84 STATE LAND LAWS 



SEC. 90 ABUTTER'S RIGHT. 



area so selected shall remain in the state, the title to all selections 

 for streets, avenues and alleys shall vest in any city or town 

 within the corporate limits of which they may be then situate, 

 otherwise in the county in which situate, the title to and control 

 of any lands so selected and designated upon such plat for 

 parkway and boulevard purposes shall, if the same lie outside 

 of the corporate limits of any city or town and if the same form 

 a part of the general parkway and boulevard system of a city 

 of the first class, be in such city, the title to all selections for 

 commercial waterway district purposes shall vest in the com- 

 mercial waterway district in which situate, or for which selected, 

 and the title to all selections for slips, docks, wharves, ware- 

 houses and other public purposes shall vest in the port district 

 if they be situate in a port district, otherwise in the county in 

 which situate. (Laws '13, p. 668, sec. 2; 3 Rem.-Bal., sec. 

 8173-2.) 



Platting of shore lands, generally: sec. 306 et seq., post. 



The right of selection extends to shore lands lying in front of lands sold as 

 shore lands of the second class, which thereafter became shore lands of the first 

 class : Opinion Att'y Gen'l, May 21, 1913. 



SEC. 90. ABUTTER'S PREFERENCE RIGHT TO PURCHASE. 



The owner of any land abutting and fronting upon tide and 

 shore lands of the first class shall have the right for sixty days 

 following the filing of the final appraisal of the tide and shore 

 lands with the Commissioner of Public Lands to apply for the 

 purchase of the lands fronting and abutting the land so owned. 

 (Laws '97, p. 250, sec. 45; re-enacted, Laws '07, p. 739, sec. 4; 

 sees. 6750 and 6772 Rem.-Bal.; 477 sees. 127 and 139 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '89-'90, pp. 433-35, sees. 8-11; Laws '91, p. 

 403, sec. 1; Laws '95, p. 552, sec. 58. 



NOTE: This section is adapted from the sections above cited. 

 Sec. 92, post, is a proviso to this section as first enacted, and gives 

 certain improvers a superior right, but such proviso was not attached 

 to the section as re-enacted. 



Appraisement of tide and shore lands: sec. 319 et seq., post. 



Special provisions as to tide and shore lands of Aberdeen, Belling- 

 ham, Elaine, Hoquiam, La Conner, Seattle, Lakes Union and Washing- 

 ton, South Bend and Vancouver: sec. 461 et seq., post. 



