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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5795
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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 03/01/95.
Authorizing an alternate method for
reducing city limits for cities with over fifty thousand population.
AN ACT Relating to
reduction of city limits; and amending RCW 35.16.010 and 36.93.105.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 35.16.010 and 1994 c
273 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)(a) Upon the
filing of a petition which is sufficient as determined by RCW 35A.01.040
requesting the exclusion from the boundaries of a city or town of an area
described by metes and bounds or by reference to a recorded plat or government
survey, signed by qualified voters of the city or town equal in number to not
less than ten percent of the number of voters voting at the last general
municipal election, the city or town legislative body shall submit the question
to the voters. As an alternate method, the legislative body of the city or
town may by resolution submit a proposal to the voters for excluding such a
described area from the boundaries of the city or town.
(b) As an
alternative to the procedures in (a) of this subsection, in a city with a
population of over four hundred thousand, upon the filing of a petition which
is sufficient as determined by RCW 35A.01.040 requesting the exclusion from the
boundaries of the city of an area containing at least ten percent of the
qualified voters of the city described by metes and bounds or by reference to a
recorded plat or government survey, signed by qualified voters of the area
proposed to be excluded equal in number to not less than twenty-five percent of
the number of voters of the area proposed to be excluded voting at the last
general municipal election, the city legislative body shall submit the issue of
reduction of city limits to the voters of the area proposed to be excluded.
(2) The question
shall be submitted at the next general municipal election if one is to be held
within one hundred eighty days or at a special election called for that purpose
not less than ninety days nor more than one hundred eighty days after the
certification of sufficiency of the petition or the passage of the resolution.
The petition or resolution shall set out and describe the territory to be
excluded from the city or town, together with the boundaries of the city or
town as it will exist after such change is made.
Sec. 2. RCW 36.93.105 and 1989 c
84 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
The following actions
shall not be subject to potential review by a boundary review board:
(1) Annexations of
territory to a water or sewer district pursuant to RCW 36.94.410 through
36.94.440;
(2) Revisions of city
or town boundaries pursuant to RCW 35.21.790 or 35A.21.210;
(3) Adjustments to city
or town boundaries pursuant to RCW 35.13.340; ((and))
(4) Adjustments to city
and town boundaries pursuant to RCW 35.13.300 through 35.13.330; and
(5)
Reductions in city boundaries pursuant to RCW 35.16.010(1)(b).
