Monuments disturbed by construction activities—Procedure—Requirements.
When adequate records exist as to the location of subdivision, tract, street, or highway monuments, such monuments shall be located and referenced by or under the direction of a land surveyor at the time when streets or highways are reconstructed or relocated, or when other construction or activity affects their perpetuation. Whenever practical a suitable monument shall be reset in the surface of the new construction. In all other cases permanent witness monuments shall be set to perpetuate the location of preexisting monuments. Additionally, sufficient controlling monuments shall be retained or replaced in their original positions to enable land lines, property corners, elevations and tract boundaries to be reestablished without requiring surveys originating from monuments other than the ones disturbed by the current construction or activity.
It shall be the responsibility of the governmental agency or others performing construction work or other activity to provide for the monumentation required by this section. It shall be the duty of every land surveyor to cooperate with such governmental agency or other person in matters of maps, field notes, and other pertinent records. Monuments set to mark the limiting lines of highways, roads, or streets shall not be deemed adequate for this purpose unless specifically noted on the records of the improvement works with direct ties in bearing or azimuth and distance between those and other monuments of record.
[ 1973 c 50 § 13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.09 - Surveys—Recording. › 58.09.140 - Noncompliance grounds for revocation of land surveyor's license.

RCW 58.09.140
Noncompliance grounds for revocation of land surveyor's license.
Noncompliance with any provision of this chapter, as it now exists or may hereafter be amended, shall constitute grounds for revocation of a land surveyor's authorization to practice the profession of land surveying and as further set forth under RCW 18.43.105 and 18.43.110.
[ 1973 c 50 § 14.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.10 - Defective Plats Legalized. › 58.10.010 - Defective plats legalized—1881 Code.

RCW 58.10.010
Defective plats legalized—1881 Code.
All city or town plats or any addition or additions thereto, heretofore made and recorded in the county auditor's office of any county in Washington state, showing lots, blocks, streets, alleys or public grounds, shall be conclusive evidence of the location and size of the lots, blocks and public grounds and the location and width of each and every street or alley marked, laid down or appearing on such plat, and that all the right, title, interest or estate which the person or persons making or recording such plat, or causing the same to be made, or recorded, had at the time of making or recording such plat in or to such streets, alleys or public grounds was thereby dedicated to public use, whether the same was made, executed or acknowledged in accordance with the provisions of the laws of this state in force at the time of making the same or not.
[Code 1881 § 2338; RRS § 9306. Formerly RCW 58.08.080.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.10 - Defective Plats Legalized. › 58.10.020 - Certified copy of plat as evidence.

RCW 58.10.020
Certified copy of plat as evidence.
A copy of any city or town plat or addition thereto recorded in the manner provided for in RCW 58.10.010, certified by the county auditor of the county in which the same is recorded to be a true copy of such record and the whole thereof, shall be received in evidence in all the courts of this state, with like effect as the original.
[Code 1881 § 2339; RRS § 9307. Formerly RCW 58.08.070.]
NOTES:
Rules of court: ER 803(a)(14).
Certified copies
of instruments, or transcripts of county commissioners' proceedings: RCW 5.44.070.
of recorded instruments as evidence: RCW 5.44.060.
Copies of business and public records as evidence: RCW 5.46.010.
Instruments to be recorded or filed: RCW 65.04.030.
Photostatic or photographic copies of public or business records admissible in evidence: RCW 40.20.030.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.10 - Defective Plats Legalized. › 58.10.030 - Resurvey and corrected plat—Corrected plat as evidence.

RCW 58.10.030
Resurvey and corrected plat—Corrected plat as evidence.
Whenever the recorded plat of any city or addition thereto does not definitely show the location or size of lots or blocks, or the location or width of any street or alley in such city or addition, the city council of the city in which the land so platted is located, is hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance and the action of its proper officers, to cause a new and correct survey and plat of such city or addition to be made, and recorded in the office of the county auditor of the county in which such city or addition is located, which corrected plat shall follow the plan of the original survey and plat, so far as the same can be ascertained and followed, and a certificate of the officer or surveyor making the same shall be endorsed thereon, referring to the original plat corrected thereby, and the deficit existing therein, and corrected by such new survey and plat; and the ordinance authorizing the making of such plat shall be recorded in the office of the county auditor of said county and said certificate shall show where said ordinance is recorded, and such plat when so made and recorded, or a copy thereof certified as provided in RCW 58.10.020 shall be admissible in evidence in all the courts in this state.
[Code 1881 § 2340; RRS § 9308. Formerly RCW 58.12.130.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.10 - Defective Plats Legalized. › 58.10.040 - Regulation of surveys and plats.

