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SENATE BILL 6021
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Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/10/94. Referred to Committee
on Government Operations.
Providing a procedure for
consolidation or dissolution of emergency service communication districts.
AN ACT Relating to
emergency service communication districts; and amending RCW 82.14B.070.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 82.14B.070 and 1987
c 17 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
In lieu of providing a
county-wide system of emergency service communication, the legislative
authority of a county may establish one or more less than county-wide emergency
service communication districts within the county for the purpose of providing
and funding emergency service communication systems. An emergency service
communication district is a quasi-municipal corporation, 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.
The county legislative
authority shall be the governing body of an emergency service communication
district. The county treasurer shall act as the ex officio treasurer of the
emergency services communication district. The electors of an emergency
service communication district are all registered voters residing within the
district.
A county legislative
authority proposing to consolidate existing emergency service communication
districts shall conduct a hearing at the time and place specified in a notice
published at least once, not less than ten days prior to the hearing, in a
newspaper of general circulation within the emergency service communication
districts. All hearings shall be public and the county legislative authority
shall hear objections from any person affected by the consolidation of the
emergency service communication districts. Following the hearing, the county
legislative authority may consolidate the emergency service communication
districts, if the county legislative authority finds the action to be in the
public interest and adopts a resolution providing for the action. The county
legislative authority shall specify the manner in which consolidation is to be
accomplished.
A
county legislative authority proposing to dissolve an existing emergency
service communication district shall conduct a hearing at the time and place
specified in a notice published at least once, not less than ten days prior to
the hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation within the emergency service
communication district. All hearings shall be public and the county
legislative authority shall hear objections from any person affected by the
dissolution of the emergency service communication district. Following the
hearing, the county legislative authority may dissolve the emergency service
communication district, if the county legislative authority finds the action to
be in the public interest and adopts a resolution providing for the action.
The county legislative authority shall specify the manner in which dissolution
is to be accomplished and shall supervise the liquidation of any assets and the
satisfaction of any outstanding indebtedness.
