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CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5043

Chapter 71, Laws of 1995

54th Legislature

1995 Regular Session

Code cities‑-Adoption of codes and statutes by reference

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/23/95

Passed by the Senate March 11, 1995

YEAS 47 NAYS 0

JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 6, 1995

YEAS 97 NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5043 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN

Secretary

Approved April 18, 1995

FILED

April 18, 1995 - 1:00 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SENATE BILL 5043

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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session

By Senators Winsley and Haugen

Read first time 01/09/95. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

AN ACT Relating to adoption of codes and statutes by reference by code cities; and amending RCW 35A.12.140.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 35A.12.140 and 1982 c 226 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

Ordinances may by reference adopt Washington state statutes and state, county, or city codes, regulations, or ordinances or any standard code of technical regulations, or portions thereof, including, for illustrative purposes but not limited to, fire codes and codes or ordinances relating to the construction of buildings, the installation of plumbing, the installation of electric wiring, health and sanitation, the slaughtering, processing, and selling of meats and meat products for human consumption, the production, pasteurizing, and sale of milk and milk products, or other subjects, together with amendments thereof or additions thereto, on the subject of the ordinance. Such Washington state statutes or codes or other codes or compilations so adopted need not be published in a newspaper as provided in RCW 35A.12.160, but the adopting ordinance shall be so published and a copy of any such adopted statute, ordinance, or code, or portion thereof, with amendments or additions, if any, in the form in which it was adopted, shall be ((authenticated and recorded by the clerk along with the adopting ordinance. Not less than one copy of such statute, code, or compilation with amendments or additions, if any, in the form in which it was adopted, shall be)) filed in the office of the city clerk for use and examination by the public. While any such statute, code, or compilation is under consideration by the council prior to adoption, not less than one copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the city clerk for examination by the public.