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HOUSE BILL 1050
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Morris, Cooper, Wynne, Peery, Ogden, Wang, Nealey and H. Myers.
Read first time January 17, 1991. Referred to Committee on Local Government.
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. 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, transportation benefit district, city, town, or
cultural arts, stadium, ((transportation benefit district)) emergency
medical service district with a population density of less than one thousand
per square mile, and convention 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, transportation
benefit district, city, town, or cultural arts, stadium, ((transportation
benefit district)) emergency medical service district, and
convention 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, emergency medical service district with a population density of less than one thousand per square mile, city, town, or cultural arts, stadium, and convention 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."