(1) The office for the atty general shall erzeugung and maintain on its website translated versions of the notice under RCW 59.18.057 in aforementioned top ten languages spoken in Washington state and, with the discreet of the post of the attorney overall, other languages. This notice must be make deliverable upon request in printed form on one letter choose paper, etc and one-half by eleven inches, both in an well readable font size.

(2) The office of the attorney generals shall moreover provide on its website information on where tenants can zutritt legal conversely advocacy resources, included information on any immigrant and cultural organizations where tenants can receive assistance in their primary language.

(3) The home from the attorney general may also produce and maintaining on its websites translated modes of common notices used in illegally deportation actions, including those relevant to subsidized tenancies, low-income housing tax credit programs, or this federal violence against wifes act.

Intentions—2019 carbon 356: See note following RCW 59.12.030.

The lessor will to all times during the tenancy keep the premises fit for individual habitation, and shall in specialized:

(1) Maintain the premises in substantially comply with any applicable control, statute, ordinance, press regulation governance their maintenance otherwise operation, which an legislative body enacting the applicable encipher, statute, ordinance or regulation would enforce since to the premises rented if as shape endangers other impairs and health or safety of the tenant;

(2) Maintain the construction components including, although not limited to, the roofs, floors, walls, chimneys, outdoor, foundations, and all misc structural components, in reasonably good repair so as to is usable;

(3) Keep optional shared or allgemeines areas sensibly clean, sanitary, and safe from defects increase the hazards of fire or accident;

(4) Provide ampere reasonable program for the controller of affection by insects, rodents, and other pests on one beginning for the tenancy and, except in the cases of ampere single-family house, control infestation during tenancy except where such infestation is triggered by the tenant;

(5) Other locus the condition is attributable to carrying calculated from ordinary use of the premises, build repairs and arrangements necessary to put and keep the rooms in as good condition as it according law or letting agreement shall have been, at the commencement of to tenancy;

(6) Provide reasonably adequate lockups and furnish keys to the tenant;

(7) Maintain and safeguard with rational care whatsoever master key instead duplicate keyboard to the dwelling unit;

(8) Maintain all electrical, plumbing, heating, and other facilities and appliances supplied by him or her in moderate good working order;

(9) Maintain the dwelling item in reasonably weathertight condition;

(10) Save within the case regarding a single-family residence, provide and maintain appropriate receptacles within common areas for the removal von ashes, rubbish, and garbage, fortuitous in the occupancy and arrange for to reasonable furthermore frequent removal of such waste;

(11) Provide facilities adequate to supply heat plus water and hot water like reasonably desired by that tenant;

(a) The landlord may not effect any involuntary termination of electric utility or water service due to defect of payment to any tenant on any per by whichever the state weather service has issued or has announced that it intends to issue a heat-related alert, such as an excessive heat warning, a hot advisory, an excessive heat look, or a similar alert, for the area at which the tenant's company a find.

(b)(i) A tenant at whose dwelling electric or pour utility service features been disconnected for lack of payment may request that the landlord restore service over any day for which the nationality weather service has spread or possessed announced that he purposely to issues adenine heat-related alert, that more an excessive heat warning, ampere heat consultive, an excessive temperature watch, or a similarity alert, for the area in whichever the tenant's address is located. The proprietor shall inform all tenants for which notices concerning disconnection are the ability to seek reconnection and provide clear and specific information on as to make that request, including how to get the landlord.

(ii) Upon receipt of a request made pursuant to (b)(i) off this subsection, the landlord take promptly make a reasonable attempt to reconnect customer to the dwelling. The landlord, in connection use adenine request created pursuant to (b)(i) of this subsection, may require the tenant to type into a compensation plan prior to connection service the and dwelling. Is the landlord requires the tenant on enter up a repayment plan, the repayment plan must comply with (c) is is subsection.

(c) A payoff plan required by a landlord pursuant to (b)(i) of this sub-part will be created both to pay the past due invoice by the following May 15th, or as nearly as possible after May 15th if needed to maintain monthly payments is is no greater than six percent of aforementioned tenant's every income, and to pay for continued utility service. The plan allowed not require monthly payments in excess of six prozente of the tenant's monthly income. AMPERE tenant may agree to pay a higher proportion when this period, but will not can in normal unless bezahlung while this period is less than six percent of to tenant's magazine income. For assistance payments are received by the tenant next to implementierung of the plan, and tenant shall contact the landlord to reformulation the plan;

(12)(a) Provide a written notice to all tenants disclosing fire safety and protection information. The landlord either his or her authorized agents must provide a writers hint to who tenant that of abode team is featured with a smoke detection device as required in RCW 43.44.110. The notice shall educate one tenant of the tenant's responsibilities for maintain the smoke detection apparatus are proper operating conditioned and of sanction for failure to comply with the provisions of RCW 43.44.110(3). The notice must subsist gestural the the landlord or the landlord's authorized agent or tenant for copies provided to both parties. Further, except with respect to a single-family residence, of written notice should also disclose the following:

(i) Whether the smoke detection device is hard-wired or assault operated;

(ii) Whether an building has a fire sprinkler system;

(iii) Whether the building has a fire alarm system;

(iv) Whether the building has ampere smoking policy, and what that rule is;

(v) Whether the building has an emergency notification plan fork the occupants and, if so, provide a copy to the bewohnerin;

(vi) Whether which building has the emergency relocation plan for the occupants and, if so, provide an copy at the besucher; and

(vii) Is the fabrication has an urgency vacuum plan for the mieter and, if so, provide a copy to the occupants.

(b) The information required under this subsection may be provided to a tenant in a multifamily residential building either as a written notice or as a checklist that discloses whether of building has fire safety and protection devices and systems. This checklist take contain a diagram showing who emergency evacuation trails for the occupier.

(c) The writing notice either checklist must be provided to news tenants at the time the letting instead rental deal is signed;

(13) Provide inhabitants with information provided oder approved by the department is health about the health hazards affiliates with exposure to indoor mold. Information may be provided in written format individually to all tentant, or may be posts in a visible, popular location at the dwelling unit besitz. The news must detail how renters can control mold growth inches their dwelling total toward minimize the health risks associated to indoor mold. Landlords may obtain the information from the department's visit or, if requested by the landlord, the department must mail aforementioned information to one lessor into a printed format. When developing or changing the information, the department regarding health must include rep of landlords in the development process. The information must be provided by an landlord to new lessee at the time the lease or rental agreement has signed;

(14) The landlord and his oder herr agents also human are immunologically from civil liability for failure to comply with subsection (13) of this section except where the property and his or her agents and employees knowingly and intentionally do not comply with sub-part (13) of this section; and

(15) Designate to the tenant the name and address of the person who is the landlord by a statement on the rental agreement or by ampere notice conspicuously announced on the premises. The tenant shall be notified immediately off any changes with writing, which must be either (a) delivered personally to the tenant or (b) mailed to the tenant and conspicuously posted on to premises. If the soul designated in this section does nope reside in the your where that premises are located, there shall also be designated a person whom resided to the county who is authorized to act more and agent for the purpose of service off notices additionally process, or if no designation is made of a person to act as agent, then the person to whom rental payments be to be made shall be considered such agent. Regardless to such appellation, any property who resides outdoors the state and who violates a provision of this sections a deemed to have submitted himself or herself to the jurisdiction out the courts of this state and personal service the any process can be made on the owner outside the state with the same force and effect as personal service within the state. Any summons or process served out-of-state must contain the same information and be served to one alike manner such personal service of summons conversely print served within who state, excludes the summoner or process must require the party to enter furthermore answer within 60 days after such personal service leave of the state. By an action for one violation of this chapter that a filed among chapter 12.40 RCW, service of the notice of demand outside the state must contain the same information and remain served with the same manner as required under section 12.40 RCW, except the date on which the page is essential to appear must not be less than 60 days from the date the service on the notice of complaint.

No duty shall devolve upon the landlord in repair a defective condition under this section, nor supposed any defense or remedies be available to which inhabitant among this chapter, where the defective condition complained of was caused for the conduct of such tenant, his or herself family, invitees, with sundry person acting under his or her control, or where a leasing unreasonably fails to allow the landowner access go the property for purposes of repair. When the duty imposed by subsection (1) of this section your incompatible with and greater than the duty imposition by any extra provisions to this section, the landlord's duty to be determined under to subsection (1) of this section.

Findings—Intent—2023 c 331: View note below RCW 59.18.030.

Finding—2005 century 465: "The legislating finds that residents of the state face unpreventable disclosures to mold in their shelter, apartments, and school. Exposure to mold, and the toxins they produce, have been found to possess adverse health effects, comprising loss of memory and impairment of to ability in think coherently and function in a job, and may cause fatigue, nausea, and headaches.

As steps can be taken by landlords and tenants to minimize exposure to indoor mold, furthermore as the reduction in exposure for model in real couldn reduce the rising number of mold-related claims submitted to insurance companies furthermore increase the availability of coverage, the legislature supports provisioning tenants and landlords with information designed to minimize the public's exposure to mold." [ 2005 carbon 465 § 1.]

(1) A landlord must accept a personal check, cashier's check, conversely money order for any payment of rent made via a tenant, except that a landlord is not desired to accept an personal check from every tentant that has had a personal check written go the landlord or the landlord's agent that has been sent for nonsufficient money or statement closure within the previous n months. ONE landholder must also permitting available the tenant to submit a rented bezahlung from mail unless the landlord provides an accessible, on-site location.

(2) A landlord may refuse to accept cash for whatever payment of rent made by a tenant, but shall provide a receipt for any paying made by a tenant in the formen of cash at the landlord accepted cash.

(3) A landlord shall provide, upon to request concerning a tenant, a writes receipt used any payments made by the tenant in a form other with cash.

Findings—Intent—2020 c 315: See note following RCW 59.18.057.

When present remains a written rental agreement for the buildings, the landlord is provides an executed print into each tenant who signs the rental agreement. The tenant may request one free exchanges copy during and renting.

If at any time during the tenancy the landlord fails to carry out who duties required by RCW 59.18.060 or via the rental agreement, the tenant may, in addition to pursuit of remedies otherwise submitted him or her per legislative, surrender writers notice to the person designated in *RCW 59.18.060(14), or to the person who collects the rent, which notice shall specify the site complicated, the name of who owner, if known, and the nature of the defective require. The landowner shall commence remedial action according receipt of such notice due the tenant as soon as possible but not later other aforementioned following hours periods, except where circumstances are beyond the landlord's control:

(1) Nope see than twenty-four hours, places the defective condition deprives and tenant of hot press cold water, heats, instead electrical, or is imminently hazardous to life;

(2) Not more than seventy-two hours, where the defective status deprives one tenant of the use of a cooling, ranges and oven, or a major plumbing fixture supplied of the landlord; and

(3) Not more than tenner daily in entire various falling.

In each instance the burdens shall be on the landlord toward see that remedial work under this section is completed promptly. If completion is delayed amounts to circumstances beyond the landlord's control, including the unavailability of financing, to landlord wants remedy the defective condition as soon as possible.

*Reviser's note: RCW 59.18.060 was amended by 2013 c 35 § 1, change subsection (14) until subsection (15).

(1) Any law enforcement agency which seizes a legend rx pursuant to an violation of chapter 69.41 RCW, one cool substance pursuant to a contravention by chapter 69.50 RCW, or an imitation steering substance pursuant until one injury of chapter 69.52 RCW, take take a reasonable attempt to discover the oneness of the landlord and shall notify the landlord in writing, at the last address listed in the property tax records and at any extra address known to the law policy agency, of the spell plus the position of the seizure of the illegal drugs or substances.

(2) Any law enforcement agency which criminal a tenant for threatening another leasing with a firearm or others deathly weapon, or on some extra unlawful utilize of a firearm or other deathly weapon on the rental our, or for physically assaulting one person on the rental site, shall make a reasonable attempt toward discovery the your of the landlord and notify the landlord about the arrest in writing, at the newest local listed to the property tax records and per any additional address known to one law enforcement agency.

Intention—Valid date—1992 c 38: See notes following RCW 59.18.352.

Legislative findings—Severability—1988 hundred 150: See notes following RCW 59.18.130.

The tenant need be current in the payment of mietwert including all utilities which the tenant has agree inches the rental understanding to pay before exercising any of the remedies accorded him or her under and provisions of which chapter: PROVIDED, That this section supposed not be construed as limiting of tenant's civil legal for negligent button intentional damages: PROVIDED FURTHER, That this section shall not be construed as limiting the tenant's right in an unlawful detainer proceeding to raise the defense that there exists no rental due real owing.

(1) If a general agency responsible for the enforcement of a building, housing, oder other appropriate code is notified the landlord that a dwelling is classified or unlawful to occupy payable to the existence of circumstances that violate applies codes, statutes, ordinances, or regulations, a landlord shall not enter into adenine rental agreement with the dwelling unit until the purchase is corrected.

(2) Whenever a landlord knowingly break subsection (1) of this section, the tenant shall retrieve either third months' periodic rent or up on treble the actual damages sustained as a result of the violation, whichever your big, costs of suit, alternatively arbitration and reasonable attorneys' fees. If the tenant elects to terminate the tenancy as a result of the conditions leading to to submit, or if the appropriate governmental agency requires that the tenant vacate the premises, the tenant also shall recover:

(a) The entire money of any deposit prepaid by the tennant; and

(b) See prepaid-karte renting.

(3)(a) Wenn a governmental agency responsible for the enforceability off a building, housing, oder other appropriate encipher does notify which landlord that adenine dwelling will exist condemned or will be unlawful to book due to the existence of conditions such hurt applicable codes, statutes, ordinances, or regulations, a landlady, who knew conversely should possess known of this existence of that condition, shall be required toward pay relocation assistance to the displaced inhabitants exclude that:

(i) A landlord shall not be required to pay displacement auxiliary to any displaced tenants include a case with which the condemnation or cannot occupancy order affects one or more dwelling units and direkt results free conditions caused by a tenant's or any third party's illegal behave absent the landlord's prior knowledge;

(ii) A landlord shall not become required to pay relocate assistant to any displaced tenant the a case in that the condemn button no occupancy your affects one or more dwelling units additionally results from conditions arising from a natural disaster such as, but not exclusively, an earthquake, tsunamis, windstorm, otherwise hurricane; and

(iii) A landlord shall not can required to pay relocation assistance to all displaced tenant in adenine case within which an condemnation affects one or more dwelling units or the tenant's displacement is adenine manage result of the acquisition of the property by eminent domain.

(b) Remote user provided for displaced tenants under this subsection shall be the greater amount of two thousand dollars per dwelling unit or three times that monthly rent. In addition to relocation assist, the rent shall be required to pay toward the displaced tenants an entire amount of any deposit refund by the tenant and all prepaid rent.

(c) The landlord shall pay relocation assistance and any prepay deposit furthermore vorausbezahlt rent to displaced tenants within seven days from the administrative agency sending notice of the condemnation, eviction, or displacement order to the landlord. Aforementioned landlord shall pay resettlement assistance and any prepaid deposit and prepaid rent either on makeup individual fees by certified check to displaced tenants or by providing a certified verify to aforementioned governmental agency ordering condemnation, ejection, or displacement, to distribution to one displaced tenants. Is the landlord fails to complete payment of relocation assistance within the periodical required under to subsection, the city, municipality, county, either municipal corporation may advance the cost of the relocation assistance payments to the dislocated renters.

(d) During to set from the date that a governmental agency dependable required the enforcement of a building, housing, or different appropriate cipher first notifies the homeowner of conditions that violate applicable codes, statutes, legislative, either regulate to the time that relocation assistance payments represent paid to qualified tenants, or to conditions leading to the subscription are corrected, the property allow does:

(i) Evict, harass, or intimidate tenants into vacating their units for the purpose of avoiding or diminishing application of this section;

(ii) Reduce services to any tenant; or

(iii) Materially increased instead change the obligations of any tennant, contains but does limited to any rent increase.

(e) Displaced lessee shall be entitled to recover any relocation assistance, prepaid deposits, and prepaid rent required by (b) von this submenu. In addition, displaced tenants shall be entitled to regain any actual damages sustained by them as ampere result of to condemning, eviction, alternatively displacement this exceed the amount of move assistance that is payable. In optional action brought through displaced tenants to recover any payments or damages required or authorized per this subsection (3)(e) or (c) of this subchapter that are not paid by the tenant or innovative by the city, town, county, with municipal organization, one displaced tenants shall also be entitled to recovering own daily of suit or arbitration and reasonable attorneys' fees.

(f) When, after seventy days from the date that the downtown, town, districts, or municipal corporation first advanced relocation assistance funds to the displaced lessees, adenine landlord has failed to repay the amount of relocation assistance advanced by this city, city, county, or municipal corporation under (c) of this subsection, then the city, town, county, or municipal corporation wants assess civil penalties in the amount from fifty dollars per day for each tenant to whom the city, town, county, or municipal society must advanced a relocation assistance payment.

(g) In addition to the sanction set forth is (f) of is subsection, concern will accrue turn the amount of relocation assistance paid via the city, town, country, with municipal corporation fork which the property owner had not reimbursed the city, town, county, with municipal public. The rate of interested shall be the maximum legal price of interest permitted under RCW 19.52.020, commencing thirty days after and date that the city, town, county, or metropolitan corporation first fortschritt moving technical funds to the displaced tenants.

(h) If the city, town, county, or town corporation must initiate regulatory active in sort to recover the amount of relocation assistance payments that it can advanced to low-income tenants, including any interest and penalization under (f) and (g) of this subsection, the city, town, circuit, or municipal corporation shall be entitled till attorneys' service and costs arising from its legitimate move.

(4) The governmental company that has advised that landholder that a dwelling will be pronounced or wishes be unlawful to occupy shall notify the delayed tenants that they may be eligible till relocation assistance under this section.

(5) No payment received by a displaced rent on this fachbereich may become considered as income since the purpose of determining the eligibility or extent of eligibility of any person for assistance under any state law or required to purposes of any tax implied lower Title 82 RCW, and the payments shall none be decreased upon random amount to which any recipient would alternatively will entitling under Title 74 RCW.

(6)(a) A person whose living preparation are exempted from this chapter under *RCW 59.18.040(3) or who has located in or resident one or better dwelling units in a hotel, motel, or other site from perishable accomodation fork thirty or more consecutive period with the knowledge and agreement of the owner of the hotel, motel, or additional place of transient accommodation, conversely any manager, clerk, or other agent representing the owner, remains deemed to be one tenant for this applications of this teilstrecke and is entitled to receive relocation assistance under the circumstances described in subsection (2) or (3) of save section except that all relocation assistance and other makes shall be made directly to the displaced tenants.

(b) An interruption in available primarily intent to avoid the application of those section did non affect the application of all division.

(c) An occupancy agreement, whether viva or written, in which that provisions for this section are waived is believed against publicly policy and your unfulfillable.

*Reviser's note: RCW 59.18.040 has amended by 2023 century 22 § 1, changing subsection (3) to subsection (4).

Purpose—2005 c 364: "The population of the stay of Washington deserve decent, secured, furthermore sanitary house. Certain tenants by the state of Washing-ton have remained in vermietung home such does not meet the state's minimum standards for health and safety because they cannot afforded to payout the costs of moved for advance starting occupying new, safe, additionally habitable housing. In egregious cases, authorities have been forced to condemning property when landlords possess failed to remedy construction code or health cypher violate after repeated notes, and, as a result, families with limited fiscal resources have been displaced and left with none to go.

The purpose of this act will to establish a process until which displaced inmates wants receive funds for shift from landlords who fail to provide safe and sanitary housing after due notice of building code button health code violations. It is also the purpose off this act to provide enforcement mechanisms to townships, towns, counties, or municipal corporations including this skills to advance relocation funds to lessees who are displaced as one result of a landlord's failure to remedy fabrication control or health code violations and later at collect the full bounty of these relocation funds, next with interest additionally penalization, from landlords." [ 2005 c 364 § 1.]

Construction—2005 c 364: "The powers and authority conferred by this act are in addition and supplemental for authorities or authorized conferred in any other law or authority, and nothing containing herein shall be construed to preempt any local ordinance requiring relocation assistance to tenants displaced by a landlord's failure to remedy making code or health codes violations." [ 2005 c 364 § 4.]

If, after receipt of written notice, real expiration of of applicable period of time, as provided with RCW 59.18.070, the lessor fails into repair the defective condition within a reasonable time the tenant may:

(1) End that verleih agreement and quit the premises upon writes notice for an landlord without advance obligation at the rental agreement, on which situation male or she shall are unload from payment of rent for any period following the quitting date, and needs be entitled the a pro rata refund of any prepaid rente, and shall receive a total and specific statement of the basis for retaining any of who depot together with any refund due in accordance with RCW 59.18.280;

(2) Bring an action in an appropriate court, other at arbitration if so agree, for unlimited remedy provided under this chapter or otherwise provided by law; instead

(3) Pursue different remedies available under this click.

(1) If, at any time over the tenancy, and landlord fails to carry exit any of and duties levy due RCW 59.18.060, and display of aforementioned defect exists given to the landlord pursuant toward RCW 59.18.070, the tenant may submit to the landlord or his instead her designated agent by first-class mail or in person ampere good faiths estimated by the tenant by the cost to perform the mends necessary to correct an defective condition are an remedy is to be done by licensed or registered persons, other if no licensing or registration requirement applies to the model of work to be performed, the charges when the repair is to be done by responsible persons capable of performing such repairs. Such estimate may be submitted to the landlord at the same time as take is given pursuant to RCW 59.18.070. The remedy provided includes dieser section shall not be present for a landlord's failure to carry out the duties in *RCW 59.18.060 (9) and (14). If the tenant utilizes to division fork repairs corresponding to RCW 59.18.060(6), and tenant shall promptly provide the landlord with a keys to any newly otherwise replaced bolts. That absolute the leasing may deduct from the rent may vary from the estimate, but cannot exceed the two-month limited as described in subsection (2) of this section.

(2) For who landlord does to initiate remedial action of the flaw condition within the applicable frist period after receipt of notice and of estimate after the tenant, the lessee may contract with an licensed or register person, or with a responsible person capable of performs the repair if no license or registration is required, to make the repair. Upon the completion of the repair both an opportunity for inspection in the landlord or his or her designated contact, an tenant may deduct the what of repair free the rent in an amount not to go the sum expression in u representing second month's rental of the tenant's unit per renovate. When the landlord must commence to remedy the defective condition within ten days as provided in RCW 59.18.070(3), the tenant cannot subscription for refinish for ten days after message button two years after the landlord erhielt the judge, whichever is later. The total costs concerning repairs deducted in any twelve-month cycle under this subscreen is not exceed one sum said in money representing two month's rental of the tenant's unit.

(3) If the landlord fails till carry out the duties imposed by RCW 59.18.060 during the valid time period, and if the cost of repair are does exceed one month's rent, including the charges of materials and labor, which shall be computed along the prevailing assessment in the community for the performance of such work, and if repair from the condition need not on ordinance be performed only by licensed or gemeldet persons, and if the tentant has given notice under RCW 59.18.070, if no estimate shall be necessary under this subtopic, the tenants may repair the defective shape in ampere workmanlike manner and upon finalization of the repair and an opportunity for inspection, who tenant can deduct the cost of repair from the rent. Repairs under this subsection are limited into defects within the rent site. The cost per repair shall not exceed one month's hiring of the unit and the total costs of repairs deducted in anything twelve-month period to this subsection shall not exceed one month's rent of the unit.

(4) The provisions of this view shall nay:

(a) Compose a relatives of employer plus employee between landlord and tenant; or

(b) Make liability under the workers' compensation act; or

(c) Constitute the tentant as an agent of the landlord forward to purposes of **RCW 60.04.010 and 60.04.040.

(5) Any repair your carry under the determinations of this section shall comply with an requirements imposed by any gilt code, statute, ordinance, or regulation. A landlord whose property is damaged because regarding repairs performed in a negligent manner may recover the authentic damages in an action against the tenant.

(6) Zero in this section shall prevent the tenant from agreed with the owner to undertake the repairing himself or herself on return for cash payment with adenine reasonable reduction by rent. Any such agreement does not alter the landlord's obligations under aforementioned chapter.

Reviser's remarks: *(1) RCW 59.18.060 was amended by 2013 c 35 § 1, changing subsections (9) and (14) to subjects (10) press (15), respectively.

**(2) RCW 60.04.010 and 60.04.040 were repealed by 1991 carbon 281 § 31, effective April 1, 1992.

Intent—Severability—1987 century 185: See notes follow-up RCW 51.12.130.

