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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2226
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Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/24/94.
Requiring cities and towns to
provide notice for rate increases for solid waste handling services.
AN ACT Relating to
solid waste handling; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; adding a new
section to chapter 35A.21 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec.
1. The legislature finds
that local governments and private waste management companies have
significantly changed solid waste management services in an effort to preserve
landfill space and to avoid costly environmental cleanups of municipal
landfills. The legislature recognizes that these new services have enabled the
state to achieve one of the nation's highest recycling rates.
The legislature also finds
that the need to pay for the cleanup of past disposal practices and to provide
new recycling services has caused solid waste rates to increase substantially.
The legislature further finds that private solid waste collection companies
regulated by the utilities and transportation commission are required to
provide public notice but that city-managed solid waste collection systems are
not. The legislature declares it to be in the public interest for city-managed
systems to provide public notice of solid waste rate increases.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
2. A new section is added
to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows:
(1) A city that
contracts for the collection of solid waste, or provides for the collection of
solid waste directly, shall notify the public of each proposed rate increase
for a solid waste handling service. The notice may be mailed to each affected
ratepayer or published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of
general circulation in the collection area. The notice shall be available to
affected ratepayers at least forty-five days prior to the proposed effective
date of the rate increase.
(2) For purposes of
this section, "solid waste handling" has the same meaning as provided
in RCW 70.95.030.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
3. A new section is added
to chapter 35A.21 RCW to read as follows:
(1) A city that
contracts for the collection of solid waste, or provides for the collection of
solid waste directly, shall notify the public of each proposed rate increase
for a solid waste handling service. The notice may be mailed to each affected
ratepayer or published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of
general circulation in the collection area. The notice shall be available to
affected ratepayers at least forty-five days prior to the proposed effective
date of the rate increase.
(2) For
purposes of this section, "solid waste handling" has the same meaning
as provided in RCW 70.95.030.
