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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Any one aware of any litigation (I can’t find any reported) involving Liberty Lake (Spokane County) and second class shorelands? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Just trying to get up to speed on second class shorelands (something I’ve never been before though vaguely remember from my water law class, eg, “if it’s wet its federal”). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking at interplay between public access and private ownership.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Read <u>Caminiti v Boyle</u> and its progeny.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><h3 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=79.125.500"><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">79.125.500</span></a></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Second-class shorelands</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">—</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Boundary of shorelands when water lowered</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">—</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Certain shorelands granted to city of Seattle.</span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">In every case where the state of Washington had prior to June 13, 1913, sold to any purchaser from the state any second-class shorelands bordering upon navigable waters of this state by description where the water boundary of the purchased shorelands is not defined, the water boundary shall be the line of ordinary navigation in the water; and whenever the waters have been or shall be lowered by any action done or authorized either by the state of Washington or the United States, the water boundary shall be the line of ordinary navigation as the water boundary shall be found in the waters after the lowering, and there is granted and confirmed to every purchaser, the purchaser's heirs and assigns, all the lands. However, this section and RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=79.125.510"><b><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">79.125.510</span></b></a> shall not apply to the portions of the second-class shorelands which shall, as provided by RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=79.125.510"><b><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">79.125.510</span></b></a>, be selected by the department for harbor areas, slips, docks, wharves, warehouses, streets, avenues, parkways and boulevards, alleys, or other public purposes. Further, all shorelands and the bed of Lake Washington from the southerly margin of the plat of Lake Washington shorelands southerly along the westerly shore of the lake to a line three hundred feet south of and parallel with the east and west center line of section 35, township 24 north, range 4 east, W.M., are reserved for public uses and are granted and donated to the city of Seattle for public park, parkway, and boulevard purposes, and as a part of its public park, parkway, and boulevard system and any diversion or attempted diversion of the lands so donated from such purposes shall cause the title to the lands to revert to the state.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">[ <a href="http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1491-S.SL.pdf?cite=2005%20c%20155%20%C2%A7%20521"><b><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">2005 c 155 § 521</span></b></a>; <a href="http://leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/documents/sessionlaw/1982ex1c21.pdf?cite=1982%201st%20ex.s.%20c%2021%20%C2%A7%20107"><b><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">1982 1st ex.s. c 21 § 107</span></b></a>. Formerly RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=79.94.220"><b><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">79.94.220</span></b></a>.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><h3 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=79.125.510"><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">79.125.510</span></a></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Second-class shorelands</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">—</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Survey/platting</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">—</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Selection for slips, docks, wharves, etc.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">—</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Filing of plat.</span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">It is the duty of the department to survey the second-class shorelands and in platting the survey to designate for public use all of the shorelands as in the opinion of the department is available, convenient, or necessary to be selected for the use of the public as harbor areas, sites for slips, docks, wharves, warehouses, streets, avenues, parkways and boulevards, alleys, and other public purposes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Upon the filing of the plat in the department's Olympia office, the title to all harbor areas so selected shall remain in the state, the title to all selections for streets, avenues, and alleys shall vest in any city or town within the corporate limits of which they are situated, otherwise in the county in which they are situated, the title to and control of any lands so selected and designated upon the plat for parkways and boulevard purposes shall, if the lands lie outside of the corporate limits of any city or town and if the lands form a part of the general parkway and boulevard system of a first-class city lie in the city, and the title to all selections for slips, docks, wharves, warehouses, and other public purposes shall vest in the port district if they are situated in a port district, otherwise in the county in which they are situated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">[ <a href="http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1491-S.SL.pdf?cite=2005%20c%20155%20%C2%A7%20522"><b><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">2005 c 155 § 522</span></b></a>; <a href="http://leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/documents/sessionlaw/1982ex1c21.pdf?cite=1982%201st%20ex.s.%20c%2021%20%C2%A7%20108"><b><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">1982 1st ex.s. c 21 § 108</span></b></a>. Formerly RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=79.94.230"><b><span style="color:#2b674d;text-decoration:none">79.94.230</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="350" style="width:262.5pt"><tr><td width="95" style="width:71.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="95" height="131" style="width:.9895in;height:1.3645in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D6FBA7.132A0740"></span></p></td><td width="210" style="width:157.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Robert R Rowley</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0e1735">Attorney & Counselor at Law</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><img border="0" width="12" height="12" style="width:.125in;height:.125in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.png@01D6FBA7.132A0740"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="tel:(509)%20252-5074" target="new"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7e8183">(509) 252-5074</span></a> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><img border="0" width="12" height="12" style="width:.125in;height:.125in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image006.png@01D6FBA7.132A0740"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="tel:(509)%20994-1143" target="new"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7e8183">(509) 994-1143</span></a><br></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><img border="0" width="12" height="12" style="width:.125in;height:.125in" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image008.png@01D6FBA7.132A0740"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="fax:(509)%20928-3084" target="new"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7e8183">(509) 928-3084</span></a> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><img border="0" width="12" height="12" style="width:.125in;height:.125in" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image010.png@01D6FBA7.132A0740"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.rowleylegal.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7e8183">rowleylegal.com</span></a><br></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><img border="0" width="12" height="10" style="width:.125in;height:.1041in" id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image012.png@01D6FBA7.132A0740"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:rob@rowleylegal.com" target="new"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7e8183">rob@rowleylegal.com</span></a><br></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0e1735">Helping You Protect What Matters Most</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rowleylegal" target="new"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="17" height="17" style="width:.177in;height:.177in" id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image014.png@01D6FBA7.132A0740"></span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://www.twitter.com/ROBERTRROWLEY" target="new"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="17" height="17" style="width:.177in;height:.177in" id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image016.png@01D6FBA7.132A0740"></span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Practice concentrated on business, real estate and general legal matters in Washington and Idaho. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NOTICE: The contents of this message and any attachments may be protected by the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine or other applicable protections. 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