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HOUSE BILL NO. 68
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C 123 L 87
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By Representatives Rayburn, Nealey, Kremen, Bristow, Prince, P. King, Chandler, Lewis and Dellwo
Read first time 1/15/87 and referred to Committee on Agriculture & Rural Development.
AN ACT Relating to irrigation district elections; and amending RCW 87.03.085.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 5, page 674, Laws of 1889-90 as amended by section 2, chapter 168, Laws of 1984 and RCW 87.03.085 are each amended to read as follows:
Fifteen
days before any election held under this chapter, subsequent to the
organization of any district, the secretary of the board of directors shall
cause notices to be posted in three public places in each election precinct, of
the time and place of holding the election((, and)). The secretary
shall also post a general notice of the same in the office of the board, which
shall be established and kept at some fixed place to be determined by the
board, specifying the polling places of each precinct. Prior to the time for
posting the notices, the board must appoint for each precinct, from the
electors thereof, one inspector and two judges, who shall constitute a board of
election for the precinct. If the board fails to appoint a board of election,
or the members appointed do not attend at the opening of the polls on the
morning of election, the electors of the precinct present at that hour may
appoint the board, or supply the place of an absent member thereof. The board
of directors must, in its order appointing the board of election, designate the
house or place within the precinct where the election must be held. However,
in any irrigation district that is less than two hundred thousand acres in size
and is divided into director divisions, the board of directors in its
discretion may designate one polling place within the district to serve more
than one election precinct. The board of directors of any irrigation
district may designate the principal business office of the district as a
polling place to serve one or more election precincts and may do so regardless
of whether the business office is located within or outside of the boundaries
of the district. If the board of directors does designate a single
polling place for more than one election precinct, then the election officials
appointed by the board of directors may serve more than one election precinct
and the election officials may be electors of any of the election precincts for
which they are the election board.