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                                                     SENATE BILL 5905

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Vognild, Fraser and Deccio; by request of County Road Administration Board

Read first time 02/24/93.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Changing provisions regarding the county road administration board.

          AN ACT Relating to the county road administration board; and amending RCW 36.78.020, 36.78.050, and 36.78.070.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  RCW 36.78.020 and 1991 c 363 s 82 are each amended to read as follows:

          "Standards of good practice" shall mean general and uniform practices formulated and adopted by the board relating to the administration of county roads and the safe and efficient movement of people and goods over county roads, which shall apply to engineering, design procedures, maintenance, traffic control, safety, planning, programming, road classification, road inventories, budgeting and accounting procedures, management practices, equipment policies, ((and)) personnel policies, and effective use of transportation-related information technology.

        Sec. 2.  RCW 36.78.050 and 1965 ex.s. c 120 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

          ((The annual meeting of the county road administration board shall be during the first week in July of each year at which time the board shall elect a chairman from its own membership who shall hold office for one year.  Election as chairman shall not affect the member's right to vote on all matters before the board.))  The board shall meet ((at such other times as it deems advisable but)) at least once quarterly and shall from time to time adopt rules and regulations for its own government and as may be necessary for it to discharge its duties and exercise its powers under this chapter.  The board shall elect a chair from its own membership who shall hold office for one year.  Election as chair does not affect the member's right to vote on all matters before the board.

        Sec. 3.  RCW 36.78.070 and 1990 c 266 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

          The county road administration board shall:

          (1) Establish by rule, standards of good practice for ((county road)) the administration of county roads and the efficient movement of people and goods over county roads;

          (2) Establish reporting requirements for counties with respect to the standards of good practice adopted by the board;

          (3) Receive and review reports from counties and reports from its executive director to determine compliance with legislative directives and the standards of good practice adopted by the board;

          (4) Advise counties on issues relating to county roads and the safe and efficient movement of people and goods over county roads and assist counties in developing uniform and efficient transportation-related information technology resources;

(5) Report annually ((on)) before the ((first)) fifteenth day of ((July)) January, and throughout the year as appropriate, to the state department of transportation and to the chairs of the legislative transportation committee and the house and senate transportation committees, and to other entities as appropriate on the status of county road administration in each county, including one copy to the staff of each of the committees.  The annual report shall contain recommendations for improving administration of the county road programs;

          (((5))) (6) Administer the rural arterial program established by chapter 36.79 RCW and the county arterial preservation program established by RCW 46.68.095, as well as any other programs provided for in law.

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