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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5428

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Kreidler and Metcalf

Read first time 1/24/89 and referred to Committee on   Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to mobile home rent control; and amending RCW 35.21.830 and 36.01.130.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 75, Laws of 1981 and RCW 35.21.830 are each amended to read as follows:

          The imposition of controls on rent is of state-wide significance and is preempted by the state.  No city or town of any class may enact, maintain, or enforce ordinances or other provisions which regulate the amount of rent to be charged for single family or multiple unit residential rental structures or sites other than properties in public ownership, under public management, mobile home parks, or properties providing low-income rental housing under joint public-private agreements for the financing or provision of such low-income rental housing.  This section shall not be construed as prohibiting any city or town from entering into agreements with private persons  which regulate or control the amount of rent to be charged for rental properties.

        Sec. 2.  Section 2, chapter 75, Laws of 1981 and RCW 36.01.130 are each amended to read as follows:

          The imposition of controls on rent is of state-wide significance and is preempted by the state.  No county of any class may enact, maintain or enforce ordinances or other provisions which regulate the amount of rent to be charged for single family or multiple unit residential rental structures or sites other than properties in public ownership, under public management, mobile home parks, or properties providing low-income rental housing under joint public-private agreements for the financing or provision of such low-income rental housing.  This section shall not be construed as prohibiting any county from entering into agreements with private persons which regulate or control the amount of rent to be charged for rental properties.