CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6266

                   Chapter 289, Laws of 1994

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

       SEWER DISTRICTS‑-COMMISSIONERS OF MERGED DISTRICTS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/9/94

Passed by the Senate March 6, 1994   YEAS 41   NAYS 0 JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House March 2, 1994   YEAS 96   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6266 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the       House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                             Secretary

Approved April 1, 1994 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                        April 1, 1994 - 2:37 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 6266

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senators Haugen and Winsley

Read first time 01/18/94.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Authorizing sewer district commissioners of a merged district to fulfill their terms of office.

    AN ACT Relating to sewer district commissioners; and amending RCW 56.32.110.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 56.32.110 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 86 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    If at the election a majority of the voters of the merging sewer district shall vote in favor of the merger, the county canvassing board of the county the auditor of which conducted the election shall so declare in its canvass and the return of the election shall be made within ten days after the date thereof.  Upon the return the merger shall be effective and the merging sewer district shall cease to exist and shall become a part of the merger sewer district.  The sewer commissioners of the merging district shall ((cease to hold office and the affairs of the merged districts shall be managed by the sewer commissioners of the merger district.)) hold office as commissioners of the new consolidated sewer district until their respective terms of office expire or until they resign from office or these positions otherwise become vacant.  If such a resignation or vacancy occurs, a person shall not be appointed to fill the vacancy.

    Passed the Senate March 6, 1994.

    Passed the House March 2, 1994.

Approved by the Governor April 1, 1994.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 1, 1994.