Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 84.36 - Exemptions.
84.36.120 - Household goods and personal effects—Definitions.

RCW 84.36.120
Household goods and personal effects—Definitions.

For the purposes of RCW 84.36.110 "head of a family" shall be construed to include a surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner who has neither remarried nor entered into a subsequent domestic partnership, any person receiving an old age pension under the laws of this state and any citizen of the United States, over the age of sixty-five years, who has resided in the state of Washington continuously for ten years.
"Personal effects" shall be construed to mean and include such tangible property as usually and ordinarily attends the person such as wearing apparel, jewelry, toilet articles and the like.
"Private motor vehicle" shall be construed to mean and include all motor vehicles used for the convenience or pleasure of the owner and carrying a licensing classification other than motor vehicle for hire, auto stage, auto stage trailer, motor truck, motor truck trailer or dealers' licenses.
"Mobile home" shall be construed to mean and include all trailers of the type designed as facilities for human habitation and which are capable of being moved upon the public streets and highways and which are more than thirty-five feet in length or more than eight feet in width.

[ 2008 c 6 § 708; 1973 1st ex.s. c 154 § 120; 1971 ex.s. c 299 § 72; 1961 c 15 § 84.36.120. Prior: 1935 c 27 § 2; RRS § 11111-8.]
NOTES:

Part headings not law—Severability—2008 c 6: See RCW 26.60.900 and 26.60.901.


Severability—1973 1st ex.s. c 154: See note following RCW 2.12.030.


Effective date—1971 ex.s. c 299: See RCW 82.50.901(3).


Severability—1971 ex.s. c 299: See note following RCW 82.04.050.

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