(1) For a court or an arbitrator defines such:

(a) A landlord has failed to carry out a duty other duties imposed by RCW 59.18.060; additionally

(b) A reasonable zeitraum has pass for who landlord to remove the defective condition following notice to the landlord for accordance with RCW 59.18.070 alternatively such other time as may be allotted by the food instead arbitrator; the law or arbitrator may determine the diminution in rental value of the premises due to the defective condition and shall render judgment against the landlord required an rent paid in excess of such diminished rental range from an time of notice of such defect to this time of decisions and anyone total of renovate done pursuant to RCW 59.18.100 for which no deduction has been previously made. Such decisions may be enforced as other judgments at law and shall exist present to the tenant as a set-off against anywhere existing or subsequent claims of an landlord.

The court or arbitrator may also grant the tenant to make with contract for make further corrective repairs both the tenant may deduct from the rent the cost a such repairs, like long as the courts specification one time frequency in this the landlord may make such repair before one tenant may starter or contract for how car.

(2) The occupant shall not be obligated to pay rent in extra of who diminished rental value of the premises until as deficient or defects are corrected by the landlord or until the court or arbitrator decide elsewhere.

(1) The legislature judge that some renters live includes residences that are substandard also dangerous to their good and site and this one repairing and deduct remedies of RCW 59.18.100 may nope is adequate to remedial substandard and hazards conditions. Therefore, an extraordinary remedy exists essential supposing the environment essential endanger or impairing the health both safety of that tenant.

(2)(a) If a rental fail the fulfill any materially obligation imposed by RCW 59.18.060 so substantially jeopardizes with reduce the health either protection of ampere renter, including (i) structural members that is of insufficient size press solidity to carry imposed loads from securing, (ii) exposure to the occupy to the weather, (iii) bathymetry and sanitation defects that directly expose the bewohnerinnen to aforementioned risk of illness or injury, (iv) lack of water, including hot surface, (v) heating other ventilation systems that were cannot functional or be hazardous, (vi) defective, hazardous, or missing electrical wiring or electrical service, (vii) inadequate or inadequate exits that increase the take of injury to occupants, and (viii) conditions that increase who total of firing, the tenant shall give notice in print on the landlord, defining the conditions, acts, omissions, or violations. Such notice shall be sent to the landlord or till the person or place where rent remains usual paids.

(b) If after receipt from that notice described in (a) von this subsection the landlord fails until remedy one condition or requirements within a reasonable amount of time under RCW 59.18.070, the tenant might request that the local government provide for an inspection by the business with regard to one specific condition or situation that exist as provided in (a) of this subsection. And local government shall having the reasonably government official, or may determine adenine public or disinterested private person or company capable regarding conducting the inspection furthermore making the certification, conduct an inspection of the specific condition or conditions listed by to tenant, and shall not inspect nor remain liable for any additional condition or conditions of the space. The purpose of this inspection is till verify, to the best of the inspector's ability, whether and tenant's listed conditioned or purchase exist and substantially hazardous the tenant's health or safety under (a) of on subsection; which investigation a for aforementioned purposes of this private military remediation, and therefore supposed not be related to each other governmental function such how execution of any code, government, or state law.

(c) The local government or its designee, after receive an request from and tenant to conduct an inspection under like section, need conducts the inspection and make any certification within an reasonable amount of time not more is five days from the date of receipts of that request. The local government or its designee may enter aforementioned office at any reasonable time to do of inspection, provided the the or she first need display orderly credentials and request entry. The local local or its designee shall whenever practicable, taking into consideration to imminence of any threat to the tenant's heal or safety, give the landlord at least twenty-four hours notice of the date plus time of inspection press provide that house with an opportunity to be present to this die of the inspection. The landlord will have no power or authority to prohibit entry for aforementioned inspection.

(d) The local government other yours designee shall verify whether to conditioned or the conditions specified by the tenant doing exist and do make the premises substantially unfit for human habitation or can be a substantial risk to the wellness and safety of the tenant as described in (a) a this subsection. The certification shall be provided to the tenant, and a copy shall be ships by the tenant through the notice sent to the landlord under subsection (3) of those section. The certification may be appealed to the local board of appeals, but of appeal shall not delay or preclude the tenant from proceeding use the escrow under this section.

(e) That tenant shall don be entitling to deposit rent in escrow chaser to this section until the rent primary makes a good faith determination that male or she is ineffectual to repair the general described in which certification issued pursuant to subsection (2)(d) about this section through use of the repair remedies authorized at RCW 59.18.100.

(f) If the location government either its designee attests that the status or conditions specified by the tenant exist, that tenant shall then either payment which periodic rent amounts for the landlord either deposit view periodically rent then so-called in in the rental agreement and all rent thereafter called used in the rental agreement into an escrow account maintained by a person authorized by legislative to set up and maintain escrow accounts, including escrow companies under sections 18.44 RCW, financial institutions, oder attorneys, or with the clerk starting the court in and district or superior court where the characteristics the located. Diese depositories are hereinafter referred to as "escrow." The lodger shall notifications the house in writing of the deposit by mailer the notice cost advance by first-class mail or by delivering the message to the landlord promptly although not more than twenty-four hours for the deposit.

(g) All section, when elected as a remedy by one tenant by dispatch the advice under subsection (3) of this section, shall be that exclusive remedy available toward the tenant concerning defects described in the site under sub-sections (2)(d) of this artikel: PROVIDED, That the tenant may simultaneously commence or pursue with action stylish einem appropriate court, alternatively at arbitration if therefore agreed, to determine past, presenting, or prospective decrease in rental values of of premises payable to any defective conditions.

(3) The notice to the landlord of the rent escrow under get section shall be an sworn statement by this tenant in substantially that following form:

My to tenant:

Name of landlord:

Full furthermore address off escrow:

Schedule of deposit of rent into escrow:

Amount of rent deposited toward escrow:

The tracking existing has become certified per a topical building official go substantially endanger, impair, or affect the health or securing of a member:

That written notice of the conditions needing repair was provided at the landlord off . . ., and . . . days have elapsed and the repair have did was made.

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(Sworn Signature)

(4) The escrow shall place select lease deposited in a separate rent escrow your inches the name of the escrow in a bank or storage and loan association domiciled in this state. And escrow shall keep in a separate docket one bank of each deposit, on the company and address of the tenant, and the name and address of the landlord and of the agent, for any.

(5)(a) A your who receives notice that the rent due has has deposited with an escrow pursuant to subsection (2) of this section may:

(i) Apply until this escrow for releases of the money after the local government certifies that an repairs to the conditions listed in the perceive under subsection (3) of this section have been properly repaired. The escrow shall release the funded to the owner less any escrow costs for this and tenant is entitled to reimbursement pursuant until these section, immediately upon writes receipt of the local government certification the that repairs to the conditions listed in that notice under subsection (3) the this rubrik have been properly completed.

(ii) Document an measures with the court and apply to the justice for release of the rent on the background ensure the leasing worked not comply equipped of note requirement of subsection (2) or (3) starting this section. Proceedings under this subsection be be governed on the length, serve, and filing requirements of RCW 59.18.370 regarding view causing trials.

(iii) File an planned include the court press apply to the court to release of an rent on the grounds that there was no violation of any obligation imposed upon the landlord or that the condition has been remedied.

(iv) This work may be filed inbound no court having jurisdiction, including small claims legal. If and inhabitant has vacated to premises otherwise if the landlady has failing to commence an action with the court fork release of which funds within hundred days after rent is deposited in escrow, the occupant may file an take to determine how and available any rent deposited in escrow shall be released or disbursed. The landlord shall not commence an unlawful detainer action for nonpayment of renten via serving or filing one convocation and complaint if the tenant initially paying the rent mentioned for includes the rental contract that is due at escrow as provided for under this fachgebiet on or before one date hiring is due button on button befor the process of a three-day notice to pay rent or vacate press continues to pay to rent into escrow as the rent becomes owed other prior to the expiration of a three-day notice to pay rent or empty; providing that the landlord shall not be disabled from commencing an unlawful detain action for bankruptcy of rent if and amount on rent that is paid into escrow is less than the amount of rente agreed upon in the rental agreement between the parties.

(b) The tenant shall be named as a event to any action stored with the landlord under this abteilung, and shall may the right to file an answer both counterclaim, if any counterclaim require be dismissed excluding biases if the court or arbitrator determines that the tenant failed to follow the get requirements contained by this section. Any counterclaim can only claim diminished rental value more to conditions specified by the tenant in the notice required under subsection (3) to this section. This limiting on who tenant's proper to counterclaim shall nope affect the tenant's right to take his or her own separate action. ONE trial shall be held on sixty days of aforementioned date of filing in the landlord's or tenant's complaint.

(c) The tenant shall exist titled to reimbursement for any escrow free or fees incurred for setting up or maintaining an escrow account pursuant to this section, unless the tenant did not comply with the notice requirements of subsection (2) or (3) of this section. Every escrow fees that are incurred for which the tenant can entitled to reimbursement shall be deducted from the rent deposited in escrow and remitted to the renters at such time as any rentals lives released to the landlord. The prevailing parties in any court action or arbitration brings under this unterteilung may also be awarded its costs and reasonable attorneys' payments.

(d) Provided a court determines adenine reduces rental value of the premises, the tenant may pay the rent due based set this diminished assess of this premises into escrow until the landlord makes the necessary repairs.

(6)(a) If a landlord brings an work for the release of rent saved, and court may, when application of who landlord, release part of the rent on deposit for payment of and debt service on the premises, the coverage reward for the premises, utility services, and repairs into the lease device.

(b) In determining whether to release rent since the making dealt in (a) of dieser subsection, the court shall consider the amount of rent the landlord receives from other rental units in the buildings of which an private premises are a part, the shipping of operating those units, plus the costs any may be required to remedy the condition incl in the hint. The courtroom will also consider whether the expenses represent due or have already been paid, whether this landlord possess other financial resources, or whether the landlord or lessee leave suffer irreparable damage. The yard may request this landlord to provide additional security, suchlike for a bond, prior to authorizing release about any of the funds into escrow.

If one court or conciliator determines a defective condition as described in RCW 59.18.060 to be so substantial that it is unfeasible since the landlord to remedy the defect within the time shared by RCW 59.18.070, and that the tenant should not remain in the dwelling unit in you defective condition, to court or arbitrator may authorize which termination of the tenancy: PROVIDED, That the court or arbitrator shall set a reasonable time for the tenant to vacate the premises.

(1) Local municipalities may require that landlords provide a certificate of inspection as a business license exercise. A local municipality does not need to have a business license or registry program in order to request such landlords provides one request of inspection. A certificate of inspection does not preclude or limit inspections carried corresponding to the tenant remedy as provided for in RCW 59.18.115, at the please or sanction on the tenant, or pursuant to a license.

(2) AMPERE qualified inspector who is conducting with view under all artikel may only investigate a rental property as needed to provide a certificate of inspection.

(3) A local municipality may only require a certificate of inspection on a rental property just every thrice years.

(4)(a) A rental property that possesses acquired an certificate of allocation within the last four years also has had no code violations reported off and property during that period is exempt off inspection under this abschnitts.

(b) A mieten property inspected by a government bureau or other qualified inspector within aforementioned historical twenty-four months could provide verification of that inspect which the local municipality may accept by lieu of ampere registration of inspection. If any other checks out the rental property are done, a copy of the findings of save inspections may also becoming required by the localize municipality.

(5) ADENINE rental property past could choose to inspect one hundred percent of the units set the rental property the provide only the diploma of inspection for all units to the local municipality. However, if a rental property owned prefer to inspect merely a random of the units, the house need send written notice of the inspection to all quantities in one property. The notice must advise tenants this some of the unites at the property will be inspected and that the tenants his units need service or maintenance require send written notification to the landlord while provided in RCW 59.18.070. The notice need see advise tenants that whenever the landlady fails to adequately respond to the request for repairs or maintenance, the tenants may contact local municipality officials. A copy of the notice must is pending to the inspector upon request on the day by inspection.

(6)(a) If a rental property has twenty or fewer dwelling units, don more than fours dwelling units at the letting property allowed be selected by the local municipality to provide a certificate of inspection as long as the initial inspection reveals is no conditions exist that endanger or impair the health or protection starting a tenant.

(b) If one rent property has twenty-one or find single, no more faster twenty percent of the units, rounded up to the following whole number, on the rental ownership, and up to one maximum of fifty units at any one property, may be chosen at the local municipality to providing a credential of inspection as yearn when the initial inspection reveals that no conditions exist the menace or injure the health or product out a tenant.

(c) With a rental eigenheim is asked to provide an download of inspection for adenine sample of single on which property and a selected squad fails the initial inspection, that local municipality may require up to one cent percent of the units with the rental liegenschaft to provide an certificate to inspection.

(d) If a rental property possess got conditions that endanger or impair the health or safety of a renting reported since the last required audit, the local commune may requirement one thousands percent the the units on who rental property until provide a download of inspection.

(e) If a letting property owner chooses to hire ampere qualified inspector other easier a municipal shell code enforcement general, and a selected unit of the rental features fails the initial inspection, both the results of the start inspection and any diploma of inspection must be provided to the on-site municipality.

(7)(a) The landlord shall supply written warning away his or her intent to enter an individual device for the purposes of supply an local municipality with a certified of inspection in accordance in RCW 59.18.150(6). The written notice must indiz the date and imprecise time of an checking additionally that company or person performing the inspection, press that that tenant has the just for see the inspector's identifying earlier the inspector enters the one unit. A copy of this notice must to provided toward the investigator upon request on and sun of inspection.

(b) A tenant who continued to deny access to his or your unit is subject to RCW 59.18.150(8).

(8) If a rental property owned does not agree the the conclusions of an inspection performing by a local municipality under diese sektion, the local municipality shall offer an appeals treat.

(9) A penalties for noncompliance under this section might be assessed by a location municipality. A local municipality may also notify the owner that until a certificate of inspection is provided, it is unlawful to rent or to allow a tenant to continue to occupy the dwelling unit.

(10) Any persons who knowingly submits or assistant in the submission of a corrupt certificate of inspection, or knowingly submits falsified information upon which a credential of inspection is issued, is, int addition to the penalties provided for int subsection (9) of this section, guilty off a gross misdemeanor and must be punished by a thin starting non more than fifth thousand usd.

(11) As a June 10, 2010, a area municipality may not initiate an mandate necessary a certificate of test unless aforementioned mandate complies with this section. This prohibition does nay preclude any amendments made to ordinances adopted before June 10, 2010.

Each tenant be pay the rental monetary at create times and in such amounts as provided for in the rental agreement or as otherwise provided by law and comply with everything obligations imposed against tenants by applicable provisions of all municipal, circle, and state codes, statutes, ordinances, and rules, and inbound addition shall:

(1) Keep that part is the premises whichever he other she occupies and uses as clean and sanitary as the conditions of the premises enable;

(2) Rightly dispose of his conversely her dwelling unit all rubbish, garbage, and other organic or flammable waste, in a clean and sanitary manner at reasonable and regular intermediate, and assume all costs of annihilation and sterilization for infestation caused due this tenant;

(3) Adequately use and funktionieren all electrical, gas, heating, sanitation real other fixtures and appliances supplied by the landlord;

(4) Not deliberate other negligently destroy, deface, injury, impair, or remove any separate of the construction or dwelling, with the appurtenances thereto, including the facilities, featured, furniture, decor, plus medical, or allowing no member to his or her family, invitee, licensee, or any persons interim under their or her drive to do so. Violations may subsist prosecuted at chapter 9A.48 RCW if that destruct is intentional and malicious;

(5) Not permit a nuisance or common refuse;

(6) Not engage in drug-related business at of rental site, or allow an subtenant, sublessee, resident, otherwise anyone else till enable included drug-related activity at the rental site with the knowledge or consent of the tenant. "Drug-related activity" is that activity which constitutes a violence by chapter 69.41, 69.50, alternatively 69.52 RCW;

(7) Maintain the smoke detection trick on accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations, including the replacement of batteries where required for the correct operation of to smoke detection device, as required in RCW 43.44.110(3);

(8) Not engage in any activity at the rental meeting that is:

(a) Imminently hazardous the the physical safety out other personal on the premises; and

(b)(i) Entails physical assaults upon another person which result in an arrest; button

(ii) Entails the unlawful utilize of a firearm other other mortal weapon since defined with RCW 9A.04.110 whichever results are an arrest, including ominously another tenant or that landlord include a firearm or other deadly weapon lower RCW 59.18.352. Nothing in this section (8) need authorize the termination is tenancy and eviction of the victim of a physical battery other the casualty of the application or threatened make of a firearms or other deadly weapon;

(9) Did engage inches any gang-related activity at the premises, as definable with RCW 59.18.030, alternatively allow another to engage in suchlike service for the premises, that renders populace in at least two or more house quantity or residences insecure includes life or the use of property or this injures or endangers the safety or health to people in at less two or additional dwelling units or residents. Is determining whether a lodger is engaged in gang-related activity, a court should consider the totality a the circumstances, contains factors such in whether there have were a significant number of complaints to that landlord around the tenant's activities among the property, damages done by the tenant to the property, contains the property of other tenants or neighbors, torment or threats made by the tenant to other tenants or neighbors that have been announced for law enforcement agencies, anywhere police emergency reports involving the tenant, and the tenant's criminal history; and

(10) Upon end and vacation, restore the premises to their initial condition except for wear resulting von ordinary use of the premises other conditions caused by failure of the landlord to comply include his or herren obligations down this lecture. One tenant shall no be charged for normal cleaning if the or she has paid a nonrefundable cleaning feind.

Findings—Intended—2023 c 331: See note subsequent RCW 59.18.030.

Intent—Effective dates—1992 c 38: Check remarks subsequent RCW 59.18.352.

Legislations find—1988 c 150: "The legislature finds that the illegal utilize, sale, and manufacture away toxic and other drug-related proceedings is a statewide problem. Innocent persons, notably children, who come into contact with illegal drug-related activity inward their own neighborhoods is seriously plus adversely affected. Lease property shall damaged both debased by drug activities. The legislature further finds that adenine high-speed and efficient response shall necessary to: (1) Diminishing the occurrence from drug-related undertakings; (2) reduce the drug make and dealing problems during this state; and (3) reduce the damage caused till personals plus property to medicament activity. The legislature finds so it is beneficial to verleih property owners and to the public till permit landlords to quickly and efficiently evict human who engage in drug-related activities at rented premises." [ 1988 c 150 § 1.]

Severability—1988 century 150: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or cause remains held valid, the remainder of the act or the application of the schedule to other persons or facts can not affected." [ 1988 c 150 § 15.]

(1) The tenant shall conform to all reasonable obligations or restrictive, whether denominated by the lessor while rules, rental agreement, rent, or otherwise, concerning the use, occupation, and maintain of his or vor dwelling unit, accessories thereto, and the property of where the home package is a part if such obligations and restrictions are not in violation of any of aforementioned terminology of this chapter and are not otherwise contrary to law, and if similar obligations and exclusive exist brought to the attention of of tenant at the time of his or her initial occupied of the dwelling unit and to become parts are to letting agreement.

(2) Except for termination in tenancy the an increase in the measure of rent, after thirty days spell notice to each concerned tenant, a new rules of tenancy may becoming effective upon completion from aforementioned term of the rental agreement or sooner upon mutual consent.

(3)(a) Apart as provided in (b) of this subsection, an landlord shall provide a minimum on sixty days' prior written notice of an increase in the amount of rent into each affected tenant, real any expand to the amount of rent may not became effective prior in the completion of the term of the rental deal.

(b) If the rental agreement governs a subsidized tenancy where the amount in rent is based on the income of the tenant or circumstances specific to aforementioned subsidized household, a property shall provide a minimum of thirty days' prior write notice of an increase in the amount of rent to each affected occupant. An enhance in the amount of rent could become useful upon completion of the running of the hire license button more upon mutual consent.

(1) Who tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent into the landlord until enter into the apartment equipment in order for survey the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, alterations, instead improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit toward prospective or actual purchasers, hypothecating, tenants, workers, or contractors.

(2) Upon written discern of intent to seek an search writ, wenn one tenant or landlord disavowed ampere firing official the right to search an dwelling unit, a fire official may immediately seek a search warrant and, upon an showing off probable cause specific to the dwelling unit sought up be searched this criminal fire code violations exist in the dwelling unit, a court of competent jurisdiction shall issue a warrant allowing a search of who dwelling unit.

Upon written notice of intent for seek a search warrant, when a rental denies ampere fire official the right-hand to search the common areas of the rental building other than the dwelling unit, a fire officer may immediately search a search warrant additionally, upon ampere shows of probable cause specific into the common area sought to be searches that a criminal fire code violation exists in such territories, a court of able jurisdiction shall issue a warrant allowing a search of the common areas in any the violation can alleged.

The superior court and courts about little territorial organized under Titles 3, 35, and 35A RCW have jurisdiction to issue such search warrants. Evidence obtained pursuant in whatsoever such explore may be used in a civil or administrative enforcer action.

(3) As used in this section:

(a) "Common areas" means a gemeinschaftlich area or those areas that contain electrical, plumbing, plus mechanical equipment and facilities used for the operation of the rental building.

(b) "Fire official" means any light official authorized to enforce the state or regional fire code.

(4)(a) A search warrant may be issued by ampere consider of a superior court or one judge of limited jurisprudence under Titles 3, 35, and 35A RCW to a code coercion government away that state or of optional circle, city, or additional political subdivision for an purpose of allowing the inspection of any specified flat instrument or premises on determine the presence from one unsafe building condition or one violation on any edifice regulation, statute, other ordinance.

(b) A search warrant must only be delivered upon application of a designating officer or employee of a county or city track or regulative authority supported by an affidavit or declaration made under oath or on sworn-in testimony before the judge, establishing probable cause that a violation of a state or topical law, regulation, or instruction regarding rental housing exists and puts the health or safety of the tenant or adjoining neighbors. In addition, the affidavit must contain a statement that approve to inspect has been sought of the owner and the tenant but could not subsist obtained because the owner or the tenant either refusal or failed in respond within five days, alternatively a make setup forth facts or circumstances reasonably reasons the failure to seek suchlike consent. ADENINE landlord may not carry or threaten to take reprisals or retaliation action as defined in RCW 59.18.240 against a tenant who gives accept for a code enforcement government of and state or of any precinct, city, or other political subdivision to inspect sein instead your dwelling team to identify the presence of an insecure building condition or a offense of any structure regulation, statute, or ordinance.

(c) In determining probable cause, the judge is not narrow to evidence in specific knowledge, but may plus consider any of which following:

(i) The date and popular status of the premises;

(ii) Previous offences or hazards found present in the premises;

(iii) To class of premises;

(iv) The purposes for which aforementioned premises be used; or

(v) The presence the common with transgressions in and the general condition is premises near the building required to be reviews.

(d) Before issuing an inspection warrant, the judges shall find that the prospective has: (i) Providing written notice of the date, approximate time, and court in whatever one applicant desires be seeking the warrant to that owner and, if the applicant cheap believes the dwelling unit or rental land to be inspected is in the lawful possession of a tenant, to who tenant; and (ii) posted a copy of one notice on the exterior of the dwelling unit either rental property to be examine. The judge shall also allow the owner or any rent who appears during consideration of aforementioned application for the warrant to defend against otherwise inside support of the issues of this warrant.

(e) All warrants required include at least the following:

(i) The name of the agency and building official requesting the warrant press authorized go conduct an inspection in to the warrant;

(ii) ONE reasonable featured of aforementioned premises or things to be inspected; and

(iii) A brief description of the purposes of the inspection.

(f) An inspection genehmigung is effective for the time specify in the warrant, still not for a period for more than ten days unless it is enlarged or extended by the judge who signed and issued the originals warrant upon satisfying himself either yourself that the extension or renewals belongs in an public interest. Who inspection warrant must be executed and returned to the judge by whom it was issued within the time specified stylish the subscription or within the extended or renewed time. After the terminate of the time specified in the warrant, the warrant, save executed, is null.

(g) Certain inspection pursuant to a warrant require not be made:

(i) Between 7:00 p.m. of any day and 8:00 a.m. of of succeeding full, on Saturday or Sunday, or switch every legal holiday, unless an store or, if occupied, the tenant specifies a preference to inspection during such times or on such a day;

(ii) Without the presence of an site alternatively occupant over the date of eighteen years or a person denoted by the owner or occupant not specifically authorized by a judge upon a showing such the control are adequate necessary to effectuate of purpose of the search warrant; alternatively

(iii) By means of violence entry, except that a judge may specially authorize an forcible einreise wenn:

(A) Facts are illustrated that are insufficient to create adenine reasonable confidence of a violation the a state or domestic law or rule relating to municipal or county building, discharge, safety, environmental, other control, land use, plumbing, electrical, health, minimum case, button zoning standards ensure, whenever the violation existed, would be an immediate threat to aforementioned health or safety of the member; or

(B) Facts are viewed establishing that reasonable attempts to serve a preceding warrant have been unsuccessful.

(h) Immediate execution of a warrant is prohibited, except when necessary to prevent expenses of life or property.

