AN
ACT Relating to the trade center act; amending RCW 53.29.010, 53.29.020, and
53.29.030; and adding a new section to chapter 53.29 RCW.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
53.29.010 and 1989 c 425 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
It
is declared to be the finding of the legislature of the state of Washington
that:
(1)
The servicing functions and activities connected with the oceanborne and
overseas airborne trade and commerce of port districts, including customs
clearance, shipping negotiations, cargo routing, freight forwarding, financing,
insurance arrangements and other similar transactions which are presently
performed in various, scattered physical and electronic locations in the
districts should be centralized to provide for more efficient and economical
transportation of persons and more efficient and economical physical or
electronic facilities and services for the exchange and buying,
selling and transportation of commodities and other property in world trade and
commerce;
(2)
Unification, at a single, centrally located physical or electronic site
of a facility of commerce, i.e., a trade center, accommodating the functions
and activities described in subsection (1) of this section and the appropriate
governmental, administrative and other services connected with or incidental to
transportation and security of persons and property and the promotion
and protection of port commerce, and providing a central locale for exhibiting,
and otherwise promoting the exchange and buying and selling of commodities and
property in world trade and commerce, will materially assist in preserving the
material and other benefits of a prosperous port community;
(3)
The undertaking of the aforesaid unified trade center project by a port
district or the Washington public ports association has the single object of
preserving, and will aid in the promotion, security, and preservation
of, the economic well-being of port districts and the state of Washington and
is found and determined to be a public purpose.
Sec.
2. RCW
53.29.020 and 1989 c 425 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
In
addition to all other powers granted to port districts, any such district, the
Washington public ports association, or the federation of Washington ports as
described in RCW 53.06.070 may acquire, as provided for other port properties
in RCW 53.08.010, construct, develop, operate and maintain all land or other
property interests, buildings, structures or other improvements, and may
participate in transactions necessary to provide, electronically or
otherwise, facilities or to exercise powers or purposes of a trade center
including but not limited to the following electronic or physical facilities:
(1)
A facility consisting of one or more structures, improvements and areas for the
centralized accommodation of public and private agencies, persons and
facilities in order to afford improved service to waterborne and airborne
import and export trade and commerce;
(2)
Facilities for the promotion of such import and export trade and commerce,
inspection, testing, display and appraisal facilities, foreign trade zones,
terminal and transportation facilities, office meeting rooms, auditoriums,
libraries, language translation services, storage, warehouse, marketing and
exhibition facilities, facilities for federal, state, county and other
municipal and governmental agencies providing services relating to the
foregoing and including, but not being limited to, customs houses and customs
stores, and other incidental facilities and accommodations.
Sec.
3. RCW
53.29.030 and 1989 c 425 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
In carrying out the powers authorized by this chapter and chapter 53.06 RCW,
port districts and the Washington public ports association are authorized to
cooperate ((and)), act, and invest jointly with other
public and private agencies and persons, including, but not limited to,
the federal government, the state, other ports and municipal corporations,
other states and their political subdivisions, and private nonprofit trade
promotion groups and associate development organizations.
(2)
Port districts operating trade center buildings or operating association or
federation trade centers, shall pay an annual service fee to the county
treasurer wherein the center is located for municipal services rendered to the
trade center building. The measure of such service fee shall be equal to three
percent of the gross rentals received from the nongovernmental tenants of such
trade center building. Such proceeds shall be distributed by the county treasurer
as follows: Forty percent to the school district, forty percent to the city,
and twenty percent to the county wherein the center is located: PROVIDED, That
if the center is located in an unincorporated area, twenty percent shall be
allocated to the fire district, forty percent to the school district, and forty
percent to the county.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 4. A
new section is added to chapter 53.29 RCW to read as follows:
The
definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 53.29.020 and 53.29.030 unless
the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1)
"Person" has the same meaning as defined in the electronic signatures
in global and national commerce act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7006 (8)) in effect on the
effective date of this section.
(2)
"Transaction" has the same meaning as defined in the electronic
signatures in global and national commerce act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7006 (13)) in
effect on the effective date of this section. However, "transaction"
also includes actions relating to governmental affairs.
