CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2784

                    Chapter 49, Laws of 1998

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

PROVISION OF WATER BY PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICTS--CLARIFICATIONS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/98

Passed by the House February 10, 1998  Yeas 96   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 4, 1998   Yeas 46   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2784  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

Approved March 18, 1998 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 18, 1998 - 6:11 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2784

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives Johnson, D. Schmidt, Wensman, Cairnes, Zellinsky and Clements

Read first time 01/20/98.  Referred to Committee on Government Administration.

Adding inhabitants of county as recipients of water works benefits.   

    AN ACT Relating to safe public water supply; and amending RCW 54.16.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 54.16.030 and 1955 c 390 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

    A district may construct, purchase, condemn and purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate water works and irrigation plants and systems, within or without its limits, for the purpose of furnishing the district, and the inhabitants ((thereof)) of the county in which the district is located, and any other persons including public and private corporations within or without its limits, with an ample supply of water for all purposes, public and private, including water power, domestic use, and irrigation, with full and exclusive authority to sell and regulate and control the use, distribution, and price thereof.

    Passed the House February 10, 1998.

    Passed the Senate March 4, 1998.

Approved by the Governor March 18, 1998.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 18, 1998.