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SENATE BILL 6025
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1992 Regular Session
By Senators Barr, Anderson, Conner, Rasmussen and Newhouse
Read first time 01/13/92. Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Water Resources.
AN ACT Relating to providing building standards for temporary farm worker housing; adding a new section to chapter 19.27 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 19.27A RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 19.27 RCW to read as follows:
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the governing body of a city, town, or county, as appropriate, may provide that the construction and thermal performance construction standards for the construction of seasonal farm-worker housing, developed by the United States department of agriculture, farmers home administration, apply to the construction of housing for farm workers if:
(a) The building or structure is occupied on a seasonal basis, but not more than six months per year; and
(b) The building is occupied solely by farm workers and their families in connection with their employment.
(2) The building code council may adopt, by rule, its own construction and thermal performance construction standards for the construction of farm-worker housing. In this event, the governing bodies of cities, towns, and counties may only adopt these standards under subsection (1) of this section.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 19.27A RCW to read as follows:
This chapter does not apply to the construction of housing for farm workers and their families if the local governing body has adopted standards under section 1 of this act.