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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1240

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Ebersole, Winsley and Fisher

Read first time 4/16/87 and referred to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to compensation of metropolitan park commissioners; and amending RCW 35.61.150.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 35.61.150, chapter 7, Laws of 1965 and RCW 35.61.150 are each amended to read as follows:

          ((Metropolitan park commissioners shall perform their duties without compensation.)) Each member of the board of commissioners of a metropolitan park district may receive compensation of fifty dollars per day or major portion thereof for attending board meetings and for performing other services on behalf of the metropolitan park district, not to exceed four thousand eight hundred dollars per year, if the district board of commissioners has authorized by board resolution the provision of such compensation.

Any commissioner may waive all or any portion of his or her compensation under this section as to any month or months during his or her term of office, by a written waiver filed with the district as provided in this section.  The waiver, to be effective, must be filed any time after the commissioner's election and before the date on which the compensation would otherwise be paid.  The waiver shall specify the month or period of months for which it is made.

The compensation provided in this section shall be in addition to any reimbursement for expenses paid to such commissioners by the metropolitan park district.