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SENATE BILL 6288
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By Senators Rasmussen, Prince, Bauer and Oke
Read first time 01/10/96. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to expanding the list of transportation supportive uses permitted in transportation centers; and amending RCW 81.75.030.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 81.75.030 and 1977 ex.s. c 217 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
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.
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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