STATE LAND LAWS 

 SEC. 147 LEASE HARBOR AREA. 



CHAPTER 14. 



LEASE OF HARBOR AREAS. 



SEC. 147. Harbor Area; Board May Lease; Bond. 



148. Former Leases Validated. 



149. Preference Rights Partially Repealed. 



150. Preference Right to Abutter. 



151. Same; Application. 



152. Vested Rights Saved. 



153. Auction of Lease; Regulation of Tolls. 



154. Rentals of Harbors and Tide Lands. 



155. Harbor Area and Tide Lands in Port Districts. 



156. Abutters' Preference Right to Lease. 



157. Rental. 



158. Condemnation of Preference Right. 



159. Bond for Rental; Forfeiture. 



160. Regulation of Tolls. 



161. Canceled Leases; Reinstatement. 



Cross-References : LEASE TIDE LANDS: sec. 142 et seq., ante; 

 LEASE WATERWAYS: sec. 163 et seq., post; ABERDEEN HARBOR: 

 sees. 463 and 467, post; HOQUIAM HARBOR: sec. 478, post; ESTAB- 

 LISHMENT HARBOR LINES: sec. 306 et seq., post, and Const., Art. 

 XV, ante. 



SEC. 147. LEASE OF HARBOR AREAS RENTAL AND BOND. 



The Board of State Land Commissioners shall have power to 

 lease the right to build and maintain wharves, docks, and other 

 structures upon the harbor areas laid out or which shall here- 

 after be laid out in pursuance of the provisions of Article XV of 

 the constitution of the State of Washington for such rental and 

 under such general rules as said board shall prescribe, except in 

 so far as the same are or may be prescribed by law ; but no such 

 lease shall be made for any term longer than thirty years. The 

 rental fixed and reserved to the State of Washington in each 

 such lease shall be such sum as said board shall fix. Said board 

 shall require of each such lessee a bond with sufficient surety, to 

 be approved by the Commissioner of Public Lands, in such pen- 

 alty, and not exceeding twice the amount of the annual rental, 

 but in no case less than five hundred dollars, as may be prescribed 

 by the board, conditioned for the payment by the lessee of the 



