CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

               SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5949

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 13, 2002   YEAS 41   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 13, 2002   YEAS 92   NAYS 2

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5949 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

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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                SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5949

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen and Swecker)

READ FIRST TIME 01/22/2002.

Erecting and maintaining motorist information sign panels.  

    AN ACT Relating to erecting and maintaining motorist information sign panels; and adding a new section to chapter 47.36 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 47.36 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) When exercising its authority to erect and maintain motorist information sign panels under RCW 47.36.310 and 47.36.320, the department shall contract with a private contractor for a term of ten years.  The contractor selected by the department must be incorporated, and must maintain an office, in this state.

    (2) The contractor, at no cost to the department, is solely responsible for marketing, administration, financial management, sign fabrication, installation, and maintenance and is subject to the provisions of this chapter otherwise applicable to the department.  The contractor may set the market rate to be charged to businesses advertising on the motorist informational signs.

    (3) A contract entered into between the department and a contractor must require the contractor to administer, fabricate, install, and maintain community historical signs authorized for placement by the department at no cost to the department.

    (4) In department may set the contractual terms it deems necessary to guarantee the performance of the contract.  The department shall periodically monitor the performance of the contract.

    (5) In letting a contract under this section the department shall comply with purchasing guidelines adopted by the general services administration.

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