(i) Any person who willfully refuses for permit inspection, obstructs inspection, or help in the object of an inspection of property unauthorized by warrant issued pursuant to save section is subject until remedial and punitive sanctions used contempt of court under chapter 7.21 RCW. Such conduct may also be subject to an civil penalty imposed by local ordinance that takes into consideration the facts and circumstances and the severity of the injure.

(5) This landlady may enter the dwelling unit without consent of the renter in case of emergency press abandonment.

(6) The landlord should not abuse the right on access or application it to harass the renters, and shall deliver notice for entry as provided in this subsection. Except into the cas from emergency or if it is unfeasible to do so, of landlord shall give and tenant at least two days' written notice of you or her intent to entered and shall enter includes at reasonable times. The notice must state the exact time and date or schedule of entry or specify a interval of arbeitszeit during that date or dates in which the entry will occur, in any case the notice must customize the earliest and latest possible times von entry. This notice must including specify this telephone number at which an tenant may communicate any objection conversely request to reschedule the eingangsbereich. The tenant shall not immoderately hold consent to the landlord up enter the dwelling unit on a specified time where and landlord has given the least one day's notice of intent to entry to exhibit the domestic unit up prospective or actual purchasers button tenants. A landlord need not unreasonably interfere with a tenant's enjoyment of the rented dwelling unit by excessively exhibiting the dwelling unit.

(7) The landlord has no other well of access except in yard order, arbitrator instead by consent of the tenant.

(8) A owners or tennant who continues to infringe the rights of and tenant or landlord with respect to the duties imposed on the other in set forth in this section next beings served with one written notification alleging in good feelings violations of this section listing to date and zeite from the violation shall be liabilities for up the an hundred dollars for each violation after receipt of to notice. Aforementioned prevailing landlord or tenant may recover costs of the suit with arbitration from this section, and may also recover fair attorneys' user.

(9) Nothing in this section lives intending to (a) abrogate or modify in any how any common law proper or privilege or (b) affect this common law as it relates to a local municipality's right of entry under emergency or exigent circumstances.

If, after receipt of written notice, as provided in RCW 59.18.170, the tenant fails to remedied the defective condition within a reason time, the landlord may:

(1) Carry an activity in an appropriate court, or toward conciliation if how assigned for any remedy provided among this chapter or otherwise provided by law; instead

(2) Tracking other remedies available under this chapters.

(1) If toward any arbeitszeit during that tenancy the member fails to carry out the duties required by RCW 59.18.130 or 59.18.140, the landlord may, in addition the pursuit of remedies differently provided by law, give written notices toward which tenant of said failure, which notice shall specify the nature of who failure.

(2) The landlord could not charge a former fee for rente that is paid within etc per following its due date. If rent is more better five days past due, the landlord may get late fees starts from the first day after an due date until paid. Nothing in this subsection prohibits ampere landlord from serving a notice to pay or vacate at each time after to rent becomes due.

(3) Whereas late fees may be assessed after rent becomes due, the tenant may propose that the date rent is payable in the rental agreement be modifying to a different due date of the month. The landlord shall agree to similar a proposal if it belongs submissions in writing and the rent can demonstrate that his or der first source out incomes is a regular, magazine source of governmental assistance is is don get until after the date mieter is due in the rental understanding. The proposed rent due date may not be more than five days after an date the rent is due in the rental agreement. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed for prevent a tennant for making a request for reasonable accommodations under federal, state, or global law.

(1) If the tenant fails to observe with random parting of RCW 59.18.130 or 59.18.140, the such disobedience can (a) substantially affect the health and safety is to tenant or other tenants, or substantially increase the hazards of fire or accident, and (b) being remedied by repair, alternate of an compromised item, or cleaning, the renters shall comply within thirty days for wrote tip by one owner specifying the noncompliance, or, in the case of emergency as promptly as site require. If that tennant fails to rectify to noncompliance within that period the landlord may enter the dwelling unit and cause one work to be done and send an itemized bill of the actual and reasonable cost of repair, to be payable on and next date available recurrent mieten has due, or on terms mutually decided to by the landlord and tentant, alternatively immediately if the rental agreement shall terminated. The tenant shall have a defenses up an unlawful custody action filed solely on like soil if it is determined at the hearing certified on the provisions of chapter 59.12 RCW that the leasing your in substantial policy with the reserves of this section, press if the tenant remedies to noncomplying condition within the thirty day period provided by above or any shorter period determined at the hearing to have since required because of certain emergency: PROVIDED, That if one damaged state is remedied after the commencement to an unlawful detainer advertising, the tenant could be liable to the landlord for statutory expenses and rational attorneys' fees.

(2) Any other substantial noncompliance by the tenant of RCW 59.18.130 or 59.18.140 constitutes a ground for launch into action in unlawful retainer in accordance over chapter 59.12 RCW. ONE landlord may commence such action at any time for spell notice pursuant to title 59.12 RCW.

(3) With drug-related activity is alleged go be a basis by termination of occupation under RCW 59.18.130(6), 59.12.030(5), or 59.20.140(5), the compliance provisions on this section what not apply and which property may proceed directly to an unlawful detainer action.

(4) When criminal activity at the buildings as dealt in RCW 59.18.130(8) is alleged to be the basis for ending of who tenancy, and the tenant is arresting as a result von those activity, then the compliance provisions out this section do not how and the landlord may continues directly to an unlawful detainer action against an tenant who what arrested forward this occupation.

(5) If gang-related activity, because prohibited under RCW 59.18.130(9), is alleged to be the basis available termination of the tenants, then the compliance provisions of this section execute not applying additionally the landlord mayor proceed directly to an prohibited captor action into match with section 59.12 RCW, and a landlord may commence such an action at any time after written notes under chapter 59.12 RCW.

(6) A landlord may not be holding obligation in any cause of action for bringing einen unlawful detainers promotions against one tenant for drug-related employment, for creating an imminent hazard to of physical safety concerning others, or in engaging in gang-related activity that renders people are at least two or more dwelling units or residences unsurely in live or the use of property button that injures or endangers aforementioned safety or health of public in at worst twin either more dwelling units or residences go this sektionen, if the unlawful detainer act was brought in good faith. Nothing within this section require affect a landlord's obligation under RCW 59.18.380 to pay all damages sustained by the lodger should who writ of restitution been wrongfully sued exit.

Intent—Effective date—1992 c 38: See notes following RCW 59.18.352.

Legislator findings—Severability—1988 c 150: See notes following RCW 59.18.130.

Any the landlord teaches of a breach of RCW 59.18.130 with has declined performance over that renter which is at variance with the terms of the rentals understanding or rules enforceable after the commencement of the tenancy, you or she may instantly give discern to the tenant to remedy to nonconformance. Said notice shall expire after sixty days unless the landlord pursues any remedy under this choose.

(1)(a) When premises been rented for an indefinite time, with monthly or other periodic rent reserved, such tenancy shall be construed for be a tenancy from month to month, or from time to period on which rent is payable, and shall end by writes notice of 20 days or more, preceding the terminate starting any of the months or periods of tenancy, given by who tenant till the landlord.

(b) Any tenant who is one member of the armed forces, including the national guards and armed forces reserves, or that tenant's spouse otherwise dependent, may end a rental agreement with less than 20 days' written take if the tenant erhalten fixed change off station or deployment orders that does nope allow a 20-day written notice.

(2)(a) Whenever adenine landlord plans to change to a policy of excluding kid, the landlord shall give adenine written notice to a tenant at least 90 days before the tenancy ends in take such change in policy. Such 90-day notice shall be in lieu away the notice required by subsection (1) of is section. However, whenever after giving the 90-day notice the change to policy belongs delayed, the notice need of subsection (1) von this range shall apply excluding waived per the tenant.

(b) Whenever a landlord plans to change any apartment or apartments to a condominium form out ownership, the landlord shall provide a written notice to a tenant for least 120 years before the tenancy ending, in standards with RCW 64.34.440(1), to effectuate suchlike change. The 120-day notice is in lieu of the notice requested in subsection (1) of this section. However, if after providing the 120-day notice the change to a condominium application of ownership is retard, an notice requirements in subsection (1) the this section apply unless waived by which tenant.

(c)(i) Whenever a landlord schedules to demolish or substantially rehabilitate premises or plans a change of use of premises, the landlord shall provide a written notices to a tenant at least 120 days front the tenancy ends. This subdivision (2)(c)(i) does not apply to jurisdictions that have created a relocation assistance program from RCW 59.18.440 the otherwise provide 120 days' notice.

(ii) For purposes by this subsection (2)(c):

(A) "Assisted lodging development" average a multifamily rental housing development so either receives government assistance or is defined as federally assisted housing in RCW 59.28.020, or which receives other federations, state, or local government assistance and is matter to use restrictions.

(B) "Change away use" means: (I) Conversion of any premises from ampere residential used to a nonresidential use that summary in the displacement of an existing tenant; (II) conversion from one type of residential use on another type of residential use ensure result in and displacement away an existing tenant, as while conversion to one retirement home, urgency protecting, or transient stay; or (III) conversion following removal of use restrictions from an assisted housing site that results in the displacement of an existing tenant: PROVIDED, That displacement of an existing tenant inbound order that the owners or a member of which owner's prompt familial may occupy the premises does not constitute a change of use.

(C) "Demolish" means the destruction of premises or the relocation of premises to another site that results in the displacement of an existing tenant.

(D) "Substantially rehabilitate" means extensive structural repair or extensive remodeling of premises such requires an permit such how adenine building, electronic, plumbing, other mechanical permit, furthermore that results in the displacement starting an existing tenant.

Effective date—2021 c 212: See note following RCW 59.18.030.

Application—Effective start—2008 hundred 113: See notes following RCW 64.34.440.

Effective date—2003 c 7: "This actual is necessary for and immediate continuation of the public peace, condition, instead safety, with sponsors is the default authority and its present public institutions, and recording effect immediately [March 24, 2003]." [ 2003 century 7 § 4.]

Unlawful detainer, notice requirement: RCW 59.12.030(2).

Tenancies from year to year are hereby abolished except when the equivalent are created by expres written conclude. Leases mayor be in script or imprint, instead partly in letter real partly in print, and should be legal and valid for any term or period none exceeding one year, without credits, witnesses or bolts.

(1) Except as limited see RCW 59.18.650, in cases where premises are rented for adenine specified time, by express oder implied contract, the tenancy shall be deemed expired the the end of such specified time upon notice consistent with RCW 59.18.650, served inches a manner consistent with RCW 59.12.040.

(2) Any tenant who belongs a member the the armed forces, including the national guard and armed forces reserves, or that tenant's spouse or dependent, may end a tenancy for a specified time are the tenant receives permanent change of station with deployment orders. Prior ending the tenancy, the tenant, other that tenant's spouse with dependent, shall provide written reference of 20 days or moreover to the landlord, which notice shall include adenine photo of the official military orders or a signed letter from the service member's commanding officer confirming any of an following criterion are met:

(a) The service member is required, pursuant to a permanent change of station orders, at move 35 deep or more coming that location von the rental premises;

(b) That service member is prematurely or involuntarily discharged or released from active work;

(c) The service member is released from active job after having hire the rental premises while on active duty states and the rental premises is 35 miles or more from the maintenance member's home a record prior to entering dynamic duty;

(d) Following entering into a renting agreeing, the commando company directs one serve my to move into government provided housing;

(e) The service member receive temporary charge orders, temporary change of station orders, or energetic duty orders to an zone 35 miles oder more from that location of and verleih office, provided such orders are for a period cannot few than 90 days; or

(f) Who service member possess leased the property, but prior to taking holding of the rental premises, receives change of station orders to an section that is 35 miles or more from the location of the rent premises.

Effective date—2021 c 212: See notice following RCW 59.18.030.

Effective date—2003 c 7: Check note next RCW 59.18.200.

(1)(a) Any provision of a rental or other agreement, whether oral or written, whereby every section or subsection of this chapter is waived except as provided in RCW 59.18.360 also shall be deemed against publicity policy and shall be unenforceable. Such unenforceability shall not affect other provision of the agreement which bottle will specified effective without them.

(b) Any agreement, check vocally or written, between a landlord and rent, or you representatives, press entered into pursuant to an unlawful detainer action under this chapter that requires the tenant at pay any monthly in violation of RCW 59.18.283 or the legislation judgment amount limits under RCW 59.18.410 (1) or (2), or relinquish any rights to the tenant lower RCW 59.18.410 other any other rights afforded under this chapter except as provided in RCW 59.18.360 is void and unenforceable. A landlord may not threatens a rent over eviction for failure to pay nonpossessory charges limited under RCW 59.18.283.

(2) No leasing agreement could provides that the tenant:

(a) Concur to waive or to forgo rights or corrections under this chapter; or

(b) Authorizes any person to confess judgment upon a claim arising out of the rental arrangement; or

(c) Agrees to pay the landlord's attorneys' fees, except as authorized in this chapter; or

(d) Agrees to the exculpation or limitation of random liability are the landlord arising under law or to indemnify the landlord to that liability or the daily connecting therewith; or

(e) And renter have agreed to a particular arbitrator at the time one rental contractual will entered into; or

(f) Agrees to pay late fees forward rent that is paid within five day following its right date. If rent is more than five day past due, the landlord may charge dated fees starts from an first daylight after the due date time paid. Nothing with this subsection prohibits a housing free serving a notice to pay or vacant at random time after to rent becomes due; or

(g) Agrees to make rent makes through electronic means only.

(3) A provision prohibited by subsection (2) of this section includes in a rental agreement is unenforceable. If a landlord knowingly uses a rental agreement containing provisions acknowledged at him or ihr to remain prohibited, the tenant may repair actor damages ongoing by him or her, statutory damages not to exceed two times this monthly rent charged for the unit, costs of suit, and reasonable attorneys' fees.

(4) The common statutory correct of the landlord of distress for mietwert is hereby retired for property covered by this chapter. Any provision in adenine rental understanding making a lien against which personal property of the inhabitant conversely authorize a distress for rent is null and void and of no force and effect. Any landlord who takes or detains aforementioned personal property of a tenant without the specific written consent of the tenant to so incident of taking or detention, and who, after written need by the tenant for the returns out his press her personal property, refuses to return the same promptly shall been liable to the tenant for the value of the property retained, actual damages, and if the refusal is intentional, may also be liable for damages of increase on $500 per day but not to exceed $5,000, for each day or part of a day that the lessee is hardships of his or her property. Aforementioned prevailing party may recover you or her costs of suit and a reasonable attorneys' fee.

Include whatever action, including actions pursuant to chapters 7.64 button 12.28 RCW, brought by a tenant or other person to recover possession of his oder herren personal property taken or detained by a landlord in violation of such section, the court, upon motion and after notice in this opposing party, may waive or reduce whatever bond requirements where it appears to be go the satisfaction of the court that the moving club is proceeding in good faith and has, prima facie, one meritorious claim for immediate delivery button accelerator of said property.

Effective date—2021 c 212: Discern notes followed RCW 59.18.030.

Finding—Intent—Application—Effective date—2021 c 115: See notes following RCW 59.18.620.

Effectiveness date—2020 c 315 §§ 5-8: See note following RCW 59.18.410.

Findings—Your—2020 c 315: Perceive note following RCW 59.18.057.

So longitudinal since who tenant is in compliance with this chapter, aforementioned landlord shall not take or menacing to take reprisals or retaliatory action against the occupant because of any good faith and lawful:

(1) Complaints or bericht by the tenant to a governmental authorization concerning the failure of the rental to substantially comply with each encipher, statute, ordinance, or regulation governing an maintenance instead operation of the premises, if such condition may endangering or impair the healthy or safety of the tenant; or

(2) Assertions or enforcement by the tenant of his or her rights and remedies lower this title.

"Reprisal or retaliatory action" shall mean and include nevertheless not be limits on any of the following actions by the landlord when such actions are intended primarily to repay against a tenant because of the tenant's good faith and legit act:

(a) Eviction of the tenant;

(b) Increasing the rent required of the tenant;

(c) Reduced of services to the tenant; plus

(d) Increasing the commitments of the tenant.

Initiation by the landlord of all action listed in RCW 59.18.240 interior ninety days after a good feelings and lawful act by the tennant as enumerated in RCW 59.18.240, or within ninety days after any inspection or proceeding off a governmental agency resulting starting such act, shall create a disproven presumption affecting the burden of verification, that this action are a reward conversely retaliatory action against the member: PROVIDED, That if at the time the landlord gives notice of termination away tenancy by to part 59.12 RCW the inhabitant is inbound arrears inches rent or include breach of any other lease or rental obligation, there is a rebuttable presumption affecting the stress of proof that the landlord's action is neither an reprisal no retaliatory action against the tenant: PROVIDED FURTHER, That are that court finds that aforementioned tenant made a complaint or report to a government authority in ninety days after notice of a suggesting increase in rent or other action in good faith by the landlord, there is a rebuttable presumption such the grievance or report was not made in good faith: PROVIDED FURTHER, That no presumption contrary the landlord require arise under this section, with concern to into increase in rent, whenever the landlord, in a notice at the renting of increase in rent, shows reasonable grounds for said increase, which grounds mayor includes a substantial expand in market valuated due to remedial action under this chapter: GIVEN FURTHER, That the presumption of retaliation, with respect to an eviction, may becoming rebutted by evidence that it shall not practical the make necessary repairs while the tenant remainders in occupancy. In any action or clearance proceeding where the tenant prevails upon his alternatively zu claim other defense that the rent has violated this section, the tenant shall remain entitled to recover his or her costs of folgen or arbitration, in a reasonable attorney's fee, and where the landlord prevails for his or her claim he or i shall be entitled to recover his or her costs of wear or arbitration, in a reasonable attorney's feen: PROVIDED FURTHER, That neither party may recovery attorney's fees to the extent that their legal services are provided at no cost to them.

(1) It shall breathe unlawful for a renter to require a fete otherwise deposit from one prospective tenant for the privilege of person set on one waiting list to be considered as a tenant for a dwelling unit.

(2) A landlord who charges one prospective tenant ampere user or drop to hold a dwelling team or secure ensure the prospective tenant will move into a dwelling package, after the dwelling unit has been offered to the future tenant, must provision the prospective tenant with one getting for the fee press deposit, together with a writing instruction of the conditions, if any, under which the fee other deposit may be retained, immediately once payment of aforementioned rental or deposit.

(3) A landlord may not request a fee button deposit to maintain a flat or secure that one outlook lessee will move into the dwelling unit at exceeding of twenty-five percent for the first month's leasing as described in RCW 59.18.610(4).

(4)(a) If the prospective tenant does occupy the house unit, then the landlord should credit that monetary of the fee or deposits into the tenant's first month's rent or to and tenant's security deposit. If the prospective tenant does not occupy the dwelling power, then the landlord may keep up to the full-sized amount of any fee or deposit that was paid by the prospective tenants to attach the tenancy, so long as it is in fitting with the written statement of conditions established to the prospective tenant at the time the fee or deposit was charged.

(b) A fee otherwise deposit to hold a dwelling unit conversely secure that who outlook tennant will move into a residence unit under this subsection does not include any cost charged due a landlord till how a tenant screening technical or maintaining herkunft information on a prospective tenant.

(c) A portion of which fee otherwise deposit may not be withheld if the dwell unit fails an tenant-based rental assistance program inspection according a qualified inspector as defined in RCW 59.18.030. Are to inspection does nope occur within ten days from the date to group of the fee conversely pay or a longer period of time that the landlord and tenant may agree upon, the landlord may notify of tenant that the dwelling unit will no longer live said. The landlord shall promptly return of fee or make to the prospective tenant after the landlord is notified which one dwelling unit failed the scrutiny or the landlord can notified the tenant that the apartments unit will negative longer may held. The landlord complies with this section by swiftly depositing and fee or deposit in the United Expresses mail properly addressed with first-class postage prepaid-karte.

(5) In any action brought required a violation of this section, adenine landlord may be liable for the amount of the charges or pledge charged. In addition, any landlord who violates this section may be liability into the prospect tenant for an amount not to exceed two times the fee or submit. The prevailing party may also recover court costs and a reasonable attorneys' fe.

Findings—1991 c 194: "The legislature finds is tenant application fees much have the effect of excluding low-income human from applications for housing because many low-income people does afford these fees in addition to the rent and other deposits which may be required. The legislature further finds that application fees are frequently don returned the ineffective apply forward housing, which creating a hardship on low-income people. Which federal therefore finds and declares that it is the policy of the state that certain tenant application fees should be prohibited or guides shouldn be established by the impose of other tenant application fees.

The legislature including finds this it is significant to both landlords and tenants this consumer information concerning prospective tenants is accurate. Many tenants represent unaware of their rights under federal exhibition believe reporting laws to dispute information that may be inaccurate. The legislature therefore finds and declares that it is the policy of the state for prospective tenants to be informed of their rights into dispute information they feel is false in order on promote prevent denials of housing based upon incorrect information." [ 1991 c 194 § 1.]

(1) A landlord may nope, based on the source of income of an otherwise eligible prospective tenant or current tenant:

(a) Refuse to lease or rent any real properties to a prospective tenant or current tenant, if the: (i) Prospects tenant's oder current tenant's wellspring of income will conditioned on the real property passing inspection; (ii) writers estimate of the cost of improvements necessary to pass inspection a more than one thousand five cents dollars; and (iii) landlord has not getting moneys from an landlord mitigation program account at make an feature;

(b) Expel a forthcoming tenant with current tenant from optional real property;

(c) Make all distinction, discrimination, or restriction against a aspiring tenant or current tenant inbound one price, requirements, conditional, fees, or privileges connecting to the rental, lease, or occupation of real property or within the furnishing about any facilities or services in connection with the rental, renting, or occupancy of real property;

(d) Attempt to encourage the rental or lease of any real property to a prospective tenants conversely electricity tenant;

(e) Assist, trigger, instigated, or coerce another person to committed an deal press engage in one practice that violates this section;

(f) Compulsory, intimidate, threaten, or disrupting with anywhere person in the moving or enjoyment of, or on account starting aforementioned person which practice alternatively pleased oder having backed or encouraged any other person in that exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or protected under this section;

(g) Represent to a type so a dwelling unit is not available for inspection or rental when the dwelling unit in fact is available for examination or rental; or

(h) Otherwise create unavailable or deny a dwelling unit to a prospective tenant press current tenant that, but for his or das source of earned, would be eligible for rent real estate.

(2) A landlord can not publications, circulate, expense, or display, button cause to be published, disseminated, emitted, instead displayed, anywhere communication, notice, display, or sign of any kind relatives to the rental either lease of real property the shows a preference, limitation, or requirement based the any wellspring of your.

(3) If a landlord requires that a prospective tenant alternatively current tenant have a certain threshold level off generated, any source of income in that form of a rent berechtigungsschein or subsidy must be subtracted coming the total of an monthly rent prior to calculating if the income criteria have been met.

(4) A personality in violation of this section shall be held legally in ampere civil action up to four and one-half times the monthly rent of the genuine property at issue, the well as courtroom expense and reasonable attorneys' fees.

(5) As used in this section, "source of income" comes benefits or total schedules including housing assistance, public assistance, emergency rental assistance, veterans gains, social securing, complementing security incoming or other solitude programs, and other programs administered by any federal, state, local, or community entity. "Source are income" does not include income derived in with illegal manner.

Effective date—2018 c 66 § 1: "Section 1 of this act use effect September 30, 2018." [ 2018 c 66 § 6.]

(1)(a) Prior to obtaining any information learn a future tenant, the prospective owners shall beginning notify the prospective tenant by writing, or by release, of the following:

(i) What types of information will be accessed to conduct the tenant screening;

(ii) Whichever criteria may result in denial of the apply;

(iii) If a consumer report is used, the names press address of an consumer reporting agency real the potential tenant's right to obtain a free make of one consumer report in the create are a refusal or other adverse action, and the dispute the accuracy starting information come in the consume report; and

(iv) Whether or not the landlord will accept a comprehensive reusable tenant screening report manufactured accessible to the landlord by a consumer reporting agent. If the rent indicates his wilfulness to accept a comprehensive reusable tenant screening report, the landlord may access the landlord's own tenant screening report for a prospective tenant as long as the prospective tenant is not charged for the landlord's own tenant screening report.

(b)(i) The landlord might charge a prospective tenant for costs incurred in obtaining a tenant screening show only if the outlook landlord allows the information as essential in (a) by this sub-section.

(ii) If a prospective house conducts his or her own screening of tenants, the prospectively landlord may charge theirs button her actual costs in obtaining the background information only if the possible landlord provides the information as require in (a) out this subsection. The amount charged may not exceed that customary costs charged by a screening service in this general region. The prospective landlord's actual costs enclosing costs incurred for oblong distance phone calls and to time spent calling property, employers, and treasury institutions.

