CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1402
Chapter 158, Laws of 1997
55th Legislature
1997 Regular Session
FINANCING STREET, ROAD, AND
HIGHWAY PROJECTS--LOCAL CREATION OF ASSESSMENT REIMBURSEMENT AREAS
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the House March 14,
1997
Yeas 94 Nays 0
 CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 10, 1997
Yeas 47 Nays 0
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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 1402 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate
on the dates hereon set forth.
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BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
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 TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief Clerk
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Approved April 23, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 23, 1997 - 4:13 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1402
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read first
time 03/10/97.
Allowing a county, city, or town to create an assessment
reimbursement area on its own initiative to finance the cost of road and street
improvements.
AN
ACT Relating to the financing of street, road, and highway projects; and
amending RCW 35.72.050.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
35.72.050 and 1987 c 261 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
As an alternative to financing projects under this chapter solely by owners of
real estate, a county, city, or town may join in the financing of improvement
projects and may be reimbursed in the same manner as the owners of real estate
who participate in the projects, if the county, city, or town has specified the
conditions of its participation in an ordinance. As another alternative, a
county, city, or town may create an assessment reimbursement area on its own
initiative, without the participation of a private property owner, finance the
costs of the road or street improvements, and become the sole beneficiary of
the reimbursements that are contributed. A county, city, or town may be
reimbursed only for the costs of improvements that benefit that portion of the
public who will use the developments within the assessment reimbursement area
established pursuant to RCW 35.72.040(1). No county, city, or town costs for
improvements that benefit the general public may be reimbursed.
(2)
The department of transportation may, for state highways, participate with the
owners of real estate or may be the sole participant in the financing of
improvement projects, in the same manner and subject to the same
restrictions as provided for counties, cities, and towns, in subsection (1)
of this section. The department shall enter into agreements whereby the
appropriate county, city, or town shall act as an agent of the department in
administering this chapter.
Passed the House March 14, 1997.
Passed the Senate April 10, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 23, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 23, 1997.