CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1024

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 19, 1993   Yeas 96   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 1993   Yeas 45   Nays 2

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1024 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1024

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                                                           AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Rayburn, Edmondson, Bray and Dunshee

Prefiled 1/8/93.  Read first time 01/11/93.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.

Extending the maturity date for general obligation bonds issued by fire protection districts.

          AN ACT Relating to general obligation bonds issued by a fire protection district; and amending RCW 52.16.061.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 52.16.061 and 1984 c 186 s 39 are each amended to read as follows:

          The board of fire commissioners of the district shall have authority to contract indebtedness and to refund same for any general district purpose, including expenses of maintenance, operation and administration, and the acquisition of firefighting facilities, and evidence the same by the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds of the district payable at such time or times not longer than ((six)) twenty years from the issuing date of the bonds.  Such bonds shall be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.  Such bonds shall not exceed an amount, together with any outstanding nonvoter approved general obligation indebtedness, equal to three-eighths of one percent of the value of the taxable property within the fire protection district, as the term "value of the taxable property" is defined in RCW 39.36.015.

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