RCW 58.10.040
Regulation of surveys and plats.
All incorporated cities in the state of Washington are hereby authorized and empowered to regulate and prescribe the manner and form of making any future survey or plat of lands within their respective limits and enforce such regulations by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered by and in the name of such city, or imprisonment not exceeding twenty days for each violation of any ordinance regulating such survey and platting: PROVIDED, That nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to apply to additions to towns in which no lots have been sold.
[Code 1881 § 2341; RRS § 9309. Formerly RCW 58.12.140.]
NOTES:
Platted streets, public highways—Lack of compliance, penalty: RCW 58.08.035.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.010 - Purpose.

RCW 58.17.010
Purpose.
The legislature finds that the process by which land is divided is a matter of state concern and should be administered in a uniform manner by cities, towns, and counties throughout the state. The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the subdivision of land and to promote the public health, safety and general welfare in accordance with standards established by the state to prevent the overcrowding of land; to lessen congestion in the streets and highways; to promote effective use of land; to promote safe and convenient travel by the public on streets and highways; to provide for adequate light and air; to facilitate adequate provision for water, sewerage, parks and recreation areas, sites for schools and schoolgrounds and other public requirements; to provide for proper ingress and egress; to provide for the expeditious review and approval of proposed subdivisions which conform to zoning standards and local plans and policies; to adequately provide for the housing and commercial needs of the citizens of the state; and to require uniform monumenting of land subdivisions and conveyancing by accurate legal description.
[ 1981 c 293 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 271 § 1.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: Throughout this chapter, the phrase "this act" has been changed to "this chapter." "This act" [1969 ex.s. c 271] also consists of amendments to RCW 58.08.040 and 58.24.040 and the repeal of RCW 58.16.010 through 58.16.110.
Severability—1981 c 293: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1981 c 293 § 16.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.030 - Subdivisions to comply with chapter, local regulations.

RCW 58.17.030
Subdivisions to comply with chapter, local regulations.
Every subdivision shall comply with the provisions of this chapter. Every short subdivision as defined in this chapter shall comply with the provisions of any local regulation adopted pursuant to RCW 58.17.060.
[ 1974 ex.s. c 134 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 271 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.033 - Proposed division of land—Consideration of application for preliminary plat or short plat approval—Requirements defined by local ordinance.

RCW 58.17.033
Proposed division of land—Consideration of application for preliminary plat or short plat approval—Requirements defined by local ordinance.
(1) A proposed division of land, as defined in RCW 58.17.020, shall be considered under the subdivision or short subdivision ordinance, and zoning or other land use control ordinances, in effect on the land at the time a fully completed application for preliminary plat approval of the subdivision, or short plat approval of the short subdivision, has been submitted to the appropriate county, city, or town official.
(2) The requirements for a fully completed application shall be defined by local ordinance.
(3) The limitations imposed by this section shall not restrict conditions imposed under chapter 43.21C RCW.
[ 1987 c 104 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.035 - Alternative method of land division—Binding site plans.

RCW 58.17.035
Alternative method of land division—Binding site plans.
A city, town, or county may adopt by ordinance procedures for the divisions of land by use of a binding site plan as an alternative to the procedures required by this chapter. The ordinance shall be limited and only apply to one or more of the following: (1) The use of a binding site plan to divisions for sale or lease of commercially or industrially zoned property as provided in RCW 58.17.040(4); (2) divisions of property for lease as provided for in RCW 58.17.040(5); and (3) divisions of property as provided for in RCW 58.17.040(7). Such ordinance may apply the same or different requirements and procedures to each of the three types of divisions and shall provide for the alteration or vacation of the binding site plan, and may provide for the administrative approval of the binding site plan.
The ordinance shall provide that after approval of the general binding site plan for industrial or commercial divisions subject to a binding site plan, the approval for improvements and finalization of specific individual commercial or industrial lots shall be done by administrative approval.
The binding site plan, after approval, and/or when specific lots are administratively approved, shall be filed with the county auditor with a record of survey. Lots, parcels, or tracts created through the binding site plan procedure shall be legal lots of record. The number of lots, tracts, parcels, sites, or divisions shall not exceed the number of lots allowed by the local zoning ordinances.
All provisions, conditions, and requirements of the binding site plan shall be legally enforceable on the purchaser or any other person acquiring a lease or other ownership interest of any lot, parcel, or tract created pursuant to the binding site plan.
Any sale, transfer, or lease of any lot, tract, or parcel created pursuant to the binding site plan, that does not conform to the requirements of the binding site plan or without binding site plan approval, shall be considered a violation of chapter 58.17 RCW and shall be restrained by injunctive action and be illegal as provided in chapter 58.17 RCW.
[ 1987 c 354 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.050 - Assessors plat—Compliance.

