CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5371

 

 

                   Chapter 253, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate March 17, 1999

  YEAS 35   NAYS 13

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 16, 1999

  YEAS 95   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5371 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 May 10, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED          

 

 

             May 10, 1999 - 4:43 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                    ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5371

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Senators Jacobsen, Horn, Haugen, Franklin, Costa and Kohl‑Welles; by request of Department of Transportation

 

Read first time 01/21/1999.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Developing intercity passenger rail service.   


    AN ACT Relating to intercity passenger rail service; and adding new sections to chapter 47.79 RCW.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 47.79 RCW to read as follows:

    Subject to appropriation, the department is authorized to acquire by purchase, lease, condemnation, gift, devise, bequest, grant, or exchange, title to or any interests or rights in real property adjacent to or used in association with state intercity passenger rail service which may include, but are not limited to, depots, platforms, parking areas, and maintenance facilities.  The department is authorized to contract with a public or private entity for the operation, maintenance, and/or management of these facilities.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 47.79 RCW to read as follows:

    Subject to appropriation, the department is authorized to accept and expend or use gifts, grants, and donations for the benefit of any depot, platform, parking area, maintenance facility, or other associated rail facility.  However, such an expenditure shall be for the public benefit of the state's intercity passenger rail service.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 47.79 RCW to read as follows:

    Subject to appropriation, the department is authorized to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties necessary, convenient, or incidental to the planning, designing, constructing, improving, repairing, operating, and maintaining real property adjacent to or used in association with the state intercity passenger rail service which may include, but are not limited to, depots, platforms, parking areas, and maintenance facilities, even if such real property is owned or controlled by another entity.  However, any expenditure of public funds for these purposes shall be directly related to public benefit of the state's intercity passenger rail service.  The department shall enter into a written contract with the affected real property owners to secure the public's investment.


    Passed the Senate March 17, 1999.

    Passed the House April 16, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 10, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 1999.