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                         SENATE BILL 5145

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

 

By Senators McCaslin, Haugen, Hochstatter and Palmer

 

Read first time 01/12/95.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

 

Appealing final decisions by growth management hearings boards.


    AN ACT Relating to appeals of final orders by a growth management hearings board; and amending RCW 36.70A.300.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.70A.300 and 1991 sp.s. c 32 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The board shall issue a final order within one hundred eighty days of receipt of the petition for review, or, when multiple petitions are filed, within one hundred eighty days of receipt of the last petition that is consolidated.  Such a final order shall be based exclusively on whether or not a state agency, county, or city is in compliance with the requirements of this chapter, or chapter 43.21C RCW as it relates to plans, regulations, and amendments thereto, adopted under RCW 36.70A.040.  In the final order, the board shall either:  (a) Find that the state agency, county, or city is in compliance with the requirements of this chapter; or (b) find that the state agency, county, or city is not in compliance with the requirements of this chapter, in which case the board shall remand the matter to the affected state agency, county, or city and specify a reasonable time not in excess of one hundred eighty days within which the state agency, county, or city shall comply with the requirements of this chapter.

    (2) Any party aggrieved by a final decision of the hearings board may appeal the decision to ((Thurston county superior court)) the superior court of the county in which the dispute arose.  If the dispute arises in more than one county, then the appeal may be filed in the superior court of either or any of those counties, with consolidation of the matter to remain within the discretion of the courts.  All appeals shall be filed within thirty days of the final order of the board.

 

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