CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 6428

 

 

                   Chapter 313, Laws of 1996

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

 

 

                    SPECIAL DISTRICT MERGERS

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/6/96

Passed by the Senate March 4, 1996

  YEAS 44   NAYS 0

 

 

 

            JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House February 28, 1996

  YEAS 93   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6428 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 March 30, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 30, 1996 - 4:47 p.m.

 

 

 

              MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 6428

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

 

By Senators Newhouse and Haugen

 

Read first time 01/15/96.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

 

Revising irrigation district mergers.


    AN ACT Relating to the merger of special districts; and amending RCW 85.08.850 and 36.93.800.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 85.08.850 and 1957 c 94 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

    The petition requesting the merger shall be signed by the board of supervisors of, or by ten owners of land located within, the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district and presented to the clerk or clerks of the appropriate ((board or boards of county commissioners)) county legislative authority or authorities, at a regular or special meeting ((of the board or boards)).

 

    Sec. 2.  RCW 36.93.800 and 1993 c 235 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:

    This chapter does not apply to the merger of irrigation districts authorized under RCW 87.03.530(2) and 87.03.845 through 87.03.855 or to the merger of a drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district into an irrigation district authorized by RCW 87.03.720 through 87.03.745 and 85.08.830 through 85.08.890.


    Passed the Senate March 4, 1996.

    Passed the House February 28, 1996.

Approved by the Governor March 30, 1996.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 30, 1996.