BILL REQ. #:  H-1511.2 



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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1618
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State of Washington63rd Legislature2013 Regular Session

By House Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Ormsby, Morris, Takko, Hunt, Liias, Tharinger, Fitzgibbon, Fey, Moscoso, and Ryu)

READ FIRST TIME 02/22/13.   



     AN ACT Relating to the building code council account; and amending RCW 19.27.085.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 19.27.085 and 1989 c 256 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) There is hereby created the building code council account in the state treasury. Moneys deposited into the account shall be used by the building code council, after appropriation, to perform the purposes of the council.
     (2) All moneys collected under subsection (3) of this section shall be deposited into the building code council account. Every four years the state treasurer shall report to the legislature on the balances in the account so that the legislature may adjust the charges imposed under subsection (3) of this section.
     (3) There is imposed a fee of four dollars and fifty cents on each building permit issued by a county or a city, plus an additional surcharge of two dollars for each residential unit, but not including the first unit, on each building containing more than one residential unit. Quarterly each county and city shall remit moneys collected under this section to the state treasury; however, no remittance is required until a minimum of fifty dollars has accumulated pursuant to this subsection.
     (4) Fees established in this section may only be adjusted by the legislature as part of the omnibus appropriations act.

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