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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1050
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Morris, Cooper, Wynne, Peery, Ogden, Wang, Nealey and H. Myers).
Read first time February 28, 1991.
AN ACT Relating to emergency medical services districts excess levies; and amending RCW 84.52.052.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 84.52.052 and 1989 c 53 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
The limitations
imposed by RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056, and RCW 84.52.043 shall not prevent
the levy of additional taxes by any taxing district except school districts in
which a larger levy is necessary in order to prevent the impairment of the
obligation of contracts. As used in this section, the term "taxing
district" means any county, metropolitan park district, park and
recreation service area, park and recreation district, sewer district, water
district, solid waste disposal district, public facilities district, flood
control zone district, county rail district, service district, public hospital
district, road district, rural county library district, island library
district, intercounty rural library district, fire protection district,
cemetery district, city, town, transportation benefit district, emergency
medical service district with a population density of less than one thousand
per square mile, or cultural arts, stadium, ((transportation benefit
district)) and convention district.
Any
such taxing district may levy taxes at a rate in excess of the rate
specified in RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056 and 84.52.043, or RCW 84.55.010
through 84.55.050, when authorized so to do by the ((electors of such
county, metropolitan park district, park and recreation service area, park and
recreation district, sewer district, water district, solid waste disposal
district, public facilities district, flood control zone district, county rail
district, service district, public hospital district, road district, rural county
library district, island library district, intercounty rural library district,
fire protection district, cemetery district, city, town, or cultural arts,
stadium, transportation benefit district, and convention district)) voters
of such taxing district in the manner set forth in Article VII, section
2(a) of the Constitution of this state, as amended by Amendment 64 and as
thereafter amended, at a special or general election to be held in the year in
which the levy is made.
A
special election may be called and the time therefor fixed by the county
legislative authority, or council, board of commissioners, or other governing
body of any ((metropolitan park district, park and recreation service area,
park and recreation district, sewer district, water district, solid waste
disposal district, public facilities district, flood control zone district,
county rail district, service district, public hospital district, road
district, rural county library district, island library district, intercounty
rural library district, fire protection district, cemetery district,
transportation benefit district, city, town, or cultural arts, stadium, and
convention district)) such taxing district, by giving notice thereof
by publication in the manner provided by law for giving notices of general
elections, at which special election the proposition authorizing such excess
levy shall be submitted in such form as to enable the voters favoring the
proposition to vote "yes" and those opposed thereto to vote "no."