Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 79 Public Lands - Chapter 79.02 Public Lands Management -- General

79.02.010 Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout this title unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Aquatic lands" means all state-owned tidelands, shorelands, harbor areas, ...

79.02.020 Witnesses--Compelling attendance
(1) The board or the commissioner has the power to compel through subpoena the attendance of witnesses and production of records for: (a) Hearings pertaining ...

79.02.030 Court review of actions
Any applicant to purchase, or lease, any public lands of the state, or any valuable materials thereon, and any person whose property rights or interests ...

79.02.040 Reconsideration of official acts
The department may review and reconsider any of its official acts relating to public lands until such time as a lease, contract, or deed shall ...

79.02.050 Effect of mistake or fraud
(1) Any sale, transfer, or lease in which the purchaser, transfer recipient, or lessee obtains the sale or lease by fraud or misrepresentation is void, ...

79.02.060 Scope of provisions of chapter 199, Laws of 2004
The provisions of chapter 199, Laws of 2004 are not intended to affect the trust responsibilities or trust management by the department for any trust ...

79.02.080 Rewards for information regarding violations
The department is authorized to offer and pay a reward not to exceed ten thousand dollars in each case for information regarding violations of any ...

79.02.090 Transfer of county auditor's duties
The duties of the county auditor in each county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more, with regard to sales and leases ...

79.02.095 Statutes not applicable to state tidelands, shorelands, harbor areas, and the beds of navigable waters
RCW 79.11.080, 79.11.010, 79.11.110, *79.01.140, 79.11.160,79.10.125 , 79.13.130, *79.01.252, *79.01.256, *79.01.260, *79.01.264, 79.13.180, 79.02.260, 79.13.320, 79.13.410,79.13.010 , and *79.01.277 do not apply to state tidelands, ...

79.02.100 Appearance by commissioner before United States land offices
The commissioner of public lands is authorized and directed to appear before the United States land offices in all cases involving the validity of the ...

79.02.110 Applications for federal certification that lands are nonmineral
The commissioner of public lands is authorized and directed to make applications, and to cause publication of notices of applications, to the interior department of ...

79.02.120 Lieu lands -- Selection agreements authorized
For the purpose of obtaining from the United States indemnity or lieu lands for such lands granted to the state for common schools, educational, penal, ...

79.02.130 Lieu lands--Examination and appraisal
Upon the making of any such agreement, the board shall be empowered and it shall be its duty to cause such examination and appraisal to ...

79.02.140 Lieu lands -- Transfer of title to lands relinquished
Whenever the title to any lands selected under the provisions of RCW 79.02.120 through 79.02.140 shall become vested in the state of Washington by the ...

79.02.150 Selection to complete uncompleted grants
So long as any grant of lands by the United States to the state of Washington, for any purpose, or as lieu or indemnity lands ...

79.02.160 Relinquishment on failure or rejection of selection
In case any person interested in any tract of land heretofore selected by the territory of Washington or any officer, board, or agent thereof or ...

79.02.200 Abstracts of public lands
The department shall cause full and correct abstracts of all the public lands to be made and kept in suitable and well bound books, and ...

79.02.210 Maps and plats -- Record and index -- Public inspection
All maps, plats, and field notes of surveys, required to be made by this title shall, after approval by the department, be deposited and filed ...

79.02.220 Seal
All notices, orders, contracts, certificates, rules and regulations, or other documents or papers made and issued by or on behalf of the department, or the ...

79.02.230 Blank forms of applications for appraisal, transfer, sale, and lease of state lands, valuable materials
The department shall cause to be prepared, and furnish to applicants, blank forms of applications for the appraisal, transfer, and purchase of any state lands ...

79.02.240 Fees
The department may charge and collect fees as determined by the board for each category of services performed based on costs incurred.[2003 c 334 § ...

79.02.250 Reasonable fees -- Disposition
(1) Applications for the purchase or use of lands and the sale of valuable materials by the department shall be accompanied by reasonable fees to ...

79.02.260 Fee book
The department shall keep a fee book, in which shall be entered all fees received, with the date paid and the name of the person ...

79.02.270 Deed
When the entire purchase price of any state lands shall have been fully paid, the commissioner shall certify such fact to the governor, and shall ...

79.02.280 Assignment of contracts or leases
All contracts of purchase or leases issued by the department shall be assignable in writing by the contract holder or lessee and the assignee shall ...

79.02.290 Subdivision of contracts or leases -- Fee
Whenever the holder of a contract of purchase or the holder of any lease, except for mining of valuable minerals or coal, or extraction of ...

79.02.300 Trespass, waste, damages -- Prosecutions
(1) Every person who, without authorization, uses or occupies public lands, removes any valuable material as defined in RCW 79.02.010 from public lands, or causes ...

79.02.310 Trespasser guilty of theft, when
Every person who willfully commits any trespass upon any public lands of the state and cuts down, destroys or injures any timber, or any tree ...

79.02.320 Removal of timber -- Treble damages
Every person who shall cut or remove, or cause to be cut or removed, any timber growing or being upon any public lands of the ...

79.02.330 Lessee or contract holder guilty of misdemeanor
Every person being in lawful possession of any public lands of the state, under and by virtue of any lease or contract of purchase from ...

79.02.340 Removal of Christmas trees -- Compensation
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon public lands or upon any private land without the permission of the owner thereof and ...

79.02.350 Intent of RCW 79.02.340
RCW 79.02.340 is not intended to repeal or modify any of the provisions of existing statutes providing penalties for the unlawful removal of timber from ...

79.02.370 Protection against cedar theft
The board must establish procedures to protect against cedar theft and to ensure adequate notice is given for persons interested in purchasing cedar.[2003 c 334 ...

79.02.400 Charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory real property -- Inventory -- Transfer
(1) Every five years the department of social and health services and other state agencies that operate institutions shall conduct an inventory of all real ...

79.02.410 Charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory real property -- High economic return potential -- Income
Where charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions land has the potential for lease for commercial, industrial, or residential uses or other uses with the potential ...

79.02.420 Finding -- Intent -- Community and technical college forest reserve land base -- Management -- Disposition of revenue
(1) The legislature finds that the state's community and technical colleges need a dedicated source of revenue to augment other sources of capital improvement funding. ...