Title 65 — Title 65 RECORDING, REGISTRATION, AND LEGAL PUBLICATION
5 chapters · 72 sections in this title.
RCW 65.04.015 Definitions.
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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 in charter counties the county official charged with the responsibility for recording instruments in the coun…
RCW 65.04.020 Duty to provide records.
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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 media for records as the business of the office requires.[ 1999 c 233 s 11; 1985 c 44 s 14; 1893 c 119 s 10; Code 1881 s 2726; R…
RCW 65.04.030 Instruments to be recorded or filed.
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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 or printed form and record in large and well bound books, or by photographic, photomechanical, electronic format, or other approv…
RCW 65.04.033 Notice of abandoned cemetery document—Recording requirements.
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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 RCW 68.24.010 through 68.24.040 may file for recording, in the county in which the cemetery or grave is located, a not…
RCW 65.04.040 Method for recording instruments—Marginal notations—Arrangement of records.
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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 order filed, irrespective of the type of instrument, using a process that has been tested and approved for the intended pur…
RCW 65.04.045 Recorded instruments—Requirements—Content restrictions—Form.
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(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 top margin of at least three inches and a one-inch margin on the bottom and sides, except that an instrument may be recorded if a mino…
RCW 65.04.047 Recorded instruments—Cover sheet—When required—Form.
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(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…
RCW 65.04.048 Additional fee for certain documents not meeting requirements—Signed statement.
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(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 …
RCW 65.04.050 Index of instruments, how made and kept—Recording of plat names.
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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 or microfiche, or it can be created from a computerized database and displayed on a video display terminal. Any reference to a prio…
RCW 65.04.060 Record when lien is discharged.
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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 reco…
RCW 65.04.070 Recording judgments affecting real property.
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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 su…
RCW 65.04.080 Entries when instruments offered for record—Content restrictions.
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(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 y…
RCW 65.04.090 Further endorsements—Delivery.
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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 …
RCW 65.04.110 Liability of auditor for damages.
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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…
RCW 65.04.115 Names on documents, etc., to be printed or typewritten—Indexing.
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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 inst…
RCW 65.04.130 Fees to be paid or tendered.
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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 s 206;…
RCW 65.04.140 Auditor as custodian of records.
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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 con…