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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 4606
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State of Washington 49th Legislature 1986 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Hansen, Sellar, Goltz, Barr, Rasmussen, Cantu, Patterson, Johnson and Conner)
Read first time 2/7/86.
AN ACT Relating to public utility and transportation corridors; amending RCW 64.04.190; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 23, chapter 143, Laws of 1984 and RCW 64.04.190 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Public utility and transportation corridors are railroad properties (a) on which railroad operations have ceased; (b) that have been found suitable for public use by an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States; and (c) that have been acquired by purchase, lease, donation, exchange, or other agreement by the state, one of its political subdivisions, or a public utility.
(2) A
public utility and transportation corridor retains its public use character as
long as it is owned by a public agency or utility((. A public utility and
transportation corridor)) and is acquired by the public agency or
utility after June 6, 1984, and before the effective date of this act, and
therefore is not subject to reversion, taking by adverse possession, or any
similar property interests ripening on the cessation of railroad operations.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act does not extinguish, alter, or otherwise affect any property interest in or right to use a public utility and transportation corridor (as that term was defined in section 23, chapter 143, Laws of 1984) that was vested in a public utility as of the effective date of this act, nor does this act affect in any manner the common law relating to such corridors.