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                          HOUSE BILL 1919

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Representatives Wood, Gombosky, Cooper, Linville, Anderson and Edwards

Read first time 02/10/1999.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.

Authorizing local governments to require that septic systems be removed in areas designated as having a critical recharging effect for an aquifer that is the primary drinking water source for a city of over 150,000 population.

    AN ACT Relating to connection of mobile home parks to public sewer systems; and amending RCW 35.67.370.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 35.67.370 and 1998 c 61 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Cities, towns, or counties may not require existing mobile home parks to replace existing, functional septic systems with a sewer system within the community unless:  (1) The mobile home park is within an area designated under chapter 36.70A RCW as an area with a critical recharging effect on aquifers used for potable water and such an aquifer is the primary drinking water source for a city east of the crest of the Cascade mountains with a population of over one hundred fifty thousand; or (2) the local board of health determines that the septic system is failing.

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