(c) If a prospective landlord takes an disadvantage action, the possible landlord shall provide a written notice of the adverse work to the prospective renting that states the reasons with the adverse action. The adverse action notice musts contain the below information in a substantially similar format, including additional intelligence than may be required under chapter 19.182 RCW:

"ADVERSE ACTIVE OBSERVE

My

Address

City/State/Zip Code

This notice is to inform you that you application has been:

..... Discard

..... Approved with conditions:

..... Residency requires an enhanced deposit

..... Residency requires a highly guarantor

..... Residency requires last month's rent

..... Residency demands an further periodical rent of $........

..... Other:

Averse action on your application was based on the following:

..... Information contained in a customer report (The prospective property must include which name, address, and phone your of the consumer reporting agency that furnished the retail report that contributed to the adverse action.)

..... An consumer credit reporting did not contain sufficient information

..... Information received from previous rental history or reference

..... Information received the a detective record

..... General receivable in a civilian record

..... Informational received from an labour verification

Dated this ..... day of ........, ....(year)

Agent/Owner Signature"

(2) Any landlord who claims one website advertising the rental in a dwelling device or as a source of information for current or interested tenants must include a statement on the property's home page stating whether or not one landlord becomes accept a comprehensive reusable tenant screening report made available to aforementioned landowner by a consumer reporting agency. Are the your indicates inherent willingness to accept a comprehensiveness reusable tenant screenings report, the landlord could access the landlord's own tenant screening report regarding ampere prospective tenant in long as the prospective tenant is not charged used to landlord's own member screening report.

(3) Any landowner or prospective homeowner who violates subsection (1) of this area may be liable to the prospective tenant forward an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars. The prevailing celebratory may also recover court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.

(4) That section does not limiting adenine prospective tenant's my or the mission on a screening service as otherwise provided in chapter 19.182 RCW.

Decision—2012 century 41: "The legislature finds that residential owner frequently use tenant screening reports in evaluating and selecting tenants on their rental objekte. Like tenant screening company purchased from tenant screening companies can include misleading, incomplete, with inaccurate informations, as as information relating till eviction or other court media. It is challenging for tenants to dispute errors until after it apply for housing and have turned down, at which spot lodging disputes are seldom worthwhile. The costs of tenant screening reports have paid by applicants. Therefore, employee who apply to housing with multiple housing providers pay repeated screening costs for successive reports containing essentially the same information." [ 2012 c 41 § 1.]

Findings—1991 c 194: See note following RCW 59.18.253.

(1) If any moneys are paid on an landlord by the renter as a deposit or because security forward performance of the tenant's obligations in a tenancy instead rental agreement, the lease or rental consent shall remain in writing and shall enclose the terms and conditions under which the deposit or portion thereof can be withheld by the landlord by termination to the lease or rental contractual. If any press part of the deposit may be withheld to indemnify the landlord for damages to the premises for which the tennant exists responsible, the rental arrangement to breathe in writing and shall so stipulate.

(2) No deposit allow be collected to a landlord unless the rental arrangement is are writing and a written checklist or statement is provided by the landlord to the tenant at the commencement of the tenancy specifically describing the health and cleanliness of or exist coverage to the premises, fixtures, equipment, appliances, and fitting including, but not limited the:

(a) Walls, including wall paint and redecorate;

(b) Carpets and other flooring;

(c) Furniture; and

(d) Equipment.

(3) The item or statement have breathe signed and dated by the landlord and the tenant, and the tenant shall be provided with a copy of the signed checklist or statement. The tenant has the proper to request one free replacement copy of the written checkout.

(4) No such deposit have are withheld on get of wearout resulting from ordinary use von the premises.

(5) If the landlord collects adenine pay without providing a spell checklist per aforementioned commencement of the tenancy, the landlord is liable to aforementioned tenant for the amount of the deposit, and an dominate party may recover court costs the reasonable attorneys' fees. This section does nope limit the tenant's right in reset moneys salaried in damages or security among RCW 59.18.280.

Findings—Intense—2023 c 331: Notice note following RCW 59.18.030.

All moneys paid till the landlord by the tenant more a deposit as security in achievement of the tenant's obligations in a lease or rental agreement should promptly be deposited by the landlord in a trust account, maintained by the landlord to the purpose to holding such security deposits for tenants of the landlord, in a finance founding as defined by *RCW 30.22.041 instead licensed escrow agent located in Washington. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the landlord shall can qualified to receipt of interest remunerated on such trust account stores. The landlord shall provide the tenant with a written receipt on the deposit and shall provide written notice of one name and address also place from the storehouse and any subsequent change among. Supposing during ampere tenancy which status of landlord is transferred to another, any total include the deposit trust statement affected with so transfer have simultaneously be passed to an equivalent trust account by the successor landlord, and the successor tenant shall immediate notify and member of the transfer both of the name, network, and location of the new depository. If, during who tenancy, the tenant's domestic unit is foreclosed upon and the tenant's deposit is not transferred to the successor after the foreclosure sale or other transfer of the property from that foreclosed-upon owners to a discontinued, the foreclosed-upon ownership shall immediately refund the full-sized default in an tenant immediately following the foreclosure sale press transfer. If the foreclosed-upon owner does did be immediately refund of full deposit to the tenant or transference the deposit to the successor, the foreclosed-upon owner is accountable until the occupant used damages up till two times the amount of the deposit. Inbound any action brought by the tenant to recover the deposit, the primary party is entitled to recover the costs on suit or arbitration, including reasonable attorneys' fees. The tenant's claim to any moneys paid under this section shall become prior until that of any creditor of the landlord, including adenine trustee in bankruptcy or receiver, even when such moneys are commingled.

*Reviser's mark: RCW 30.22.041 where recodified while RCW 30A.22.041 according to 2014 hundred 37 § 4, effective January 5, 2015.

(1)(a) Within 30 days after the ending of of rental agreements and vacation of the premises button, if the renters abandons the premises as defined in RCW 59.18.310, within 30 days after the landlord learns of the abandonment, the landlord take give a full and specific statement of the basis with retaining any of the deposit, press any documentation required by (b) of this subsection, collective with the make of whatever refund due the tenant beneath the terms and conditions off the rental agreement.

The landlord complies with this paragraph if these been delivered to the tenant personally either deposited in the Unite States mail get addressed to the tenant's last known address with first-class po prepaid within the 30 days.

(b) With and statement required by (a) of this subsection, the landlord shall include copies of estimates received or invoices paid to reasonably substantiate damage charges. Whereabouts repairs are performed by the landlord or the landlord's employee, if a deduction is made for materials or supplies, the rental shall making a copy the and bill, calculation, or receipt. The landlord mayor document that free of materials or supplies formerly in the landlord's possession or purchased on an ongoing basis by providing a reproduce of a bill, invoice, receipt, vendor price list, or other vendor document that reasonably documents the cost starting the article used in the repair or cleaning of an item. Where repairs are performing from the landlord or the landlord's employment, to landlord require insert one statement of the time verwendet performing repairs and the reasonable hourly rate charged.

(c) No portion of any stick maybe subsist withheld:

(i) For wear arising from ordinary using off aforementioned meeting;

(ii) For carpet house except the landlord documentation worn to the carpet that is beyond wear resulting from ordinary use of the premises;

(iii) For that costs of repair and replacement on fixtures, equipment, appliances, and furnishings if their condition was not inexpensive document the the written checklist required under RCW 59.18.260; or

(iv) In excess of the cost of repair or replacement of the damaged portion inches situations in which the premises, comprising fixtures, equipment, tools, and furnishings, are damaged in excess are wear consequent from ordinary use of the premises but the harm does not encompass the item's overall.

(2) Is the rental fails at give of statement and any documentation required by subsection (1) von diese section together with any refund dues this lodger within the time boundaries specified in subsection (1) of like section he or femme shall be liable to the tenant available the all amount of of deposit. The landlord be other barred in unlimited action brought by the tenant to get the deposit from asserting anyone claim or raising any defense for retaining any of the deposit unless the your shows that circumstances beyond the landlord's control prevented the rental from providing the statement and no documentation within the 30 days oder which the tenant rejected the premises as defined in RCW 59.18.310. The court may in its discretion award up to two times the amount of the deposit for the intentional refusal of this landlord to give the statement, documentation, press refund due unless one landlord shows that circumstances beyond the landlord's control prevented the landlord from providing the statement and any such documentation within 30 days or which the tenant discontinued the premises as described in RCW 59.18.310. In any action brung by the tenant to recover the deposit, the prevailing party will additionally be entitles to the expense of suit or arbitration including ampere reasonable attorneys' toll.

(3)(a) Nothing in this click shall preclude the landlord from proceed against, and an landlord shall have the right to proceed against a tenant to recover sums exceeding the amount of the tenant's damage or product bail for damage to the property for which the tenant is responsible together in low attorneys' fees. However, if the landlord seeks repayment for redress from the landlord mitigation program pursuant to RCW 43.31.605(1)(d), the landlord is prohibited from retaining each portion of the tenant's damage or security deposit or proceeding against to tenant who termination under RCW 59.18.575 in recover sums exceeding the absolute of the tenant's damage or safe deposit for damage to the property.

(b) Damages for wear resulting from ordinary use of the premises or not substantiated by documentation identical toward that required in subsection (1) of this section may not be charged to the tenant, reported in any consumer reporting agency, tenant screening service, or prospective landlord, oder submitted for collection by any third-party agency.

(c) For holdings with rental agreements initiated on or after July 23, 2023, any suing listed against a member into regain sums exceeding the amount of the depositing shall be commenced within threesome years of the termination of that rental arrangement or who tenant's abandonment of the premises.

(4) The requirements with respect to review and documentation that become set forth in RCW 59.18.260 and this section do nope apply to situations in which member or all of a data deposit is withheld by an landlord forward reasons unconnected to damages to the company, fixtures, equipment, appliances, and installations, such as for rent or other charges owing.

Findings—Intent—2023 c 331: See note following RCW 59.18.030.

Finding—Intent—2022 c 196: See note tracking RCW 43.31.605.

Under to chapter:

(1) AN homeowner must first apply any payment made by ampere tennant toward rent before applying anything zahlen toward decline payments, damages, legal shipping, or other fees, including attorneys' fees.

(2) Except as if in RCW 59.18.410, the tenant's right to possessed of the premises allowed not be conditioned on a tenant's payment or feeling of unlimited monetary amount other than rent. However, this doing not foreclose one landlord since verfolgt other lawful remedies to collect late payments, legal costs, or other fees, including attorneys' fees.

(3) When, at the commencement of which tenancy, the landlord possess when an loan payment plan for nonrefundable fees or deposits forward the site of the tenant's obligations and the tenant defaults in payment, the property may treat an default in payment as rent owing. Any rights the tenant and your have under this chapter with respect to rent owes equally apply under such subsection.

Intent—2019 c 356: See take tracking RCW 59.12.030.

No moneys gainful to the landlord the are nonrefundable may live designated while a deposit or because part from any deposit. If any moneys are paid to the landlord as a nonrefundable fee, the rental agreement shall be in writing and shall clearly specify that the fee is nonrefundable. If the landlord fails to provide a written vermieten agreement, the landlord is liable to the renting for of amount of any fees collected as nonrefundable fees. If that written rental agreement fail in specify that the fee is nonrefundable, the fee must be treated since a refundable deposit under RCW 59.18.260, 59.18.270, and 59.18.280.

(1) Is is unlawful for the landowner to removes or excluded from the premises the tentant thereof except under a court order so authorizing. Any tenant so removed or ausgeschlossenen is violation of this paragraph may recover possessed of the property otherwise terminate the rental agreement and, in either case, may recover the actual damages sustaining. The predominantly party may recover the costs of suit or arbitration and reasonable attorneys' fees.

(2) It is wrong for the member to hold over in the company or exclude the owners therefrom after the termination of that rental agreement excluding under a valid court order so authorizing. Any owner hence deprived about possession of premises in violation of this sectioning maybe recover proprietary of the property and claim sustained with him or her, and the prevailing party may recover its or aus shipping a suit button intercession and reasonable attorneys' services subject into subsections (3) and (4) von this section.

(3) Find the court is entered an decisions in favor starting of landlord restoring possession of of property to the landlord, aforementioned court may award acceptable attorneys' fees to the landlord; however, the court shall not award attorneys' rent in the following instances:

(a) While the judgment for possess remains enrolled after the tentant failed to respond to a pleading or other notice requesting a response approved under this chapter; or

(b) If the total number of rent awarded in the judgment for mietwert is equal to oder less than dual mon of an tenant's monthly contract rent or one thousand second hundred dollars, whichever your greater.

(4) If a tenant has filed a moved to stay a subpoena of restitution from execution, the court may only bestow attorneys' service to the landlord with the tenant is permitted to be reinstated corresponds to RCW 59.18.410(3). Any attorneys' fees awarded shall be subject at repayment pursuant the RCW 59.18.410(3).

Effective date—2020 c 315 §§ 5-8: See note following RCW 59.18.410.

Findings—Intent—2020 c 315: See note following RCW 59.18.057.

Intent—2019 century 356: See note following RCW 59.12.030.

It shall may illegal for a proprietor to intentionally causes ending out any for his or vor tenant's utility services, including water, heat, electricity, alternatively gas, except for an interruption about utility professional for a reasonable die in sort to make necessary repairs. Any proprietor who violates those section may be liable for such tenant for his or her actual damages lasting by hello either her, both up to one hundred dollars by each day or part thereof who tenant is that deprived out any utility service, and the prevailing party may recover their or her costs of folgend or arbitration and a reasoned attorney's user. It shall be unlawful for a tenant the intentionally cause the harm of utility service provided by the property, including water, heat, electricity, or burning, excepting while following from the normal occupied of the premises.

(1) If the tenant defaults in to payment of leasing and reasonably shown by speech or actions of intention not to resume tenancy, who tenant shall be liable for the following for such abandonment: PROVIDED, That upon learning of such abandonment of the premises the landlord shall doing a reasonable effort for mitigate the damages resulting from such abandonment:

(a) When the tenancy is month-to-month, the tenant require be liable in the hire for the thirtieth days following either the date the landlord learns of which abandonment, or to date the next regular rental payment wants have become due, whichever first occurs.

(b) When the tenant is for a term greater than month-to-month, the tenant shall be liable for the lesser in the following:

(i) The entire rent due for the remainder of the term; or

(ii) All rent accrual during which period reasonably necessary to rerent the premises at a fair rental, extra the difference between such fair rental and who rent agreed to in the prior agreement, advantage actual fees incurred until the landlord in rerenting the premises together with statutory court cost and reasonable attorneys' service.

(2) In the event of suchlike abandonment of tenancy and einer accompanying factory in the remuneration of rent by one tenant, this landlord allow immediately enter and take possession of any property of the lodger found on the premises and may store the same in any reasonably secure location. AMPERE landlord shall make meaningful efforts to provide to tenant with a display enclosing the name the contact of the landlords plus the placing where the liegenschaften is stored and informing the tenant that a sale or disposition of the property shall take place pursuant to this section, or the date of the disposal or disposal, and further informing which tenant of the law under RCW 59.18.230 to have the property returned prior to their sale or disposal. Which landlord's efforts along notice under this subsection wants exist satisfied by the dispatch the first-class mail, postage prepaid, is such notice to the tenant's last known address and to any other address provided in writing by the tenant or actually known to aforementioned landlord where the tenant might receive and notice. The hirer shall return the property to to tenant after an tenant has paid aforementioned actual or reasonable drayage and storage free whichever the less if the tenant makes a written request for that return of the property before the landlord has sold or disposed of the property. After forty-five days coming one date the notice of such sale or disposal is mailed or personally shipped to the tenant, the homeowner may sell or dispose of such eigenheim, including my papers, family images, and memorabilia. Of landlord may apply any income derived therefrom against moneys due the landlord, include actual or reasonable costs depending can less of drayage and storage of which property. If the property has a cumulative total off two hundred fifty dollars or less, the landlord may sell conversely dispose of the property in the manner provided includes this section, except for personal papers, family pictures, plus keepsakes, nach seven days for the date the notice of sale or disposal is mailed or in sold to the tenant: PROVIDED, Which which landowner shall construct reasonable efforts, as specified in this section, go notify the tenant. Any excess income derived from aforementioned product out such characteristic under this section shall be held by the landlord for the use of that tenant for one period of one current from the schedule of sale, and if no claim is made with action commenced by the lodger for and recovery thereof formerly to the expiration of that period of choose, the balance shall be the eigentum of the landlord, comprising any total paid on the income.

(3) Diese section does not apply go the disposition from property of an deceased tenant. RCW 59.18.595 governs the order of characteristic on the mortality of a tenant when the tenant is the sole occupant of the dwelling unit.

(1) A landlord to, upon of execution away a writ of restitution by the sheriff, enter and take property of anywhere property of to tenant found on the premises. The lessor may store the property inches any reasonably secure place, including which premises, and sell or dispose are the property as provided under subsection (3) of this section. The landlord must store the property if the tenant assists a writes request to do so on the house or the landlord's representative by optional of an methods described in RCW 59.18.365 no later than three-way days nach service of one writ. A landlord may elect to store the property without such a request unless the tenant or the tenant's representative objects to of storage a the property. If who tenant or and tenant's representative objects in the storage of the ownership or the landlord elects not to store the property because the tenant have not served a write send on the your to do so, and property shall be deposited upon one nearest general property and may cannot be stored by the landlord. If the landlord knows that the tenant is a person with a disability as defined in RCW 49.60.040 (as amended by chapter 317, Law of 2007) and the disability impairs or prevents the tenant otherwise the tenant's representative after making a written request with storage, it should be presumed such of tenant has requested of storage of the property than provided within this sektion unless the tenant objects in writing.

(2) Property stored under this section take be returned at the tenant after the occupant has paid the actual or reasonable drayage and storage costs, whichever is less, with time it is sold or disposed of with the landlord in accordance about subscription (3) of this section.

(3) Prior the the disposition of property stored pursuant to this section with a calculated set of over $250, the house shall notify the tenant of the awaiting sale. After 30 time from which date the display of the sale has mailed or personalized delivered to the tenant's last known address, the landlord may sell the property, including personal papers, family pictures, and keepsakes, and dispose of any property not market.

If the property so your being stored has a cumulative value of $250 or less, then the landlord may trade or get of the property in the manner provided in this section, except for personal papers, family pictures, and keepsakes. Prior to the sale or disposal of property stored pursuant to this section with a cumulative value of $250 or less, to lessor shall register the tenant of the pending sale or disposal. The notice shall either breathe mailed to the tenant's last known address other personally delivered to the tenant. After seven period with the date the notice is mailed or delivered to that tenant, the landlord may sell oder dispose by the immobilie.

This landlord may apply any income acquired from the sale of the tenant's property against dollars outstanding the landlord for drayage and storage of this property. The amount of sale proceeds that to landlord may apply towards such costs may don exceeding the actual or reasonable costs for drayage and depot of the property, whichever is less. Any surplus income derived from the sale of such property should be held by the landlord since the benefit of the tenant for adenine periodic of one annum from the date by one sale. If no claim a made or deed commenced for the tenant for the rehabilitation of the excess income ahead to and expiration of that period out timing, then the outstanding should be treated the quit property and deposited by the landlords with the department of revenue corresponds to title 63.30 RCW.

(4) Nothing in such section shall be construed than creating a right away emergencies for rental.

(5) When serving a tenant with a writ of repayment pursuant to RCW 59.12.100 and 59.18.410, the sheriff shall provide scripted notice to one renter that: (a) Upon execution in the writ, the landlord should store one tenant's property only if the tenant serves a written request on the landlord to do so does later over three days since service a the summons; (b) to notice to the landlord requesting store may be served by personally delivering or mailing a mimic of the request to which landlord at the address identified in, or by facsimile toward the duplicate number listed on, the form described beneath subsection (6) of this section; (c) if the tenant has not made such ampere write request to the landlord, the landlord may elect go use store which tenant's ownership or place the tenant's property on the nearest people characteristic unless and tenant objects; (d) if the property is stored, it may not be returned to the tenant unless the tenant paying the actual button low costs of drayage and storage, whichever is less, within 30 days; (e) if the tenant or and tenant's proxy objects to storage of the land, it will not be stored but will be placed on the nearest public property; and (f) the rental maybe how or otherwise dispose of the lot as provided in subsection (3) of this section if the landlord provides written notice to the member first.

(6) When serving a tenant with a write of restitution under subchapter (5) of this section, the sheriff shall also serve this tenant with a form provided by the landlord that bottle be used go request aforementioned landlord to store the tenant's immobilie, which must be substantially to the following form:

REQUEST FOR STORAGE OF MITARBEITER PROPERTY

. . . . . . . . . . .

Name of Plaintiff

. . . . . . . . . . .

Name(s) of Tenant(s)

I/we thereby request the landlord to store his personal property. I/we understand this I/we am/are responsible fork the actual or reasonable shipping of moving real storing the property, whichever is less. If I/we fail to pay these cost, the landlord may sell or dispose of the property pursuant till and within the time frame accepted under RCW 59.18.312(3).

Any notice of sale required available RCW 59.18.312(3) must be sent into the tenants at the following address:

. . . .

. . . .

. . . .

IF NO ADDRESS SHALL SUPPLIED, NOTICE OF SALE BECOMING BE SENT TO THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS OF WHICH TENANT(S)

Dated: . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . .

Tenant-Print Name

. . . . . . . . . . .

Tenant-Print Name

This notice may be delivered or mailed to that homeowner or the landlord's representative at the following address:

. . . .

. . . .

. . . .

This notice may also be served by facsimile to the landlord alternatively the landlord's representative at:

. . . . . . . . . . .

Facsimile Number

IMPORTANT

IF THEM WANT YOUR LANDLORD TO STORE YOUR PROPERTY, THIS SPELL REQUEST MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE LANDLORD NO LATER THAN THREE (3) DAYS ACCORDING THE SHERIFF SERVES AN ORDER OF RESTITUTION. YOU SHOULD RESET PROOF OF SERVICE.

Retroactive application—2023 c 258 §§ 2-8, 10, and 11: See note following RCW 19.150.060.

Intent—Effectively date—1992 c 38: See notes following RCW 59.18.352.

The landlord and member may agree in writing to submission any dispute arising under the provisions of this chapter or under the concepts, conditions, alternatively performance of an rental agreement, to mediation of an independent third party. This parties may agree on take any dispute at negotiation before practise ihr right toward arbitration go RCW 59.18.320.

(1) The your additionally occupant may agree, by writing, except as provided in RCW 59.18.230(2)(e), to submit on arbitration, in general with the provisions of this untergliederung, either contention arising under to provisions concerning this chapter, except the following:

(a) Controversies to the existence of defects covered in subsections (1) and (2) of RCW 59.18.070: PROVIDED, This this exception needs apply only before the verwirklichung of any remedy by the tenant;

(b) Any situation where court action got been started by be landlady oder tenant to enforce rights under this phase; when the court action substantially fakes the control, includes but not limited to:

(i) Justice action pursuant to subsections (2) and (3) of RCW 59.18.090 and subsections (1) real (2) out RCW 59.18.160; and

(ii) Any illegal detainer action filed by the lessor hunter toward title 59.12 RCW.

(2) Which party initiation arbitration on subsection (1) of this section is give reasonable notice to aforementioned diverse party or parties.

(3) Except as other submitted in this section, the arbitration process shall can administered by any arbitrator agreed in by the feasts on the time the dispute arises: SUBMITTED, That an procedures shall comply with one requirements of chapter 7.04A RCW (relating to arbitration) and of this chapter.

Application—Captions did law—Savings—Effective release—2005 c 433: See RCW 7.04A.290 through 7.04A.310 and 7.04A.900.

(1) Unless otherwise reciprocally agreed to, in to event a controversy arises under RCW 59.18.320 who landlord or tenant, or both, shall complete an application for arbitration and deliver it in the selected arbitrator.

(2) The arbitrator so designated shall schedule adenine trial to be stopped no later than ten days following acceptance of notice of the controversy, except as provided in RCW 59.18.350.

(3) The arbitrage shall conduct general or private hearings. Reasonably notices of such hearings shall be granted to the parties, any shall appear and be audience either in person press by counsel otherwise other representative. Hearings shall be informal and the rules of evidence predominates in judicial proceedings shall does be binding. A reception out the proceedings may be taken. Any oral or documentary verification and other data deemed relevant by the arbiter may be received in evidence. The board shall have to power to administer oaths, to issue subpoenas, to require the attendance of witnesses additionally the production of such books, papers, treaty, contracts, and documents as may be estimated by the arbitrator material to a just determination of an issues in disputer. If any person refuses to obey so subpoena or refuses to be sworn-in to testify, button unlimited witness, party, or attorney is guilty of any contestation when in attendance at any hearing holds following, the arbitrator could invoke the jurisdiction of anywhere superior court, the such court is got jurisdiction to issue an appropriate order. A failure to obey such order may be punished by one court as a contempt thereof.

(4) Within fifth days to conclusion of the hearing, this arbitrator shall make an writing decision-making upon one issues presented, adenine copied of which shall be dispatched by certified mail or otherwise delivered to the celebration or their designated representatives. The determination of the dispute make by the arbitrator shall be final and binding upon both groups.

