36.95.160 - District treasurer -- Duties -- District warrants.

District treasurer — Duties — District warrants.

The treasurer of the county in which a district is located shall be ex officio treasurer of the district. The treasurer shall collect the excise tax provided for under this chapter and shall send notice of payment due to persons owing the tax: PROVIDED, That districts with fewer than twelve hundred persons subject to the excise tax and levying an excise tax of forty dollars or more per television set per year shall have the option of having the district (1) send the tax notices bimonthly, and (2) collect the excise taxes which shall then be forwarded to the county treasurer for deposit in the district account. There shall be deposited with him or her all funds of the district. All district payments shall be made by him or her from such funds upon warrants issued by the county auditor, except the sums to be paid out of any bond fund for principal and interest payments on bonds. All warrants shall be paid in the order of issuance. The treasurer shall report monthly to the board, in writing, the amount in the district fund or funds.

[2009 c 549 § 4161; 1983 c 167 § 103; 1981 c 52 § 4; 1971 ex.s. c 155 § 16.]

Notes: Liberal construction -- Severability -- 1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.