CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1314

Chapter 125, Laws of 1997

55th Legislature

1997 Regular Session

STATUTORY COMPUTATION OF TIME

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97

Passed by the House March 7, 1997

Yeas 95 Nays 0

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 10, 1997

Yeas 48 Nays 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1314 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

Chief Clerk

Approved April 22, 1997

FILED

April 22, 1997 - 4:05 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1314

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Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Representatives Bush, Cooper, Carrell, Wood, Smith, Lambert, McDonald, Benson, Mielke, Cole, Talcott, Romero, Mastin, Scott, Sheahan, Lantz, L. Thomas, D. Schmidt, Cooke, Sherstad, Wensman and Dunn)

Read first time 02/13/97.

AN ACT Relating to computing the time within which an act is to be done; and amending RCW 1.12.040 and 43.21B.230.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 1.12.040 and 1887 c 20 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

The time within which an act is to be done, as herein provided, shall be computed by excluding the first day, and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, Saturday, or Sunday, and then it is also excluded.

Sec. 2. RCW 43.21B.230 and 1994 c 253 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

Any person having received notice of a denial of a petition, a notice of determination, notice of or an order made by the department may appeal to the hearings board, within thirty days from the date ((of)) the notice of such denial, order, or determination ((~~to the hearings board~~)) is posted in the United States mail, properly addressed, postage prepaid, to the appealing party. The appeal shall be perfected by serving a copy of the notice of appeal upon the department or air pollution authority established pursuant to chapter 70.94 RCW, as the case may be, within the time specified herein and by filing the original thereof with proof of service with the clerk of the hearings board.