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HOUSE BILL 2175
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Haugen, Ebersole and Ferguson.
Read first time March 6, 1991. Referred to Committee on Local Government.
AN ACT Relating to port districts; and amending RCW 53.12.260.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 53.12.260 and 1985 c 330 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
Each
commissioner of a port district shall receive ((fifty)) one hundred
twenty-five dollars per day or portion thereof spent (a) in actual
attendance at official meetings of the port district commission, or (b) in
performance of other service in behalf of the district: PROVIDED, That no
commissioner shall receive compensation ((to exceed five thousand eight
hundred dollars)) for more than one hundred sixteen days for any
calendar year: PROVIDED FURTHER, That no commissioner of a port district shall
receive compensation ((to exceed four thousand eight hundred dollars))
for more than ninety-six days in any calendar year if the port district
had gross operating income of less than twenty-five million dollars in the
preceding calendar year.
For any commissioner who has not elected to become a member of public employees retirement system before May 1, 1975, the compensation provided pursuant to this section shall not be considered salary for purposes of the provisions of any retirement system created pursuant to the general laws of this state nor shall attendance at such meetings or other service on behalf of the district constitute service as defined in RCW 41.40.010(9): PROVIDED, That in the case of a port district when commissioners are receiving compensation and contributing to the public employees retirement system, these benefits shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 53.12.260 and 53.12.265.