68 STATE LAND LAWS 



SEC. 74 REMOVAL OF TIMBER, 



the time for removal thereof for any further period not exceeding 

 five years upon payment to the state of a sum to be fixed by the 

 Commissioner of Public Lands not less than one dollar nor more 

 than two dollars per acre per annum. And the Commissioner of 

 Public Lands shall certify and pay to the State Treasurer all 

 sums received for such extensions and the same shall be credited 

 to the fund to which was credited the original purchase price of 

 the materials so sold. (Laws '01, p. 308, sec. 1 ; amended, Laws 

 '07, p. 752, sec. 6 ; amended, Laws '09, p. 760, sec. 3 ; sec. 6667 

 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 sec. 53 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '89-'90, p. 443, sec. 12; Laws '93, p. 395, sec. 

 19; Laws '95, p. 539, sec. 26; Laws '05, p. 77, sec. 1; Laws '07, p. 747, 

 sec. 1. 



Proceds of sales and extensions, how credited: sec. 41, ante. 



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



Time for removal from capitol building lands: sec. 427, post. 



Logging rights of way over state lands: sec. 202, post. 



Rights of way over lands sold by state: sec. 86, post. 



Common user of rights of way: sec. 201, post. 



Cited: 37 Wash. 128. 



Application for extension may be entertained if filed within reasonable time 

 after expiration of period for removal : Opinions Att'y Gen'l, '09-'10, p. 184. 



Where timber has been sold separate from land, the land may not be sold 

 until all timber has been removed or time for removal has expired, even though 

 land and timber might have been lawfully sold together : Opinions Att'y Gen'l, 

 '07-'08, p. 77. 



Although the act of 1909 (sec. 425 et seq., post) placed the sale of timber 

 on capitol building lands within the jurisdiction of the state capitol commission, 

 the Board of State Land Commissioners or the Commissioner of Public Lands 

 were not ousted of jurisdiction to extend time for removal in cases where such 

 timber was sold prior to the taking effect of said act : Opinion Att'y Gen'l, Oct. 

 27, '13. 



SEC. 74. TIMBER SOLD PRIOR TO 1909 EXTENSION OF TIME. 



In all cases where any timber on any state school or granted 

 lands has been heretofore sold separate from the land and, in 

 the judgment of the Board of State Land Commissioners, the 

 interest of the state will be better served by granting an exten- 

 sion of time for the removal thereof, the said board may extend 

 the time for the removal of such timber for a further period of 

 not to exceed five years from and after the date upon which it 

 may now be removed, upon application and satisfactory showing 



