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SENATE
BILL 6278
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Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
AS
AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
State of Washington 55th
Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/14/98.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
Specifying
the number of signatures required on a petition to place on the ballot the
question of changing the name of a port district.
AN
ACT Relating to specifying the number of signatures required on a petition to
place on the ballot the question of changing the name of a port district; and
amending RCW 53.04.110.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
53.04.110 and 1990 c 259 s 18 are each amended to read as follows:
Any
port district now existing or which may hereafter be organized under the laws
of the state of Washington is hereby authorized to change its corporate name
under the following conditions and in the following manner:
(1)
On presentation, at least forty-five days before any general port election to
be held in the port district, of a petition to the commissioners of any port
district now existing or which may hereafter be established under the laws of
the state of Washington, signed by ((not less than two hundred fifty
registered voters residing within the port district)) at least ten
percent of the total number of voters of the port district who voted at the
last general port election and asking that the corporate name of the port
district be changed, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to submit to the
voters of the port district ((at the next general port election held in the
port district in accordance with RCW 29.13.010 and 29.13.020)) the
proposition as to whether the corporate name of the port shall be changed. The
proposition shall be submitted at the next general port election.
(2)
The petition shall contain the present corporate name of the port district and
the corporate name which is proposed to be given to the port district.
(3)
On submitting the proposition to the voters of the port district it shall be
the duty of the port commissioners to cause to be printed on the official
ballot used at the election the following proposition:
"Shall the corporate
name, 'Port of . . . . . .' be changed to 'Port of
. . . . . . . . .'........................................ YES
"Shall the corporate name, 'Port of
. . . . . .' be changed to 'Port of
. . . . . . . . .'........................................ NO"
(4)
At the time when the returns of the general election shall be canvassed by the
commissioners of the port district, it shall be the duty of the commissioners
to canvass the vote upon the proposition so submitted, recording in their
record the result of the canvass.
(5) Should a majority of the registered voters of the port district
voting at the general port election vote in favor of the proposition it shall
be the duty of the port commissioners to certify the fact to the auditor of the
county in which the port district shall be situated and to the secretary of
state of the state of Washington, under the seal of the port district. On and
after the filing of the certificate with the county auditor as aforesaid and
with the secretary of state of the state of Washington, the corporate name of
the port district shall be changed, and thenceforth the port district shall be
known and designated in accordance therewith.
