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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6140

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senators McCaslin, Garrett and Lee

Read first time 1/12/88 and referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to boundary review boards; and amending RCW 36.93.090.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 7, chapter 10, Laws of 1982 as last amended by section 2, chapter 477, Laws of 1987 and RCW 36.93.090 are each amended to read as follows:

          Whenever any of the following described actions are proposed in a county in which a board has been established, the initiators of the action shall file within one hundred eighty days a notice of intention with the board:  PROVIDED, That when the initiator is the legislative body of a governmental unit, the notice of intention may be filed immediately following the body's first acceptance or approval of the action.  The board may review any such proposed actions pertaining to:

          (1) The:  (a) Creation, incorporation, or change in the boundary, other than a consolidation, of any ((city, town, or)) special purpose district; (b) change in the boundary, other than consolidation, of any city or town; (c) consolidation of special purpose districts, but not including consolidation of cities and towns; or (((c))) (d) dissolution or disincorporation of any city, town, or special purpose district, except that a board may not review  the dissolution or disincorporation of a special purpose district which was dissolved or disincorporated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 36.96 RCW:  PROVIDED, That the change in the boundary of a city or town arising from the annexation of contiguous city or town owned property held for a public purpose shall be exempted from the requirements of this section; or

          (2) The assumption by any city or town of all or part of the assets, facilities, or indebtedness of a special purpose district which lies partially within such city or town; or

          (3) The establishment of or change in the boundaries of a mutual water and sewer system or separate sewer system by a water district pursuant to RCW 57.08.065 or chapter 57.40 RCW, as now or hereafter amended; or

          (4) The establishment of or change in the boundaries of a mutual sewer and water system or separate water system by a sewer district pursuant to RCW 56.20.015 or chapter 56.36 RCW, as now or hereafter amended; or

          (5) The extension of permanent water or sewer service outside of its existing corporate boundaries by a city, town, or special purpose district.