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HOUSE BILL NO. 1486
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C 171 L 86
State of Washington 49th Legislature 1986 Regular Session
By Representatives Peery, Nealey, Brooks, Baugher, Ballard, Chandler, Vekich, Doty, Madsen, Bristow, Rayburn, Jacobsen, Kremen, Tilly, Lux, Smitherman, Tanner, Prince, Sutherland, Dellwo, Vander Stoep, Sayan, Lewis, S. Wilson and Fisch
Read first time 1/15/86 and referred to Committee on Agriculture.
AN ACT Relating to the fairs commission; amending RCW 36.34.145; and repealing RCW 43.131.273 and 43.131.274.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
(1) Section 10, chapter 197, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.131.273; and
(2) Section 36, chapter 197, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.131.274.
Sec. 2. Section 36.34.145, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 and RCW 36.34.145 are each amended to read as follows:
The ((board
of county commissioners)) legislative authority of any ((class A))
county owning property in or outside the limits of any city or town, or anywhere
within the county, which is suitable for agricultural fair purposes may by
negotiation lease such property for such purposes for a term not to exceed
seventy-five years to any nonprofit organization that has demonstrated its
qualification to conduct agricultural fairs. Such agricultural fair leases
shall not be subject to any requirement of periodic rental adjustments, as
provided in RCW 36.34.180, but shall provide for such fixed annual rental as
shall appear reasonable, considering the benefit to be derived by the county in
the promotion of the fair and in the improvement of the property. The lessee
may utilize or rent out such property at times other than during the fair
season for nonfair purposes in order to obtain income for fair purposes, and
during the fair season may sublease portions of the property for purposes and
activities associated with such fair. No sublease shall be valid unless the
same shall be approved in writing by the ((board of county commissioners))
county legislative authority: PROVIDED, That failure of such lessee,
except by act of God, war or other emergency beyond its control, to conduct an
annual agricultural fair or exhibition, shall cause said lease to be subject to
cancellation by the ((board of county commissioners)) county
legislative authority. A county legislative authority entering into an
agreement with a nonprofit association to lease property for agricultural fair
purposes shall, when requested to do so, file a copy of the lease agreement
with the department of agriculture or the state fair commission in order to
assure compliance with the provisions of RCW 15.76.165.