CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1418

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 26, 1997

  Yeas 98   Nays 0

 

 

 

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 26, 1997

  Yeas 38   Nays 8

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1418  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

President of the Senate

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

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

                                FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1418

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

            AS RECOMMENDED BY THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

 

                                

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Buck and Regala; by request of Commissioner of Public Lands and Department of Natural Resources)

 

Read first time 03/03/97.

  Eliminating pooling of the resource management cost account and removing reference to agricultural college lands.  


    AN ACT Relating to eliminating the pooling of the resource management cost account and removing reference to agricultural college lands; amending RCW 79.64.020, 79.64.030, 79.64.040, and 79.01.136; adding a new section to chapter 79.64 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 79.64.020 and 1993 c 460 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    A resource management cost account in the state treasury is hereby created to be used solely for the purpose of defraying the costs and expenses necessarily incurred by the department in managing and administering public lands and the making and administering of leases, sales, contracts, licenses, permits, easements, and rights of way on or with respect to such lands as authorized under the provisions of this title.  Appropriations from the account to the department shall be expended for no other purposes.  The resource management cost account may receive and accept funds that are to be used for such purposes from any source.   Funds in the account produced by a trust may be appropriated or transferred by the legislature only for the benefit of ((all of)) the ((trusts from which the funds were derived)) trust.

 

    Sec. 2.  RCW 79.64.030 and 1993 c 460 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    Funds in the account derived from the gross proceeds of leases, sales, contracts, licenses, permits, easements, and rights of way issued by the department and affecting school lands, university lands, ((agricultural college lands,)) scientific school lands, normal school lands, capitol building lands, or institutional lands shall be ((pooled and)) expended by the department solely for the purpose of defraying the costs and expenses necessarily incurred in managing and administering ((all of the trust lands enumerated in this section)) state lands of the same trust.  Such funds may be used for similar costs and expenses in managing and administering other lands managed by the department provided that such expenditures that have been or may be made on such other lands shall be repaid to the resource management cost account together with interest at a rate determined by the board of natural resources.

    Costs and expenses necessarily incurred in managing and administering agricultural college lands shall not be deducted from proceeds derived from the sale of agricultural college lands including the sale of resources that are part of those lands.  The department shall use funds provided under section 3 of this act for the management and administration of agricultural college lands.

    An accounting shall be made annually of the accrued expenditures from the ((pooled)) trust funds in the account.  In the event the accounting determines that expenditures have been made from moneys derived from trust lands for the benefit of another trust or other lands, such expenditure shall be considered a debt and an encumbrance against the property or trust funds benefited, including property held under chapter 76.12 RCW.  The results of the accounting shall be reported to the legislature at the next regular session.  The state treasurer is authorized, upon request of the department, to transfer funds between the forest development account and the resource management cost account solely for purpose of repaying loans pursuant to this section.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 79.64 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) No part of the gross proceeds from leases, sales, contracts, licenses, permits, easements, and rights of way on or relating to the agricultural college lands may be used to defray costs or expenses incurred in managing and administering the lands, and all such gross proceeds shall be made available to the beneficiary of the agricultural college lands.

    (2) The board shall determine the amount necessary in order to achieve the purposes of this chapter for the agricultural college lands.  The department shall bill the state of Washington for this amount.  The billing authorized under this section shall in no event exceed twenty-two percent of the gross proceeds received by the beneficiary under subsection (1) of this section.

    (3) The state of Washington shall pay the department for administering and managing the agricultural college lands.  The state may choose the fund source to use to pay this cost, provided that the funds represent moneys from the treasury of the state.  The state may not pay this cost using proceeds received by the beneficiary under subsection (1) of this section.

    (4) The department shall deposit the moneys received from the state for the management and administration of the agricultural college lands into the account.

 

    Sec. 4.  RCW 79.64.040 and 1981 2nd ex.s. c 4 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

    Except as provided in section 3 of this act, the board shall determine the amount deemed necessary in order to achieve the purposes of this chapter and shall provide by rule for the deduction of this amount from the gross proceeds of all leases, sales, contracts, licenses, permits, easements, and rights of way issued by the department and affecting public lands.  Moneys received as deposits from successful bidders, advance payments, and security under RCW 79.01.132 and 79.01.204 prior to December 1, 1981, which have not been subjected to deduction under this section are not subject to deduction under this section.  The deductions authorized under this section shall in no event exceed twenty-five percent of the total sum received by the department in connection with any one transaction pertaining to public lands other than second class tide and shore lands and the beds of navigable waters, and fifty percent of the total gross proceeds received by the department pertaining to second class tide and shore lands and the beds of navigable waters.

 

    Sec. 5.  RCW 79.01.136 and 1979 ex.s. c 109 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    Before any state lands are offered for sale, or lease, or are assigned, the department of natural resources may establish the fair market value of those authorized improvements not owned by the state.  In the event that agreement cannot be reached between the state and the lessee on the fair market value, such valuation shall be submitted to a review board of appraisers.  The board shall be as follows:  One member to be selected by the lessee and his or her expense shall be borne by the lessee; one member selected by the state and his or her expense shall be borne by the state; these members so selected shall mutually select a third member and his or her expenses shall be shared equally by the lessee and the state.  The majority decision of this appraisal review board shall be binding on both parties.  For this purpose "fair market value" is defined as:  The highest price in terms of money which a property will bring in a competitive and open market under all conditions of a fair sale, the buyer and seller, each prudently knowledgeable and assuming the price is not affected by undue stimulus.  All damages and wastes committed upon such lands and other obligations due from the lessee shall be deducted from the appraised value of the improvements((:  PROVIDED, That)).  However, the department of natural resources on behalf of the respective trust may purchase at fair market value those improvements if it appears to be in the best interest of the state ((from the RMCA of the general fund)).  Payment for the improvements may be made with funds held on behalf of the trust in the resource management cost account established under RCW 79.64.020.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 6.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect July 1, 1997.

 


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