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                          HOUSE BILL 3032

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Representative Mulliken

Read first time 01/26/2000.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.

Extending annexation authority to certain port districts along the Interstate 90 corridor.

    AN ACT Relating to annexations by less than county-wide port districts in areas having no registered voters; and amending RCW 53.04.150.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 53.04.150 and 1999 c 250 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    A port district that is less than county-wide, and that is located in a county with a population of less than ninety thousand and located in either the Interstate 5 or Interstate 90 corridor, may petition for annexation of an area that is contiguous to its boundaries, is not located within the boundaries of any other port district, and contains no registered voters.  The petition must be in writing, addressed to and filed with the port commission, and signed by the owners of not less than seventy-five percent of the property value in the area to be annexed, according to the assessed value for general taxation.  The petition must contain a legal description of the property according to government legal subdivisions or legal plats, or a sufficient metes and bounds description, and must be accompanied by a plat outlining the boundaries of the property to be annexed.

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