H-3005.1  _______________________________________________

                          HOUSE BILL 2495

          _______________________________________________

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

By Representatives Mulliken, Dunshee, Edwards, Miloscia and Casada

Read first time 01/18/2002.  Referred to Committee on Local Government & Housing.

Updating outdated fire district statutes to increase efficiency.

    AN ACT Relating to updating outdated fire district statutes to increase efficiency; and amending RCW 52.16.160.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 52.16.160 and 1985 c 112 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Notwithstanding the limitation of dollar rates contained in RCW 52.16.130, and in addition to any levy for the payment of the principal and interest of any outstanding general obligation bonds and in addition to any levy authorized by RCW 52.16.130, 52.16.140 or any other statute, ((if in any county where a township has never been formed or where there are one or more townships in existence making annual tax levies and such township or townships are disorganized as a result of a county-wide disorganization procedure prescribed by statute and is no longer making any tax levy, or any township or townships for any other reason no longer makes any tax levy,)) the board of fire commissioners of any fire protection district within such county, which fire protection district has at least one full-time, paid employee, or contracts with another municipal corporation for the services of at least one full-time, paid employee, is hereby authorized to levy each year an ad valorem tax on all taxable property within such district of not to exceed fifty cents per thousand dollars of assessed value, which levy may be made only if it will not affect dollar rates which other taxing districts may lawfully claim nor cause the combined levies to exceed the constitutional and/or statutory limitations.  The additional levy, or any portion of the levy, may also be made when dollar rates of other taxing units are released by agreement with the other taxing units from their authorized levies.

                            --- END ---