H-2055              _______________________________________________

 

                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 189

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Madsen, Haugen, Brough, Ebersole, Ballard, Smitherman, Winsley and Holland)

 

 

Read first time 2/27/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

 

 


AN ACT Relating to property tax levies by fire protection districts; and amending RCW 52.16.160.

 

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

 

        Sec. 1.  Section 9, chapter 53, Laws of 1961 as last amended by section 128, chapter 167, Laws of 1983 and RCW 52.16.160 are each amended to read as follows:

          Notwithstanding the limitation of  dollar rates contained in RCW 52.16.130, and in addition to any levy for the payment of the principal and interest of any outstanding general obligation bonds and in addition to any levy authorized by RCW 52.16.130, 52.16.140 or any other statute, if in any county where a township has never been formed or where there are one or more townships in existence making annual tax levies and such township or townships are disorganized as a result of a county-wide disorganization procedure prescribed by statute and is no longer making any tax levy, or any township or townships for any other reason no longer makes any tax levy, the board of fire commissioners of any fire protection district within such county, which fire protection district has at least one full time, paid employee, is hereby authorized to levy each year an ad valorem tax on all taxable property within such district of not to exceed  fifty cents per thousand dollars of assessed value, which levy may be made only if it will not cause the combined levies to exceed the constitutional and/or statutory limitations.