CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2287

 

 

                               

 

                   Chapter 147, Laws of 1992

 

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

 

 

   PORT DISTRICTS‑-CREATION OF LESS THAN COUNTY-WIDE DISTRICT

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/92

Passed by the House March 9, 1992

  Yeas 91   Nays 5

 

 

 

                  JOE KING

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate March 6, 1992

  Yeas 44   Nays 1

               CERTIFICATE

 

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2287 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

               JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

              ALAN THOMPSON

                               Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved April 1, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED          

 

                April 1, 1992 - 10:22 a.m.

 

 

 

               BOOTH GARDNER

Governor of the State of Washington

                        Secretary of State

                       State of Washington


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                             ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2287

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

 

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Haugen, Wilson, Zellinsky, Ferguson, Paris and Spanel

 

Prefiled 1/10/92.  Read first time 01/13/92.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.Changing provisions relating to port districts.


     AN ACT Relating to port districts; amending RCW 53.04.020; adding new sections to chapter 53.04 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 53.12 RCW.

 

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

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 53.04.020 and 1990 c 259 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:

     At any general election or at any special election which may be called for that purpose, the county legislative authority of any county in this state may, or on petition of ten percent of the registered voters of such county based on the total vote cast in the last general county election, shall, by resolution submit to the voters of such county the proposition of creating a port district ((which may:  (1) Be)) coextensive with the limits of such county ((as now or hereafter established; or (2) be under the provisions of RCW 53.04.022)).  Such petition shall be filed with the county auditor, who shall within fifteen days examine the signatures thereof and certify to the sufficiency or insufficiency thereof, and for such purpose the county auditor shall have access to all registration books in the possession of the officers of any incorporated city or town in such proposed port district.  If such petition be found to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the persons filing the same, who may amend or add names thereto for ten days, when the same shall be returned to the county auditor, who shall have an additional fifteen days to examine the same and attach his or her certificate thereto.  No person having signed such petition shall be allowed to withdraw his or her name therefrom after the filing of the same with the county auditor.  Whenever such petition shall be certified to as sufficient, the county auditor shall forthwith transmit the same, together with his or her certificate of sufficiency attached thereto, to the legislative authority of the county, who shall submit such proposition at the next general election or, if such petition so requests, the county legislative authority shall, at their first meeting after the date of such certificate, by resolution, call a special election to be held in accordance with RCW 29.13.010 and 29.13.020.  The notice of election shall state the boundaries of the proposed port district and the object of such election.  In submitting the question to the voters for their approval or rejection, the proposition shall be expressed on the ballot substantially in the following terms:

     "Port of .........., Yes." (giving the name of the principal seaport city within such proposed port district, or if there be more than one city of the same class within such district, such name as may be determined by the legislative authority of the county).

     "Port of .........., No." (giving the name of the principal seaport city within such port district, or if there be more than one city of the same class within such district, such name as may be determined by the legislative authority of the county).

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 53.04 RCW to read as follows:

     A less than county-wide port district with an assessed valuation of at least seventy-five million dollars may be created in a county bordering on saltwater that already has a less than county-wide port district located within its boundaries.  Except as provided in this section, such a port district shall be created in accordance with the procedure to create a county-wide port district.

     The effort to create such a port district is initiated by the filing of a petition with the county auditor calling for the creation of such a port district, describing the boundaries of the proposed port district, and providing a name for the proposed port district.  The petition must be signed by voters residing within the proposed port district equal in number to at least ten percent of such voters who voted at the last county general election.

     A public hearing on creation of the proposed port district shall be held by the county legislative authority if the county auditor certifies that the petition contained sufficient valid signatures.  Notice of the public hearing must be published in the county's official newspaper at least ten days prior to the date of the public hearing.  After taking testimony, the county legislative authority may make changes in the boundaries of the proposed port district if it finds that such changes are in the public interest and shall determine if the creation of the port district is in the public interest.  No area may be added to the boundaries unless a subsequent public hearing is held on the proposed port district.

     The county legislative authority shall submit a ballot proposition authorizing the creation of the proposed port district to the voters of the proposed port district, at any special election date provided in RCW 29.13.020, if it finds the creation of the port district to be in the public interest.

     The port district shall be created if a majority of the voters voting on the ballot proposition favor the creation of the port district.  The initial port commissioners shall be elected at the same election as provided in RCW 53.12.050, but the election of commissioners shall be null and void if the port district is not created.  Commissioner districts shall not be used in the initial election of the port commissioners.

     This section shall expire July 1, 1997.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 53.04 RCW to read as follows:

     A port district that is less than county-wide may annex adjacently located territory that is located in another less than county-wide port district in the same county, if the territory proposed to be annexed is located in a city the name of which is included as part of the name of the annexing port district.  A port district proposing to annex territory under this section shall by resolution cause a ballot proposition on the issue of annexation to be submitted to the voters of the area proposed to be annexed.  The annexation is authorized when the ballot proposition is approved of by over fifty percent of the ballots cast.  The territory that is annexed shall be removed from the other port district.

     This section shall expire January 1, 1995.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4.      If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 5.  A new section is added to chapter 53.12 RCW to read as follows:

     For purposes of this chapter, "gross operating revenue" means the total of all revenues received by a port district.


     Passed the House March 9, 1992.

     Passed the Senate March 6, 1992.

Approved by the Governor April 1, 1992.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 1, 1992.