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                                 SENATE BILL 5018

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators L. Smith, Sutherland, Conner, Bauer and Snyder.

Read first time January 14, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.Authorizing an additional tax levy for emergency medical service districts.

     AN ACT Relating to the levy of additional taxes by emergency medical service districts; 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, emergency medical service district, transportation benefit district, city, town, or cultural arts, stadium, ((transportation benefit district,)) 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, emergency medical service district, transportation benefit district, city, town, or cultural arts, stadium, ((transportation benefit 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,  emergency medical service district, transportation benefit district, 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."