RCW 70.44.054
Increase in number of commissioners—Commissioner districts.
If the voters of the district approve the ballot proposition authorizing the increase in the number of commissioners to either five or seven members, the additional commissioners shall be elected at large from the entire district; provided that, the board of commissioners of the district may by resolution redistrict the public hospital district into five commissioner districts if the district has five commissioners or seven commissioner districts if the district has seven commissioners. The board of commissioners shall draw the boundaries of each commissioner district to include as nearly as possible equal portions of the total population of the public hospital district.
If the board of commissioners increases the number of commissioner districts as provided in this section, one commissioner shall be elected from each commissioner district, and no commissioner may be elected from a commissioner district in which another commissioner resides.
[ 1997 c 99 § 4.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1997 c 99: See note following RCW 70.44.040.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.
70.44.010 - Districts authorized.
70.44.015 - Validation of existing districts.
70.44.016 - Validation of districts.
70.44.020 - Resolution—Petition for countywide district—Conduct of elections.
70.44.028 - Limitation on legal challenges.
70.44.030 - Petition for lesser district—Procedure.
70.44.035 - Petition for district lying in more than one county—Procedure.
70.44.040 - Elections—Commissioners, terms, districts.
70.44.041 - Validity of appointment or election of commissioners—Compliance with 1994 c 223.
70.44.042 - Commissioner districts—Resolution to abolish—Proposition to reestablish.
70.44.045 - Commissioners—Vacancies.
70.44.047 - Redrawn boundaries—Assignment of commissioners to districts.
70.44.053 - Increase in number of commissioners—Proposition to voters.
70.44.054 - Increase in number of commissioners—Commissioner districts.
70.44.056 - Increase in number of commissioners—Appointments—Election—Terms.
70.44.059 - Chaplains—Authority to employ.
70.44.060 - Powers and duties.
70.44.067 - Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.
70.44.070 - Superintendent—Appointment—Removal—Compensation.
70.44.080 - Superintendent—Powers.
70.44.090 - Superintendent—Duties.
70.44.110 - Plan to construct or improve—General obligation bonds.
70.44.130 - Bonds—Payment—Security for deposits.
70.44.140 - Contracts for material and work—Call for bids—Alternative procedures—Exemptions.
70.44.171 - Treasurer—Duties—Funds—Depositaries—Surety bonds, cost.
70.44.190 - Consolidation of districts.
70.44.200 - Annexation of territory.
70.44.210 - Alternate method of annexation—Contents of resolution calling for election.
70.44.230 - Alternate method of annexation—Conduct and canvass of election—Notice—Ballot.
70.44.235 - Withdrawal or reannexation of areas.
70.44.260 - Contracts for purchase of real or personal property.
70.44.300 - Sale of surplus real property.
70.44.310 - Lease of surplus real property.
70.44.315 - Evaluation criteria and requirements for acquisition of district hospitals.
70.44.320 - Disposal of surplus personal property.
70.44.350 - Dividing a district.
70.44.360 - Dividing a district—Plan.
70.44.370 - Dividing a district—Petition to court, hearing, order.
70.44.380 - Dividing a district—Election—Creation of new districts—Challenges.
70.44.400 - Withdrawal of territory from public hospital district.
70.44.450 - Rural public hospital districts—Cooperative agreements and contracts.
70.44.460 - Rural public hospital district defined.
70.44.470 - Chapter not applicable to certain transfers of property.
70.44.900 - Severability—Construction—1945 c 264.
70.44.901 - Severability—Construction—1974 ex.s. c 165.