Chapter 17.68
CONVEYANCES

Sections:

17.68.010    Notification of subdivision or exemption.

17.68.020    Acceptance by public agency—Signature verification.

17.68.030    Boundary line adjustments.

17.68.010 Notification of subdivision or exemption.

The county auditor, from and after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, shall not accept any instruments of sale or conveyances of land existing outside the corporate limits of any town or city for filing or recording until, in addition to those items required to be furnished by the prospective recorder from the county treasurer’s office, there appears, together with the instrument to be recorded, a notation in a form designed by the county assessor showing indication by the county assessor or her duly authorized representative that the property which is the subject matter of the instrument either contains the same legal description as a previously recorded deed, is a lot created by a recorded subdivision or short subdivision, or contains the stamp and initials as indicated in Section 17.68.030(G). (Ord. 2004-01 (part): Ord. 1977-08 § 1)

17.68.020 Acceptance by public agency—Signature verification.

From and after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, the county auditor shall not accept for recording or filing any purported conveyance to the public of roads, parkways or other parcels of land without evidence that some public agency has agreed to accept the conveyance; i.e., in the case of roads, the agency shall be the county road department, in the case of streets, the agency shall be the city council, and in the case of parks, the agency shall be the county parks department. In all other cases, if the agency responsible for the acceptance of the conveyance is not readily available on the face of the instrument, or any question exists as to the proper official’s signature, the county auditor’s office shall verify the same and may rely with acquittance on advice from the office of the prosecuting attorney as to an acceptable signature. (Ord. 2004-01 (part): Ord. 1977-08 § 2)

17.68.030 Boundary line adjustments.

A. Conveyance shall be titled “Boundary Line Adjustment.”

B. Conveyances shall state that the parcel being conveyed shall become a part of the parcel to which it is being added.

C. The conveyance shall contain the following wording:

The purpose of this deed is to affect a boundary line adjustment between adjoining parcels of land owned by the grantor and grantee; it is not intended to create a separate parcel, and is therefore exempt from the requirements of RCW 58.17 and the Skamania County short plat ordinance. The property described in this deed cannot be segregated and sold without conforming to the state of Washington and Skamania County subdivision laws.

D. A boundary line adjustment shall not be used to violate the short plat ordinance. For example, no boundary line adjustment shall allow an exempt twenty-acre lot to be reduced below twenty acres in size.

E. A boundary line adjustment shall not be used to reduce the acreage of a conforming lot to below the minimum lot size.

F. A non-conforming lot within or outside of a zoned area may be reduced in size but all resulting lots shall at a minimum meet the requirements of Section 17.64.155(A).

G. If the administrator determines that the above has been met, then the administrator shall stamp the deed with a stamp that generally states that the deed is in compliance with the county’s subdivision ordinance, and then initial at the bottom of each page of the deed.

H. No deed shall be recorded with the auditor’s office unless that deed contains the same legal description as a previously recorded deed, is a lot created by a recorded subdivision or short subdivision, or contains the stamp and initials as indicated in subsection G of this section. (Ord. 2004-01 (part): Ord. 1992-08 (part))