RCW 70.44.220
Alternate method of annexation—Publication and contents of notice of hearing—Hearing—Resolution—Special election.
Notice of such hearing shall be published once a week for at least two consecutive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the territory proposed to be annexed. The notice shall contain a description of the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed and shall state the time and place of the hearing thereon and the fact that any changes in the boundaries of such territory will be considered at such time and place. At such hearing or any continuation thereof, any interested person may appear and be heard on all matters relating to the proposed annexation. The district commissioners may make such changes in the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed as it shall deem reasonable and proper, but may not delete any portion of the proposed area which will create an island of included or excluded lands. If the district commissioners shall determine that any additional territory should be included in the territory to be annexed, a second hearing shall be held and notice given in the same manner as for the original hearing. The district commissioners may adjourn the hearing on the proposed annexation from time to time not exceeding thirty days in all. At the next regular meeting following the conclusion of such hearing, the district commissioners shall, if it finds that the annexation of such territory will be conducive to the welfare and benefit of the persons and property therein and the welfare and benefit of the persons and property within the public hospital district, adopt a resolution fixing the boundaries of the territory to be annexed and causing to be called a special election on such annexation to be held not more than one hundred twenty days nor less than sixty days following the adoption of such resolution.
[ 1967 c 227 § 7.]
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.