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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6556

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Hargrove and Snyder)

Read first time 02/04/94.

Allowing a nonprofit television reception improvement district to rent space from the department of natural resources for less than the fair market value of the property.

    AN ACT Relating to the rental of public lands; adding a new section to chapter 79.12 RCW; making an appropriation; and providing an effective date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 79.12 RCW to read as follows:

    The department of natural resources shall determine the fair market rental rate for leases to nonprofit television reception improvement districts.  It is the intent of the legislature to appropriate general funds to pay a portion of the rent charged to nonprofit television reception improvement districts.  It is the further intent of the legislature that such a lessee pay an annual lease rent of fifty percent of the fair market rental rate, as long as there is a general fund appropriation to compensate the trusts for the remainder of the fair market rental rate.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1995, from the general fund to the department of natural resources for the purposes of this act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1994.

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