Wash. Admin. Code § 468-105-070 - Public advisory elections
(1)
Transmittal to county auditor . Within fourteen calendar days after
the last day of the publication of the project description , the department
shall transmit a letter requesting a public advisory election and a copy of the
map depicting the affected project area and the project description to the
county auditor of each county in which any portion of the affected project area
is located.
(2)
Precinct
verification. Upon receipt of the affected project area map, and the
project description , the county auditor shall, within thirty days, verify the
precincts that are located within the affected project area .
(3)
Ballot proposition.
(a) The department shall request the office
of the attorney general to prepare the ballot title and summary advising the
department on the public support or opposition to the imposition of tolls or
user fees to implement the preferred alternative within the affected project
area in the same manner and type as those required under RCW 29.79.040 for the
public advisory election .
(b) Any
registered voter residing within the affected project area who is dissatisfied
with the content of the ballot title or summary may appeal to the superior
court of Thurston County in the same manner as provided for on state measures
in RCW 29.79.060.
(c) Not later
than sixty days before the election date, the department shall submit the
complete text of the ballot title and summary to the county auditor for the
purpose of preparing the voters pamphlet and conducting the public advisory
election .
(4)
Election date. Unless a special election is requested by the
department , the public advisory election shall be held at the next succeeding
general election to be held in the state . The special election date must be the
next date for a special election provided under RCW 29.13.020 that is at least
sixty days, but not more than ninety days after the transmittal of the final
map of the affected project area , project description , the ballot title and
summary to the county auditor under subsection (1) of this section.
(5)
Voters pamphlet.
(a) The county auditor shall prepare or
contract with the secretary of state to prepare the voters pamphlet in the same
manner required under chapter 29.81A RCW using the full text of the ballot
title, summary, the project description and the geographic boundary of the
affected project together with statements for and against the imposition of
tolls or user fees to finance the proposed project . Committees to prepare the
statements for and against the imposition of tolls to finance the proposed
project for the voters pamphlet shall be appointed in the same manner as
committees for state measures under RCW 29.81.050. The secretary of state shall
transmit committee names and their statements to the county auditors.
(b) The county auditor may consolidate the
voters pamphlet on the public advisory election with any other local voters
pamphlet that is being produced by the county auditor for an
election.
(6)
Reimbursement for election costs. The department shall reimburse
the costs of publication and distribution of information to the voters incurred
by the county auditor in the same manner that local election costs are
allocated under RCW 29.13.045. The department shall reimburse the county
auditor for the cost of an election.
Notes
Statutory Authority: Chapter 47.46 RCW. 97-14-037, § 468-105-070, filed 6/26/97, effective 7/27/97. Statutory Authority: RCW 47.46.030(3) -(11). 96-03-107, § 468-105-070, filed 1/23/96, effective 2/23/96.
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