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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Segura v. Cabrera, 184 Wash. 2d 587 (2015)

Citation
Segura v. Cabrera, 184 Wash. 2d 587 (2015)
Parent Document
Segura v. Cabrera, 184 Wash. 2d 587 (2015)
Jurisdiction
Washington (state)
Effective Date
2015-10-29

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¶15 Further, if there were any doubt as to the statute’s purpose, the legislature expressly spelled it out. The statute’s stated purpose is twofold: first, “to establish a process by which displaced tenants would receive funds for reloca*594tion from landlords who fail to provide safe and sanitary housing after due notice of building code or health code violations,” Laws of 2005, ch. 364, § 1 (emphasis added), and second, “to provide enforcement mechanisms to cities, towns, counties, or municipal corporations including the ability to advance relocation funds to tenants who are displaced as a result of a landlord’s failure to remedy building code or health code violations and later to collect the full amounts of these relocation funds, along with interest and penalties, from landlords.” Id. The statute’s plain language and the legislature’s express provision of “funds for relocation” cannot legitimately be stretched to include emotional distress damages.