CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5589

Chapter 77, Laws of 2005

59th Legislature
2005 Regular Session



CODE CITIES--AGRICULTURAL LAND



EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/24/05

Passed by the Senate March 16, 2005
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 5, 2005
  YEAS 94   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5589 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved April 18, 2005.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 18, 2005 - 2:00 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5589
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Passed Legislature - 2005 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2005 Regular Session

By Senators Haugen and Spanel

Read first time 01/28/2005.   Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.



     AN ACT Relating to proceedings for excluding agricultural land from the boundaries of a charter or noncharter code city; and adding a new section to chapter 35A.16 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 35A.16 RCW to read as follows:
     Proceedings for excluding agricultural land from the boundaries of a charter code city or noncharter code city may be commenced by the filing of a petition which is sufficient as determined by RCW 35A.01.040 by property owners of the agricultural land proposed to be excluded, in the following manner which is alternative to other methods provided in this chapter:
     (1) A petition for exclusion of agricultural land from the incorporated area of a code city shall be filed with the legislative body of the municipality. The petition for exclusion must be signed by the owners of not less than one hundred percent of the agricultural land for which exclusion is sought and, if residents exist within the area proposed for exclusion, a majority of the registered voters residing in the area for which exclusion is petitioned.
     (2) The petition shall set forth a legal description of the territory proposed to be excluded and shall be accompanied by a drawing that outlines the boundaries of the territory sought to be excluded.
     (3) When a petition for exclusion that meets the requirements of this section and RCW 35A.01.040 is filed with the legislative body of the code city, the legislative body shall set a date, not later than sixty days after the filing of the request, for a public hearing thereon and cause notice of the hearing to be published in one or more issues of a newspaper of general circulation in the city. The notice shall also be posted in three public places within the territory proposed for exclusion, and shall specify the time and place of hearing and invite interested persons to appear and voice approval or disapproval of the exclusion.
     (4) Following the hearing, if the legislative body determines to effect the exclusion from city boundaries, they shall do so by ordinance. The ordinance may exclude all or any portion of the proposed territory but may not include in the exclusion any territory not described in the petition. The ordinance shall contain a legal description of the territory and declare it no longer a part of the code city.


         Passed by the Senate March 16, 2005.
         Passed by the House April 5, 2005.
         Approved by the Governor April 18, 2005.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 18, 2005.