CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5637

Chapter 147, Laws of 1997

55th Legislature

1997 Regular Session

COUNTY ROAD ENGINEERS AND COUNTY ENGINEERS--RESIDENCY PROVISIONS ELIMINATED

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97

Passed by the Senate March 12, 1997

YEAS 46 NAYS 0

BOB MORTON

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.

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

MIKE O'CONNELL

Secretary

Approved April 22, 1997

FILED

April 22, 1997 - 4:46 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

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.

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.