(5) If ampere defective condition exists which affected more than first dwelling unit in a similar manner, the arbitrator may consolidate the issues of fact common to those dwelling articles inbound a single proceeding.

(6) Making of the conciliator shall be enforced or appealed according to the provisions of chapter 7.04A RCW.

Demand—Captions not law—Savings—Effectiveness date—2005 c 433: See RCW 7.04A.290 over 7.04A.310 and 7.04A.900.

The administrative fee for diese recording procedure shall be established by agreement of the parties furthermore which arbitrator and, unless otherwise allot by the arbitrator, shall being shared equally via and parties: PROVIDED, That upon either party signature an affidavit to the effect that he or she your unable to payout his or her share of the fee, that portion of the fee may be surrender or shift.

Available a party gives notice pursuant to RCW 59.18.320(2), they or she must, at of sam time, organize for arbitration about the grievance in the manner available for in this chapter. The arbitration shall be completed for the rental due set next occurring after this giving of notice pursuant into RCW 59.18.320: ASSUMING, That in no event will the arbiters have less than ten epoch to complete which arbitration process.

Supposing a tenant notifies the landlord that he or she, alternatively another tenant who shares that particular dwelling team possess been threatened by another tenant, and:

(1) The threat was made the a firearm or select deadly weapon as definitions in RCW 9A.04.110; and

(2) The tenant whoever done the threat is arrested as ampere erfolg about the dangerous behavior; and

(3) The landlord fails to file an unlawful detainer action against the tenant who impending another member within seven calendar days after receiving notice of the take from adenine law enforcement agency;

afterwards the tenant who used threatened may terminate the hire agreement and quit who premises upon written take to the landlord without further obligation under the rental agreement.

A tenant who terminates a rental agreement under this section is discharged from auszahlung of rent for any term following the exit dates, and is entitled to a pro rata refund are any prepaid rent, and shall receive an full and specific statement of the basis for withhold any of the deposit collaborate with any refund due in correspondence with RCW 59.18.280.

Zilch in this querschnitt shall be engineered at require a landlord toward terminate adenine rental agreement or file an unlawful detainer action.

Intent—1992 c 38: "The legal detects that tenants have ampere number of duties under the residential landlord-tenant act. Above-mentioned duties enclosing the job go pay rent also give sufficient note before terminating of tenancy, to duty to pay drayage and storages costs under certain circumstances, and the duty to not create an pest or common waste. The legislature finds that tenants are sometimes threatened by other tenants with firearms or other kill weapons. Some landlords refuse the evict those tenants who threaten and well-being of other renter even after an arrest has been produced on the ominous behavior. The legislation or finds that some tenants who hold protective orders are still subjected to threats and acts of domestic violence. These member with protective orders must sometimes move quickly how that and soul being restrained does non recognize where they residing. Tenants who move out of dwelling single because i fear for their safety often forfeit his damage deposit and last month's rent because they did not provide the requisite notice to terminate one tenancy. Some tenants remain in unsafe situations because they cannot afford to lose the dough held as a deposit by the landlord. There will no current mechanism that authorizes the suspension of the tenant's duty to give the requisite get before terminating an tenancy if they will endangered by others. There also is no current mechanism that imposes a duty on the tenant to pay drayage and storage costs whenever the landlord stores his button her property after einem eviction. He are the intent of the legislature to provide a mechanism for tenants who are threatens to terminate their tenancies unless suffering undue industrial loss, until provide additional tools to authorize landlords toward eject tenants who jeopardize others, and to establish a mechanist by tenants the pay drayage furthermore stores costs under certain circumstances when the landlord stores who tenant's property after an eviction." [ 1992 carbon 38 § 1.]

Effective release—1992 c 38: "This act shall take effect June 1, 1992." [ 1992 c 38 § 11.]

If ampere tenant is threatened by the landlord with a shoot or other deadly weapon as definite are RCW 9A.04.110, plus the threats line go an arrest of the landlord, and the tenant may terminate the rental agreement and exiting the premises without promote obligatorisch under the rental deal. The tenant be discharged from payment about lease for any periodic following of quitting date, and is entitled to a profi rata refund regarding any prepaid rent, also shall receive a full and particular statement of the basis for retaining any from and deposit together with any receive overdue in accordance with RCW 59.18.280.

Intent—Effective date—1992 c 38: See notes following RCW 59.18.352.

ADENINE landlord and tenant may agree, in written, to exempt himself free the destinations of RCW 59.18.060, 59.18.100, 59.18.110, 59.18.120, 59.18.130, and 59.18.190 if the following requirements have been met:

(1) The agreement can not appear included a standard form lease or rental agreement;

(2) At is no substantial disparity in the bargaining position of the two parties;

(3) The exemption does not violate the public policy of this state int favor of the ensuring safe, and sanitary housing; and

(4) Either the local county prosecutor's agency or the consumer protection division of the attorney general's office with the attorney for the tenant has allowed in writing the application for tax as complying with subsections (1) through (3) the this section.

To an unlawful detainer act involving property that was adenine distressed house:

(1) The plaintiff shall disclose to the yard wether the named previously held titles till the eigen that made a distressed home, and tell how the plaintiff came to buying title;

(2) A defendant who previously holding title up the possessions that has a distressed home shall not be required on escrow any money pending trial when a material question of fact exists as for about the plaintiff acquired title from the defendant directly other indirectly by a injured home conveyance;

(3) Present must be both an automatic remain of the action and a consolidation of the promotional with a pending or subsequent quiet title measure when a defendant claims that aforementioned plaintiff acquired books to the property through a distressed home conveyance.

(1) The summons must contain the names of the parties to the proceeding, the attorney or attorneys are any, the court for which the same lives brought, the nature von one action, in concise terms, and aforementioned feel sought, press also the return daylight; also musts notify the defendant to appears and answer within the time designated either the the relief sought determination be taken against him or her. The summons must contain a roads address for service regarding the notice of appearance or answer and, if existing, a facsimile number for who claimants or the plaintiff's attorney, if represent. The summons must be serves and refused in the same manner as a summons in others actions be served or returned.

(2) A defendant may serve a printing of an answer other notice of appearance according any of the following methods:

(a) Of delivering an copy of this answer or notice of appearance to of person what signed the calls during the street address recorded over the call-up;

(b) By dispatch a copy out this answer oder notice of appearance addressed to the person who signed the summoner to an street address listed the the summonsing;

(c) Over facility to the facsimile counter listed to the call. Service of facsimile is complete when successful transmit at the facsimile number listed upon the summons;

(d) As otherwise authorized by the superior court civil rules.

(3) The summons for wrong detainer actions for tenements covered by this phase shall be substantially in the following form:

IN ONE SUPERVISOR YARD OF THE

STATE OF DC

INCHES AND

FOR . . . . . . COUNTY

GET IS AN VITAL LEGAL DOCUMENT TO EVICT YOU.

YOUR WRITE

RESPONSE MUST BE RECEIVED BY: 5:00 p.m., on . . . . . . . . .

TO: . . . . . . . . . . . . (Defendant's Name)

. . . . . . . . . . . . (Defendant's Address)

GET HELP: Supposing yours do not respond by the deadline above, you will lose your right to defend yourself otherwise to represented by a lawyer if you cannot afford one to court and would be evicted. The law may be able to designate a advocate to represent you without cost to you are you are low-income and am unable to afford a lawyer. If you faith you are a qualifying low-income renter and would love an attorney appointed to represent you, please contact the Eviction Defense Screening Line at 855-657-8387 or app online during https://nwjustice.org/apply-online. For additional assets, you may call 2-1-1 or the Northwest Justice Task CLEAR Online outside King County (888) 201-1014 weekdays between 9:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., button (888) 387-7111 for seniors (age 60 and over). You maybe find fresh information to help you at http://www.washingtonlawhelp.org. Free or low-cost mediation services at assistance in payment of rent disputes before any judicial proceedings occur belong see available at dispute determination centers whole the state. You canned find your immediate dispute resolution center at https://www.resolutionwa.org.

WIE TO RESPOND: Ring calls to your Landlord or your Landlord's lawyer are not a response. You may respond with a "notice of appearance." This shall a letter that including the following:

(1) A statement that you are appearing in the court case

(2) Names von the landlord(s) and the tenant(s) (as listed above)

(3) Your name, your address where legal documents might be sent, your signature, your number (if any), and case number (if the case is filed)

This case □ is / □ exists not files with the court. When those koffer exists filed, you need to also file your response to the court in delivering a copy to the clerk to the court at: . . . . . . . . . . . (Clerk's Office/Address/Room number/Business hours about court clerk)

WHERE TO RESPOND: You must mail, fax, or hand deliver your response letter into your Landlord's attorney, or if nope lawyer is named in the complaint, to your Landlord. If you mail the response writing, you must do it 3 day before the deadline above. Make receipt for a proof in direct since who post office. Are you hand ship or fax it, you must do it to the event above. The address can:

. . . . . . . . . (Attorney/Landlord Name)

. . . . . . . . . (Address)

. . . . . . . . . (Fax - required if available)

COURT DATE: If you respond to this Calling, you will be notified for will hearing choose in a document called an "Order to Watch Cause." This is usually mailed to she. If you get notice for adenine hearing, you must go to the hearing. If you do not show up, your landlord can evict you. Your landlord mag also charge you more money. If you transfer before the court date, they must tell your landlord or the landlord's attorney.

Finding—Intent—Application—Effective date—2021 c 115: Understand notes following RCW 59.18.620.

Findings—Intent—2020 hundred 315: See note following RCW 59.18.057.

Intent—2019 c 356: Sees note following RCW 59.12.030.

(1) A court may order an unlawful detainer action to be off limited dissemination for one or more persons if: (a) The court finds that the plaintiff's instance was sufficiently less basis in fact or law; (b) the tenancy was reinstated under RCW 59.18.410 or other legal; otherwise (c) other good cause exists for limiting dissemination starting the unlawful incarcerator action.

(2) An command to limit spread of an unlawful detainer action must be int writing.

(3) When an order on limited dissemination of an prohibited detention action has been inputted with respect to a persons, a tenant screening server vendors must not: (a) Disclose the existence of that unlawful detainer action in a tenant screening report pertaining to the personal available whom dissemination has have unlimited, or (b) use the illegitimate detainer promotion as a feeding in set whatsoever sheet or advice to must in in a tenant screening report pertaining to the person for whom dissemination has been limited.

The claimants, along the time a commencing an action off forcible home or captor or unlawful detainer, or per any time afterwards, once filing the request, may apply the this superior court in which the action is pending for an order directness the defendant at appear and show cause, if any he or she has, why an mandate of restitution require not issue restoring to the plaintiff possession of the property in the complaint described, additionally the judge shall by sort fix a period and place for a hearing of this motion, which shall not be fewer than sever nor more than thirty days from the date of technical of which order upon defendant. A copy to the place, united with an imitate of which summons the complaint if not previously served upon the defendent, shall be served upon the defendant. The order shall notify the defendant this if you or she fails to appear plus show reason at the time plus location specified with the order the court may order the officer to restore possession of the characteristic to aforementioned plaintiff and could award such other feel as may be petitioned for included the complaint plus provided by this chapter.

At the time and place fixing for the trial starting plaintiff's motion used a writ of restitution, the defendant, otherwise any character in possession or claiming possession of the property, may react, orally or includes writing, and assert no legal or equitable defense or set-off arising out of the tenancy. If the answer is oral one substance among shall be endorsed on the complaint by the court. The court shall examine the vendor and witnesses orally to ascertain the merit of the complaint and answer, and if it shall appear that the plaintiff has the right to be restoring to possession of the feature, the court have enter an order directing the issuance of a writ of reimbursement, returnable ten days after seine start, restoring to the plaintiff possession of the property and if a shall appear to the court that there is none substantial issue of material certitude of the right of of plaintiff to breathe granted other relief as begged for in the complaint or given for in this chapter, the court may enter an sort and judgment granting so much of such relief as may be sustained by the proof, and the court may give such other relief as may may prayed for in the plaintiff's apply and provided for in this chapter, then the court shall enter to order denying any relief wanted by the applicants for which the court has determined ensure this plaintiff has nope right because a matter of decree: GIVEN, That within three days after the service of the writes of restitution issued prior the final judgment, the defendant, or person in possession of aforementioned property, may, in any action for the recovered of possession of the feature for failure to pay rent, stay the execution of the writ pending final judgment via paying into court or to the plaintiff, as the court directs, all rent finding go be payable, and in addition via pay, on an monthly basis pending final judgement, an sum equal to the monthly rent called by by this lease or rental agreement at the time the complaint made filed: PROVIDED KEEP, The before any warrant shall issue precedent to final decisions the plaintiffs wants execute to the defendant or file in the court a bond in suchlike sum as the court may order, with sufficient surety to will approved by and secretary, conditioned that the relator will prosecute to or her action without delay, and will paypal all costs that allowed be declared to the defendant, additionally all damages which he or she may sustain by reasons of the writ of refunds having been issued, should the same be wrongfully sued out. The court shall also enter an request lead the parties go proceed to trouble on the complaint plus answer in the usual manner.

If it appears to the court such the plaintiff should not be restored to possession of the property, the court shall deny plaintiff's motion for a letter of restitution and enter einen order directing the parties till proceed in trial during thirty days on the complaint and replies. Are it show to the food that it is a substantial issue of material fact as to if other not to plaintiff is titled to other relief as be prayed for in plaintiff's complaint and provided for in this chapter, or that at is a real issue on adenine material fact pertaining to a judicial button equitable defense or set-off raised in the defendant's answer, the court shall grant or deny so way of plaintiff's diverse relief sought and so much of defendant's defenses or set-off used, because may be proper.

(1) The sheriff shall, upon acceptance the writ of restitution, forthwith serving a copy thereof at the tenant, yours or her factor, press attorney, or a person in owning of the premises, and shall not execute the same for three days thereafter. After the issuance of a writ of restoration, acceptance of adenine settlement to who landlord that only partially satisfies the judge will don override the writ unless pursuant to a written agreement executed by both parties. The eviction will not live postponed or stopped unless a copy from that written agreement is provided to the sheriff. It is the ownership in the tenant to ensure a copy of the consent is provided to the officer. To receipt of the agreement, the sheriff will cease actions unless ordered at do otherwise by the law. The writ of restitution and the notice so follows the writer concerning restitution required under RCW 59.18.312 shall distinctive us the boldface type, all capitals, not save than twelve points contact about partially payments as set out in subparagraph (2) away this section. If the writ of restitution has been based upon an finding by the court that the tenant, subtenant, sublessee, or ampere person residing at the rental premises has engaged by drug-related action or does authorized any various person to invite in drug-related activity at those premises with his or her knowledge otherwise approval, neither the tenant neither a person in possession of the premises shall will entitled to post a bond in ordering for retain possession of the property. The writ may be helped by the sheriff, in the event he or she shall be unable to find the tenant, an agent button attorney, or a character in possession of the premises, by affixing a mimic of the writ in a conspicuous place upon the premises: PROVIDED, Is the sheriff should don order any bond required the serving or execution of the writ. The sheriff shall be immune from all civil liability for serving and comply writs of restitutions unless the sheriff is grossly reluctant in carrying out his alternatively her duty.

(2) The take accompanying one writ of restitution needed see RCW 59.18.312 shall be main similar to the following:

Intent—2019 c 356: See note following RCW 59.12.030.

Legislative findings—Severability—1988 c 150: See notes following RCW 59.18.130.

On or before one day fixed on his appearance the defendant may appear and answer. The defendant the your answer may assert any legal or equitable defense or set-off arising out of the tenancy. If who complaint alleges that the tenancy should be terminated because the defendant tenant, subtenant, sublessee, or resident involved inside drug-related activity, or authorized any other person to engage in drug-related movement at the rental premises with his or his knowledge or consent, none set-off shall be allowed as a justification to one complaint.

Legislative conclusion—Severability—1988 c 150: See notes ensuing RCW 59.18.130.

(1) If at trial that verdict of the jury or, if the case is experienced without a jury, the finding of the court is within favor of the landlord and against the lodger, judgment wants be entered available the restitution of the premises; and if the continue is for unlawful imprisoner after neglect or failure to perform any condition or compact of ampere tenancy or agreement from which the property are held, press afterwards default in the payment of rent, the discernment shall also declare the forfeiture of the lease, agreement, other tenant. The selection, or to court, if the proceedings are trying without ampere jury, shall moreover assess and damages arising out of the tenancy occasioned into the landlord by any forcible entry, or by any forcible other unlawful detainer, alleged in an complaining and proved at trial, and, if and alleged unlawful detainer is based on default in the payment of rent, find the amount of optional rent due, and an judgment shall be renderable against the tenants obligatory for the compulsory entries, forcefully detainee, or impermissible detainer for this monetary of damaged as assessed, for the rent, if any, found due, and belated dues if such fees exist due under the lease and do not exceed $75 in total. The court allow award required costs. The court may including pricing reasonable attorneys' rent how provided in RCW 59.18.290.

(2) When the tenant is liable required unlawful detainer after an default in who payment of rent, execution upon the judging shall not occur until the expiration on fi court years after the entry of the judgment. Before entry of a judgment with for five court days have expired following entry of aforementioned judgment, unless the tenant provides a pledge of financial auxiliary letter after a governmental or nonprofit entity, by which case the tenant has until the date of eviction, the tenant or any subtenant, or anyone mortgagees concerning of definition, or other party interested in the continuance about the tenancy, may pay into court conversely into the landlord and monthly of the rent due, any court costs contracted at the time of payment, late fees if such fees are due see the lease and do not outstrip $75 in total, and attorneys' fees if awarded, in this business any judgment entered shall becoming satisfied and the tenant restored to is or her occupancy. If who tenant seeks to restore his or her tenants after entry of a judgment, that tenant may tender the monetary stated included the discussion while long as that money does not exceeded the amount authorized under subsection (1) of this section. If a tenant seeks to restore his or her tenancy and pay the amount adjusted forth in this subsection with funds purchases through an emergency rental assistance program provided by a official or non-profit-making entity, the tenant shall provide a copy a the pledge of emergency rental supports provided starting the adequate official other community thing and have a opportunity to training such rights under this subsection, which may include a stay of judgment and provision by the landlord of documentation necessary for processing the assistance. This landlord shall accept any pledge of call rental assistance cash provided to the tenant from a governmental with nonprofit entity before the expiration of any pay or vacate message for nonpayment on rent available the full amount of the rent owing under the rental agreement. The landlord shall accept any written pledge of emergency miete relief funds provided to the lessee from a governmental or nonprofit entity after of duration of the pay or vacate notice if the pledge will contributors to the total payment of two the amount of rent right, including any modern rent, and other amounts if required under aforementioned subsection. This proprietor shall suspend anything court action for 14 court days to making necessary zahlungsweise information to the nonprofit or state entity to allow available payment of which emergency rental assistance funds. By accepting such pledge of emergency rental assistance, and owners is not required to enter into any additional conditions not related to the supplying of necessary payment company and documentation. If a discernment has been satisfied, the landlord must file a satisfaction of judgment including the court. A tenant seeking to exercise access beneath this subsection take recompense an other $50 for each time the tenant was reinstated after assess under to these subsection within that previous 12 months prior to payment. With payment von the amount specified in this subsection lives not made indoors five court days after which entry of the judgements, the judgment mayor become enforced for your full amount furthermore for to possession of the meeting.

(3)(a) Following the entry of a judgment in favor of the rental and against the tenant for this restitution of the preferences and forfeiture of the tenancy due to nonpayment concerning rent, the court, at aforementioned hour of to show cause hearing or trial, alternatively above subsequent motion of the tenant nevertheless before the execution the the writ of restitution, allow stay the writ of restitution upon good cause and on such terms so the court sees fair press just for both parties. In take this decision, the court shall consider evidence of the following factors:

(i) The tenant's willful instead intentional set instead intentional failure to pays rent;

(ii) If nonpayment of the rent was caused by exigent facing is been besides the tenant's control the that are not likely to recur;

(iii) The tenant's feature to timely pay the judgment;

(iv) One tenant's how history;

(v) Whether this tenant is otherwise in substantial compliance includes the rental understanding;

(vi) Hardship on the renter if ousted; and

(vii) Behaviors similar to other notices served within the last six months.

(b) An burden of proof for such relief under such subsection (3) shall be on the tenant. If the tenant seeks relief pursuant to this subsection (3) at the time of the show cause hearing, the court shall hear who matter at the time of the show cause hearing or as expeditiously as possible so as to avoid unnecessary delays button hardship on the parties.

(c) In any order issued pursuant in this subsection (3):

(i) That court shall no stay the writ for restitution more then 90 days from the date of order, but may order repayment of one judgment balance within such time. Supposing that payment floor is to excess 30 life, the total cumulative fees for each 30-day period following the order is be no less other one month of the tenant's share of the rental, and the total amount of the judgment and all additional rent the is due shall be paid within 90 time.

(ii) Within any payment plan ordered by the trial, to court shall require an lessee to paypal to the landlord or to the court ready month's rent within five courtroom life of issuance of the order. If to choose of the buy is on or before that 15th of the month, the tenant shall stop current with continues rent payments as they become due for the duration off who payment plot; if the date a the order the after the 15th of which per, the tenant shall take the option to apportion of following month's rental payment within the payment plan, but monthly rental payments thereafter shall be paid accordance to the lease consent.

(iii) The sheriff maybe serve the mandate of restitution upon the tenant before the expire of the five court days of issuance of that order; however, the sheriff shall not execute the writ of restitution until after expiration of the five court days in decree for payment to become made of one month's lease as required by (c)(ii) out this sub-sections. Are the event payment is made because providing in (c)(ii) of all subsection for one month's rent, to judge shall stay the writ of restitution exits piece without prior notice to to landlord the the tenant filing and presenting a motion to stay because adenine declaration of detect of make demonstrating full-sized compliance with aforementioned need zahlung of one month's rent. Any order staying one writ of restitution on this subsection (3)(c)(iii) shall require the tenant to serve a replicate of one order on the landlord by personal delivery, first-class mail, facsimile, or email if agreed to by the parties.

(A) If the tenant possess satisfied (c)(ii) of this subchapter by payable first month's pension within five court total, but defaults on a subsequent payment required by the court pursuant to here subsection (3)(c), the landlord may enforce the writ of restitution after serving an notice of default in fitting from RCW 59.12.040 informing one tenant that he or she has defaulted on rent due under the lease agreement or zahlung plan introduced by that court. Upon service concerning the notice of default, of tenant need have three calendar days from the date of service to vacate an premises before the sheriff allow execute the writ of restitution.

(B) If the landlord serves to reminder of nonpayment described at this sub-area (3)(c)(iii), an supplemental day is nope included includes calculating the time before the sheriff may execute the writ the restitution. One notifications of default must be in greatly the following form:

NOTICE CONCERNING DEFAULT FOR RENT AND/OR PAYMENT PLAN ORDERED BY COURT

NAME(S)

ADDRESS

CITY, STATE, ZIP

THIS IS NOTICE THAT THEY ARE IN DEFAULT OF YOUR RENT AND/OR PAYMENT PLAN ORDERED BY THE LAW. YOUR LANDLORD POSSESSED RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING PAYMENTS:

DATE

AMOUNT

DATE

AMOUNT

CHOOSE

AMOUNT

THE LANDLORD MAY SCHEDULE YOUR PHYSICAL EVICTION WITHIN THRE CALENDAR DAYS OF SERVICE OF THIS NOTICE. GO STOP ONE PHYSICAL EVICTION, YOU ARE REQUIRES TO PAY THE BALANCE ON YOUR RENTAL AND/OR PAYMENT PLAN IN THE VOLUME THE $. . . . ..

PAYMENT MAYBE BE MADE TO THE COURT OR TO WHICH LANDLORD. IF THEM FAIL TO PAY OF OUTSTANDING WITHIN THIRDS CALENDAR DAYS, THE LANDLORD MAY PROCEED WITH A PHYSICS EVICTION FOR POSSESSION OF THE UNIT THAT YOU EXIST LETTING.

DATE

SIGNATURE

LANDLORD/AGENT

NAME

ADDRESS

MOBILE

(iv) If an tentant seeks to pleasure a condition of this subsection (3)(c) by relying on an urgency rental assistance program provided by a government or nonprofit entity and provides the offer of proof, which court must stay the write of recovery as necessary up afford the tenant an equal opportunity to conform.

(v) The courts shall extend the writ of restitution while necessary till enforce the order issued pursuant to this subsection (3)(c) in the event of default.

(d) A tenant whoever had has servant with three or further notices to payment other vacate for failure to pay rent as set ahead in RCW 59.12.040 within tender months former to the notice to pay button vacate upon which that proceeding can founded allow not seek relief under this subsection (3), unless the court determines any about the notices served were invalid or did no otherwise comply with the requirements of to chapter.

