BILL REQ. #: S-2208.1
| State of Washington | 59th Legislature | 2005 Regular Session |
READ FIRST TIME 03/01/05.
AN ACT Relating to capital facilities at the Rainier school; amending RCW 72.01.140; creating a new section; and repealing RCW 28B.30.820 and 72.01.142.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 The legislature intends to transfer
cognizance and control of the agricultural lands at Rainier school from
Washington State University (university) back to the department of
social and health services (department). These lands shall be made
available for the wastewater treatment facility jointly planned by the
city of Buckley and the department. The department shall negotiate an
appropriate lease or other financial arrangement with the city of
Buckley for the use of this property. The department shall not
compensate the university in any way for this transfer of cognizance
and control of the property. The university shall retain ownership of
any of its supplies, equipment, implements, and other property on the
land. The university shall remove any such property that interferes
with the construction and operation of the wastewater treatment
facility. The cleanup of any waste materials that resulted from the
university operations on these lands shall be the responsibility of the
university.
Sec. 2 RCW 72.01.140 and 1981 c 238 s 1 are each amended to read
as follows:
The secretary shall:
(1) Make a survey, investigation, and classification of the lands
connected with the state institutions under his control, and determine
which thereof are of such character as to be most profitably used for
agricultural, horticultural, dairying, and stock raising purposes,
taking into consideration the costs of making them ready for
cultivation, the character of the soil, its depth and fertility, the
number of kinds of crops to which it is adapted, the local climatic
conditions, the local annual rainfall, the water supply upon the land
or available, the needs of all state institutions for the food products
that can be grown or produced, and the amount and character of the
available labor of inmates at the several institutions;
(2) Establish and carry on suitable farming operations at the
several institutions under his control;
(3) Supply the several institutions with the necessary food
products produced thereat;
(4) Exchange with, or furnish to, other institutions, food products
at the cost of production;
(5) Sell and dispose of surplus food products produced.
((This section shall not apply to the Rainier school for which
cognizance of farming operations has been transferred to Washington
State University by RCW 72.01.142.))
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3 The following acts or parts of acts are each
repealed:
(1) RCW 28B.30.820 (Dairy/forage and agricultural research
facility -- Transfer of property and facilities for) and 1981 c 238 s 3;
and
(2) RCW 72.01.142 (Transfer of dairy operation from Rainier school)
and 1981 c 238 s 2.