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

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

(1) Every five years the department of social and health services and other state agencies that operate institutions shall conduct an inventory of all real property subject to the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account and other real property acquired for institutional purposes or for the benefit of the blind, deaf, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or otherwise disabled. The inventory shall identify which of those real properties are not needed for state-provided residential care, custody, or treatment. By December 1, 1992, and every five years thereafter the department shall report the results of the inventory to the house of representatives committee on capital facilities and financing, the senate committee on ways and means, and the joint legislative audit and review committee.
(2) Real property identified as not needed for state-provided residential care, custody, or treatment shall be transferred to the corpus of the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account. This subsection shall not apply to leases of real property to a consortium of three or more counties in order for the counties to construct or otherwise acquire correctional facilities for juveniles or adults or to real property subject to binding conditions that conflict with the other provisions of this subsection.
(3) The department of natural resources shall manage all property subject to the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account and, in consultation with the department of social and health services and other affected agencies, shall adopt a plan for the management of real property subject to the account and other real property acquired for institutional purposes or for the benefit of the blind, deaf, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or otherwise disabled.
(a) The plan shall be consistent with state trust land policies and shall be compatible with the needs of institutions adjacent to real property subject to the plan.
(b) The plan may be modified as necessary to ensure the quality of future management and to address the acquisition of additional real property.
[ 1996 c 288 s 51; 1996 c 261 s 1; 1991 c 204 s 1. Formerly RCW 79.01.006.]

Notes

Reviser's note: This section was amended by 1996 c 261 s 1 and by 1996 c 288 s 51, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
Department of social and health services duty: RCW 43.20A.035.

Source: official Washington text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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