Deeds or other conveyances of apartments shall include the following:

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Terms Used In Washington Code 64.32.120

  • Apartment: means a part of the property intended for any type of independent use, including one or more rooms or spaces located on one or more floors (or part or parts thereof) in a building, or if not in a building, a separately delineated place of storage or moorage of a boat, plane, or motor vehicle, regardless of whether it is destined for a residence, an office, storage or moorage of a boat, plane, or motor vehicle, the operation of any industry or business, or for any other use not prohibited by law, and which has a direct exit to a public street or highway, or to a common area leading to such street or highway. See Washington Code 64.32.010
  • Declaration: means the instrument by which the property is submitted to provisions of this chapter, as hereinafter provided, and as it may be, from time to time, lawfully amended. See Washington Code 64.32.010
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Land: means the material of the earth, whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock, or other substance, whether or not submerged, and includes free or occupied space for an indefinite distance upwards as well as downwards, subject to limitations upon the use of airspace imposed, and rights in the use of the airspace granted, by the laws of this state or of the United States. See Washington Code 64.32.010
  • Limited common areas and facilities: includes those common areas and facilities designated in the declaration, as it is duly recorded or as it may be lawfully amended, as reserved for use of certain apartment or apartments to the exclusion of the other apartments. See Washington Code 64.32.010
  • Property: means the land, the building, all improvements and structures thereon, all owned in fee simple absolute or qualified, by way of leasehold or by way of a periodic estate, or in any other manner in which real property may be owned, leased or possessed in this state, and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto, none of which shall be considered as a security or security interest, and all articles of personalty intended for use in connection therewith, which have been or are intended to be submitted to the provisions of this chapter. See Washington Code 64.32.010
(1) A description of the land as provided in RCW 64.32.090, or the post office address of the property, including in either case the date of recording of the declaration and the volume and page or county auditor’s recording number of the recorded declaration;
(2) The apartment number of the apartment in the declaration and any other data necessary for its proper identification;
(3) A statement of the use for which the apartment is intended;
(4) The percentage of undivided interest appertaining to the apartment, the common areas and facilities and limited common areas and facilities appertaining thereto, if any;
(5) Any further details which the grantor and grantee may deem desirable to set forth consistent with the declaration and with this chapter.

NOTES:

Effective date1999 c 233: See note following RCW 4.28.320.