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                         SENATE BILL 5385

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senators Shin, Prentice, Winsley, Jacobsen, Patterson, T. Sheldon, Benton, Finkbeiner, Snyder, Rasmussen, Goings, Haugen, Hargrove, Gardner, Heavey, Deccio and McAuliffe

Read first time 01/21/1999.  Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.

Providing an alternative method for dissolution of cultural arts, stadium and convention districts.

    AN ACT Relating to dissolution of cultural arts, stadium and convention districts; and amending RCW 67.38.160.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 67.38.160 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 22 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:

    A cultural arts, stadium and convention district established in accordance with this chapter shall be dissolved and its affairs liquidated by either of the following methods:

(1) When so directed by a majority of persons in the district voting on such question.  An election placing such question before the voters may be called in the following manner:

    (((1))) (a) By resolution of the cultural arts, stadium and convention district governing authority;

    (((2))) (b) By resolution of the county legislative body or bodies with the concurrence therein by resolution of the city council of a component city; or

    (((3))) (c) By petition calling for such election signed by at least ten percent of the qualified voters residing within the district filed with the auditor of the county wherein the largest portion of the district is located.  The auditor shall examine the same and certify to the sufficiency of the signatures thereon:  PROVIDED, That to be validated, signatures must have been collected within a ninety-day period as designated by the petition sponsors.

    With dissolution of the district, any outstanding obligations and bonded indebtedness of the district shall be satisfied or allocated by mutual agreement to the county or counties and component cities of the cultural arts, stadium and convention district.

(2) By submission of a petition for an order of dissolution signed by a majority of each legislative authority of each county and component city of the district and of each municipality that has a representative on the governing body of the district to the superior court of a county of the district.  All of the signatures must have been collected within one hundred twenty days of the date of submission to the court.  The procedures for dissolution provided in RCW 53.48.030 through 53.48.120 shall apply, except that the balance of any assets, after payment of all costs and expenses, shall be divided among the county or counties and component cities of the district on a per capita basis.  Any duties to be performed by a county official pursuant to RCW 53.48.030 through 53.48.120 shall be performed by the relevant official of the county in which the petition for dissolution is filed.

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