CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5251

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 8, 1995   YEAS 48   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 5, 1995   YEAS 95   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5251 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                                 SENATE BILL 5251

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                     Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Senators Rasmussen, Fraser, Oke, Wojahn, Franklin, Winsley, Schow, Swecker and Gaspard

Read first time 01/17/95.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Affecting the transportation authority of first class cities.

     AN ACT Relating to the transportation authority of first class cities; and amending RCW 35.92.060.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 35.92.060 and 1991 c 124 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     A city or town may also construct, condemn and purchase, purchase, acquire, add to, alter, maintain, operate, or lease cable, electric, and other railways, automobiles, motor cars, motor buses, auto trucks, and any and all other forms or methods of transportation of freight or passengers within the corporate limits of the city or town, and a first class city may also construct, purchase, acquire, add to, alter, maintain, operate, or lease cable, electric, and other railways beyond those corporate limits only within the boundaries of the county in which the city is located and of any adjoining county ((that has a population of at least forty thousand and fewer than one hundred twenty-five thousand and that is intersected by an interstate highway)), for the transportation of freight and passengers above, upon, or underneath the ground.  It may also fix, alter, regulate, and control the fares and rates to be charged therefor; and fares or rates may be adjusted or eliminated for any distinguishable class of users including, but not limited to, senior citizens, handicapped persons, and students.  Without the payment of any license fee or tax, or the filing of a bond with, or the securing of a permit from, the state, or any department thereof, the city or town may engage in, carry on, and operate the business of transporting and carrying passengers or freight for hire by any method or combination of methods that the legislative authority of any city or town may by ordinance provide, with full authority to regulate and control the use and operation of vehicles or other agencies of transportation used for such business.

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