BILL REQ. #:  H-0285.1 



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HOUSE BILL 1414
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State of Washington58th Legislature2003 Regular Session

By Representatives Mielke, Moeller, McMahan, Orcutt, Boldt, Ahern, Pearson and Kristiansen

Read first time 01/24/2003.   Referred to Committee on Local Government.



     AN ACT Relating to county commissioner elections; and amending RCW 36.32.050.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 36.32.050 and 1963 c 4 s 36.32.050 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Except as provided under subsection (2) of this section, county commissioners shall be elected by the ((qualified)) registered voters of the entire county and the person receiving the highest number of votes for the office of commissioner for the district in which he or she resides shall be declared duly elected from that district.
     (2) In a noncharter county west of the crest of the Cascade mountains with a population greater than three hundred thousand, the commissioners shall be elected by commissioner district.

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