72 STATE LAND LAWS 



SECS. 78-79 APPRAISEMENT. 



SEC. 78. APPRAISEMENT BOARD MAY COMPEL TESTIMONY. 

 For the purpose of determining the value and character of 

 land, timber, fallen timber, stone, gravel or other valuable ma- 

 terials or improvements, the Commissioner of Public Lands or 

 the Board of State Land Commissioners may compel the at- 

 tendance of witnesses by subpoena, at such place as the com- 

 missioner or the board may designate, and examine such wit- 

 nesses under oath as to the value and character of such lands, 

 materials or improvements and waste or damage thereto. (Laws 

 '97, p. 236, sec. 12 ; amended, Laws '99, p. 252, sec. 1 ; amended, 

 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 '95, p. 567, sec. 93. 



See sec. 18, ante, and sec. 145, post, for similar provisions. 



Cited: 27 Wash. 609; 33 Wash. 327; 37 Wash. 125. 



SEC. 79. CERTIFICATE OF APPRAISEMENT PROTEST. 



Immediately upon the appraisement and inspection provided 

 for in this chapter being made of any land in any county of the 

 state, and the Commissioner of the Public Lands shall prepare a 

 certificate of such appraisement showing in detail the facts re- 

 ported in such appraisement, and he shall file one copy of the 

 same in his office and shall certify one copy and forward it to 

 the auditor of the county in which said land is situated, and the 

 said county auditor shall post it in a conspicuous place in his 

 office, and the said Commissioner of Public Lands shall notify 

 the applicant of the appraisement and of the notice to the 

 auditor, and that said board will allow the applicant twenty 

 days in which to show wherein said appraisement is defective, 

 excessive or unjust, which protest, if any be made and filed, shall 

 be considered by the said board, and notice of their action shall 

 be sent to the applicant. (Laws '97, p. 238, sec. 13; amended 

 Laws '03, p. 113, sec 1; sec. 6671 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 sec. 59 

 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '93, p. 392, sees. 12-13; Laws '95, p. 536, sec. 22. 



Inspection and appraisement: sec. 69, ante. 



