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SENATE BILL 6384
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By Senators Drew and Roach
Read first time 01/20/94. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
AN ACT Relating to boards of trustees for county hospitals; and amending RCW 36.62.110 and 36.62.120.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 36.62.110 and 1984 c 26 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:
Whenever any county, or
any county and city jointly, or two or more counties jointly, establish a
hospital for the care and treatment of the indigent, sick, injured, or infirm,
under the provisions of this chapter, and such hospital is completed and ready
for operation, the county legislative authority of the county in which the
institution is located shall appoint ((thirteen)) seventeen
persons as trustees for the institution. The ((thirteen)) seventeen
trustees, together with the additional trustees required by RCW 36.62.130, if
any, shall constitute a board of trustees for such hospital.
Sec. 2. RCW 36.62.120 and 1984 c 26 s 9 are each amended to read as follows:
The first members of
the board of trustees of such institution shall be appointed by the county
legislative authority within thirty days after the institution has been
completed and is ready for operation. The county legislative authority
appointing the initial members shall appoint three members for one-year terms,
three members for two-year terms, three members for three-year terms, and four
members for four-year terms, and until their successors are appointed and
qualified, and thereafter their successors shall be appointed for terms of four
years and until their successors are appointed and qualified((: PROVIDED,
That)). However, the continuation of a member past the expiration
date of the term shall not change the commencement date of the term of the
succeeding member. Each term of the initial trustees shall be deemed to
commence on the first day of August following the appointment but shall also
include the period intervening between the appointment and the first day of
August following the appointment.
For an institution
which is already in existence on ((June 7, 1984)) the effective date
of this act, the county legislative authority shall appoint within thirty
days of ((June 7, 1984, three)) the effective date of this act, one
additional member((s)) for a one-year term((s)), ((two))
one additional member((s)) for a two-year term((s)),
((and two)) one additional member((s)) for a
three-year term((s)), and one additional member for a four-year term,
and until their successors are appointed and qualified, and thereafter
their successors shall be appointed for terms of four years and until their
successors are appointed and qualified((: PROVIDED FURTHER, That)).
However, the continuation of an additional member past the expiration date
of the term shall not change the commencement date of the term of the
succeeding member. Each term of the initial additional members shall be deemed
to commence on the first day of August of the year of appointment but shall
also include the period intervening between the appointment and the first day
of August of the year of the appointment.
Upon
expiration of the terms of current members, the successors to current members
shall be appointed for four-year terms and until their successors are appointed
and qualified((: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That)). However, the
continuation of a successor to a current member past the expiration date of the
term shall not change the commencement date of the term of the succeeding
member. Each term of the initial successors to current members shall be deemed
to commence on the first day of August following the expiration of a current
term but shall also include the period intervening between the appointment and
the first day of August of the year of the appointment.
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