Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 65 Recording, Registration, And Legal Publication - Chapter 65.04 Duties Of County Auditor
- 65.04.015 Definitions
The definitions set forth in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Recording officer" means the county auditor, or ...
- 65.04.020 Duty to provide records
For the purpose of recording deeds and other instruments of writing, required or permitted by law to be recorded, the county auditor shall procure such ...
- 65.04.030 Instruments to be recorded or filed
The auditor or recording officer must, upon the payment of the fees as required in RCW 36.18.010 for the same, acknowledge receipt therefor in writing ...
- 65.04.033 Notice of abandoned cemetery document -- Recording requirements
Any person who has knowledge of the existence of any cemetery, abandoned cemetery, historical cemetery, or historic grave that has not been dedicated pursuant to ...
- 65.04.040 Method for recording instruments -- Marginal notations -- Arrangement of records
Any state, county, or municipal officer charged with the duty of recording instruments in public records shall record them by *record location number in the ...
- 65.04.045 Recorded instruments--Requirements -- Content restrictions -- Form
(1) When any instrument is presented to a county auditor or recording officer for recording, the first page of the instrument shall contain: (a) A ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 65.04.050 Index of instruments, how made and kept -- Recording of plat names
Every auditor or recording officer must keep a general index, direct and inverted. The index may be either printed on paper or produced on microfilm ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 65.04.140 Auditor as custodian of records
The county auditor in his capacity of recorder of deeds is sole custodian of all books in which are recorded deeds, mortgages, judgments, liens, incumbrances ...
Last modified: April 7, 2009