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                                          SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1316

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Haugen, Ferguson, Cooper, Winsley, Spanel, Bumgarner, Holm, Unsoeld and Cole)

Read first time 1/22/88 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to meetings of boards of county commissioners; and amending RCW 36.32.080 and 36.32.090.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 36.32.080, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 and RCW 36.32.080 are each amended to read as follows:

          The ((board of county commissioners)) county legislative authority of each county shall hold regular ((sessions)) meetings at the county seat ((commencing on the first Mondays of January, April, July and October,  at each of which it may)) to transact any business required or permitted by law((, and it may adjourn from time to time as deemed expedient or desirable in order to properly transact the business of the county)).

        Sec. 2.  Section 36.32.090, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 and RCW 36.32.090 are each amended to read as follows:

          The ((board of county commissioners)) county legislative authority of each county may hold special ((sessions when the business of the county requires the same by ten days' notice from two of the commissioners to the third, or by the written consent of the three commissioners filed with the county auditor.  No special session shall exceed three days.   The notice thereof shall state the time of holding the session and the business to be transacted)) meetings to transact the business of the county.  Notice of a special meeting shall be made as provided in RCW 42.30.080.  A special meeting may be held outside of the county seat at any location within the county if the agenda item or items are of unique interest or concern to the citizens of the portion of the county in which the special meeting is to be held.