CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5858

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 18, 1993   YEAS 42   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 12, 1993   YEAS 93   NAYS 2

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5858 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the        House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5858

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                                                            AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Government Operations (originally sponsored by Senator Cantu)

Read first time 03/03/93.

Forbidding requiring financial security devices for permits for local government units' construction projects.

          AN ACT Relating to permits for local government units' building construction projects; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 35A.21 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 36.32 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows:

          A city or town may not require any state agency or unit of local government to secure the performance of a permit requirement with a surety bond or other financial security device, including cash or assigned account, as a condition of issuing a permit to that unit of local government for a building construction project.

          As used in this section, "building construction project" includes, in addition to its usual meaning, associated landscaping, street alteration, pedestrian or vehicular access alteration, or other amenities or alterations necessarily associated with the project.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 35A.21 RCW to read as follows:

          A code city may not require any state agency or unit of local government to secure the performance of a permit requirement with a surety bond or other financial security device, including cash or assigned account, as a condition of issuing a permit to that unit of local government for a building construction project.

          As used in this section, "building construction project" includes, in addition to its usual meaning, associated landscaping, street alteration, pedestrian or vehicular access alteration, or other amenities or alterations necessarily associated with the project.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 36.32 RCW to read as follows:

          A county legislative authority may not require any state agency or unit of local government to secure the performance of a permit requirement with a surety bond or other financial security device, including cash or assigned account, as a condition of issuing a permit to that unit of local government for a building construction project.

          As used in this section, "building construction project" includes, in addition to its usual meaning, associated landscaping, street alteration, pedestrian or vehicular access alteration, or other amenities or alterations necessarily associated with the project.

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