CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 6276
Chapter 31, Laws of 2000
56th Legislature
2000 Regular Session
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE
DISTRICTS--CITY OR TOWN INCLUSION--GOVERNANCE
EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/8/00
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Passed by the Senate February 7,
2000
YEAS 48 NAYS 0
 BRAD
OWEN
President of the Senate
Passed by the House February 29, 2000
YEAS 97 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 SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6276 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 March 17, 2000 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March 17, 2000 - 2:47 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
SENATE BILL 6276
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Passed
Legislature - 2000 Regular Session
State
of Washington 56th Legislature 2000 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/12/2000. Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.
Authorizing inclusion of cities and towns within emergency
medical service districts.
AN
ACT Relating to authorizing inclusion of cities and towns within emergency
medical service districts; and amending RCW 36.32.480.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
36.32.480 and 1979 ex.s. c 200 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
A county legislative authority may adopt an ordinance creating an emergency
medical service district in all or a portion of the unincorporated area of the
county and, pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, within the corporate
limits of any city or town. The ordinance may only be adopted after a
public hearing has been held on the creation of such a district and the county
legislative authority makes a finding that it is in the public interest to
create the district. ((The members of the county legislative authority
shall be the governing body of the emergency medical service district.))
An
emergency medical service district shall be a quasi-municipal corporation and an
independent taxing "authority" within the meaning of Article 7,
Section 1, Washington State Constitution. Emergency medical service districts
shall also be "taxing authorities" within the meaning of Article 7,
Section 2, Washington State Constitution.
An
emergency medical service district shall have the authority to provide
emergency medical services.
(2)
When any part of a proposed emergency medical service district includes an area
within the corporate limits of a city or town, the governing body of the city
or town shall approve the inclusion, and the county governing body shall
maintain a certified copy of the resolution of approval before adopting an
ordinance including the area.
(3)
The members of the county legislative authority shall compose the governing
body of any emergency medical service district which is created within the
county: PROVIDED, That where an emergency medical service district includes an
area within the corporate limits of a city or town, the emergency medical
service district may be governed as provided in an interlocal agreement adopted
pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW. The voters of an emergency medical service
district must be registered voters residing within the service area.
Passed the Senate February 7, 2000.
Passed the House February 29, 2000.
Approved by the Governor
March 17, 2000.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 17, 2000.