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SENATE BILL NO. 3445
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AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
C 253 L 85
State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By Senators Fleming, Williams and Talmadge
Read first time 1/30/85 and referred to Committee on Parks and Ecology.
AN ACT Relating to parks and recreation service areas; and amending RCW 36.68.400.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 1, chapter 218, Laws of 1963 as last amended by section 1, chapter 210, Laws of 1981 and RCW 36.68.400 are each amended to read as follows:
Any county
shall have the power to create park and recreation service areas for the
purpose of financing the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance or
operation of ((neighborhood)) any park, senior citizen activities
centers, zoos, aquariums, and recreational facilities as defined in
RCW 36.69.010 which shall be owned or leased by the county and administered
as other county parks or shall be owned or leased and administered by a city or
town. ((The service areas created as hereinafter set forth may finance any
of the following park purposes: (1) Acquisition or lease of park sites and
buildings; (2) construction of improvements upon county park allocated lands or
city or town park lands which will promote leisure time and recreational
activities of residents on a neighborhood basis, including but not limited to
the construction of field houses, swimming pools, tennis courts, playfields,
and other facilities; (3) maintenance of any park or recreational facility
owned or leased by a county, city, or town, including the purchase of)) A
park and recreation service area may purchase athletic equipment and
supplies ((and)), and provide for the upkeep of park buildings,
grounds and facilities((; and (4) engaging)), and provide
custodial, recreational and park program personnel at any park or recreational
facility owned or leased by the service area or a county, city, or town.
A park and recreation service area shall be a quasi-municipal corporation, an
independent taxing "authority" within the meaning of section 1,
Article 7 of the Constitution, and a "taxing district" within the
meaning of section 2, Article 7 of the Constitution.
A park and recreation service area shall constitute a body corporate and shall possess all the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes as well as all other powers that may now or hereafter be specifically conferred by statute.
The county legislative authority shall be the governing body of any park and recreation service area which is created within the county: PROVIDED, That where a park and recreation service area includes an incorporated city or town within the county, the park and recreation service area may be governed as provided in an interlocal agreement adopted pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW. The voters of a park and recreation service area shall be all registered voters residing within the service area.
A multicounty park and recreation service area shall be governed as provided in an interlocal agreement adopted pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW.