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                                                      HOUSE BILL 2085

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representative Carlson

Read first time 03/03/93.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.

Exempting from boundary review board review cities and towns that plan under the growth management act.

          AN ACT Relating to boundary review boards; amending RCW 36.93.090; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The legislature finds that while boundary review boards were originally established to control the undesirable affects of rapid proliferation and haphazard extension of municipal boundaries and to effectively guide and control the creation and growth of municipalities, there is no longer a need or purpose for individual review of each and every municipal boundary extension for those jurisdictions that plan under the growth management act, chapter 36.70A RCW, and that have adopted specific joint county-city annexation planning policies under RCW 36.70A.210.

        Sec. 2.  RCW 36.93.090 and 1987 c 477 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

          Whenever any of the following described actions are proposed in a county in which a board has been established, the initiators of the action shall file within one hundred eighty days a notice of intention with the board((:  PROVIDED, That when)).  If the initiator is the legislative body of a governmental unit, the notice of intention may be filed immediately following the body's first acceptance or approval of the action.  The board may review any such proposed actions pertaining to:

          (1) ((The:))  (a) The creation, incorporation, or change in the boundary, other than a consolidation, of any city, town, or special purpose district.  Changes in city or town boundaries are exempt from this subsection (1)(a) if the county and city or town have adopted a comprehensive plan under chapter 36.70A RCW that includes an annexation element adopted under RCW 36.70A.210; (b) consolidation of special purpose districts, but not including consolidation of cities and towns; or (c) dissolution or disincorporation of any city, town, or special purpose district, except that a board may not review  the dissolution or disincorporation of a special purpose district which was dissolved or disincorporated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 36.96 RCW((:  PROVIDED, That)).  The change in the boundary of a city or town arising from the annexation of contiguous city or town owned property held for a public purpose shall be exempted from the requirements of this section; or

          (2) The assumption by any city or town of all or part of the assets, facilities, or indebtedness of a special purpose district which lies partially within such city or town; or

          (3) The establishment of or change in the boundaries of a mutual water and sewer system or separate sewer system by a water district pursuant to RCW 57.08.065 or chapter 57.40 RCW((, as now or hereafter amended)); or

          (4) The establishment of or change in the boundaries of a mutual sewer and water system or separate water system by a sewer district pursuant to RCW 56.20.015 or chapter 56.36 RCW((, as now or hereafter amended)); or

          (5) The extension of permanent water or sewer service outside of its existing corporate boundaries by a city, town, or special purpose district.

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