70.44.053 - Increase in number of commissioners -- Proposition to voters.

Increase in number of commissioners — Proposition to voters.

At any general or special election which may be called for that purpose the board of public hospital district commissioners may, or on petition of ten percent of the voters based on the total vote cast in the last district general election in the public hospital district shall, by resolution, submit to the voters of the district the proposition increasing the number of commissioners to either five or seven members. The petition or resolution shall specify whether it is proposed to increase the number of commissioners to either five or seven members.

[1997 c 99 § 3; 1994 c 223 § 80; 1967 c 77 § 2.]

Notes: Effective date -- 1997 c 99: See note following RCW 70.44.040.