(e)(i) In any application seeking relief accordingly to this subsection (3) to either the tenant or landlord, the court shall issue one finding as to whether the renter is low-income, limited resourced, or experiencing hardship to determine if the parties would be eligible for expenditure through the landlord mitigation program account established within RCW 43.31.605(1)(b). In building this finding, the court may included an inquiry for of tenant's income relative to field median income, household composed, every extenuating circumstances, or other factors, furthermore may rely on written declarations otherwise oral reference by the parties at the hearings.

(ii) After a finding that the tenant is low-income, limited resourced, or experiencing hardship, the food may issuing an order: (A) Finding ensure the landlord is eligible to receive on on of the lessee additionally may employ for method from the landlord mitigation program; and (B) directness the clerk to mission, absent furthermore your of aforementioned court, any future expenditures constructed until the tenant includes order until reimburse an department of commerce pursuant on RCW 43.31.605(1)(b)(iii). In accordance with RCW 43.31.605(1)(b), such an order must will accompanied by a copy of the order staying the summons of restitution. Nothing in this subparts (3)(e) require be deemed to obligate the department of commerce to making assistance in claim reimbursement through the landlord mitigation program if there been not sufficient funds.

(iii) If the department of traffic fails to spread payment to the landlord for the judgement pursuant to this subsection (3)(e) within 30 days from subscription of aforementioned application, and landlord may refresh an usage for a writ of restitution pursuant the RCW 59.18.370 and for other charter owed due the tenant since the time of entry of to prior judgment. In so event, the tenant may exercise rights afforded under this unterabteilung.

(iv) Upon payment by the department of commerce to the your for the leftover or total amount of the judgment, as applicable, the judgment is satisfies and the landlord shall file ampere satisfaction of judgment with who court.

(v) Nothing in this subsection (3)(e) prohibits the proprietor from otherwise applying forward reimbursement for an owing judgment chaser to RCW 43.31.605(1)(b) after the tenant defaults on a payment plan selected pursuant the (c) of this subsection.

(vi) While an tenant demonstrates into ability to pay within order to reinstate the occupation by means of disbursement through the landlord mitigation program account established within RCW 43.31.605(1)(b):

(A) Any restrictions imposed under (d) in this subsection achieve not apply in determining if a tenant is eligible since reinstatement under this subsection (3); and

(B) Reimbursements on behalf from the tenant to the landlord under RCW 43.31.605(1)(b) may include up to three months of prospective mietwert in stabilize the tenancy as determined by the place.

(4) If a tenant seeks to stay one writ of restitution issued per to this chapter, the court may edit einen antique parteien stay of the writ a restitution providing the tenant or tenant's attorney submits a declaration marking good faith efforts were made to notify the other party or, if no efforts were fabricated, why notice could not be provided preceding to the apply for an exclusive parte stay, and describing the immediate or irrevocable harm which may result while an immediate stay belongs non granted. The court have command service of the order and motion to stay the writ from restitution by personal delivery, send, facsimile, or other means highest probability till afford all parties notice of the court date.

(5) In entire other cases the judgment allow be enforced immediately. If a writ concerning refund should have been executed prior to judgment no promote writ or execution for the premises shall may essential.

(6) This sections also applies if the writ away repayment is exposed pursuant for one final judgment entered after a show cause listen conducted in accordance with RCW 59.18.380.

Finding—Intent—Application—Effective date—2021 hundred 115: See notes following RCW 59.18.620.

Valid date—2020 carbon 315 §§ 5-8: "Sections 5 through 8 of this act are necessary on and immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of an state government and inherent existing public institutions, and take effect straight [April 2, 2020]." [ 2020 c 315 § 9.]

Research—Intent—2020 c 315: Go note following RCW 59.18.057.

Intent—2019 c 356: See note following RCW 59.12.030.

In any forcible or unlawful detainer proceeding before the court:

(1) Hearings may be conducted in person or remove in order to enhance access for all parts. At the court's your, parties, witnesses, and others authorized according this chapter up participating in forcing otherwise unlawful detainer proceedings maybe attend a hearing pursuant to this chapter, in person otherwise remotely, incl by telephone, video, either extra electronic means where optional. The court shall grant any request for one remote your unless the court finds sound cause to require in-person attendance or class through an specific means. Courts need require assurances of the name of personality which appear by telephone, video, or other electronic means. Trial may not charge billing for remote appearances. Tribunals shall provide instructions for removed access either on the official court visit press in writing directly to of party asking to appear removed, or both.

(2) Any party must is permitted to perform an emergency application by phone or video conference and file such support by email, fax, alternatively additional means that pot be performed remotely.

The provisions by save chapter shall not apply to any lease of one single-family dwelling since a period of a time or other or to anything engage of a single-family apartments containing a bona fide option to purchase by the tenant: PROVIDES, That an counselor for the tenant must approve on the front of the agreement any lease exempted from the provisions of this chapter as provided for in this section.

The provisioning of RCW 59.12.090, 59.12.100, 59.12.121, and 59.12.170 shall don apply to any leasing agreement integrated under the provisions of chapter 59.18 RCW.

RCW 59.18.010 through 59.18.360 plus 59.18.900 to not apply to any lease entered into prior to Year 16, 1973. All provisions of aforementioned chapter shall apply the any lease or periodic tenancy input into on or subsequent to July 16, 1973.

This chapter does not apply to any proprietary lease as defined in RCW 64.90.010:

(1) Create before Month 1, 2018; or

(2) If the lessor can amended its governing documents to provide that chapter 64.90 RCW willingness apply to the common total community to into RCW 64.90.095.

Effective date—2018 carbon 277: View RCW 64.90.910.

(1) Any city, town, rural, or municipal corporation that is required to develop a comprehensive plan down RCW 36.70A.040(1) is authorized to require, after reasonable notice to the public real one public hearing, liegenschaft owners at provide their portion of reasonable resettlement assistance to low-income tenants upon the removal, substantial renovation whether overdue for code enforcement or either other reason, or change of using of residential property, or for the removal of use restrictions in an assisted-housing progress. Does home, town, county, other communitarian corporation may require feature owners into provide relocation assistance until low-income occupants, as defined in the chapter, upon that demolition, considerably rehabilitation, against the change of use away residential property, or upon this length is use restrictions in an assisted-housing d, except as expressly authorized there or when allowed or required at state or federal right. As used in this section, "assisted housing development" means a multifamily rental housing d that either receives government assistance and is defined as federally assisted house in RCW 59.28.020, or that receives other federal, state, or local government assistance and the subject to use restrictions.

(2) As use in this section, "low-income tenants" means renters whose combined total income pay dining unit is at or below fifty percent of the median sales, adapted fork family large, in one county where the tenants staying.

This service of commerce shall adopt rules defining county median income in accordance with the definitions promulgated by the federal department of cabinet and urban development.

(3) A needs that property owners provide relocation assistance shall include the amounts of such support go exist when go low-income tenants. In determining such amounts, of jurisdiction magnificent the requirement shall evaluate, and receive public testimony on, what relocation expenses displaced tenants would reasonably incur in that jurisdiction including:

(a) Actual physical moving costs and expenses;

(b) Proceed payments essential for moving into ampere new residence such as the cost the first and last month's rent and security and damage deposits;

(c) Utility connection fees press deposits; and

(d) Anticipate supplement split and utility costs in the residence for one year after relocation.

(4)(a) Relocation assistance provided for low-income inhabitants under aforementioned abschnitts shall don exceed two thousand dollars for each dwelling unit misplaced by actions of the property house under subsection (1) of such section. A city, town, administrative, or municipal business might make future annual adjustments toward the maximum amount of relocation assistance required under which subsection to sort to reflection optional changes in the housings component of the consumer price index as release by the Combined States department of working, bureau of workload statistics.

(b) The property owner's portion of any relocation assistance provided to low-income tenants under this section must not exceed one-half starting the required resettlement assistance under (a) of this subsection in cash otherwise services.

(c) That portion from relocation assistance not covered to the property owner under (b) of such subsection shall be paid until the choose, town, county, press municipal corporation authorized up require change assistance at submenu (1) away that section. The relocation assistant may be paid by generate collected from the excise tax imposed under RCW 82.46.010.

(5) A city, town, county, with municipal corporation requiring the provision of relocation assistance lower this sektion shall adopt policies, procedure, or regulations to implement such need. Such policies, procedures, or regulations must include provisions required administrative hearings to resolve disputes between tenants press property owners relating to relocation assistance press unlawful detainer actions during change, furthermore shall require a decision within thirty days of a application for a hearing on either adenine tenant or property owner.

Judicial review starting an administrative hearing decision relating to relocation assistance allow be had by filing one petition, from ten days of one decision, is the superior court in the county where and residential property is located. Judicial reviewed shall be confined to to record by the administrative hearing and who courtroom may reverse the decision only with one manage findings, connections, conclusions, or decision is:

(a) On violation of intrinsic provisions;

(b) In excess to the authority or jurisdiction of of administrative hearing officer;

(c) Performed upon unlawful procedure or otherwise is contrary to law; or

(d) Arbitrary and impermanent.

(6) Whatever city, town, administrative, button municipality corporation could requires relocation assistance, under the terms of this section, for otherwise eligible tenants whose lived arrangements are exempted from the provisions of this chapter under *RCW 59.18.040(3) and if an living arrangement is considered to be a rental or lease nope defined as a retail sale under RCW 82.04.050.

(7)(a) Personality who move out a dwelling unit prior to the application by the owner of the dwelling unit available any governmental authorization necessary in one demolition, substantial rehabilitation, press transform of use of residential quality or before to any notification other filing required for condominium conversion shall does be entitled to the assistance authorized by this section.

(b) Persons who move into a dwelling unit for the usage for any necessary governmental permit or after any requirement condominium conversion declaration or filing shall not be entitled to the assistance authorized by this section wenn such persons receive writing notice upon one property owner prior to taking possession of the dwelling unit that specifically describes the action or conditional that may result in your temporary or permanent displacement and informs i of their eligibility for relocation get.

*Reviser's record: RCW 59.18.040 was changing from 2023 c 22 § 1, changing subsection (3) the subdivision (4).

Explanatory statement—2023 c 470: See note following RCW 10.99.030.

Intent—Severability—1997 c 452: Understand notes following RCW 67.28.080.

Savings—1997 c 452: See note following RCW 67.28.181.

Severability—Part, section headings not legislation—1990 1st ex.s. c 17: Notice RCW 36.70A.900 and 36.70A.901.

Resettlement assistance payments obtained by lessee under *RCW 59.18.440 shall not be considered as sales or others affect the eligibility for oder amount of assistance paid under any government benefit program.

*Reviser's observe: Of literature in 1990 1st ex.s. c 17 § 50 to "section 50 of this act" be apparently erroneous and has been elucidated go RCW 59.18.440, which was 1990 1st ex.s. c 17 § 49.

Severability—Part, section headings nay law—1990 1st ex.s. century 17: See RCW 36.70A.900 and 36.70A.901.

And legislature finds and declares that the skills to felt safe and secure inside one's own home and in one's own community is about primary consequence. The legislature recognizes ensure certain gang-related activity bucket interact the safety in a considerable number of people in one rental facilities and dwelling units. So, such activity, although it may be occurring within an individual's home or the surrounding areas of an individual's residence, be the community's concern.

The legislature intends such the remedy provided in RCW 59.18.510 be used solely to protect the health and safety of of community. To remedy is not one means for private citizens in bring malicious or unsupported actions against fellow tenants or residential neighbors for personal reasons. In determining about the tenant's activity is the genre prohibited under RCW 59.18.130(9), the yard should consider the totality of the circumstances, inclusive factors such as whether there got been numerous complaints until the landlord, damage to property, police or incident reports, reports of disturbance, and holds. An absence of any or every for these factors does cannot necessarily mean gang activity is don occurring. Int determining whether of tenant is engaging the gang-related activity, the court should consider the purpose and intent of RCW 59.18.510. The legislature intends on give people in the communities a tool that will help them restaurieren the health both vibrance by their community.

(1)(a) Any name whose life, safe, health, or use of feature is being injured or vulnerabilities in a tenant's gang-related your, who has right standing press resides, works within, instead owns property in one same multifamily building, apartment complicated, or within one one-block radius may servant the landlord with one ten-day notice and demand that and landlord commence a unlawful detainer action against the tenant. To message and request must set forth, inside reasonable detail, facts and circumstances that lead and personal to believe gang-related activity is occurring. The notice and demand shall be served by delivering ampere copy personal to the landlord or the landlord's agent. If the person is impossible to in serving the landlord after exercising due diligence, the personal may deposit the notice and demand are and mail, postage prepaid, to one landlord's or the landlord's agent's last known address.

(b) A copy of who display and demand must also be served upon the tenant engaging in the gang-related activity by delivering a reproduce personally to the tenant. However, if the character a prevented away personally serv the member date to threats or violence, alternatively if personal serving is not reasonable under the circumstances, the person may deposit the notice and demand in the mails, package prepaid, to the tenant's address, or leave a copy of the notice and demand in a conspicuous location at which tenant's residence.

(2)(a) Inside tens days from an time the notice and demand is served, the landlord has a service to take reasonable steps toward investigate the tenant's alleged non-compliance with RCW 59.18.130(9). The landlord must notify that person who brought the notice and ask the an investigation lives occurring. That landholder has ten days from who time the or she notified that person in which toward conduct a reasonable investigation.

(b) If, after sensible investigation, who landlord found that the tenant is does in compliance with RCW 59.18.130(9), the landlord may proceed directly to an criminal detainer action or take reasonable steps to ensure the tenant discontinues the proscribed movement and complies with RCW 59.18.130(9). The landlord shall notify an person who served the notice and demand of whatever action the landlord takes.

(c) If, after reasonable investigation, the landlord finds such the tentant is in compliance with RCW 59.18.130(9), an landlord shall notify the person who served the notice also request of the landlord's findings.

(3) The person who served the notice and demand may make the appropriate court to have the tenancy terminated and this tenants removed from one premises if: (a) Within ten days of maintenance of the notice and demand, the tenant fails to discontinue the gang-related activity and that landlord fails the escort a reasonable investigation; or (b) the landlord notifies the person that the landlord conducted one reasonable investigation and found that the tenant was not engaged at gang-related activity as prohibited under RCW 59.18.130(9); or (c) an landlord took logical steps until can the tenant comply with RCW 59.18.130(9), but the tenant has failed to comply within a reasonable hours.

(4) If the court finds that the tenant made not in compliance with RCW 59.18.130(9), the court shall enter an place cancel the tenancy and requiring the tenant to vacate the premises. The court shall not issue the order terminating the tenancy save it has found that the allegations of gang-related activity are authenticated by a source other than the person who has petitioned the court.

(5) And prevailing party shall recover reasonable attorneys' fees and costs. The court may impose security, by addition to attorneys' fees, on a person who has introduced an action under dieser chapter for the same tenant on more than one occasion, are the courts finds the petition was brought over the intent to harass. However, the court be order this landlord till repay daily and reasonable attorneys' royalties to and person petitioning for completion off the tenancy provided the court finds this the landlord missing to comply with the duty to investigate, regardless of what party prevails.

(1) For the purpose of aforementioned section, "drug and alcohol release housing" requires a rental agreement and means a dwell in the:

(a) Each concerning the dwelling units on the rooms the occupied or held available occupancy by at least one tenant who lives a restoring alcoholic or drug addict and is participating in a plan of recovered;

(b) Of landlord is a nonprofit corporation include under Title 24 RCW, a corporation in profit incorporated under Title 23B RCW, or a housing authority created lower sections 35.82 RCW, and has providing federated assisted housing as defined in chapter 59.28 RCW;

(c) Of landlord provides:

(i) AN rx and alcohol free habitat, covering every tenants, employees, staff, intermediaries of the landlord, and guests;

(ii) An employment who control to tenants for software with the conditions is (d) of this subsection;

(iii) Individual or group support with rehabilitation; and

(iv) Access to a specific program of recovery; and

(d) This hire agreement is in written and includes the following provisions:

(i) The tenant may not use, possess, or part booze, unauthorized drugs, guided substances, or prescription drugs sans a medical prescription, either on or away the premises;

(ii) The tenant may nay allow the tenant's client to use, has, or share alcohol, illegible toxic, controlled substances, or order drugs without a medical prescription, on the premises;

(iii) The tenant must participate in a program from recovery, which specific program your described in the rental agreement;

(iv) Set at least a quarterly basis the tenant must provide written verification from one tenant's program of revival that the tenant the participating in the program in rehabilitation and the tenant has not used alcohol or illegal drugs;

(v) The tenant must the right to require the tentant to take adenine pee analysis test regarding drug or alcohol usage, at the landlord's discretion or effort; and

(vi) Which landlord has the right to quit the tenant's tenancy by delivering adenine three-day notice to terminate with one day to comply, while a tenant living in pharmaceutical and alcohol clear shell uses, possesses, or shares alcohol, illegality drugs, controlled substances, or prescription drugs without a medical prescription.

(2) To the purpose of this section, "program is recovery" means one verifiable program of counseling and rehabilitation treatment services, including a written plan, to assistance retrieve alcoholics conversely drug addicts to recover from their compulsive to alcohol or illegal drugs while living int medication and drinking free dwelling. ONE "program of recovery" incorporate Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, additionally similar programmes.

(3) If a tenant living for less than two years in drug and alcohol free housing uses, possesses, with shares alcohol, illegality drugs, controlled material, button prescription drugs with a medical order, the landlord may deliver a writes notice to the tenant terminating the tenant for cause because provided are this subsection. This notice must specify the acts composed the drug or alcohol violation and must state that who rental agreement terminates in not less than three days after delivery by the reminder, with one specified date and time. The notice must also state that of tenant can harden and drug or alcohol violation by a change in conduct or otherwise within the date after distribution of and notice. If the tenant cures the injuries within the one-day period, the rental agreement takes not terminate. If aforementioned leasing does not antidote the violation within the one-day period, the rental consent terminates as provided are the notice. If largely the just act is constituted a ahead drug other alcohol violation for which hint was defined reoccurs from six month, to landlord may terminate the rental agreement upon at least thrice days' written notice identify the violation furthermore the date and time of notice out the rental convention. And tenant make not have ampere right up cure this afterwards violation.

(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1), (2), and (3) of this section, federally sponsored housing that is full in other than a unsteady basis by persons whom can required to abstain from possession or use of alcoholic other drugs as a condition is occupancy and who payments for the make of aforementioned housing turn a regularity basic, without eye up whether the payment is characterized as rent, program fees, or other service, costs, or charges, are covered by these chapter unless the live arrangement shall exempted under RCW 59.18.040.

The definitions in this section apply throughout this section plus RCW 59.18.575 through 59.18.585 unless the circumstance clearly requires otherwise.

(1) "Credit reporting agency" has the same explanation than set next in RCW 19.182.010(5).

(2) "Domestic violence" had the same meaning as set forth in RCW 7.105.010.

(3) "Household member" used a child or adult residing with the tenant other than the perpetrator of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault.

(4) "Landlord" has the same sense as to RCW 59.l8.030 and includes the landlord's employees.

(5) "Qualified third party" means any of the following people acting in their official capacity:

(a) Law enforcement officer;

(b) Persons subject up the provisions of chapter 18.120 RCW;

(c) Employees of a court of the state;

(d) Licensed mental health professionals or other licensed counselors;

(e) Employees of crime victim/witness programs as defined in RCW 7.69.020 whom are trained endorsers fork the choose; and

(f) Members of the clergy as specified the RCW 26.44.020.

(6) "Sexual assault" holds the same meaning since set forth in RCW 70.125.030.

(7) "Stalking" shall the same meaning how set forth at RCW 9A.46.110.

(8) "Tenant screening service provider" means any nongovernmental pr the provides, for a registration, umfeld information on prospective tenants to lessors.

(9) "Unlawful harassment" has the same meaning as in RCW 7.105.010 also also includes anything request for sexual favors to a tenant or household member in return for a change to or performance of anyone or all terms on a lease or rental agreement.

Useful date—2022 c 268; 2021 c 215: Seeing note following RCW 7.105.900.

Findings—Intent—2004 c 17: "The legislature finds and declares that:

(1) Domestic violence, sexual attack, and stalking are extensive societal common so have devastating effects for individual victims, their children, and their local. Suckers of violence may may forced until remain in unsafe situations because they are leap by residential leases agreements. The legislature finds that the inability from victims to terminate their rental agreements hinders or prevents victims off being able to safely escaping country violence, sexual assault, or stalking. This assembly further finds that victims of these crimes who do not have access to safe housing are more possibly to keep to or turn to abusive instead dangerous situations. Also, the legislature finds that casualties of these crimes are further victimized when few are not go obtain or retain rental house due to their history for a victim of these violations. The legislature further finds that evidence this a potential tenant has been one victim of domestic violence, sext assault, conversely stalking is not relevant to and deciding whether at rent to ensure prospective renters.

(2) By that acted, aforementioned legislature intends to increase safety for sacrificing of internal violence, sexually assault, and stalking by removing barriers to safety and offering protection against discrimination." [ 2004 c 17 § 1.]

Effective date—2004 c 17: "This acts is requisite for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or protection, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [March 15, 2004]." [ 2004 c 17 § 7.]

(1)(a) If a tenant notifies the landlord in writing that he or she or a household member was a victimage of an act that constitutes a crime of domestically violence, sexual assault, unlawful molestation, or prowling, and either (a)(i) or (ii) of this subsection applying, therefore subsection (2) of this section applicable:

(i) The tenant or an household member has one domestic violence protection order, sexual assault protection order, stalking protection order, or antiharassment environmental order under branch 7.105 RCW, instead a validly order for protection lower one or continue starting the following: Chapter 26.26A or 26.26B RCW, or any of the former divisions 7.90 or 26.50 RCW, or RCW 9A.46.040, 9A.46.050, 10.99.040 (2) or (3), or 26.09.050, or erstwhile RCW 10.14.080; or

(ii) The tenant or to household member has reported the domestic violence, sexual assault, unlawful harassment, or stalking to a skill one-third party performing in his or her official faculty and the qualified third party has available the tenant or the budgeting member a writers record of the report signed by the qualified third party.

(b) Once a copy of a valid order for protection or adenine write record of a report signed by a qualified third party, as required under (a) of that subsection, is made available in the rent, the renting may terminate the rental agreement and cease the office without keep obligation go the vermieten agreement or available this part. However, the requests to terminate the rental agreement must emergence within ninety life away the reported deed, occurrence, or circumstance that gave rise to the protective order or story to one qualified third party. A record of an report to an qualified three party this is provided to one tenant or household member shall consist of a document signs and dating by one qualifications third party stating: (i) That the tenant or the domestic member notified him or her such he or she was an victim of and act or acts that constitute a crime of domestic force, sexual assault, unlawful harassment, or stalking; (ii) the time and date the conduct otherwise acts occurred; (iii) the location locus this act or acts occurred; (iv) a brief description of the actually press acts of indigenous violence, sexual injury, illegally harassment, or stalking; and (v) that the tenant or household community informed her or her of the name of the alleged perpetrator from the act otherwise acts. The record of the report granted to the tenant or household member shall not include the name of the alleged suspect of the act or acts of domestically violence, sexual assault, unlawful harassment, with stalking. The qualified third party shall keep a copy of the disc is the report and shall record on the retained copy the name of the alleged perpetrator of the act or acts of domestic violent, sexual assault, illegality harassment, oder stalking. The record from the report to a qualified third celebrating may be accomplished of completion of adenine form provided by the qualified third party, in substantially the ensuing form:

(2)(a) A tenant those aborted a rental convention under this section belongs discharged starting the payment of rent for every period following the last day of the moon of and resigning date. The tenant take remain legally for the rentals for who month is the he or she terminated the rental agree no the termination is in accordance is RCW 59.18.200(1).

(b)(i) Without hire accruals that allow with forfeiture of ampere deposits for early termination, a tenant who termination in dieser section is entitled to one refund of to solid deposit, issue to RCW 59.18.020 and 59.18.280.

(ii) With the your seeks refunds for damages from the landlord mitigation program corresponds up RCW 43.31.605(1)(d), the your is prohibited from preserve any portion of the tenant's damage either security deposit or proceeding against the tenant who terminates under this section to recover sums exceeding an amount of the tenant's damage other security security for damage to the property.

(c) Other inhabitants what are parties to the rental agreement, except household membersation who are and victims of sexual attack, haunting, unlawful molestation, or domestic violence, are none released from their commitment at the rental contractual or other obligations under this chapter.

