BILL REQ. #:  H-3329.1 

Read first time 01/12/2006.   Referred to Committee on Housing.

     AN ACT Relating to mobile home park sewer-related charges; and amending RCW 35.67.370.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 35.67.370 and 2003 c 297 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Cities, towns, or counties may not require existing mobile home parks to replace existing, functional septic systems with a sewer system within the community unless the local board of health determines that the septic system is failing.
     (2) Cities, towns, and counties are prohibited from requiring existing mobile home parks to pay any charges related to sewer, to include, but not exclusively, a sewer service availability charge, standby charge, consumption charge, or any other similar types of charges associated with available but unused sewer service, including any interest or penalties for nonpayment or enforcement charges, until the mobile home park connects to the sewer service. When a mobile home park connects to a sewer, cities, towns, and counties may only charge mobile home parks prospectively from the date of connection for their sewer service. Chapter 297, Laws of 2003 is remedial in nature and applies retroactively to 1993.