CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1184

                    Chapter 70, Laws of 1993

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

         LESS THAN COUNTY-WIDE PORT DISTRICT‑-EXTENSION

                     OF AUTHORITY TO CREATE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/93

Passed by the House February 17, 1993   Yeas 92   Nays 4 BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 1993   Yeas 47   Nays 0

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 1184 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

R. LORRAINE WOJAHN President of the Senate

ALAN THOMPSON                                Chief Clerk

Approved April 21, 1993 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                           April 21, 1993 - 2:04 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1184

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                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Edmondson, Mastin, Sehlin, Bray, Ludwig and Grant

Read first time 01/20/93.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.

Modifying the requirements for the formation of a less than county-wide port district.

          AN ACT Relating to formation of less than county-wide port districts; and amending RCW 53.04.023.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 53.04.023 and 1992 c 147 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

          A less than county-wide port district with an assessed valuation of at least seventy-five million dollars may be created in a county ((bordering on saltwater)) that already has a less than county-wide port district located within its boundaries.  Except as provided in this section, such a port district shall be created in accordance with the procedure to create a county-wide port district.

          The effort to create such a port district is initiated by the filing of a petition with the county auditor calling for the creation of such a port district, describing the boundaries of the proposed port district, and providing a name for the proposed port district.  The petition must be signed by voters residing within the proposed port district equal in number to at least ten percent of such voters who voted at the last county general election.

          A public hearing on creation of the proposed port district shall be held by the county legislative authority if the county auditor certifies that the petition contained sufficient valid signatures.  Notice of the public hearing must be published in the county's official newspaper at least ten days prior to the date of the public hearing.  After taking testimony, the county legislative authority may make changes in the boundaries of the proposed port district if it finds that such changes are in the public interest and shall determine if the creation of the port district is in the public interest.  No area may be added to the boundaries unless a subsequent public hearing is held on the proposed port district.

          The county legislative authority shall submit a ballot proposition authorizing the creation of the proposed port district to the voters of the proposed port district, at any special election date provided in RCW 29.13.020, if it finds the creation of the port district to be in the public interest.

          The port district shall be created if a majority of the voters voting on the ballot proposition favor the creation of the port district.  The initial port commissioners shall be elected at the same election ((as provided in RCW 53.12.050)), but the election of commissioners shall be null and void if the port district is not created.  Commissioner districts shall not be used in the initial election of the port commissioners.

          This section shall expire July 1, 1997.

          Passed the House February 17, 1993.

          Passed the Senate April 6, 1993.

Approved by the Governor April 21, 1993.

          Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 1993.