CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5637

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 12, 1997   YEAS 46   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 10, 1997   YEAS 97   NAYS 1

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5637 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.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 5637

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Haugen, Horn, Rasmussen and Winsley; by request of County Road Administration Board

Read first time 02/04/97.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Removing residency requirements for county road engineers.

    AN ACT Relating to the residency of the county road engineer; and amending RCW 36.80.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.80.010 and 1991 c 363 s 85 are each amended to read as follows:

    The county legislative authority of each county with a population of eight thousand or more shall employ a full-time county road engineer ((residing in the county)).  The county legislative authority of each other county shall employ a county engineer on either a full-time or part-time basis ((who need not be a resident of the county)), or may contract with another county for the engineering services of a county road engineer from such other county.

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