"Port of......" (inserting the name appearing on the ballot). [1959 c 17 §2. Prior: 1913 c 62 §2, part:1911 c 92 §3. part; RRS §9690. part.]
53.04.070 Expense of election.
All expenses of elections for the formation of such port districts shall be paid by the county holding such election, and such expenditure is hereby declared to be for a county purpose, and the money paid out for such purpose shall be repaid to such county by the port district, if formed. [1959 c 17 §6. Prior: 1913 c 62 §2, part; 1911 c 92 §3, part; RRS §9690, part.]
53.04.080 Annexation of territory Petition - Election.
At any general election or at any special election which may be called for that purpose the county legislative authority of any county in this state in which there exists a port district which is not coextensive with the limits of the county, shall on petition of the commissioners of such port district, by resolution, submit to the voters residing within the limits of any territory which the existing port district desires to annex or include in its enlarged port district, the proposition of enlarging the limits of such existing port districts so as to include therein the whole of the territory embraced within the boundaries of such county, or such territory as may be described in the petition by legal subdivisions. Such petition shall be filed with the county auditor, who shall forthwith transmit the same to the county legislative authority, who shall submit such proposition at the next general election, or, if such petition so request, the county legislative authority, shall at their first meeting after the date of filing such petition, by resolution, call a special election to be held in accordance with RCW 29.13.010 and 29.13.020. The notice of election shall state the boundaries of the proposed enlarged port district and the object of the special election. In submitting the question to the voters of the territory proposed to be annexed or included for their approval or rejection, the proposition shall be expressed on the ballots substantially in the following terms:
"Enlargement of the port of......, yes." (Giving then [the] name of the port district which it is proposed to enlarge);
"Enlargement of the port of......, no." (Giving the name of the port district which it is proposed to enlarge).
Such election, whether general or special, shall be held in each precinct wholly or partially embraced within the limits of the territory proposed to be annexed or included and shall be conducted and the votes cast thereat counted, canvassed, and the returns thereof made in the manner provided by law for holding general or special county elections. [1990 c 259 §16; 1935 c 16 §1; 1921 c 130 §1; RRS §9707. Formerly RCW 53.04.080 and 53.04.090.]
NOTES:
Elections: Title 29 RCW.
53.04.085 Petition for annexation to port district.
If an area, not currently part of an existing port district desires to be annexed to a port district in the same county, upon receipt of a petition bearing the names of ten percent of the registered voters residing within the proposed boundaries of the area desiring to be annexed who voted in the last general municipal election, the commissioners of such port district shall petition the county legislative authority to annex such territory, as provided in RCW 53.04.080. [1990 c 259 §17; 1971 ex.s. c 157 §2.]
NOTES:
Effective date - 1971 ex.s. c 157: See note following RCW 53.04.020.
53.04.100 Order of annexation - Liability of area annexed.
If a majority of all the votes cast at any such election upon the proposition of enlarging such port district shall be for the "Enlargement of the port of...... yes" then and in that event the board of county commissioners shall enter an order declaring such port district enlarged so as to embrace within the limits thereof the territory described in the petition for such election, and thereupon the boundaries of said port district shall be so enlarged and the commissioners thereof shall have jurisdiction over the whole of said district as enlarged to the same extent, and with like power and authority, as though the additional territory had been originally embraced within the boundaries of the existing port district: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That none of the lands or property embraced within the territory added to and incorporated within such port district shall be liable to assessment for the payment of any outstanding bonds, warrants or other indebtedness of such original port district, but such outstanding bonds, warrants or other indebtedness, together with interest thereon, shall be paid exclusively from assessments levied and collected on the lands and property embraced within the boundaries of the preexisting port district [1921 c 130 §2; RRS §9708.]
53.04.110 Change of name.
Any port district now existing or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of the state of Washington is hereby authorized to change its corporate name under the following conditions and in the following manner:
(1) On presentation, at least forty-five days before any general port election to be held in the port district, of a petition to the commissioners of any port district now existing or which may hereafter be established under the laws of the state of Washington, signed by not less than two hundred fifty registered voters residing within the port district and asking that the corporate name of the port district be changed, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to submit to the voters of the port district at the next general port election held in the port district in accordance with RCW 29.13.010 and 29.13.020 the proposition as to whether the corporate name of the port shall be changed
(2) The petition shall contain the present corporate name of the port district and the corporate name which is proposed to be given to the port district.
(3) On submitting the proposition to the voters of the port district it shall be the duty of the port commissioners to cause to be printed on the official ballot used at the election the following proposition:
"Shall the corporate name, 'Port of......' be changed to 'Port of......' YES"
"Shall the corporate name, 'Port of......' be changed to 'Port of......' NO"
