CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5613
Chapter 300, Laws of 2020
66TH LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
COUNTY ROAD VACATION--AUTHORITY--CERTAIN ROADS
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2020
Passed by the Senate March 9, 2020 Yeas 48 Nays 0 CYRUS HABIB
President of the Senate Passed by the House March 3, 2020 Yeas 93 Nays 3 LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives | CERTIFICATE I, Brad Hendrickson, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5613 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. BRAD HENDRICKSON
Secretary Secretary |
Approved April 2, 2020 2:47 PM | FILED April 3, 2020 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
SENATE BILL 5613
AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed Legislature - 2020 Regular Session
State of Washington | 66th Legislature | 2019 Regular Session |
BySenators Rivers, Schoesler, Becker, Brown, Short, Warnick, Wilson, L., and Fortunato
AN ACT Relating to the authority of counties to vacate a county road that abuts on a body of water if the county road is hazardous or creates a significant risk to public safety; amending RCW
36.87.130; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
36.87.130 and 1969 ex.s. c 185 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
No county shall vacate a county road or part thereof which abuts on a body of salt or freshwater unless:
(1) The purpose of the vacation is to enable any public authority to acquire the vacated property for port purposes, boat moorage or launching sites, or for park, viewpoint, recreational, educational, or other public purposes((, or unless));
(2) The property is zoned for industrial uses; or
(3) In a county west of the crest of the Cascade mountains and bordered by the Columbia river with a population over four hundred fifty thousand, the county determines that:
(a) The road has been used as an access point to trespass onto private property;
(b) Such trespass has caused loss of human life, and that public use of the county road creates an ongoing risk to public safety; and
(c) Public access to the same body of water abutting the county road is available at not less than three public access sites within two miles in any direction of the terminus of the road subject to vacation.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. Section 1 of this act expires December 31, 2023.
Passed by the Senate March 9, 2020.
Passed by the House March 3, 2020.
Approved by the Governor April 2, 2020.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 3, 2020.
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