CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2370

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 12, 2002   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 2, 2002   Yeas 47   Nays 0	CERTIFICATE I, Cynthia Zehnder, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2370  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.                           Chief Clerk
President of the Senate

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED
Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2370

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             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

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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