CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1460

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 14, 1991

  Yeas 96   Nays 0

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 8, 1991

  Yeas 49   Nays 0

President of the Senate

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1460 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk

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                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1460

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Franklin, Haugen, Ferguson and Ebersole).

Read first time March 6, 1991. 

Providing an alternative to drainage districts.

     AN ACT Relating to drainage districts; adding a new section to chapter 36.96 RCW; and adding new sections to chapter 85.38 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 36.96 RCW to read as follows:

     As an alternative to this chapter a drainage district or drainage improvement district located within the boundaries of a county storm drainage and surface water management utility, and which is not currently imposing assessments, may be dissolved by ordinance of the county legislative authority.  If the alternative dissolution procedure in this section is used the following shall apply:

     (1) The county storm drainage and surface water management utility shall assume responsibility for payment or settlement of outstanding debts of the dissolved drainage district or drainage improvement district.

     (2) All assets, including money, funds, improvements, or property, real or personal, shall become assets of the county in which the dissolved drainage district or drainage improvement district was located.

     (3) Notwithstanding RCW 85.38.220, the county storm drainage and surface water management utility may determine how to best manage, operate, maintain, improve, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of all property, real and personal, of the dissolved drainage district or drainage improvement district.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 85.38 RCW to read as follows:

     As an alternative to this chapter a drainage district or drainage improvement district located within the boundaries of a county storm drainage and surface water management utility, and which is not currently imposing assessments, may be dissolved by ordinance of the county legislative authority.  If the alternative dissolution procedure in this section is used the following shall apply:

     (1) The county storm drainage and surface water management utility shall assume responsibility for payment or settlement of outstanding debts of the dissolved drainage district or drainage improvement district.

     (2) All assets, including money, funds, improvements, or property, real or personal, shall become assets of the county in which the dissolved drainage district or drainage improvement district was located.

     (3) Notwithstanding RCW 85.38.220, the county storm drainage and surface water management utility may determine how to best manage, operate, maintain, improve, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of all property, real and personal, of the dissolved drainage district or drainage improvement district.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 85.38 RCW to read as follows:

     Any portion of a drainage district or drainage improvement district located within the boundaries of a first class city operating a storm drain utility pursuant to RCW 35.67.030 may be removed from the drainage district or drainage improvement district by ordinance of the city.  The removal of an area shall not result in the impairment of any contract nor remove the liability or obligation to finance district improvements that serve the area so removed as of the effective date of the ordinance.  Residents of the district to be removed shall be given substantial notice of the impending action and the opportunity to respond to the action.