Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 64 Real Property And Conveyances - Chapter 64.55 Construction Defect Disputes--Multiunit Residential Buildings

64.55.005 Application
(1)(a) RCW 64.55.010 through 64.55.090 apply to any multiunit residential building for which the permit for construction or rehabilitative construction of such building was issued ...

64.55.010 Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in RCW 64.34.020 and in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Attached dwelling unit" means any ...

64.55.020 Building permit application--Submission of design documents
(1) Any person applying for a building permit for construction of a multiunit residential building or rehabilitative construction shall submit building enclosure design documents to ...

64.55.030 Inspection required
All multiunit residential buildings shall have the building enclosure inspected by a qualified inspector during the course of initial construction and during rehabilitative construction.[2005 c ...

64.55.040 Inspectors--Qualifications
(1) A qualified building enclosure inspector: (a) Must be a person with substantial and verifiable training and experience in building enclosure design and construction; (b) ...

64.55.050 Scope of inspection--Definition
(1) Any inspection required by this chapter shall include, at a minimum, the following: (a) Water penetration resistance testing of a representative sample of windows ...

64.55.060 Certification--Certificate of occupancy
Upon completion of an inspection required by this chapter, the qualified inspector shall prepare and submit to the appropriate building department a signed letter certifying ...

64.55.070 Inspector, architect, and engineer--No private right of action or basis for liability against
(1) Nothing in this chapter and RCW 64.34.073, 64.34.100(2),64.34.410 (1)(nn) and (2), and 64.34.415(1)(b) is intended to, or does: (a) Create a private right of ...

64.55.080 Inspector's report or testimony--No evidentiary presumption--Admissibility
A qualified inspector's report or testimony regarding an inspection conducted pursuant to this chapter is not entitled to any evidentiary presumption in any arbitration or ...

64.55.090 Sale of condominium unit subject to compliance--Inspection alternative
(1) Except for sales or other dispositions listed in RCW 64.34.400(2), no declarant may convey a condominium unit that may be occupied for residential use ...

64.55.100 Arbitration--Election--Number of arbitrators--Qualifications--Trial de novo
(1) If the declarant, an association, or a party unit owner demands an arbitration by filing such demand with the court not less than thirty ...

64.55.110 Case schedule plan--Deadlines
(1) Not less than sixty days after the later of filing or service of the complaint, the parties shall confer to create a proposed case ...

64.55.120 Mandatory mediation
(1) The parties to an action subject to this chapter and RCW 64.34.073, 64.34.100(2),64.34.410 (1)(nn) and (2), and 64.34.415(1)(b) shall engage in mediation. Unless the ...

64.55.130 Appointment of neutral expert--Qualifications--Duties--Admissibility of report or testimony
(1) If, after meeting and conferring as required by RCW 64.55.120(2), disputed issues remain, a party may file a motion with the court, or arbitrator ...

64.55.140 Payment of arbitrators, mediators, and neutral experts
(1) Where the building permit that authorized commencement of construction of a building was issued on or after August 1, 2005: (a)(i) If the action ...

64.55.150 Subcontractors and suppliers--When party to arbitration
Upon the demand of a party to an arbitration demanded under RCW 64.55.100, any subcontractor or supplier against whom such party has a legal claim ...

64.55.160 Offers of judgment--Costs and fees
(1) On or before the sixtieth day following completion of the mediation pursuant to RCW 64.55.120(4), the declarant, association, or party unit owner may serve ...

64.55.900 Captions not law--2005 c 456
Captions used in this act are not any part of the law.[2005 c 456 § 22.] ...

64.55.901 Effective date--2005 c 456
This act takes effect August 1, 2005.[2005 c 456 § 24.] ...