BILL REQ. #:  H-0106.1 

Read first time 01/23/2003.   Referred to Committee on Local Government.

     AN ACT Relating to city assumption of water-sewer districts; and adding a new section to chapter 35.13A RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 35.13A RCW to read as follows:
     A city may not assume, under this chapter, the jurisdiction of all or part of a water-sewer district serving a population greater than thirty thousand residents and containing, within its boundaries, the territory of four or more cities, or three cities and unincorporated territory of more than five hundred acres, unless voters of the entire water-sewer district approve a ballot proposition authorizing the assumption under general election law. The cost of the election shall be borne by the city seeking approval to assume jurisdiction of a water-sewer district.