Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 79.02 - Public Lands Management—General.
79.02.150 - Selection to complete uncompleted grants.

RCW 79.02.150
Selection to complete uncompleted grants.

So long as any grant of lands by the United States to the state of Washington, for any purpose, or as lieu or indemnity lands therefor, remains incomplete, the commissioner of public lands shall, from time to time, cause the records in his or her office and in the United States land offices, to be examined for the purpose of ascertaining what of the unappropriated lands of the United States are open to selection, and whether any thereof may be of sufficient value and so situated as to warrant their selection as state lands, and in that case may cause the same to be inspected and appraised by one or more state land inspectors, and a full report made thereon by the smallest legal subdivisions of forty acres each, classifying such lands into grazing, farming, and timbered lands, and estimating the value of each tract inspected and the quantity and value of all valuable material thereon, and in the case of timbered lands the amount and value of the standing timber thereon, and the estimated value of such lands after the timber is removed, which report shall be made as amply and expeditiously as possible on blanks to be furnished by the commissioner of public lands for that purpose, under the oath of the inspector to the effect that he or she has personally examined the tracts mentioned in each forty acres thereof, and that said report and appraisement is made from such personal examination, and is, to the best of affiant's knowledge and belief, true and correct, and that the lands are not occupied by any bona fide settler.
The commissioner of public lands shall select such unappropriated lands as he or she shall deem advisable, and do all things necessary under the laws of the United States to vest title thereto in the state, and shall assign lands of equal value, as near as may be, to the various uncompleted grants.

[ 2013 c 23 § 257; 1927 c 255 § 19; RRS § 7797-19. Prior: 1897 c 89 §§ 5, 7, 9, 10. Formerly RCW 79.01.076, 79.08.050.]
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Lieu lands: Chapter 79.02 RCW.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 79 - Public Lands

Chapter 79.02 - Public Lands Management—General.

79.02.010 - Definitions.

79.02.020 - Witnesses—Compelling attendance.

79.02.030 - Court review of actions.

79.02.040 - Reconsideration of official acts.

79.02.050 - Effect of mistake or fraud.

79.02.060 - Scope of provisions of chapter 199, Laws of 2004.

79.02.080 - Rewards for information regarding violations.

79.02.090 - Transfer of county auditor's duties.

79.02.095 - Statutes not applicable to state tidelands, shorelands, harbor areas, and the beds of navigable waters.

79.02.100 - Appearance by commissioner before United States land offices.

79.02.110 - Applications for federal certification that lands are nonmineral.

79.02.120 - Lieu lands—Selection agreements authorized.

79.02.130 - Lieu lands—Examination and appraisal.

79.02.140 - Lieu lands—Transfer of title to lands relinquished.

79.02.150 - Selection to complete uncompleted grants.

79.02.160 - Relinquishment on failure or rejection of selection.

79.02.200 - Abstracts of public lands.

79.02.210 - Maps and plats—Record and index—Public inspection.

79.02.220 - Seal.

79.02.230 - Blank forms of applications for appraisal, transfer, sale, and lease of state lands, valuable materials.

79.02.240 - Fees.

79.02.250 - Reasonable fees—Disposition.

79.02.260 - Fee book.

79.02.270 - Deed.

79.02.280 - Assignment of contracts or leases.

79.02.290 - Subdivision of contracts or leases—Fee.

79.02.300 - Trespass, waste, damages—Prosecutions.

79.02.310 - Trespasser guilty of theft, when.

79.02.320 - Removal of timber—Treble damages.

79.02.330 - Lessee or contract holder guilty of misdemeanor.

79.02.370 - Protection against cedar theft.

79.02.400 - Charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory real property—Inventory—Transfer.

79.02.410 - Charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory real property—High economic return potential—Income.

79.02.420 - Finding—Intent—Community and technical college forest reserve land base—Management—Disposition of revenue.