BILL REQ. #: H-1957.1
| State of Washington | 60th Legislature | 2007 Regular Session |
READ FIRST TIME 02/16/07.
AN ACT Relating to the authority of a watershed management partnership to exercise powers of its forming governments; and adding a new section to chapter 39.34 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 39.34 RCW
to read as follows:
(1) As limited by subsections (2) and (3) of this section, a
watershed management partnership formed under the authority of RCW
39.34.210, and a separate legal entity established by such a
partnership to conduct the cooperative undertaking of the partnership
under the same statutory authority, may exercise the power of eminent
domain as provided in chapter 8.12 RCW.
(2) The eminent domain authority granted under subsection (1) of
this section may be exercised only for those utility purposes for which
the watershed management partnership was formed.
(3) Subsection (1) of this section applies only to a watershed
management partnership that:
(a) Was formed before July 1, 2006, under the authority of RCW
39.34.210;
(b) Is not engaged in planning or in implementing a plan for a
water resource inventory area under the terms of chapter 90.82 RCW; and
(c) Is composed entirely of cities and water-sewer districts
authorized to exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner
provided by chapter 8.12 RCW.