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                          HOUSE BILL 2370

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

By Representatives Schoesler, Cox, Eickmeyer, Ahern, Chandler, Mulliken and Haigh

Read first time 01/16/2002.  Referred to Committee on Local Government & Housing.

Authorizing all counties to share county road engineering services.

    AN ACT Relating to county road engineers; and amending RCW 36.80.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.80.010 and 1997 c 147 s 1 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.))  The county legislative authority of each ((other)) county shall employ a county road engineer on either a full-time or part-time basis, or may contract with another county for the engineering services of a county road engineer from such other county.

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