CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 6123

 

 

                   Chapter 201, Laws of 2000

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

 

 

PARKING AND BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREAS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/8/00

Passed by the Senate February 7, 2000

  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House March 1, 2000

  YEAS 98   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 6123 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved March 29, 2000 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 29, 2000 - 2:51 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 6123

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

 

By Senators B. Sheldon, Wojahn, Swecker, Franklin and Kohl‑Welles

 

Read first time 01/10/2000.  Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.

Authorizing parking and business improvement areas to sponsor public events. 


    AN ACT Relating to sponsorship of public events by parking and business improvement areas; and amending RCW 35.87A.010.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 35.87A.010 and 1993 c 429 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    To aid general economic development and neighborhood revitalization, and to facilitate the cooperation of merchants, businesses, and residential property owners which assists trade, economic viability, and liveability, the legislature hereby authorizes all counties and all incorporated cities and towns, including unclassified cities and towns operating under special charters:

    (1) To establish, after a petition submitted by the operators responsible for sixty percent of the assessments by businesses and multifamily residential or mixed-use projects within the area, parking and business improvement areas, hereafter referred to as area or areas, for the following purposes:

    (a) The acquisition, construction or maintenance of parking facilities for the benefit of the area;

    (b) Decoration of any public place in the area;

    (c) Sponsorship or promotion of public events which are to take place on or in public places in the area;

    (d) Furnishing of music in any public place in the area;

    (e) Providing professional management, planning, and promotion for the area, including the management and promotion of retail trade activities in the area; or

    (f) Providing maintenance and security for common, public areas.

    (2) To levy special assessments on all businesses and multifamily residential or mixed-use projects within the area and specially benefited by a parking and business improvement area to pay in whole or in part the damages or costs incurred therein as provided in this chapter.


    Passed the Senate February 7, 2000.

    Passed the House March 1, 2000.

Approved by the Governor March 29, 2000.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 29, 2000.