CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5156

 

 

                    Chapter 77, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

HOUSING AUTHORITIES‑-BOARD MEMBERSHIP

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate March 3, 1999

  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 8, 1999

  YEAS 94   NAYS 1

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5156 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved April 22, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.   

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 22, 1999 - 3:39 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5156

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Senators Prentice and Winsley

 

Read first time 01/14/1999.  Referred to Committee on Commerce, Trade, Housing & Financial Institutions.

Amending housing authority law.  


    AN ACT Relating to voluntary expansion of local housing authority boards of commissioners to comply with federal law; and amending RCW 35.82.040.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 35.82.040 and 1998 c 140 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Except as provided in RCW 35.82.045, when the governing body of a city adopts a resolution declaring that there is a need for a housing authority, it shall promptly notify the mayor of such adoption.  Upon receiving such notice, the mayor shall appoint five persons as commissioners of the authority created for the city.  When the governing body of a county adopts a resolution declaring that there is a need for a housing authority, it shall appoint five persons as commissioners of the authority created for the county.  The commissioners who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respectively, from the date of their appointment, but thereafter commissioners shall be appointed for a term of office of five years except that all vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term.  No commissioner of an authority may be an officer or employee of the city or county for which the authority is created, unless the commissioner is an employee of a separately elected county official other than the county governing body in a county with a population of less than one hundred seventy-five thousand as of the 1990 federal census, and the total government employment in that county exceeds forty percent of total employment.  A commissioner shall hold office until a successor has been appointed and has qualified, unless sooner removed according to this chapter.  A certificate of the appointment or reappointment of any commissioner shall be filed with the clerk and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the due and proper appointment of such commissioner.  A commissioner shall receive no compensation for his or her services for the authority, in any capacity, but he or she shall be entitled to the necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge of his or her duties.

    The powers of each authority shall be vested in the commissioners thereof in office from time to time.  Except as provided in RCW 35.82.045, three commissioners shall constitute a quorum of the authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes.  Action may be taken by the authority upon a vote of a majority of the commissioners present, unless in any case the bylaws of the authority shall require a larger number.  The mayor (or in the case of an authority for a county, the governing body of the county) shall designate which of the commissioners appointed shall be the first chair of the commission and he or she shall serve in the capacity of chair until the expiration of his or her term of office as commissioner.  When the office of the chair of the authority becomes vacant, the authority shall select a chair from among its commissioners.  An authority shall select from among its commissioners a vice-chair, and it may employ a secretary (who shall be executive director), technical experts and such other officers, agents and employees, permanent and temporary, as it may require, and shall determine their qualifications, duties and compensation.  For such legal services as it may require, an authority may call upon the chief law officer of the city or the county or may employ its own counsel and legal staff.  An authority may delegate to one or more of its agents or employees such powers or duties as it may deem proper.

    If federal law requires that the membership of the board of commissioners of a local authority contains one member who is directly assisted by the authority, the board may by resolution temporarily or permanently increase its size to six members.  The board may determine the length of the term of the position filled by a directly assisted member.  A person appointed to such a position may serve in that position only as long as he or she is directly assisted by the authority.


    Passed the Senate March 3, 1999.

    Passed the House April 8, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 22, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 1999.