STATE LAND LAWS g>y 



REMOVAL OF TIMBER. SECS. 72-73 



Contract holder's privilege to cut timber for domestic use: sec. 262, 

 post. 



Unlawful removal of timber from state lands: sec. 261 et seq., post. 



Taxation of timber: sec. 330 et seq., post. 



Timber and materials may be separately sold: Const., Art. XVI, 

 sec. 3, ante. 



Full value must be paid or safely secured: idem. 



Logged-off lands may be reserved for reforestation: sec. 62, ante. 



Cited: 33 Wash. 327; 37 Wash. 125-129. 



In the absence of fraud, a deed will not be set aside upon the ground that 

 the land bore more than the prohibitive amount of timber : State v. Ort, 66 

 Wash. 130. 



Although sees. 68-69, ante, relate only to the sale of land, they must be con- 

 strued in connection with this section, and lands containing more than one 

 million feet of timber to the quarter section cannot be sold until the timber has 

 been sold and removed : State ex rel. Heuston v. Callvert, 37 Wash. 124. 



SEC. 72. TIMBER RULES FOR REMOVAL. 



All sales of timber upon state land shall be made subject to 

 the right, power and authority of the Board of State Land Com- 

 missioners to prescribe rules and regulations governing the 

 manner of removal of the timber with a view to the protection of 

 the non-merchantable timber against destruction or injury by 

 fire or from other causes ; and any such rules or regulations 

 shall be binding upon the purchaser of the timber and his suc- 

 cessors in interest and shall be enforced by the Commissioner of 

 Public Lands. (Laws '09, p. 760, sec. 3; sec. 6667 Rem.-Bal. ; 

 477 sec. 53 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '95, p. 539, sec. 27. 

 Board's power to make rules, generally: sec. 14, ante. 

 Manner and time for removal from capitol building lands: sec. 

 427, post. 



Cited : 37 Wash. 127. 



SEC. 73. REMOVAL OF MATERIALS EXTENSION OF TIME. 



In all cases where timber, fallen timber, stone, gravel or other 

 valuable materials are sold separate from the land the same 

 shall revert to the state if not removed from the land within 

 five years from the date of purchase thereof, except that in all 

 cases when the purchaser is acting in good faith and endeavoring 

 to remove such timber, fallen timber, stone, gravel or other 

 valuable materials, the Commissioner of Public Lands may extend 



