S-4655.1 _______________________________________________
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6278
_______________________________________________
AS RECOMMENDED BY CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/01/94.
Authorizing cities and towns to use
their special excise tax for public restroom facilities intended for visitors.
AN ACT Relating to
public facilities; reenacting and amending RCW 67.28.210; and creating a new
section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 67.28.210 and 1993 c
197 s 1 and 1993 c 46 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
All taxes levied and
collected under RCW 67.28.180, 67.28.240, and 67.28.260 shall be credited to a
special fund in the treasury of the county or city imposing such tax. Such
taxes shall be levied only for the purpose of paying all or any part of the
cost of acquisition, construction, or operating of stadium facilities, convention
center facilities, performing arts center facilities, and/or visual arts center
facilities or to pay or secure the payment of all or any portion of general
obligation bonds or revenue bonds issued for such purpose or purposes under
this chapter, or to pay for advertising, publicizing, or otherwise distributing
information for the purpose of attracting visitors and encouraging tourist
expansion when a county or city has imposed such tax for such purpose, or as
one of the purposes hereunder, and until withdrawn for use, the moneys
accumulated in such fund or funds may be invested in interest bearing
securities by the county or city treasurer in any manner authorized by law. In
addition such taxes may be used to develop strategies to expand tourism: PROVIDED,
That any county, and any city within a county, bordering upon Grays Harbor may
use the proceeds of such taxes for construction and maintenance of a movable
tall ships tourist attraction in cooperation with a tall ships restoration
society, except to the extent that such proceeds are used for payment of
principal and interest on debt incurred prior to June 11, 1986: PROVIDED
FURTHER, That any city or county may use the proceeds of such taxes for the
refurbishing and operation of a steam railway for tourism promotion purposes:
PROVIDED FURTHER, That any city bordering on the Pacific Ocean or on Baker
Bay with a population of not less than ((one thousand)) eight
hundred and the county in which such a city is located may use the proceeds
of such taxes for funding special events or festivals, or promotional
infrastructures including but not limited to an ocean beach boardwalk:
PROVIDED FURTHER, That any county which imposes a tax under RCW 67.28.182 or
any city with a population less than fifty thousand in such county may use
the proceeds of the tax levied and collected under RCW 67.28.180 to provide
public restroom facilities available to and intended for use by visitors:
PROVIDED FURTHER, That any county made up entirely of islands, ((city
or town, if the)) and any city or town that has a population
less than five thousand, may use the proceeds of the tax levied and collected
under RCW 67.28.180 to provide public restroom facilities available to and
intended for use by visitors.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
2. Any county that commenced
use of the proceeds of the tax levied and collected under RCW 67.28.180 to
provide public restroom facilities, prior to March 10, 1994, may continue to
use such proceeds until the facilities are completed or December 31, 1995,
whichever date is earlier.
This section expires
January 1, 1996.
