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2013 Revised Code of Washington
Title 36 - COUNTIES
36.09 New county -- Liability for debts.
36.09.010 Debts and property to be apportioned.


WA Rev Code § 36.09.010 (2013) What's This?

RCW 36.09.010 Debts and property to be apportioned.

Whenever a new county shall be or shall have been organized out of the territory which was included within the limits of any other county or counties, the new county shall be liable for a reasonable proportion of the debts of the county from which it was taken, and entitled to its proportion of the property of the county.

[1963 c 4 § 36.09.010. Prior: Code 1881 § 2657; 1863 p 538 § 3; 1854 p 330 § 1; RRS § 3986.]


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