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HARBORS AND TIDE LANDS. SEC. 156 



persons and upon such terms and conditions conforming to the 

 provisions of the constitution of the State of Washington as 

 shall be determined by resolution of such port commission. 

 Every such lease shall provide that the rentals thereunder shall 

 be payable to the state treasurer. (Laws '13, p. 585, sec. 1 ; 

 3 Rem.-BaL, sec. 6781-1.) 



Lease of harbor area not in port districts: sec. 147 et seq., supra. 



Constitutional provisions: Const., Art. XV, supra. 



While this and the following sections place the tide lands and harbor area 

 within the exclusive power of the port commissioners for purposes of lease, 

 they do not affect sees. 90 et seq., ante, providing for the sale of tide lands : 

 Opinion Att'y Gen'l, Sept. 30, '13. 



Shore lands are not within the purview of this and the following sections : 

 idem. 



Nor are lands subject to lease for oyster culture, under sec. 170, et seq., 

 post : id. 



Rentals under leases of harbor area and tide land executed prior to the 

 taking effect of this act are payable to the Commissioner of Public Lands : id. 



SEC. 156. ABUTTER'S PREFERENCE RIGHT TO LEASE IM- 

 PROVEMENTS. 



The owner of any tide or shore lands abutting any such har- 

 bor area shall have the preference right, to be exercised by 

 written application filed within ninety days following the filing 

 of the plat of any tide or shore lands hereafter to be filed, 

 covering tide or shore lands or harbor area within the limits of 

 any port district, or in case of plats heretofore filed, then 

 prior to September 11, 1913, to obtain a lease of the harbor 

 area abutting his tide land or shore land for a thirty-year 

 period, and every lease obtained by virtue of the exercise of 

 such preference right shall conform to the provisions of the 

 state constitution and shall provide that the harbor area 

 described therein, or such a reasonable portion thereof as shall 

 be designated by the port commission of such port district, 

 having in view the requirements of the business proposed to be 

 carried on thereon, shall be improved upon plans approved by 

 such port commission, the construction of such improvement to 

 be commenced within such time as may be fixed in each case by 

 such port commission, such time to be in no case less [more] than 

 two years from the date of such lease and be completed within 

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