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HOUSE
BILL 1184
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Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/20/93. Referred to Committee on Local Government.
Modifying the requirements for the formation of a less than county-wide
port district.
AN ACT Relating to formation of less than
county-wide port districts; and amending RCW 53.04.023.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 53.04.023 and 1992 c 147 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
A less than county-wide port district with an
assessed valuation of at least seventy-five million dollars may be created in a
county ((bordering on saltwater)) that already has a less than
county-wide port district located within its boundaries. Except as provided in
this section, such a port district shall be created in accordance with the
procedure to create a county-wide port district.
The effort to create such a port district is initiated
by the filing of a petition with the county auditor calling for the creation of
such a port district, describing the boundaries of the proposed port district,
and providing a name for the proposed port district. The petition must be
signed by voters residing within the proposed port district equal in number to
at least ten percent of such voters who voted at the last county general
election.
A public hearing on creation of the proposed
port district shall be held by the county legislative authority if the county
auditor certifies that the petition contained sufficient valid signatures.
Notice of the public hearing must be published in the county's official
newspaper at least ten days prior to the date of the public hearing. After
taking testimony, the county legislative authority may make changes in the
boundaries of the proposed port district if it finds that such changes are in
the public interest and shall determine if the creation of the port district is
in the public interest. No area may be added to the boundaries unless a
subsequent public hearing is held on the proposed port district.
The county legislative authority shall submit a
ballot proposition authorizing the creation of the proposed port district to
the voters of the proposed port district, at any special election date provided
in RCW 29.13.020, if it finds the creation of the port district to be in the
public interest.
The port district shall be created if a
majority of the voters voting on the ballot proposition favor the creation of
the port district. The initial port commissioners shall be elected at the same
election ((as provided in RCW 53.12.050)), but the election of
commissioners shall be null and void if the port district is not created.
Commissioner districts shall not be used in the initial election of the port
commissioners.
This section shall expire July 1, 1997.
