CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1744

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 11, 1999   Yeas 95   Nays 0 Speaker of the House of Representatives Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 13, 1999   Yeas 49   Nays 0	CERTIFICATE We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1744  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.                           Chief Clerk                           Chief Clerk
President of the Senate

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED
Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1744

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By House Committee on Agriculture & Ecology (originally sponsored by Representatives Schoesler and G. Chandler)

Read first time 03/02/1999.

Changing lake outflow regulation.  

    AN ACT Relating to regulation of outflow of lakes; and amending RCW 90.24.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 90.24.010 and 1985 c 398 s 28 are each amended to read as follows:

    Ten or more owners of real property abutting on a ((meandered)) lake may petition the superior court of the county in which the lake is situated, for an order to provide for the regulation of the outflow of the lake in order to maintain a certain water level therein.  If there are fewer than ten owners, a majority of the owners abutting on a lake may petition the superior court for such an order.  The court, after notice to the department of fish and wildlife and a hearing, is authorized to make an order fixing the water level thereof and directing the department of ecology to regulate the outflow therefrom in accordance with the purposes described in the petition.  This section shall not apply to any ((meandered)) lake or reservoir used for the storage of water for irrigation or other beneficial purposes, or to lakes navigable from the sea.

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