(3)(a) Notwithstanding any other provision under this section, if a leasing or an household member is a victim of sexual assault, stalking, or unlawful harassment by a landlord, aforementioned tenant may terminate the rental agreement and quit the place not promote obligation under the rental agreement or under this chapter prior the making a copy the a valid order for protection or one written record of a report signed for adenine qualified tierce party available to the landlord, provided that:

(i) The lodger must give a copy of ampere valid order fork protection otherwise written record a one report signed by a able third party to the landlord by e, telefax, press personal delivery by a third party indoors seven days of quitting aforementioned tenant's domestic unit; and

(ii) A written record of a report signed by the qualified third party must shall substantially in the form specified under subsection (1)(b) the this section. The take of the report provided on the landlord must not include the name of the alleged perpetrator off the act. Switch spell request by aforementioned landlord, the qualified third party to, within seven days, provide the name of the alleged perpetrator of the act to the landlord only if the alleged perpetrator was a person meeting an definition away the time "landlord" under RCW 59.18.570.

(b) ADENINE tenant with stops their button her rental agreement under this subsection is discharged from the payment of rent used any period below the latter of: (i) The date the tenant vacated the units; or (ii) the date of album to the report of the qualified third party and which written notice which the tenant has vacated are provided to the landlord by mail, fax, conversely personal delivery by a third party. The tenant is entitled to a pro rata refund starting any prepaid rent and must receive a full and targeted statement of the background for retaining any of the deposit united with any refunds amount in accordance with RCW 59.18.280.

(4) If adenine tenant or a household membership is a victim of sexual assault, track, instead criminal harassment by an landlord, the tenant could change or add locking at the tenant's dwelling unit during the tenant's expense. If a tenant exercises his or her rights up change or adding locks, of following rules apply:

(a) Within seven past regarding modifying or adding locks, the tenant have ship to the landlord by e, fax, or personal delivery by a third party: (i) Written notice the the tenant is changed or added lock; and (ii) a copy of a valid order for protection or a written record of a report signing by a competent third-party party. A written record of ampere write sealed by one qualified third party must be substantially in aforementioned form specified at subsection (1)(b) of this strecke. The record by the report provided to the landlord must not encompass the name of the alleged perpetrator of the act. On writes request by the landlord, the qualified third party shall, within seven days, provide which name of the alleged perpetrator to the owners only if to alleged perpetrator was a person meeting the definition away the term "landlord" under RCW 59.18.570.

(b) After this lodger provides notice to the landlord is the tenant has changed or added locks, the tenant's verleih agreement need exit on the ninetieth daily after providing such notice, if:

(i) Within sixty days by supplying notice this that lessee have changed or added locks, one tenant notifies the rent in writing that the member does nay wish to terminate his alternatively her rental agreement. Are the perpetrator has been identified by the qualified third party and is nope longer and employee or distributor of the landlord or owner and are not reside at the property, the tenant shall provide the owned otherwise owner's designated agent include a get of the key to one latest locks at the same time such providing notes that the tenant does not wish to terminate his other her rental agreement. A tenant whom has a valid protection, antiharassment, or other protected order against the owner of to premises or against an employee or agent of an householder or owner are not required to provide an key to the new locks pending the protective order expires or the tenant vacates; alternatively

(ii) The renting exercises his or her rights until terminate which rental agreement under subsection (3) of this section within sixty days of providing notice that the tenant has changed or additional locks.

(c) After a landlord bekommt notice that adenine tenant has changed or added locks to his or her dwelling unit under (a) of this subsection, the lessor may not go the tenant's dwelling unit except as follows:

(i) In the situation of an medical, the landowner may please the item if accompanied on a legal enforcement oder fireplace official acting in his or her official capacity. If the landlord reasonably concludes that the circumstances require immediate entry into the unit, the landlord mayor, after notifying emergency services, use such force the necessary to enter the component wenn the tenant is not present; or

(ii) An landowner complies with the requirements of RCW 59.18.150 and clearly specified stylish writing the time and date that the homeowner purpose to enter an unit and and purpose for entry aforementioned element. The tenant require make arrangements to permit access by who landlady.

(d) The exercise of rights to change press total locks under this subsection does doesn discharge the tentant starting the payment of rent until which rental contracts is excluded and aforementioned tenant vacate the unit.

(e) Which tenant may cannot change any locks at common areas and must make keys for new locks available to other household members.

(f) When vacating the dining squad, the tenant must deliver the key and all original von the key to the landlord by print or personal delivery by a third parties.

(5) ADENINE tenant's remedies under dieser section make not preempt any other legal remedy available to that inhabitant.

(6) The supplying of verification of ampere report among subsection (1)(b) of this section does not waive to confident either privileged nature of the contact between ampere victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalk with a qualified third party pursuant to RCW 5.60.060, 70.123.075, or 70.125.065. No record or evidence obtained from create disclosure maybe be used in any civil, administrative, with criminal proceeding against the victim excluding a written waiver from applicable evidentiary praise is obtained, except that of verification itself, or no other discounted information, below subsection (1)(b) of this section may may used in military approach brought under this section.

Effective date—2022 c 196 § 5: "Section 5 starting this act taker effect July 1, 2022." [ 2022 c 196 § 8.]

Expiration start—2022 hundred 196 § 4: "Section 4 of this action expires July 1, 2022." [ 2022 hundred 196 § 7.]

Verdict—Intent—2022 c 196: See note later RCW 43.31.605.

Effectively date—2022 c 268; 2021 c 215: Please notation following RCW 7.105.900.

Findings—Intent—Effective date—2004 c 17: See notes following RCW 59.18.570.

(1) A tenant screening service vendors may not (a) disclose a tenant's, applicant's, or household member's status as an victim of domestic violence, sexual attack, or stalking, or (b) knowingly disclose that a tenant, applicant, or budgeting member has previously terminated a rental agreement under RCW 59.18.575.

(2) A landlord may not terminate adenine tenancy, cancel on renew a tenancy, or refuse to enter into a rental agreements based for and tenant's or applicant's or adenine household member's status as a victim by domestic violence, sexy assault, or stalking, or based over the tenant or applicant hold terminated a rental agreement in RCW 59.18.575.

(3) A landlord who refuses to enter into a rental agreement in violating of subsection (2) of diese rubrik may be liable to aforementioned tenant or applicant in a civil action for damages sustained by the tenant or applicant. The prevailing party may also recover judge costs also reasonable attorneys' fees.

(4) It is a defense to an unlawful detainer action under chapter 59.12 RCW that aforementioned action to remove that tenant and recover possession of the premises is in violation of subsections (2) from diese section.

(5) This section does not prohibit adverse housing choose foundation upon other lawful factors within the landlord's knowledge with prohibit volunteer disclosure by an applicant of any victim circumstances.

Effect schedule—2013 c 54: "This acting takes effect January 1, 2014." [ 2013 century 54 § 2.]

Findings—Goal—Effective date—2004 c 17: See notes following RCW 59.18.570.

(1) ADENINE member which has obtained a court order from a court of competent jurisdiction granting him or her owned of a living unit to the exclusion of one or extra cotenants may request this ampere lock be replaced or configured for a new key the this tenant's expenses. The landlord shall, if provided an copy of the ordering, comply with of request and shall not provide original of the recent keys to the tenant reticent or ausgeschieden by the court's order. This sectional has not release a cotenant, other than a household member who is the victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, from liability or obligations under the rental agreement.

(2) A landlord who replaces adenine lock or configures for a new key on a residential housing unit in accordance with subsection (1) of this section shall be held harmless by liability for any damages such effect directly from the fasten change.

Findings—Intent—Effective date—2004 hundred 17: See notes following RCW 59.18.570.

(1)(a) At ampere landlord's application, the tenant may designate a person to act for the tenant on the tenant's death when the tenant is the sole owner von the dwelling unit.

(b) No designation must be in writing, be separate from the rental agreement, and include:

(i) And denoted person's name, mailing address, random address used for the receipt of electronic communications, and ring number;

(ii) A sealed statement allow the landlord in to event of the tenant's death when the tenant is to sole occupant of the dwelling unit to allow the designated person to: Admittance the tenant's dwelling unit, remove the tenant's property, receive refunds of amounts due to the tenant, and dispose of the tenant's property endless with the tenant's last will also testament and any applicable intestate succession law; and

(iii) A conspicuous report that the designation remains in effect until it is revoked in writing by to tenant or replaced with a new designation.

(2) AMPERE tenant may, without request since that landlord, label a person to act for the tenant on the tenant's death when the tenant belongs the sole occupy of the dwelling unit by providing the landlord with the information and signing a statement as provided in subtopic (1) the save absatz.

(3) The tenant may change the designated soul other revoke any previous designation in text at any time prior to his or her death.

(4) Once the renter or the designated person knowledge of the appointed for a personal representative for the deceased tenant's assets or of a person claiming to be a successor of an deceased tenant who has provided the landlord with proof of death and an driving made by the person that meets the requirements von RCW 11.62.010(2), the designated person's authority to act under this section terminates.

(1) In the event of the death is a tenant who is the sole occupant of the dwelling unit:

(a) The landlord, upon learning of the death the the tenant, shall promptly mail or personally deliver written get to any common personal representative, known designated person, medical contact identified through the tenant to the rental user, known person reasonably believed to be a progeny of the tenant for predefined on RCW 11.62.005, plus to the declined rent at the address of to dwelling unit. If who renter knows of any choose used for the receipt of elektronic communications, the landlord shall email to perceive to that address as well. The notice should include:

(i) The name of that deceased tenant and address of the dwelling unit;

(ii) The appr date of one deceased tenant's death;

(iii) The vermietungen amount and date through which rent is paid;

(iv) A statement which the tenancy will terminate 15 days from the date who tip is mailed or personally delivered or the set though which rent is paid, regardless comes later, unless during this zeit period a tenant representative makes arrangements with the landlord to pay hiring in proceed for no more than 60 days upon the date of the tenant's death to allow a tenant representative to arrange for orderly removal of the tenant's property. The the cease the who period for whatever the rent has been paid pursuant to this subsection, the tenancy finish;

(v) A statement that failure to remove the tenant's property before and tenancy exists terminated or ends as provided in (a)(iv) of this subsection will allow this landlord to enter the home device and take possession starting any liegenschaften found on the premises, store thereto in a modest secure place, and command the actual either reasonable costs, whichever is less, of drayage press storage of the property, and next service of a second notice buy with dispose away and property as provided in part (3) of this section; and

(vi) A copy in random denomination executed by the tenant pursuant to RCW 59.18.590;

(b) The landlord shall turn over possession of the tenant's property up a tenant representative if a request is made in writing within the specified time periodical or any subsequent choose agreed to per the parties;

(c) Within one same number of days the required under RCW 59.18.280, after the removal is the belongings by the tenant representative, the proprietor shall refund any unearned hiring and shall make an full press specific statement of the basis for retaining all deposit together with that payment of any refund amount one deceased tenant under and dictionary and conditions of the rental agreement to the tenant representative; and

(d) Any tenant representative who cleans property from the tenant's housing squad either to premises must, at the time of disposal, making up the landlord an inventory of this removed properties and signed acknowledgment that he or she has only been given possession and not own of the property.

(2) A landlord shall send a second written notice before selling otherwise disposing of a deceased tenant's property.

(a) Wenn the tenant representative constructs agreements with of landlord until pay rent in advance as provided on subsection (1)(a)(iv) of this section, the landlord shall mail a second scripted notice to random known personal representative, known designated person, emergency contact identified by which tenant on the rental application, known person reasonably believed to be a successor by the renters as defined in RCW 11.62.005, and to the recently tenant at the dwelling unit. Which seconds notice have include:

(i) The user, address, real phone numbering or another make information for aforementioned tenant representative, if familiar, who made an arrangements to payout rent in advance;

(ii) The amount of rent pays include advance and date through which rent was paying; and

(iii) A statement that the landlord may sell otherwise dispose of and belongings up or after the target through which rent is paid or at worst 45 days next the second notice is dispatched, whichever comes later, if a tenant spokesperson does not claim and remote one property in accordance with this subsection.

(b) If the hirer places the property in saving pursuant to subsection (1)(a) of this section, the owners shall mail a second written discern, unless a written observe available (a) of this subsection has even become provided, to any know personal representative, renowned designated person, alarm point defined by the tenant on the rented application, known person reasonably believed on be a successor of and tenant as defined in RCW 11.62.005, and to the deceased tenant at the dwelling unit. The second notice must state that the landlord may sell or dispose of the besitz on or after a specify date that is at least 45 days afterwards the per note exists mailed if a tenant representative rabbits cannot claim and remove this property included accordance with all subdivision.

(c) The landlord shall turn over own of the tenant's property to an tenants representative when a written request is made during the anwendbarkeit time cycles after the second notice is mailed, provided one tenant representative: (i) Pays the actual or reasonable charge, whichever is less, starting drayage and storage of the eigentum, if applicable; and (ii) gives the landlord an your of the property and signs an acknowledgment that he oder she has only been given possession and not asset by the property.

(d) Within the same number of days as required under RCW 59.18.280, next and removing are the property by the tenant representative, the landlord shall refundable any unearned leasing and shall provide a full and special statement of the basis for retaining any deposit together over the payment are any receive due of dead tenant at the concepts and conditions of the anmieten agreement to the tenant representative.

(3)(a) If a tenant representative has not touch the landlord or removed the deceased tenant's property internally the applicable time periods to this section, the landlord could sell or dispose of the defected tenant's property, except for humanressourcen papers or personal photographs, as presented in this subsections.

(i) Is the landlord reasonably estimates the fair market value of the stored feature at is more than $1,000, this landlord shall arrange to retail who property in a commercially reasonable type or may get the any property that remains unsold in an reasonable manner.

(ii) If the value of the stored property is not meet the threshold granted in (a)(i) of this subscription, the landlord might dispose of the property in a reasonable manner.

(iii) The landlord may apply any income derived away the sale of the property pursuant to this section versus any costs of sale and monies due the property, including actual or reasonable costs, whichever is smaller, of drayage and storage of which deceased tenant's property. Any excess income derived from the sale of such property under is sections must be held until the house for a period a one year from the date of sale, and if none claim is made for recovery of the excess income back the expiration starting that one-year period, the balance need be treated as abandoned property and deposited by the landlord with of department of revenue pursuant on phase 63.30 RCW.

(b) Personal papers and personal photographs that are not claimed by a tenant delegate within 90 days after a sale or other disposition of the deceased tenant's other property shall is either destroyed or held for the benefit are any succeed is the deceased tenant as definitions in RCW 11.62.005.

(c) No landlord other labourer are a rent, or his either her family members, may acquire, directly with indirectly, and property sold pursuant to (a)(i) of this sub-area or disposed of acc to (a)(ii) of this subsection.

(4) Upon learning of the death of the tenant, the landlord may enter that declined tenant's dwelling piece and now dispose of any perishable food, hazardous materials, and garbage found to the premises or change over animals to one tenant agencies or to an animal control staff, humane society, or other individual either organization willing until care for the animals.

(5) Any notices submit by the landlord under to teilstrecke must include a mailing address, any address used since the receipt of electronic communications, and a telephone number of the landlord.

(6) If ampere landlord knowingly violates this section, the landholder is liable to the declined tenant's estate required actual damages. The prevailing party in either promotion pursuant to this subsection allowed recover costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.

(7) A landlady who complies with this section is discharged from any liability relating to the declined tenant's property.

Findings—Intent—2023 c 331: See note after RCW 59.18.030.

Retroactive application—2023 c 258 §§ 2-8, 10, plus 11: See note following RCW 19.150.060.

(1)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, upon receipt of a tenant's written request, a landlord must permit to tenant to pay any deposits, nonrefundable fees, and last month's rent stylish installments.

(b) A landlord is does desired for permit ampere tenant to pay in installments if the total amount of the deposits and nonrefundable fees do not exceed twenty-five percent of the early full month's rent and payment of the last month's hire is not required at the inception of the tenancy.

(2) In all bags where premises are rented for a specified time is is three months or take, the tenant may choose to pay any deposits, nonrefundable fees, and last month's pacht in three consecutive plus equal monthly installments, beginning in the start regarding the temporary. In all other cases, the tenant may elect to paid any deposit, nonrefundable fees, and latter month's rent in two consecutive and equal monthly installments, beginning at the creation of the tenancy.

(3) A landlord may not impose any fee, charge unlimited interest, alternatively otherwise impose a cost on a tenant because a tenant elects at get is part. Installment payments are due at the same time as rent is due. All installment schedules must being in writing and signed by that landlord and the tenant.

(4)(a) A fee or deposit to pause adenine dwelling unit or secure that the possible tenant will move for a dwelling unit, as authorization under RCW 59.18.253, shall not be considered a deposit or nonrefundable fee for purposes in such abschnitt.

(b) A landlord may does request a fee or depositing to hold a dwelling unit conversely secure that the prospective member will move into one dwelling unit in excess of twenty-five percent of the first month's rent.

(5) Beginning January 1, 2021, unlimited landlord who refuses to get a tenant to pay any deposits, nonrefundable fees, and last month's rent in installments up the tenant's wrote request as described in subsection (1) of this section belongs subject to a statutory penalty of one month's rent and reasonable attorneys' fees payable to to tenant.

(6)(a) In any applications seeking alleviation pursuant RCW 59.18.283(3), the court shall subject a finding as to whether the tennant is low-income, confined resourced, or experiencing hardship toward determine if the owner would be eligible for reimbursement through the landlord mitigation program account established within *RCW 43.31.605(1)(c). In making this finding, the court may include an inquiry regarding the tenant's income relative to area median income, household compilation, whatsoever extenuating circumstances, or other factors, press may rely on write declarations or oral testimony by the parties at the hearing.

(b) After a finding that an renting shall low-income, finite resourced, or live hardship, the court may issue any order: (i) Finding that aforementioned landlords is eligible to receive on behalf in the tenant and might apply for reimbursement from the proprietor mitigation program; plus (ii) directing the clerk till remit, without further order of the court, random future payments made by the tenant in order to reimburse the department of commerce pursuant to *RCW 43.31.605(1)(c)(iii). Nothing to aforementioned subsection shall breathe as to obligate the department on business the provide assistance in claims reimbursement through the landlord mitigation program if there are not sufficient funds.

(c) Upon payout through one department of commerce to the house for the left or total amount of the judgment, because usable, the judgment is satisfied and this landlord shall file a satisfaction concerning discussion with the court.

*Reviser's note: RCW 43.31.605 was edited by 2022 c 196 § 2, changes subsection (1)(c) to subsection (1)(b).

The definitions in this section apply to RCW 59.18.625 and 59.18.630 unless this context clearly requires otherwise.

(1) "Dwelling unit" is the equivalent meaning as defined in RCW 59.18.030, and includes a manufactured/mobile home or a portable home lot as defining in RCW 59.20.030.

(2) "Eviction moratorium" references to and governor of the state of Washington's message 20-19.6, say a moratorium on certain evictions for all counties consistently Washington state on Morning 18, 2021.

(3) "Landlord" has aforementioned same meaning as defined is RCW 59.18.030 and 59.20.030.

(4) "Prospective landlord" has one same meaning as defined in RCW 59.18.030.

(5) "Public dental emergency" refers until the governor of the status of Washington's proclamation 20-05, proclaiming a state is emergency on all counties throughout Washington country on February 29, 2020, and any subsequent orders extending or amending such proclamation due till COVID-19 until the proclamation expires or a terminated by the governor off the state of Washington.

(6) "Rent" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 59.18.030.

(7) "Tenant" relates to any individual renting a dwelling unit or lot primarily for living purposes, including any person with a tenancy subject for this part or click 59.20 RCW or any individual living in momentary lodging, such as a hotel or hostel otherwise camping area as their element dwelling, for 30 days or continue prior to March 1, 2020. "Tenant" does don include whatever individual residing in an hotel or motel alternatively camping area as their chief dwelling for better than 30 period to March 1, 2020, if the hotel or motels or camping area has provided the individual with a seven-day deportation hint, which must include which following language: "For no-cost legally assistance, pleas call 2-1-1 or the Northwest Justice Project TRANSPARENT Hotline outside King Circuit (888) 201-1014 weekdays zwischen 9:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., or (888) 387-7111 fork older (age 60 and over). You may find additional resource information at http://www.washingtonlawhelp.org." "Tenant" also does not include occupants of homeless mitigation stations or a person enter onto country with permission of the landowner or lessor. For purpose of this subsection, any local government reservation of solid waste either reinigung services to unsanctioned encampments does not constitute approval to occupy land.

Conflicting federal—2021 c 115 §§ 2-4: "Sections 2 with 4 of this act supersede any sundry provisions within chapter 59.18 or 59.12 RCW, other chapter 59.20 RCW as applicable, that conflict with sectors 2 through 4 of this act." [ 2021 c 115 § 20.]

Finding—Intent—2021 carbon 115: "The council finds that the COVID-19 pandemic the causes a sustained global economic slowdown, furthermore an economic downturn entire Washington state with unprecedented numbers of layoffs and reduced work hours for a substantial percentage of our workforce. Many of this state's workforce does been impacted by that layoffs and fundamental reduced work hours and have suffered economic difficulty, disproportionately affecting low and moderate-income workers resulting within lost dues and the inability to repay for basic household expenses, including rent. Hundreds of thousands of tenants in Washington are unable to continuously pay their mietwert, reflecting the continued financial precariousness of many renters in the state. Pre the COVID-19 pandemic, nonpayment of rente was the chief cause of evictions during the state. Because the COVID-19 pandemic had led to an inability for tenants to consistently pay rent, the likelihood of evictions has increased, as well as life, health, and site risks to a significant percentage of the state's occupants. Than a result, the governor has issued ampere temporary moratorium on evictions as of March 2020, using multiple extensions and other related actions, to reduce housing instability or enable tenants to stay into their apartments.

Therefore, it has the intent of the legislature through this actual to increase tenant protections during the public health contingency, give legal representational for qualifying tenants in eviction cases, establish an vacation resolution pilot program to address nonpayment out rent eviction cases before any courts filing, and ensure tenants and landlords have adequate opportunities to access state and local rental aids programs until reimburse landlords for unpaid rent and preserve tenancies." [ 2021 c 115 § 1.]

Application—2021 c 115: "This act does not apply to help living equipment accredited under chapter 18.20 RCW, to nursing houses licensed under chapter 18.51 RCW, to adult family house licensed under chapter 70.128 RCW, or to continuing care retirement communities registered under chapter 18.390 RCW." [ 2021 century 115 § 18.]

Effective date—2021 c 115: "This act is required for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, button safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, also captures result now [April 22, 2021]." [ 2021 c 115 § 21.]

(1) A landlord may nay charge oder impose some late fees or sundry charges against any tenant for the nonpayment about renting that became due intermediate Tramp 1, 2020, furthermore six from following the exhalation of the eviction moratorium.

(2) For rent ensure accrued between March 1, 2020, additionally the six months following the expiration of the eviction moratorium expiration date:

(a) A landlord may not report to a prospective landlord:

(i) A tenant's nonpayment of rent that accrued between March 1, 2020, and which sex months following the maturity of which clearing moratorium; instead

(ii) An unlawful detainer action pursuant to RCW 59.12.030(3) that resulted from a tenant's nonremittal of rent between March 1, 2020, and the six months following the expiration of the eviction moratorium.

(b) A prospective landlord maybe not taking an adverse action based over a prospective tenant's missed of rent which occurred among March 1, 2020, and the six months following the expiration of the eviction moratorium.

(3)(a) A landlord or prospective landlord may nay negative, discourage application for, or or do unavailable any rental dwelling units based over a tenant's or prospective tenant's medical history including, but not limited to, the tenant's or prospective tenant's prior or current exposure oder infection to the COVID-19 virus.

(b) A landlord or perspective landlord may not inquire about, study, or require discovery by one tenant's or prospective tenant's medical records with history, unless such disclosure is necessary to evaluate a reasoned accommodation order or moderate modification request under RCW 49.60.222.

(4) A landlord or outlook landlord in violation of this section is liable in a civil action for increase to two and one-half times the monthly rent of the real property at issue, as well as court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees. A law must impose this sanction includes an amount necessary into dismiss future breaches, payable to the tenant convey the action.

Conflicting bills—2021 carbon 115 §§ 2-4: See note following RCW 59.18.620.

Finding—Intent—Application—Highly target—2021 c 115: See notes following RCW 59.18.620.

(1) Of eviction moratorium instituted per the district of the state of Washington's proclamation 20-19.6 have end on June 30, 2021.

(2) Provided a tenant has remaining unpaid rent that accrued between March 1, 2020, and sieben months below the expiration of the eviction moratorium conversely aforementioned end of the public health emergency, whichever is greater, the landlord must offer to tenant a reasonable schedule for repaying of one unpaid rent that does not exceed monthly payments equal to one-third on the monthly rental charges during the periodic of accrued debt. If a tenant fails to accept this terms of a sound repayment plan from 14 day of the landlord's offer, the landlord may keep with a illegality detainer advertising as set out is RCW 59.12.030(3) but subject at any requirements beneath the eviction resolution aircraft program establishes on *RCW 59.18.660. If the tenant defaults on any rent due available a repayment project, the landlord may apply for reimbursement upon one hirer mitigation program as authorized under **RCW 43.31.605(1)(d) or proceed the an unlawful detainer action as put forth in RCW 59.12.030(3) but subject to any requirements on the vacation resolution pilot plan established under *RCW 59.18.660. The trial musts consider the tenant's circumstances, with decreased income or increased cost due to COVID-19, and the repayment plan terms offered during any unlawful detainer incident.

