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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2587

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Prince, Nealey and P. King

Read first time 1/15/90 and referred to Committee on Local Government.

AN ACT Relating to port district road improvements; and adding new sections to chapter 53.08 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 53.08 RCW to read as follows:

          Any port district in this state, acting through its commission, may expend up to fifty thousand dollars in port funds towards upgrading, improvement, or repair of any primary service road accessing the port over which ninety percent or more of the freight destined for the port was hauled during the preceding year.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 53.08 RCW to read as follows:

          The funds authorized by section 1 of this act may be expended by the port commission in conjunction with any plan of improvements undertaken by the state of Washington, an adjoining state, or a county or municipal government of either, in combination with any of said public entities, and without regard to whether expenditures are made for a road located within the state of Washington or an adjoining state.