RCW 43.20B.750
Recipients holding title to real property or purchasing under land sales contracts—Recording request for notice or termination or request for notice of transfer or encumbrance of property—Notice and hearing—Rules.
(1) When an individual receives medical assistance subject to recovery under this chapter and the individual is the holder of record title to real property or the purchaser under a land sale contract, the department of social and health services may present to the county auditor for recording in the deed and mortgage records of a county a request for notice of transfer or encumbrance of the real property. The department shall adopt a rule providing prior notice and hearing rights to the record title holder or purchaser under a land sale contract.
(2) The department shall present to the county auditor for recording a termination of request for notice of transfer or encumbrance when, in the judgment of the department, it is no longer necessary or appropriate for the department to monitor transfers or encumbrances related to the real property.
(3) The department shall adopt by rule a form for the request for notice of transfer or encumbrance and the termination of request for notice of transfer or encumbrance that, at a minimum:
(a) Contains the name of the public assistance recipient and a departmental case identifier or other appropriate information that links the individual who is the holder of record title to real property or the purchaser under a land sale contract to the individual's public assistance records;
(b) Contains the legal description of the real property;
(c) Contains a mailing address for the department to receive the notice of transfer or encumbrance; and
(d) Complies with the requirements for recording in RCW 36.18.010 for those forms intended to be recorded.
(4) The department shall pay the recording fee required by the county clerk under RCW 36.18.010.
(5) The request for notice of transfer or encumbrance described in this section does not affect title to real property and is not a lien on, encumbrance of, or other interest in the real property.
[ 2005 c 292 § 1.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.20B - Revenue Recovery for Department of Social and Health Services.
43.20B.020 - Fees for services—Department of health and department of social and health services.
43.20B.040 - Chapter does not apply where another party liable—Statement of lien—Form.
43.20B.050 - Liens—Compromise—Settlement or judgment.
43.20B.110 - License fees to be charged by secretary—Waiver—Review and comment.
43.20B.120 - Funeral assistance—Lien against assets.
43.20B.310 - Residential care payments by families, when not collected.
43.20B.320 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Criminally insane—Liability.
43.20B.325 - Mental illness—Hospitalization charges—How computed.
43.20B.330 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Liability.
43.20B.345 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Judgment for accrued amounts.
43.20B.347 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Lien against real and personal property.
43.20B.350 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Modification or vacation of findings of responsibility.
43.20B.355 - Mental illness—Hospitalization charges—Due date—Collection.
43.20B.360 - Mental illness—Hospitalization charges—Collection—Statutes of limitation.
43.20B.370 - Mental illness—Hospitalization charges—Collection—Prosecuting attorneys to assist.
43.20B.415 - State residential schools—Liability for costs of services—Limitation.
43.20B.440 - Residential habilitation centers—Costs of services—Charges payable in advance.
43.20B.620 - Overpayments of assistance—Lien against recipient's property—Recovery methods.
43.20B.630 - Overpayments of assistance—Procedures—Adjudicative proceeding.
43.20B.635 - Overpayments of assistance—Orders to withhold property of debtor—Procedures.
43.20B.640 - Overpayments of assistance—Failure to withhold property of debtor.
43.20B.645 - Overpayments of assistance—Assignment of earnings.
43.20B.660 - Improper realty transfer—Suit to rescind—Recovery from recipient's estate.
43.20B.670 - Excess property assistance program—Lien—Department as creditor.
43.20B.680 - Vendor overpayments—Lien or other security—Setoff or recoupment—Exception.
43.20B.685 - Vendor overpayments—Liens—Duration—Enforcement.
43.20B.688 - Limitation on actions to enforce vendor overpayment debts.
43.20B.690 - Vendor overpayments—Remedies nonexclusive.
43.20B.695 - Vendor overpayments—Interest—Exceptions.
43.20B.745 - Recipient receiving industrial insurance compensation—Application.
43.20B.900 - Savings—1987 c 75.
43.20B.902 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.