CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 2369
Chapter
119, Laws of 1994
53rd
Legislature
1994
Regular Session
CITIES WITH
COMMISSION FORM OF GOVERNMENT‑-ELECTIONS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/9/94
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Passed by
the House February 4, 1994
Yeas 91 Nays
0
BRIAN EBERSOLE
Speaker
of the
House
of Representatives
Passed by
the Senate February 28, 1994
Yeas
42 Nays 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Marilyn
Showalter, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of
Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2369 as
passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set
forth.
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JOEL PRITCHARD
President
of the Senate
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MARILYN SHOWALTER
Chief
Clerk
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Approved
March 28, 1994 Place Style On Codes above, and
Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March
28, 1994 - 11:25 a.m.
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MIKE LOWRY
Governor
of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State
of Washington
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HOUSE BILL 2369
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Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd
Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/14/94.
Referred to Committee on Local Government.
Revising
provisions for elections in cities with a commission plan of government.
AN ACT Relating to
elections in cities with a commission plan of government; and amending RCW
35.17.020.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 35.17.020 and 1979
ex.s. c 126 s 17 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) All regular
elections in cities organized under the statutory commission form of government
shall be held quadrennially in the odd-numbered years on the dates provided in
RCW 29.13.020. However, after commissioners are elected at the next general
election occurring in 1995 or 1997, regular elections in cities organized under
a statutory commission form of government shall be held biennially at municipal
general elections.
(2) The
commissioners shall be nominated and elected at large. Their terms shall be
for four years and until their successors are elected and qualified and assume
office in accordance with RCW 29.04.170. However, at the next regular election
of a city organized under a statutory commission form of government, the terms
of office of commissioners shall occur with the person who is elected as a
commissioner receiving the least number of votes being elected to a two-year
term of office and the other two persons who are elected being elected to
four-year terms of office. Thereafter, commissioners shall be elected to
four-year terms of office.
(3) If a vacancy
occurs in the commission the remaining members shall appoint a person to fill
it for the unexpired term.
Passed
the House February 4, 1994.
Passed
the Senate February 28, 1994.
Approved by the Governor March 28, 1994.
Filed in Office of
Secretary of State March 28, 1994.