RCW 58.17.050
Assessors plat—Compliance.
An assessors plat made in accordance with RCW 58.18.010 need not comply with any of the requirements of this chapter except RCW 58.17.240 and 58.17.250.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 271 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.060 - Short plats and short subdivisions—Summary approval—Regulations—Requirements.

RCW 58.17.060
Short plats and short subdivisions—Summary approval—Regulations—Requirements.
(1) The legislative body of a city, town, or county shall adopt regulations and procedures, and appoint administrative personnel for the summary approval of short plats and short subdivisions or alteration or vacation thereof. When an alteration or vacation involves a public dedication, the alteration or vacation shall be processed as provided in RCW 58.17.212 or 58.17.215. Such regulations shall be adopted by ordinance and shall provide that a short plat and short subdivision may be approved only if written findings that are appropriate, as provided in RCW 58.17.110, are made by the administrative personnel, and may contain wholly different requirements than those governing the approval of preliminary and final plats of subdivisions and may require surveys and monumentations and shall require filing of a short plat, or alteration or vacation thereof, for record in the office of the county auditor: PROVIDED, That such regulations must contain a requirement that land in short subdivisions may not be further divided in any manner within a period of five years without the filing of a final plat, except that when the short plat contains fewer than four parcels, nothing in this section shall prevent the owner who filed the short plat from filing an alteration within the five-year period to create up to a total of four lots within the original short plat boundaries: PROVIDED FURTHER, That such regulations are not required to contain a penalty clause as provided in RCW 36.32.120 and may provide for wholly injunctive relief.
An ordinance requiring a survey shall require that the survey be completed and filed with the application for approval of the short subdivision.
(2) Cities, towns, and counties shall include in their short plat regulations and procedures pursuant to subsection (1) of this section provisions for considering sidewalks and other planning features that assure safe walking conditions for students who walk to and from school.
(3) All cities, towns, and counties shall include in their short plat regulations procedures for unit lot subdivisions allowing division of a parent lot into separately owned unit lots. Portions of the parent lot not subdivided for individual unit lots shall be owned in common by the owners of the individual unit lots, or by a homeowners' association comprised of the owners of the individual unit lots.
[ 2023 c 337 § 11; 1990 1st ex.s. c 17 § 51; 1989 c 330 § 2; 1987 c 354 § 5; 1987 c 92 § 1; 1974 ex.s. c 134 § 3; 1969 ex.s. c 271 § 6.]
NOTES:
Severability—Part, section headings not law—1990 1st ex.s. c 17: See RCW 36.70A.900 and 36.70A.901.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.065 - Short plats and short subdivisions—Filing.

RCW 58.17.065
Short plats and short subdivisions—Filing.
Each short plat and short subdivision granted pursuant to local regulations after July 1, 1974, shall be filed with the county auditor and shall not be deemed "approved" until so filed.
[ 1974 ex.s. c 134 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.070 - Preliminary plat of subdivisions and dedications—Submission for approval—Procedure.

RCW 58.17.070
Preliminary plat of subdivisions and dedications—Submission for approval—Procedure.
A preliminary plat of proposed subdivisions and dedications of land shall be submitted for approval to the legislative body of the city, town, or county within which the plat is situated.
Unless an applicant for preliminary plat approval requests otherwise, a preliminary plat shall be processed simultaneously with applications for rezones, variances, planned unit developments, site plan approvals, and similar quasi-judicial or administrative actions to the extent that procedural requirements applicable to these actions permit simultaneous processing.
[ 1981 c 293 § 4; 1969 ex.s. c 271 § 7.]
NOTES:
Severability—1981 c 293: See note following RCW 58.17.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.080 - Filing of preliminary plat—Notice.

RCW 58.17.080
Filing of preliminary plat—Notice.
Notice of the filing of a preliminary plat of a proposed subdivision adjacent to or within one mile of the municipal boundaries of a city or town, or which contemplates the use of any city or town utilities shall be given to the appropriate city or town authorities. Any notice required by this chapter shall include the hour and location of the hearing and a description of the property to be platted. Notice of the filing of a preliminary plat of a proposed subdivision located in a city or town and adjoining the municipal boundaries thereof shall be given to appropriate county officials. Notice of the filing of a preliminary plat of a proposed subdivision located adjacent to the right-of-way of a state highway or within two miles of the boundary of a state or municipal airport shall be given to the secretary of transportation. In the case of notification to the secretary of transportation, the secretary shall respond to the notifying authority within fifteen days of such notice as to the effect that the proposed subdivision will have on the state highway or the state or municipal airport.
[ 1982 c 23 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 271 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.090 - Notice of public hearing.

