6266 AMH LG H4469.1

SB 6266 - H COMM AMD ADOPTED 3-2-94

By Committee on Local Government

    Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

    "Sec. 1.  RCW 56.32.110 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 86 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    If at the election a majority of the voters of the merging sewer district shall vote in favor of the merger, the county canvassing board of the county the auditor of which conducted the election shall so declare in its canvass and the return of the election shall be made within ten days after the date thereof.  Upon the return the merger shall be effective and the merging sewer district shall cease to exist and shall become a part of the merger sewer district.  The sewer commissioners of the merging district shall ((cease to hold office and the affairs of the merged districts shall be managed by the sewer commissioners of the merger district.)) hold office as commissioners of the new consolidated sewer district until their respective terms of office expire or until they resign from office or these positions otherwise become vacant.  If such a resignation or vacancy occurs, a person shall not be appointed to fill the vacancy."

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