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ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 253
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C 105 L 85
State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Fisch and Hargrove)
Read first time 3/8/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.
AN ACT Relating to annexation by code cities; and amending RCW 35A.14.310.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 35A.14.310, chapter 119, Laws of 1967 ex. sess. and RCW 35A.14.310 are each amended to read as follows:
((Any
unincorporated area contiguous to)) A code city may ((be annexed
thereto by)) annex an unincorporated area contiguous to the city that is
owned by the federal government by adopting an ordinance ((accepting))
providing for the annexation and which ordinance either acknowledges an
agreement of the annexation by the government of the United States, or accepts
a gift, grant, or lease from the government of the United States of the right
to occupy, control, improve it or sublet it for commercial, manufacturing, or
industrial purposes: PROVIDED, That this right of annexation shall not apply
to any territory more than four miles from the corporate limits existing before
such annexation. Whenever a code city proposes to annex territory under
this section, the city shall provide written notice of the proposed annexation
to the legislative authority of the county within which such territory is
located. The notice shall be provided at least thirty days before the city
proposes to adopt the annexation ordinance. The city shall not adopt the
annexation ordinance, and the annexation shall not occur under this section, if
within twenty-five days of receipt of the notice, the county legislative
authority adopts a resolution opposing the annexation, which resolution makes a
finding that the proposed annexation will have an adverse fiscal impact on the
county or road district.