File #: 2002-0308    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/15/2002 In control: Labor, Operations and Technology Committee
On agenda: Final action: 8/26/2002
Enactment date: 9/4/2002 Enactment #: 14457
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the administrative surcharge retained from the $10.00 recording surcharge authorized by 2002 Wash. Laws Chapter 294; and amending Ordinance 1660, Sections 1-2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.120.
Sponsors: Cynthia Sullivan
Indexes: Administration, Fees
Code sections: 2.12.120 -
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 14457.pdf, 2. 2002-0308 Staff Report, 3. 2002-0308 Transmittal Letter.doc
 
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Clerk 07/02/2002
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the administrative surcharge retained from the $10.00 recording surcharge authorized by 2002 Wash. Laws Chapter 294; and amending Ordinance 1660, Sections 1-2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.120.
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      BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
      SECTION 1.  Ordinance 1660, Sections 1-2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.120 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
      Recording of official and public documents - fees.   The manager((,)) of the records ((and)), elections and licensing services division, shall charge such fees for the provision of recording services as are provided for county auditors in chapters 36.18 RCW and 36.22 RCW and RCW 64.34.202.  In addition, the following specific fees apply:
      A.  Record of survey.  For land surveys, which shall be eighteen by twenty-four inches or less in size, the fee schedule is:
        1.  Basic fee for first page      $25.00
        2.  Department of natural resources fees      $26.00
        3.  Centennial preservation fee        $2.00
        4.  State archives fee        $1.00
        5.  Each additional page        $5.00
      B.  Short plats and boundary line adjustments.  For short plats and boundary line adjustments, legal size or smaller, the manager((,)) of the records ((and)), elections and licensing services division, shall charge such fees as are provided for county auditors in chapter 36.18 RCW.  For short plats and boundary line adjustments, eighteen by twenty-four inches or less in size, the fee schedule shall be the same as record of survey under K.C.C. 2.12.120A.
      C.  Record of monument.  The record of monument shall be filed without charge on the standard form prescribed by the state Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Surveys and Maps.
      D.  Reservation of condominium name.  To reserve the right to use a specific name for a condominium, the fee is (($50.00)) fifty dollars.  A reservation is subject to RCW 64.34.202.
      E.  Administrative surcharge.  As authorized by 2002 Wash. Laws Chapter 294, five percent of the mandatory state ten-dollar surcharge on recorded instruments shall be retained as an administrative surcharge effective June 13, 2002.  Of the remaining funds, forty percent shall be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and the remaining sixty percent shall be
 
retained by the county and deposited into a fund to be used by the county and its cities for low-income housing initiatives.
      SECTION 2.  This ordinance is remedial in nature and applies retroactively to surcharges beginning on June 13, 2002 and thereafter.