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                          HOUSE BILL 1343

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Casada, Kessler and Basich; by request of Utilities & Transportation Commission

Read first time 01/23/95.  Referred to Committee on Energy & Utilities.

Removing the requirement that a schedule of port rates and charges be filed with the utilities and transportation commission.

    AN ACT Relating to eliminating the requirement of port districts to file tariffs with the utilities and transportation commission; and amending RCW 53.08.070.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 53.08.070 and 1955 c 65 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    A district may fix, without right of appeal therefrom the rates of wharfage, dockage, warehousing, and port and terminal charges upon all improvements owned and operated by it, and the charges of ferries operated by it.  ((The port commission shall file with the utilities and transportation commission its schedule of rates and charges so fixed, as required of public service corporations.  It may change any rate and charge so filed by filing with the commission a notice of the proposed change not less than thirty days before the change shall go into effect.))

    It may fix, subject to state regulation, rates of wharfage, dockage, warehousing, and all necessary port and terminal charges upon all docks, wharves, warehouses, quays, and piers owned by it and operated under lease from it.

    Notwithstanding any provision of this section, a port district may enter into any contract for wharfage, dockage, warehousing, or port or terminal charges, with the United States or any governmental agency thereof or with the state of Washington or any political subdivision thereof under such terms as the commission may, in its discretion, negotiate.

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