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                                                     SENATE BILL 6266

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1994 Regular Session

By Senators Haugen and Winsley

Read first time 01/18/94.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Authorizing sewer district commissioners of a merged district to fulfill their terms of office.

          AN ACT Relating to sewer district commissioners; and amending RCW 56.32.110.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 56.32.110 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 86 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

          If at the election a majority of the voters of the merging sewer district shall vote in favor of the merger, the county canvassing board of the county the auditor of which conducted the election shall so declare in its canvass and the return of the election shall be made within ten days after the date thereof.  Upon the return the merger shall be effective and the merging sewer district shall cease to exist and shall become a part of the merger sewer district.  The sewer commissioners of the merging district shall ((cease to hold office and the affairs of the merged districts shall be managed by the sewer commissioners of the merger district.)) hold office as commissioners of the new consolidated sewer district until their respective terms of office expire or until they resign from office if the resignation is before the expiration of their terms of office.

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