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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 139

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Locke, Sommers, Brough and Haugen

Read first time 1/21/85 and referred to Committee on Local Government.

AN ACT Relating to municipal airports; and amending RCW 14.08.330.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 15, chapter 182, Laws of 1945 and RCW 14.08.330 are each amended to read as follows:

          Every airport and other air navigation facility controlled and operated by any municipality, or jointly controlled and operated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall, subject to federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, be under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the municipality or municipalities controlling and operating it ((and)).  The municipality or municipalities shall have concurrent jurisdiction over the adjacent territory described in RCW 14.08.120(2).  No other municipality in which ((such)) the airport or air navigation facility is located shall have any police jurisdiction of the same or any authority to charge or exact any license fees or occupation taxes for the operations ((thereon.  Such municipality or municipalities shall have concurrent jurisdiction over the adjacent territory described in RCW 14.08.120(2))).  However, a municipality in which an airport or air navigation facility is located may be responsible for the administration and enforcement of the uniform fire code, as adopted by that municipality under RCW 19.27.040, on that portion of any airport or air navigation facility located within its jurisdictional boundaries.