CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE
BILL 5385
Chapter 254, Laws of 1999
56th Legislature
1999 Regular Session
CULTURAL ARTS, STADIUM, AND
CONVENTION DISTRICTS--DISSOLUTION
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/25/99
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Passed by the Senate April 20,
1999
YEAS 47 NAYS 0
 BRAD
OWEN
President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 13, 1999
YEAS 95 NAYS 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington,
do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5385 as passed by
the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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 TONY M. COOK
Secretary
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FRANK CHOPP
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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Approved May 10, 1999 Place Style On Codes
above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
May 10, 1999 - 4:44 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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SENATE
BILL 5385
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AS
AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed
Legislature - 1999 Regular Session
State
of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By
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 signed by at least two-thirds of the legislative
bodies who have representatives on the district governing body for an order of
dissolution 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.
Passed the Senate April 20, 1999.
Passed the House April 13, 1999.
Approved by the Governor May
10, 1999.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 1999.