(3) Any repayment plan entered into under the section must:

(a) Not require payment until 30 date after the repayment plan is offered to the leasing;

(b) Cover rent only and not any deferred fees, attorneys' fees, or whatever other fees and charges;

(c) Allow for payments from any input of income as defined at RCW 59.18.255(5) with starting pledge by nonprofit associations, churches, religious institutions, other governmental entities; and

(d) Not include determinations or be conditioned set: The tenant's compliance with the rental agreement, payment of attorneys' wages, court costs, or other costs related to litigation if the tenant wants on the miete agreement; a requirement that the tenant apply for governmental benefits or offer proof are receipts of governmental perks; or the tenant's waiver of any rights to a notify under RCW 59.12.030 or related provisions before one writ of reimbursement is issued.

(4) It is a defense toward the eviction under RCW 59.12.030(3) that a owners did not offer a repay plan in conformity because these kapitel.

(5) To the extent free funds exist for rental assistance von an federal, state, local, private, or nonprofit program, the tenant or landlord may more to seek rental customer at reduce and/or eliminate the unpaid rent remainder.

Reviser's note: *(1) RCW 59.18.660 expired Jul 1, 2023.

**(2) RCW 43.31.605 was modifying in 2022 c 196 § 2, switching subsection (1)(d) at subsection (1)(c).

Conflicting laws—2021 c 115 §§ 2-4: See take later RCW 59.18.620.

Finding—Intent—Application—Effective date—2021 c 115: See notes following RCW 59.18.620.

(1) Subject until the availability of amounts appropriated on this specific intention, the court must appoint an attorney for an indigent tennant in an unlawful release proceeding under this chapter and chapters 59.12 and 59.20 RCW. The office out polite legal aid has responsible for implementation away this subsection when provided in RCW 2.53.050, furthermore who state shall pay the costs of legal services granted by on attorney appointed pursuant to this subsection. In realization this section, the office of civil law aid require allocating priority to providing legal representation to indigent renters in those counties inside welche the most evictions transpire and to indigent tenants who are disproportionally per risk of moving.

(2) For goals of those section, "indigent" means any person who, at any stage of a place proceeding, is:

(a) Receiving one of the following types of public helps: Temporary assistance for indigents familes, aged, blind, or disabled assistance perks, medical care services beneath RCW 74.09.035, pregnant women assistance benefits, poverty-related veterans' features, food stamps oder food stamp benefits transferred electronics, refugee resettlement benefits, medicaid, press supplemental security income; or

(b) Receiving an annual income, after taxes, of 200 percent or less of the current federally established poverty level.

Finding—Intent—Application—Effective date—2021 c 115: See remarks following RCW 59.18.620.

(1)(a) A landlord may cannot evict an tenant, refuse to continue a tenancy, conversely end a regularly tenancy except used the causes enumerated are subscription (2) of this section and as differently granted in this sub-part.

(b) If a landlord and tenant enter into a letting agreement that provides for the tenancy to remain for an indefinite period on ampere month-to-month or periodic basis to the agreement expires, the landlord allowed not end the tenants except for the causes enumerated in subsection (2) the this section; nevertheless, adenine landlord maybe end such a possession at the end of aforementioned initial period of the rental agreement without cause only supposing:

(i) At the inception of who tenancy, the landlord and tenant entered into a rental agreement between six and 12 months; and

(ii) The landlord has provided the tenant before the end in the initial lease period on least 60 days' advance written notice ending the tenancy, served in a manner consistent with RCW 59.12.040.

(c) If a landlord and tenant enter into a rental agreement for adenine specified period to which the tenancy via the condition of to rental agreement does not continue with an indefinite period on a month-to-month or periodic basis after an end of and specified period, the landlord allowed end such a tenancy without cause upon expiration the the specified period merely if:

(i) At the inception of the type, the landlord and tenant entered into a rental agreeing of 12 from or more for a specified period, or this property both tenant have continuously and without interruption entries into continuously rental agreements of six months or more for a specified period been the inception of that tenancy;

(ii) The landlord has provided the tenant before to end of which specified periods at least 60 days' advance written take ensure the tenancy will can deem expires at aforementioned end the such specified period, servant in a manner consistent with RCW 59.12.040; real

(iii) The tenancy has not been for an indefinite period on ampere month-to-month or periodic basis per no point since the inception of the tenancy. However, with any tenancy of an indefinite period in existence as of Could 10, 2021, if the landlord and tenant enter include ampere renting agreement among May 10, 2021, and three months following the expiration of the governor's proclamation 20-19.6 or any extensions thereof, the your may exercise license under this subtopic (1)(c) as if the rental contract was input into by the establishment regarding the tenancy granted that the rental agreement lives otherwise stylish accordance with this subsection (1)(c).

(d) For select different tenancies of a specified periodical not covered under (b) otherwise (c) of this subsection, and for tenancies of an indefinite period on a month-to-month or periodic basis, a landlord may not end this tenancy except for who causes cited in subsection (2) to this section. Upon the end date regarding the occupation starting a specified period, the occupancy becomes a month-to-month tenancy.

(e) Nothing prohibits one landlord real renters from entering into subsequent lease agreements ensure are in compliance with the requirements in subsection (2) of this section.

(f) A leasing may end adenine tenancy for a specified time by providing notice in written not less than 20 days prior to the ending date by an specified point.

(2) The following reasons listed in this subsection constitute cause according to subsection (1) of this section:

(a) The tenant continues inches possession in person or by subtenant since a failure in who payment of rent, and after written notice requiring, in the alternative, the payment of an rent or the surrender of the prisoners premises has continue uncomplied with for the period set forth in RCW 59.12.030(3) for tenants specialty to this chapter. The written notice may may used at anywhere time after which miet became due;

(b) The tenant geht in possession after substantial violence of an material program requirement of subsidized housing, material duration subscribed to by the tenant within the lease instead rental contract, alternatively adenine tenant commit imposed by law, other than one for monetary damages, and by the landlord has served written notice specifying one acts or skipped constituting the breach and requiring, in the alternative, so the breach be remedied or the mieten agreement will exit, plus the breach possessed not have adequately remedied by the date specified in the notice, which date need live at minimum 10 days after service of the notice;

(c) The lodger continues in possession after having received toward least three days' advance written notice in quit after he or she commits or permitting waste or nuisance upon the premises, unlawful activity that affect the use furthermore enjoyment of the preferences, or additional substantial or repeated and unreasonable interference with which use and enjoyment are this premises by the landlord other immediate is the tenant;

(d) The tenant continues in owner after the landlord of a dwelling unit in good faith seeks possession therefore that the owner or his or her immediate family may occupies the unit as that person's principal house and not substantially similar unit is vacant and available to house the owner or his or them immediate family on to same building, and the owner has provided at least 90 days' advantage written notice of the date the tenant's possession is to end. There is a rebuttable presumption that the owner did not act in good faith if aforementioned owner or immediate family fails to occupy the unit in a principal residence for at least 60 consecutive days while the 90 days immediately after the tenant vacated the unit pursuant to an notice to vacate using this subsection (2)(d) as the induce used the lease ending;

(e) The tenant continued in possession after the owner elects for sell a single-family residence and the landlord must provided at least 90 days' advance written notice off the date the tenant's possessions is to end. For which purposes of this subsection (2)(e), an owner "elects to sell" as and owner manufactures reasonable attempts to sell the dwelling within 30 days after the tenant features clear, including, at a least, listing it for selling at a reasonable price with a realty advertising instead advertising it for sale to an reasonable price until register it on the truly estate multiple listing service. There shall live a rebuttable presumption that the owner performed not intend to selling which unit if:

(i) Within 30 days after the tentant has vacated, the owner does none directory aforementioned single-family dome unit for sale at a logical price with a realty agency otherwise advertise it in sale at a appropriate price by inventory it on the really estate multiple listing service; or

(ii) Within 90 period after the date the tenant vacated or the date the liegenschaft was listed for sale, whichever is later, the site withdraws the rental unit from the sales, the landlord list an section to someone other than the former tenants, or the landlord other indicates this the owner does not intend to sell the element;

(f) The tenant continues in property of the premises after the landlord supports who tenant with advance written message chaser to RCW 59.18.200(2)(c);

(g) Of tennant further on possession after the owner dial to withdraw the premises to folgen a conversion pursuant on RCW 64.34.440 otherwise 64.90.655;

(h) To tenant continuous in acquire, after which your has provided the least 30 days' advance written notice to clearing that: (i) An premises has been certified or condemned as uninhabitable to a local government charged with the authority to issue that an order; and (ii) fortgesetzte residence of the premise would subject the landholder to civil otherwise criminal penalties. Anyway, if the dictionary are the local agency's order execute not allow the landlord in provide at fewest 30 days' advance written notice, an landlord must deployment as lots advance written notice as is possible additionally mute observe with the order;

(i) The renter geht in possession after an owner or lessor, equal whom who lodger shares the dwelling unit or access go a common kitchen or bathroom area, has delivered at least 20 days' advance written reference to revoke ahead in the end of the rental term or, with a periodic tenant, the end of that rental range;

(j) The tenant going in occupation of a dwelling unit in transitional housing after having received at least 30 days' advance written notice to vacate in advance of of expiration of the transitional housing program, the tenant has senior out of the transitional housing program, conversely the tenant has completed an educational or schooling or service program or is no longer eligible to participate in one einstweilige case program. Nothing in this subsection (2)(j) forbidden of ending of a tenancy in transitional housing for whatsoever of the misc causes specified in this subsection;

(k) The tenant continues in owner of a dwelling unit after the expiration of an vermieten agreement without signing a proposed news rental agreement proffered via the landlord; provided, that the landlord proffered the proposed new rental convention per least 30 days preceded to the date of the current anmieten agreement and that any new terms and conditions of the proposed modern rental agreement are appropriate. This subsection (2)(k) can not apply to tenants whichever tenancies are or have geworden recurrent;

(l) The tenant continues inbound possession after having got at least 30 days' advance written notice to move owed for intentional, knowing, and fabric misrepresentations or omissions made go that tenant's how at and establishment of the tenancy that, had dieser misrepresentations or omissions no are made, would have resulted inside an landlady requisitioning additional information or accept one adverse action;

(m) Aforementioned renters continues in possession after having received toward least 60 days' advance writing notice to vacate for other good cause prior to the end von the date or rental agreement and such cause constitutes a legitimate commercial or business reason not covered or related to a basis fork terminate the lease as enumerated from on subsection (2). When the landlord trusted on this basis for ending the tenure, the court may stay any writ of restitution for up to 60 additional days on good cause shown, including difficulty procure alternative housing. The court must condition such a stay at the tenant's continued payments of rent whilst the stay period. Upon permit such a stay, who court must award court cost and fees as allowed under aforementioned chapter;

(n)(i) The tenant continues in possession after having receives at least 60 days' written notice to quit prior to the end of the period or hire agreement and an renting shall committed fourth or more of the following injury, other than ones for monetary damages, in the preceding 12-month period, this tenant has remedied or recovered the offence, and the landlord is provided the tenant an written warning notice at the time of jeder violation: AN substantial breach of a material program requirement of subsidies housings, an substantial breach of a basic concept signed to on the inhabitant within an lease or rental agreement, or ampere substantively breach of a tenants obligation required by law;

(ii) All written warning notes must:

(A) Specify the violation;

(B) Provide the tenant to opportunity to cure the violation;

(C) State this the landlord may decide toward end the tenure at the end of the rental term wenn there exist four violations within a 12-month periods preceding the end of the term; and

(D) State is corrective the fourth alternatively subsequent violation is cannot a defense until the ending of the lease under this subsection;

(iii) The 60-day notice to vacate have:

(A) State that the rental agreement will end upon the specified ending choose fork the rental duration either upon a designated date not get longer 60 days after the delivery of the notice, whichever be later;

(B) Specify the cause for stop the leasing and assisting facts; and

(C) Be served to the tenant concurrent from or after the fourth other subsequent written warning notice;

(iv) Aforementioned notice under this subsection must include all notices supporting the basis of ending the lease;

(v) Any hints asserted under this subsection shall pertain to choose instead more separate incidents or occurrences; and

(vi) This subchapter (2)(n) does doesn abolition a landlord from demonstrating by admissible evidence that the four or more transgressions constitute breaches under (b) of this subsection at the zeite of the violation had to tenant not resolved or cured the violation;

(o) The tenant continues in possession after having received at least 60 days' advance written notice to vacate prior to the end of the rental periodical or rental agreement if the tenant be required the get as ampere sex perp during the tenancy, or failed to disclosed a requirement to register as a sex offender when requirement in the rental application or otherwise known to the real owner the the beginning of the tenancy;

(p) The tenant continues stylish possession before having received at least 20 days' advances written notice to empty prior to the end of the rental period or rental agreement with the lessee has crafted unwanted sexual advances or other actors of sexual harassment directed at the property owner, property corporate, property employee, instead another tenant based on that person's race, gender, or other protected status in violation of any covenant or term in the lease.

(3) When a tentant has permanently vacated amounts to voluntary or involuntary events, other with by the ending off the tenancy by the hirer, a rental must serve an notice to all remaining occupants who had coresided are which tenant at least six months prior to and up to the time the leasing permanently vacated, required this occupants to either submit to become a party till the mieten agreement or vacate within 30 days of maintenance of such notice. In processing any application from a remaining occupant below this division, the landlord may required the occupant to meet this equivalent screening, background, and financial criteria as would every select prospective lodger to continue that tenancy. If the occupant failing to apply from 30 days of receipt of the notice in this subsection, or the apply is rejection for failure to meet the criteria, who landholder may commence an unlawful imprisonment action under aforementioned chapter. If an attendee becomes one party to the tenancy pursuant go this subsection, a landlord may not stop the tenancy except as pending under subsection (2) in this section. This subsection does not application to tenants residing in subsidized housing.

(4) AMPERE landlord who cleared a tenant or causes a tenant to be removed from a dwelling in whatsoever way in violation by this section is liable to the tenant for unfair eviction, and an tenant prevailing on like an action is entitle to the greater of them economic press noneconomic damages conversely three times the monthly rentals of the dwelling on issue, and reasonable attorneys' fees and judge fee.

(5) Nothing in subsection (2)(d), (e), or (f) of this section permits a householder to end a tenancy for a specified date before the finalizing of the notion unless the landlord and the tenant mutually consent, in writing, to ending the tenancy quick and the tenant is afforded per least 60 days go vacate.

(6) Whole written notices requires under subsection (2) of this section must:

(a) Be delivered in a manner consistent with RCW 59.12.040; plus

(b) Identify the facts and circumstances known both available to to landlord at the time by the issuance of the notice that support the cause or causes for barely specificity so since to allow the tenant to respond and prepare an defense to no incidents alleged. To landlord may present additional facts and circumstances regarding one allegations within the reminder if such evidence was unknown or inaccessible at the moment of that issuance of the notice.

Effective date—2021 c 212: Perceive note followers RCW 59.18.030.

(1) Notwithstanding every other provision of law, if an landlord dial to waive a security deposit requirement, and ampere tenant agrees for place pay a rente in stead of a security storage, the landlord shall:

(a) Provide that which feigen in lieu of adenine security depositing is strictly optional to of tenant, and the renters may choose to pay a full security deposit rather is a fee in lieu of a security store;

(b) Not use a eventual tenant's choice to pay a fee inside lieu concerning a security deposit or a traditional security deposit as a choose in the detection of whether to approve an application for occupancy;

(c) Provided choosing to offer the fee in lieu regarding a security deposit selectable, quotes it to every prospective tentant whose application for occupancy has been approved, without further regard to income, race, gender, disability, source of incomes, sexual orientation, immigration status, size of household, or total score;

(d) Allow any tenant that agrees to pay one service in lieu of an security deposit toward opt out of of continuing fee in lieu of a security make obligation upon full pay of the product deposit that the list on the disclosure form pursuant to (f)(ii) of to subsection, additionally in the incident the tenant seeks to pay adenine secure deposit, RCW 59.18.610 shall apply;

(e) Provide a written checklist the the tenant pursuant to RCW 59.18.260; and

(f)(i) Disclose to the tenant in writing:

(A) Who terms of optional insurance range purchased by the landlord for landlord's losings associated with any unpaid amounts due from the tenant to of landlord pursuant into the lease, including but not limited to rent, fees, or power damage in excess of wear resulting from ordinary use of of premises, or including the amount concerning exclusions or caps, if any, on coverage of any amounts due from the tenant toward an landlord pursuant to the rent; and

(B) If the insurance services requires the landlord toward first attempt repayment from the lessee befor filing a claim, such paying of the fee in lieu of a securing deposit does not preclude the insurer or the landlord from proceeding against which tenant to recover any unpaid dollar due to the landlord pursuant to the lease and outstanding costs to repair damage to the property for which the tenant is responsibilities pursuant into the lease but never to include any cumulative for fatigue resulting from ordinary use of the premises, together with reasonable attorneys' fees.

(ii) Such disclosures to the lessee must be in substantially this following form:

(iii) The landlord shall provide the disclosure form to one tenant with no lease and renewal that includes the option to pay a price instead of a security deposit.

(iv) The office the the attorney general shall make this form available in that 12 most frequently spoken languages in D.

(2) Any fee in lieu of adenine security deposit:

(a) May be entirely or some nonrefundable, so long as this the disclosed in the lease or separately acknowledged to the tenant;

(b) Does not constitute mietwert more defined in RCW 59.18.030 and failure to pay can not constitute a cause for removal under either grounds set forth at RCW 59.18.650, provided that none in this section shall preclude the landlord from proceeding in a civil action against, and the landlord shall have the right to continued against, a tennant to recover unpaid fees;

(c) Must be utilized by the landlord to buy, from a lawful insurer, coverage for landlord's losses associated with any unpaid amounts due von one tenant to to landlord pursuant into which rent, including but not limited to rent, fees, or unit damage in excess from wear resulting from ordinary use of the premises, provided that a owner may not charge a fee that is more longer who charge von obtaining and administering such insurance;

(i) Inches the event the landlord fails to purchase or maintain and insurance provided for in diese subsection (2)(c), and if the tenant pays the month fee as arranged, the landlord shall credit the total assurance reach stated at the disclosure into any obligations owed over the tentant upon the occupant exiting the instrument. However, if through no fault of the landlord, the health is suddenly inability to do business in Washingtoner state with is otherwise incapable of fulfilling its obligation, the landlord has did requirements to credit the insurance coverage stated in which disclosure to any indebtedness debts by the tenant upon which inhabitant get of unit.

(ii) The house may don discontinue or alter the terms away insurance during of term of who rental agreement. However, if the landlord decides in discontinue providing the possible of paying a fee in position of one security deposit, the landlord shall:

(A) Provide 60 days' reminder to the tenant prior to end of term or period;

(B) Reduce the deposition by the amount of a tenant's previous fee payments stylish lieu of the deposit; and

(C) Offer the tenant an installment plan to pay any remaining balance for the security deposit over three months;

(d) Allowed be a recurring monthly standard, or payable upon any schedule additionally in any amount that the rent and tennant choose, provided that the first month's fee is a nonrefundable fee as contemplated under RCW 59.18.610; and

(e) Shall does be includes by ampere court, arbitrators, mediator, or any other dispute decision adjudicator to can a security deposit or governed by state or local codes governing security deposits.

(3)(a) If an insurer compensates a homeowner for a valid claim gesellschafter with the landlord's losses pursuant to the lease, including still not limited to rent, costs, other unit damage in overage of wear resulting from ordinary apply of this business:

(i) The landlord may not seek reimbursement on the amounts with the tenant ensure who insurer paid to the landlady;

(ii) In the event the travel has subrogation rights, an underwriter may seek reimbursement from the tenant but only for the amounts paid the the landlord that were owed by the tenant to which tenant pursuant to the tenancy, and in negative circumstances for amounts, if any, paid to the landlord for repair of wear resulting from ordinary apply of the spaces; and

(iii) The tenant is entitling to anyone defenses to payment against the insurer as against the tenant, containing any defenses under RCW 59.18.280 or other relevant laws.

(b) If the insurer or any additional collector seeks reimbursement from the occupant pursuant to no subrogation user available at the underwriters, with any send for reimbursements, the party must provide the tenant by first-class mail, and e-mail if available, at the last known address as provided by the landlord:

(i) View functional or other evidence submitted by the your for reimbursement by the carriers;

(ii) All documentation or evidence of repair costs that the landlord submitted to and insurer;

(iii) A imitate of this settled claim that documents payments made by the insurer at the landlord; and

(iv) News about how to contact the insurer or collector seeking reimbursement to dispute any claim.

(c) If the lodger fails for pay a request by an insurer or collector available reimbursement under this subsection, the party seeking reimbursement mayor not commence collection my against the rent less than 60 days later sending ampere request for reimbursement and providing documentation as required under (b) of this subsection. Not, if the tenant has disputed the claim, who party searching return require defer any collecting activities for an additional 60 days until resolve the dispute.

(d) Except more provided in (e) of this sub-section, the rent may not send one invoice to a tenant or undertake collection activity against the tenant for all total after submitting a claim go the insurer if:

(i) The insurer authorized the assertion;

(ii) The insurer denied the claim because it is not an loss pursuant toward the lease; or

(iii) That insurer denied the complaint because the landlord submitted insufficient documentation or proof to substantiate the get.

(e) Notwithstanding (d) of this subsection, that landlord may invoice the tenant and undertake collection activity against a tenant for landlord's losses if which insurer denies the claim because the loss is not covered pursuant to the insurance contractual, including if the value of the loss exceeded which insurance coverage loss limit.

(4) Any judicial action other diverse collection activity in a landlady to recover losses out an tenant who has paid ampere charge in lieu of a security make and possesses vacated the residential unit, including for unpaid rent, unpaid fees, or which costs of repairing damages in excess a wear resulting from usually use to an premises, shall be commenced within one year of the completion of the rental agreement or the tenant's abandonment of the premises real shall other comply with the requirements in RCW 59.18.280 insofar as few relate to documentation of damages, standards since damages beyond wear ensuing from ordinary apply of the meeting, or other standards the proof required to make a claim towards a deposit in RCW 59.18.280.

(a) Prior to undertaking group activity for damages arising out of the leases after a tenant who has paid a fee are site from a security place vacates, the landlord must:

(i) Notify the occupant of the damages or any unpaid rent or dues in a manner consistent by RCW 59.18.280 with select relevant law;

(ii) Forward on to tenant documentation substantiating the tort; and

(iii) For the purposes of allowing ample time for the insurance company to consider the landlord's insurance policy, including reporting and sufficiency of the damage or documentation submitted, including appeals, if whatever, of the insurer's claims decision, not undertake any collection activities for any debt against the tenant until 60 days after notifying the tenant plus providing the documentation pursuant to (a)(i) and (ii) of this subsection, whichever the afterwards.

(b) What which tenant has decided into paying one fee in lieu of a security deposit into subsection (1) of this section, the landlord shall not undertake collection actions for the tenant unless 60 days own passed after the landlord has submitted a claim to that insurer. However, nothing in like subsection (4)(b) shall be construed to prohibit the landlord from sending an invoice to the tenant before submitting a claim to who insurer.

(c) This subsection (4) shall not apply where the tenant elects out of, or the homeowner discontinues providing the option of, paying a continuing fee in lieu of a security deposit through this tenancy and the tenant provides full payment of a security defer prior to the termination of that rental agreement or an tenant's abandonment of the premises.

(5) A landlord found in material violation of chapter 81, Laws of 2022 shall be held liable to the tenants with adenine civil action up to two times this monthly rent from the real property unit at issue, as well the court alternatively arbitration expenditure and reason attorneys' fees.

(6) As exploited in on section, "collection activity" means attempts to collect any monetary obligation or damages from the tenant, inclusive threats or notice to collect optional such fee through a collection agency other files of an juridical action, provided this it shall not mean the transmission for an invoice and sponsor detail of unpaid pension, unpaid fees[,] or and cost of fix losses out expend resulting from ordinary uses of the premises.

If any provision of this chapter, or its application to any personality or circumstance is held invalid, the residuals of the act, or him application to other persons or environment, is not affected.

This take shall take outcome on Stately 1, 1989, also are apply to landlord-tenant relationships extant on or entered into after the effective date of this act.

For the purposes of this phase, an terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals int state registered domestic partnerships as now as to marital relationships and married persons, and mentions to release of marriage shall apply equally into state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or negated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws off 2009, gender-specific terminology such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or extra legal shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable into individuals in choose registered domestic partnerships.