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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6288
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Rasmussen, Prince, Bauer and Oke)
Read first time 02/02/96.
AN ACT Relating to expanding the list of transportation supportive uses permitted in transportation centers; and amending RCW 81.75.020 and 81.75.030.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 81.75.020 and 1977 ex.s. c 217 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
Through its council or
other legislative body, any city, town, county, public transportation benefit
area authority, or other municipal corporation, authorized to operate public
transportation services, may construct or otherwise acquire intermodal
transportation centers by donation, lease, or purchase and may ((operate or))
let for purposes of leasing space at fair market value for the services set
forth in RCW 81.75.030(1), and to perform other functions permitted by
law, the centers or portions of the centers, for public or private purposes or
for compensation or rental upon such conditions as its council or other
legislative body shall from time to time prescribe. The city, town, county,
public transportation benefit area authority, or municipal corporation, may
apply for and receive grants from the federal government for purposes of
funding a transportation center and may consolidate a transportation center with
other lawful city or town activities. Any transportation center authorized
by this chapter, including all of the uses permitted by this chapter, must
comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, and regulations.
Sec. 2. RCW 81.75.030 and 1977 ex.s. c 217 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) To the
extent feasible, the services available to the public at any transportation
center may include taxi, auto rental, passenger trains, motor buses, travel
agents, restrooms, food, telegraph, baggage handling, transfer and delivery of
light freight and packages, commercial airlines, air charter, place of
temporary rest for citizens and travelers (but not overnight), mail, private
auto parking for users of public transportation through the transportation
center, local transit, limousine, ((and any other use necessary to the
foregoing)) commercial retail services, offices, professional services,
financial institutions, and any other use necessary and convenient for the
users of the public transportation system operating at the transportation
center.
(2) Any city, town, county, public transportation benefit area authority, or municipal corporation, which elects to operate a transportation center shall operate the center for the general public good. The operator may establish the terms of usage for the various modes of transportation and for others that utilize its facilities, may make reasonable rules concerning public and private use, and may exclude all persons therefrom who refuse to comply with the terms or rules of use. The operator may own, operate, maintain, and manage a transportation center, but shall not engage in providing a transportation or other related service at the center unless otherwise authorized by law.
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