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SENATE BILL 5354
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Newhouse, Haugen and Deccio
Read first time 01/25/93. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
AN ACT Relating to public facilities districts; and amending RCW 36.100.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 36.100.010 and 1989 1st ex.s. c 8 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A public facilities district may be created
in any county with ((three)) one hundred fifty thousand or
more population ((that)) whose county seat is located more than
one hundred miles from the county seat of any county in which the state
has constructed and owns a convention center. A public facilities district
shall be coextensive with the boundaries of the county.
(2) A public facilities district shall be created upon adoption of a resolution providing for the creation of such a district by the county legislative authority in which the proposed district is located and the city council of the largest city within such county.
(3) A public facilities district is a municipal corporation, an independent taxing "authority" within the meaning of Article VII, section 1 of the state Constitution, and a "taxing district" within the meaning of Article VII, section 2 of the state Constitution.
(4) No taxes authorized under this chapter may be assessed or levied unless a majority of the voters of the public facilities district has validated the creation of the public facilities district at a general or special election.
(5) A public facilities district shall constitute a body corporate and shall possess all the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes as well as all other powers that may now or hereafter be specifically conferred by statute, including, but not limited to, the authority to hire employees, staff, and services, to enter into contracts, and to sue and be sued.
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