RCW 58.17.090
Notice of public hearing.
(1) Upon receipt of an application for preliminary plat approval the administrative officer charged by ordinance with responsibility for administration of regulations pertaining to platting and subdivisions shall provide public notice and set a date for a public hearing. Except as provided in RCW 36.70B.110, at a minimum, notice of the hearing shall be given in the following manner:
(a) Notice shall be published not less than ten days prior to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the county and a newspaper of general circulation in the area where the real property which is proposed to be subdivided is located; and
(b) Special notice of the hearing shall be given to adjacent landowners by any other reasonable method local authorities deem necessary. Adjacent landowners are the owners of real property, as shown by the records of the county assessor, located within three hundred feet of any portion of the boundary of the proposed subdivision. If the owner of the real property which is proposed to be subdivided owns another parcel or parcels of real property which lie adjacent to the real property proposed to be subdivided, notice under this subsection (1)(b) shall be given to owners of real property located within three hundred feet of any portion of the boundaries of such adjacently located parcels of real property owned by the owner of the real property proposed to be subdivided.
(2) All hearings shall be public. All hearing notices shall include a description of the location of the proposed subdivision. The description may be in the form of either a vicinity location sketch or a written description other than a legal description.
[ 1995 c 347 § 426; 1981 c 293 § 5; 1974 ex.s. c 134 § 4; 1969 ex.s. c 271 § 9.]
NOTES:
Finding—Severability—Part headings and table of contents not law—1995 c 347: See notes following RCW 36.70A.470.
Severability—1981 c 293: See note following RCW 58.17.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.092 - Public notice—Identification of affected property.

RCW 58.17.092
Public notice—Identification of affected property.
Any notice made under chapter 58.17 or 36.70B RCW that identifies affected property may identify this affected property without using a legal description of the property including, but not limited to, identification by an address, written description, vicinity sketch, or other reasonable means.
[ 1995 c 347 § 427; 1988 c 168 § 12.]
NOTES:
Finding—Severability—Part headings and table of contents not law—1995 c 347: See notes following RCW 36.70A.470.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 58 - Boundaries and Plats › Chapter 58.17 - Plats—Subdivisions—Dedications. › 58.17.100 - Review of preliminary plats by planning commission or agency—Recommendation—Change by legislative body—Procedure—Approval.

RCW 58.17.100
Review of preliminary plats by planning commission or agency—Recommendation—Change by legislative body—Procedure—Approval.
If a city, town or county has established a planning commission or planning agency in accordance with state law or local charter, such commission or agency shall review all preliminary plats and make recommendations thereon to the city, town or county legislative body to assure conformance of the proposed subdivision to the general purposes of the comprehensive plan and to planning standards and specifications as adopted by the city, town or county. Reports of the planning commission or agency shall be advisory only: PROVIDED, That the legislative body of the city, town or county may, by ordinance, assign to such commission or agency, or any department official or group of officials, such administrative functions, powers and duties as may be appropriate, including the holding of hearings, and recommendations for approval or disapproval of preliminary plats of proposed subdivisions.
Such recommendation shall be submitted to the legislative body not later than fourteen days following action by the hearing body. Upon receipt of the recommendation on any preliminary plat the legislative body shall at its next public meeting set the date for the public meeting where it shall consider the recommendations of the hearing body and may adopt or reject the recommendations of such hearing body based on the record established at the public hearing. If, after considering the matter at a public meeting, the legislative body deems a change in the planning commission's or planning agency's recommendation approving or disapproving any preliminary plat is necessary, the legislative body shall adopt its own recommendations and approve or disapprove the preliminary plat.
Every decision or recommendation made under this section shall be in writing and shall include findings of fact and conclusions to support the decision or recommendation.
A record of all public meetings and public hearings shall be kept by the appropriate city, town or county authority and shall be open to public inspection.
Sole authority to adopt or amend platting ordinances shall reside in the legislative bodies. The legislative authorities of cities, towns, and counties may by ordinance delegate final plat approval to an established planning commission or agency, or to such other administrative personnel in accordance with state law or local charter.
[ 2017 c 161 § 1; 1995 c 347 § 428; 1981 c 293 § 6; 1969 ex.s. c 271 § 10.]
NOTES:
Finding—Severability—Part headings and table of contents not law—1995 c 347: See notes following RCW 36.70A.470.
Severability—1981 c 293: See note following RCW 58.17.010.