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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1804

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

 

By Representative Vander Stoep

 

 

Read first time 1/23/86 and referred to Committee on Local Government.

 

 


AN ACT Relating to port districts; adding new sections to chapter 53.04 RCW; and providing an expiration date.

 

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

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 53.04 RCW to read as follows:

          Notwithstanding RCW 53.04.020, port districts may be created as follows:

          (1) Any petition for the formation of a port district may describe a district of less area than the county in which such petition is filed, and in such event the county legislative authority shall fix a date for hearing on such petition and publish a notice of such hearing for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in such county, after which hearing the county legislative authority may increase or diminish the boundaries of such proposed port district and thereafter the same procedure shall be followed as is prescribed in RCW 53.04.020 for the formation of the larger port district, except that the petition and election shall be confined solely to the lesser port district:  PROVIDED, That whenever two or more petitions for the formation of a port district shall be filed as herein provided, the petition describing the greater area shall supersede all others and an election shall first be held thereunder, and no lesser port district shall ever be created within the limits, in whole or in part, of any port district; or

          (2) Any petition for the formation of a port district may describe a district proposed to be located with territory in more than one county, whether including all or part of each county.  The legislative authority of each of these counties shall meet in a joint session and hold the public hearing in the proposed port district.  A county legislative authority shall only have authority to increase or diminish that portion of such proposed port district located in its boundaries, and thereafter the same procedure shall be followed as provided in RCW 53.04.020 for the formation of a proposed port district located county-wide in a single county.

          This section shall expire December 31, 1988.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 53.04 RCW to read as follows:

          The boundaries of public port districts formed under RCW 53.04.020 shall be coextensive with the limits of a county as now or hereafter established: PROVIDED, That, beginning on July 1, 1986, and ending on December 31, 1988, boundaries of any new district formed under RCW 53.04.020 may be established by the county legislative authority.