CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2358

                    Chapter 76, Laws of 2002

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/13/02

Passed by the House February 12, 2002   Yeas 97   Nays 0               FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 5, 2002   Yeas 46   Nays 0	CERTIFICATE I, Cynthia Zehnder, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2358 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.            CYNTHIA ZEHNDER                           Chief Clerk
BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

Approved March 21, 2002 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                            March 21, 2002 - 2:42 p.m.
GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2358

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             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

By Representatives Upthegrove and Schual‑Berke

Read first time 01/15/2002.  Referred to Committee on Local Government & Housing.

Revising provisions relating to annexation of unincorporated territory with boundaries contiguous to two municipal corporations.  

    AN ACT Relating to annexation of unincorporated territory with boundaries contiguous to two municipal corporations; and amending RCW 57.24.210.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 57.24.210 and 1996 c 230 s 912 are each amended to read as follows:

    When there is unincorporated territory containing less than one hundred acres and having at least eighty percent of the boundaries of such area contiguous to two municipal corporations providing either water or sewer service, one of which is a water-sewer district, the legislative authority of either of the contiguous municipal corporations may resolve to annex such territory to that municipal corporation, provided a majority of the legislative authority of the other contiguous municipal corporation concurs.  In such event, the municipal corporation resolving to annex such territory may proceed to effect the annexation by complying with RCW 57.24.170 through 57.24.190.  For purposes of this section, "municipal corporation" means a water-sewer district, city, or town.

    Passed the House February 12, 2002.

    Passed the Senate March 5, 2002.

Approved by the Governor March 21, 2002.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 21, 2002.