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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6350

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State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen, Horn, McAuliffe and Oke)

READ FIRST TIME 02/05/2002.

Allowing use of county road funds for state highway improvements.

    AN ACT Relating to county funding of state highway improvements; and amending RCW 36.75.035.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.75.035 and 1985 c 400 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    A county pursuant to chapter 36.88 RCW, or a service district as provided for in chapter 36.83 RCW, may, with the approval of the state department of transportation, improve or fund the improvement of any state highway within its boundaries.  The county may fund improvements under this section by any means authorized by law, ((but may not make any expenditure for the purposes of this section from a county road fund under chapter 36.82 RCW)) except that expenditures of county road funds under chapter 36.82 RCW under this section must be limited to improvements to the state highway system and shall not include maintenance or operations.  Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of a county to fund cooperative improvement and maintenance agreements with the department of transportation, authorized by RCW 36.75.030 or 47.28.140.

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