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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1126

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Dunshee, H. Myers, Springer and Veloria

Read first time 01/15/93.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.

Collecting certain water district fines.

          AN ACT Relating to fines for violation of emergency water use restrictions; and amending RCW 57.08.170.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 57.08.170 and 1991 c 82 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

          A water district may adopt a water conservation plan and emergency water use restrictions.  The district may enforce a water conservation plan and emergency water use restrictions by imposing a fine as provided by resolution for failure to comply with any such plan or restrictions.  The commissioners may provide by resolution that if a fine for failure to comply with the water conservation plan or emergency water use restrictions is delinquent for a specified period of time, the district shall ((certify the delinquency to the treasurer of the county in which the real property is located and)) serve notice of the delinquency on the subscribing water customer who fails to comply, and the fine is then a separate item for inclusion on the bill of the party failing to comply with the water conservation plan or emergency water use restrictions.

Water districts shall collect fines under RCW 57.08.080 and 57.08.090.

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