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                                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5858

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

 

By Senate Committee on Government Operations (originally sponsored by Senator Cantu)

 

Read first time 03/03/93.

 

Forbidding requiring financial security devices for permits for local government units' construction projects.


          AN ACT Relating to permits for local government units' building construction projects; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 35A.21 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 36.32 RCW.

 

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

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows:

          A city or town may not require any state agency or unit of local government to secure the performance of a permit requirement with a surety bond or other financial security device, including cash or assigned account, as a condition of issuing a permit to that unit of local government for a building construction project.

          As used in this section, "building construction project" includes, in addition to its usual meaning, associated landscaping, street alteration, pedestrian or vehicular access alteration, or other amenities or alterations necessarily associated with the project.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 35A.21 RCW to read as follows:

          A code city may not require any state agency or unit of local government to secure the performance of a permit requirement with a surety bond or other financial security device, including cash or assigned account, as a condition of issuing a permit to that unit of local government for a building construction project.

          As used in this section, "building construction project" includes, in addition to its usual meaning, associated landscaping, street alteration, pedestrian or vehicular access alteration, or other amenities or alterations necessarily associated with the project.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 36.32 RCW to read as follows:

          A board of county commissioners may not require any state agency or unit of local government to secure the performance of a permit requirement with a surety bond or other financial security device, including cash or assigned account, as a condition of issuing a permit to that unit of local government for a building construction project.

          As used in this section, "building construction project" includes, in addition to its usual meaning, associated landscaping, street alteration, pedestrian or vehicular access alteration, or other amenities or alterations necessarily associated with the project.

 


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