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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 253

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Fisch and Hargrove)

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

AN ACT Relating to annexation by code cities; and amending RCW 35A.14.310.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 35A.14.310, chapter 119, Laws of 1967 ex. sess. and RCW 35A.14.310 are each amended to read as follows:

          ((Any unincorporated area contiguous to)) A code city may ((be annexed thereto by)) annex an unincorporated area contiguous to the city that is owned by the federal government by adopting an ordinance ((accepting)) providing for the annexation and which ordinance either acknowledges an agreement of the annexation by the government of the United States, or accepts a gift, grant, or lease from the government of the United States of the right to occupy, control, improve it or sublet it for commercial, manufacturing, or industrial purposes:  PROVIDED, That this right of annexation shall not apply to any territory more than four miles from the corporate limits existing before such annexation.