

STATE LAND LAWS 319 



OCEAN BEACH HIGHWAY. SECS. 561-566 



SEC 561. OCEAN BEACH, CHEHALIS COUNTY HIGHWAY. 



The shore and beach of the Pacific ocean, including the area or space 

 lying between ordinary high tide and extreme low tide (as such shore 

 and beach now are or hereafter may be) from the southerly point of 

 Damon's Point on the north side of the entrance to Grays Harbor to 

 the mouth of the Queets river, State of Washington, be and the same 

 are hereby declared a public highway forever, and as such highway 

 shall remain forever open to the use of the public. (Laws '01, p. 217, 

 sec. 1.) 



SEC. 562. SAME NOT TO BE SOLD. 



No part of said shore or beach shall ever be sold, leased or other- 

 wise disposed of. (Laws '01, p. 217, sec. 2.) 



NOTE : Sec. 3 of this act prohibits the renewal or extension of contracts of 

 sale or lease of any of said lands, and sec. 4 repeals all conflicting acts. 



SEC. 563. OCEAN BEACH PACIFIC AND CHEHALIS COUNTIES 

 HIGHWAY. 



The shore and beach of the Pacific ocean, including the area or 

 space lying, abutting or fronting on said ocean and between ordinary 

 high tide and extreme low tide (as such shore and beach now are or 

 hereafter may be) from the Columbia river or Cape Disappointment 

 on the south to a point three hundred feet southerly from the south line 

 of the government jetty on Peterson's point, State of Washington on 

 the north, are hereby declared a public highway forever, and as such 

 highway shall remain forever open to the use of the public. (Laws '01, p. 

 225, sec. 1.) 



SEC. 564. SAME NOT TO BE SOLD. 



No part of said shore or beach shall ever be sold, conveyed, leased 

 or otherwise disposed of. (Laws '01, p. 225, sec. 2.) 



SEC. 565. SAME NO EXTENSION OF LEASES OR CONTRACTS. 



No lease or contract of sale now existing on or for any part or parts 

 of said shore or beach shall be renewed or extended, nor shall any sale 

 or conveyance of any part or parts of said shore of beach be made or 

 executed under or by virtue of any such lease or any contract of sale. 

 (Laws '01, p. 225, sec. 3.) 



SEC. 566. SAME RECONVEYANCE OR SURRENDER OF RIGHTS. 



In any and all cases where any part or parts of said shore or beach 

 has been sold or conveyed, or been contracted to be sold or conveyed, 

 or has been leased by the State of Washington to any person or cor- 

 poration, any such person, or his heirs, executors, administrators or 

 assigns, or any such corporation or its successors or assigns, may re- 

 ccnvey to the State of Washington such part or parts of said shore or 

 beach so sold or conveyed by the State of Washington, or surrender for 

 cancellation any such contract or lease, and thereupon the Commis- 



