CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6350

Chapter 60, Laws of 2002

57th Legislature

2002 Regular Session

HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS--COUNTY FUNDING

EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/13/02

Passed by the Senate February 16, 2002

YEAS 48 NAYS 1

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

Passed by the House March 6, 2002

YEAS 93 NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6350 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

TONY M. COOK

Secretary

Approved March 21, 2002

FILED

March 21, 2002 - 2:08 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6350

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Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington 57th Legislature 2002 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen, Horn, McAuliffe and Oke)

READ FIRST TIME 02/05/2002.

AN ACT Relating to county funding of state highway improvements; and amending RCW 36.75.035.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 36.75.035 and 1985 c 400 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

A county pursuant to chapter 36.88 RCW, or a service district as provided for in chapter 36.83 RCW, may, with the approval of the state department of transportation, improve or fund the improvement of any state highway within its boundaries. The county may fund improvements under this section by any means authorized by law, ((~~but may not make any expenditure for the purposes of this section from a county road fund under chapter 36.82 RCW~~)) except that expenditures of county road funds under chapter 36.82 RCW under this section must be limited to improvements to the state highway system and shall not include maintenance or operations. Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of a county to fund cooperative improvement and maintenance agreements with the department of transportation, authorized by RCW 36.75.030 or 47.28.140.