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                                          SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1044

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                                                                            C 160 L 85

State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Agriculture (originally sponsored by Representatives Rayburn, Doty, Baugher, Hastings, Day, Dellwo, Isaacson, Chandler, Brooks and Tilly)

Read first time 3/8/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to plats within irrigation districts; and amending RCW 58.17.310.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 2, chapter 150, Laws of 1973 and RCW 58.17.310 are each amended to read as follows:

          In addition to any other requirements imposed by the provisions of this chapter, the legislative authority of any city, town, or county shall not approve a short plat or final plat, as defined in RCW 58.17.020, for any subdivision, short subdivision, lot, tract, parcel, or site which lies in whole or in part in an irrigation district organized pursuant to chapter 87.03 RCW unless there has been provided an irrigation water right of way for each parcel of land in such district and ((such)), if the subdivision, short subdivision, lot, tract, parcel, or site lies within land classified as irrigable, it contains completed irrigation water distribution facilities.  Facilities shall be installed in the same manner and time as other utilities according to standards and ordinances of the local jurisdiction.  The irrigation district shall provide the local legislative authority with suggested specifications for approved irrigation facilities.  The irrigation district shall also suggest to the local legislative authority or appropriate planning agency the irrigation facilities that should be required as a condition for approving such a short plat or plat.  Rights of way shall be evidenced by the respective plats submitted for final approval to the appropriate legislative authority.  Compliance with the requirements of this section together with all other applicable provisions of this chapter shall be a prerequisite, within the expressed purpose of this chapter, to any sale, lease, or development of land in this state.

                                                                                                                          Passed the House March 21, 1985.

                                                                                                                                         Speaker of the House.

                                                                                                                           Passed the Senate April 12, 1985.

                                                                                                                                       President of the Senate.