BAC SP #2 RCW 0002

RCW 47.80.020: Regional transportation planning organizations audI.., https://app]eg.wa.gov/RCW/default ,aspx?cites+7.80.020 RCW 47.80.020 Regional transportation planning organizations authorized The legislature hereby authorizes creation of regional transportation planning organizations within the state. Each regional transportation planning organization shall be fonned through the voluntary association of local governments within a county, or within geographically contiguous counties. Each organization shall: (1) Encompass at least one complete county; (2)(a) Have a population of at least one hundred thousand, (b) have a population of at least seventy-five thousand and contain a Washington state ferries terminal, (c) have a population of at least forty thousand and cover a geographic area of at least five thousand square miles, or (d) contain a minimum of three counties; and (3) Have as members all counties within the region, and at least sixty percent of the cities and towns within the region represent}ng a minimum of seventy-five percent of the cibes' and towns' population. The state department of transportation must verify that each regional transportation planning organization conforms with the requirements of this section In urbanized areas, the regional transportation planning organization is the same as the metropolibnplanrling olr anizati_Qn®_s_ignated for federal transportation planning purposes [ 2017 c 68 § '1; 2016 c 27 § 1; 1990 1 st ex.s. c 17 § 54.] NOTES EWective date 2016 c 27: "This act takes effect July 1, 2016.’' [ 2€:)16 c 27 § 2.] of 9/17/19. 4:24 PM
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