BILL REQ. #:  H-0833.1 

Read first time 01/21/09.   Referred to Committee on Community & Economic Development & Trade.

     AN ACT Relating to modifying the definition of "public facilities"; and reenacting and amending RCW 43.160.020.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 43.160.020 and 2008 c 327 s 2 and 2008 c 131 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
     (1) "Board" means the community economic revitalization board.
     (2) "Department" means the department of community, trade, and economic development.
     (3) "Local government" or "political subdivision" means any port district, county, city, town, special purpose district, and any other municipal corporations or quasi-municipal corporations in the state providing for public facilities under this chapter.
     (4) "Public facilities" means a project of a local government or a federally recognized Indian tribe for the planning, acquisition, construction, repair, reconstruction, replacement, rehabilitation, or improvement of bridges, roads, domestic and industrial water, earth stabilization, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, railroad, electricity, telecommunications, transportation, natural gas, buildings or structures, ((and)) port facilities, and capitalized equipment valued in excess of four hundred thousand dollars for the maintenance of maritime transportation facilities, all for the purpose of job creation, job retention, or job expansion.
     (5) "Rural county" means a county with a population density of fewer than one hundred persons per square mile or a county smaller than two hundred twenty-five square miles, as determined by the office of financial management and published each year by the department for the period July 1st to June 30th.