S-3347               _______________________________________________

                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 4467

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senator Zimmerman

Prefiled with Secretary of the Senate 1/8/86.  Read first time 1/13/86 and referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to port districts; and amending RCW 53.36.100.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 265, Laws of 1957 as last amended by section 1, chapter 3, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. and RCW 53.36.100 are each amended to read as follows:

          A port district having adopted a comprehensive scheme of harbor improvements and industrial developments may thereafter raise revenue, for twelve years only, in addition to all other revenues now authorized by law, by an annual levy not to exceed forty-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value against the assessed valuation of the taxable property in such port district.  Said levy shall be used exclusively for the exercise of the powers granted to port districts under chapter 53.25 RCW except as provided in RCW 53.36.110.  The levy of such taxes is herein authorized notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 84.52.050 and 84.52.043.  The revenues derived from levies made under RCW 53.36.100 and 53.36.110 not expended in the year in which the levies are made may be paid into a fund for future use in carrying out the powers granted under chapter 53.25 RCW, which fund may be accumulated and carried over from year to year, with the right to continue to levy the taxes provided for in RCW 53.36.100 and 53.36.110 for the purposes herein authorized.

          If a port district intends to levy a tax under this section for one or more years after the first six years authorized in this section, the port commission shall publish notice of this intention, in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the district, by June 1 of the year in which the first levy of the seventh through twelfth year period is  to be made.  If within ninety days of the date of publication a petition is filed with the county auditor containing the signatures of eight percent of the number of voters registered and voting in the port district for the office of the governor at the last preceding gubernatorial election, the county auditor shall canvass the signatures in the same manner as prescribed in RCW 29.79.200 and certify their sufficiency to the port commission within two weeks.  The proposition to make these levies in the seventh through twelfth year period shall be submitted to the voters of the port district at a special election, called for this purpose, no later than the date on which a primary election would be held under RCW 29.13.070.  The levies may be made in the seventh through twelfth year period only if approved by a majority of the voters of the port district voting on the proposition.  If the voters fail to approve the proposition, the port district shall not levy in the seventh through twelfth years unless the levies are approved by a majority of the voters of the district voting on the proposition at a general or special election.