CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2714

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 17, 1992   Yeas 98   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 4, 1992   Yeas 47   Nays 0

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 2714 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2714

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                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives R. Fisher, Cantwell, Paris and Wood)

Read first time 02/07/92.  Regulating addition of territory to public transportation benefit areas.

     AN ACT Relating to addition of territory to public transportation benefit areas; amending RCW 36.57A.040; and declaring an emergency.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 36.57A.040 and 1991 c 318 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:

     At the time of its formation no public transportation benefit area may include only a part of any city, and every city shall be either wholly included or wholly excluded from the boundaries of such area.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if subsequent to the formation of a public transportation benefit area additional area became or will become a part of a component city by annexation, merger, or otherwise, the additional area shall be included within the boundaries of the transportation benefit area and be subject to all taxes and other liabilities and obligations of the public transportation benefit area.  The component city shall be required to notify the public transportation benefit area at the time the city has added the additional area.  Furthermore, notwithstanding any other provisions of law except as specifically provided in this section, if a city that is not a component city of the public transportation benefit area adds area to its boundaries that is within the boundaries of the public transportation benefit area, the area so added shall be deemed to be excluded from the public transportation benefit area:  PROVIDED, That the public transportation benefit area shall be given notice of the city's intention to add such area.  If a city extends its boundaries through annexation across a county boundary line and such extended boundaries include areas within the public transportation benefit area, then the entire area of the city within the county that is within the public transportation benefit area shall be included within the public transportation benefit area boundaries.  Such area of the city in the public transportation benefit area shall be considered a component city of the public transportation benefit area corporation.

     The boundaries of any public transportation benefit area shall follow school district lines or election precinct lines, as far as practicable.  Only such areas shall be included which the conference determines could reasonably benefit from the provision of public transportation services.  Except as provided in RCW 36.57A.140(2), only one public transportation benefit area may be created in any county.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.      This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.