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2009 Washington Code
Title 63 - Personal property
Chapter 63.21 - Lost and found property.
63.21.020 - Circumstances extinguishing finder's claim to property.

Circumstances extinguishing finder's claim to property.

The finder's claim to the property shall be extinguished:

     (1) If the owner satisfactorily establishes, within sixty days after the find was reported to the appropriate officer, the owner's right to possession of the property; or

     (2) If the chief law enforcement officer determines and so informs the finder that the property is illegal for the finder to possess.

[1979 ex.s. c 85 § 2.]

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