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                                  HOUSE BILL 2682

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Hymes, Wolfe, Honeyford and Reams

 

Read first time 01/16/96.  Referred to Committee on Capital Budget.

 

Authorizing elections to create library capital facility areas at any general or special election.



     AN ACT Relating to library capital facility areas; and amending RCW 27.15.020 and 27.15.050.

 

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

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 27.15.020 and 1995 c 368 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

     Upon receipt of a completed written request to both establish a library capital ((facilities)) facility area and submit a ballot proposition under RCW 27.15.050 to finance library capital facilities, that is signed by a majority of the members of the board of trustees of a library district or board of trustees of a city or town library, the county legislative authority or county legislative authorities for the county or counties in which a proposed library capital facility area is to be established shall submit separate ballot propositions to voters to authorize establishing the proposed library capital ((facilities)) facility area and authorizing the library capital ((facilities)) facility area, if established, to finance library capital facilities by issuing general indebtedness and imposing excess levies to retire the indebtedness.  The ballot propositions ((may only)) shall be submitted to voters at a general or special election.  Approval of the ballot proposition to create a library capital ((facilities)) facility area shall be by a simple majority vote.

     A completed request submitted under this section shall include:  (1) A description of the boundaries of the library capital facility area; and (2) a copy of the resolution of the legislative authority of each city or town, and board of trustees of each library district, with territory included within the proposed library capital ((facilities)) facility area indicating both:  (a) Its approval of the creation of the proposed library capital ((facilities)) facility area; and (b) agreement on how election costs will be paid for submitting ballot propositions to voters that authorize the library capital ((facilities)) facility area to incur general indebtedness and impose excess levies to retire the general indebtedness.

 

     Sec. 2.  RCW 27.15.050 and 1995 c 368 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) A library capital facility area may contract indebtedness or borrow money to finance library capital facilities and may issue general obligation bonds for such purpose not exceeding an amount, together with any existing indebtedness of the library capital facility area, equal to one and one-quarter percent of the value of the taxable property in the district and impose excess property tax levies to retire the general indebtedness as provided in RCW 39.36.050 if a ballot proposition authorizing both the indebtedness and excess levies is approved by at least three-fifths of the voters of the library capital facility area voting on the proposition, and the total number of voters voting on the proposition constitutes not less than forty percent of the total number of voters in the library capital facility area voting at the last preceding general election.  The term "value of the taxable property" has the meaning set forth in RCW 39.36.015.  Such a proposition ((may only)) shall be submitted to voters at a general or special election and may be submitted to voters at the same election as the election when the ballot proposition authorizing the establishing of the library capital ((facilities district)) facility area is submitted.

     (2) A library capital facility area may accept gifts or grants of money or property of any kind for the same purposes for which it is authorized to borrow money in subsection (1) of this section.

 


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