CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3032

 

 

                   Chapter 200, Laws of 2000

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

 

 

PORT DISTRICTS--ANNEXATION AUTHORITY

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/8/00

Passed by the House February 8, 2000

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate March 3, 2000

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3032 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

           CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved March 29, 2000 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.           

                                FILED                

 

           March 29, 2000 - 2:50 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3032

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representative Mulliken)

 

Read first time 02/02/2000.  Referred to Committee on .

Extending annexation authority to certain port districts along the Interstate 90 corridor. 


    AN ACT Relating to annexations by less than county-wide port districts in areas having no registered voters; and amending RCW 53.04.180 and 53.04.150.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 53.04.180 and 1999 c 250 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) By a majority vote of the commission, and with the written consent of all the owners of the property to be annexed, a port commission of a district that is less than county-wide, and that is located in a county with a population of less than ninety thousand and located in either the Interstate 5 or Interstate 90 corridor, may annex, for industrial development or other port district purposes, property contiguous to the district's boundaries and not located within the boundaries of any other port district.

    (2) The written consent required by subsection (1) of this section must contain a full and correct legal description of the property to be annexed, must include the signature of all owners of the property to be annexed, and must be addressed to and filed with the commission.

    (3) If the commission approves annexation under this section, it shall do so by resolution and shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the board of county commissioners of the county in which the annexed property is located.  Upon the date fixed in the resolution, the area annexed becomes part of the district.

 

    Sec. 2.  RCW 53.04.150 and 1999 c 250 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    A port district that is less than county-wide, and that is located in a county with a population of less than ninety thousand and located in either the Interstate 5 or Interstate 90 corridor, may petition for annexation of an area that is contiguous to its boundaries, is not located within the boundaries of any other port district, and contains no registered voters.  The petition must be in writing, addressed to and filed with the port commission, and signed by the owners of not less than seventy-five percent of the property value in the area to be annexed, according to the assessed value for general taxation.  The petition must contain a legal description of the property according to government legal subdivisions or legal plats, or a sufficient metes and bounds description, and must be accompanied by a plat outlining the boundaries of the property to be annexed.


    Passed the House February 8, 2000.

    Passed the Senate March 3, 2000.

Approved by the Governor March 29, 2000.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 29, 2000.